At last Snow !

Stick the snow. Down the front of your trousers, preferably.

It took me twelve hours to get from Paris to Bracknell this morning. I got to the airport at 6:30 am expecting to get on a 7:45 flight. I ended up on an alleged 10:40 flight that eventually left around 2pm and then spent 45 minutes on the taxiway at Heathrow waiting for a gate to get off the plane, and by the time I got home, 25 miles or so from the airport, it was 5pm.

It's clear from what we were told that HAL (Heathrow Airport Limited) should be allowed to run for a bus, let alone run an airport. They only discovered after loading passengers onto the planes that the tugs that push them around didn't work on ice, and then spent two hours waiting for a gritter.

I wouldn't mind, but there's no f***ing snow on the ground around here so I can't even go out and have any fun.

AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

AndyC

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Mostly, you're right. But I remember one winter in the mid-80s when a snowstorm (more snow than we've had in the Thames Valley this year by some considerable margin) swept across the Penwith peninsula, leaving everywhere south and west of Camborne snowbound (only tractors were moving) and the rest of the county untouched.

My dad was working from home at the time, and got some irate customers in Truro on the phone who didn't believe his excuse for not coming out to see them ...

Snow caused me no problems but other motorists did, it took one person seven hours to get from Coventry to Birmingham on Wednesday night.

And even using back roads I still ran into trouble and it took me an hour to get from college to the City centre.

It was just as bad in the other direction even when the traffic had mostly cleared because of nervous ninnies poodling along at ten miles an hour starting there own convoy.

I bet they had brown trousers when I finally got room to overtake them.

"Mr.Nice." wrote

Yes it does:

Nigel Worsley

Twas Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:59:23 -0000 when "Nigel Worsley" put finger to keyboard producing:

There was much ice and a dusting of snow on both Bodmin moor and Dartmoor yesterday, I was hoping for more though..

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