Heroes and Hypocrites

Yesterday Philippa said to me “If I was still working 45 minutes away, I wouldn’t be able to go to work today. That’d be nice.” Today she couldn’t get to work! Weird how we haven’t had any snow falling for over 24 hours and yet the snow caused more problems today than it did yesterday. It’s all to do with ‘drifting’ apparently. Wind whipping up the loose snow and causing it to pile up atop the ice on roads. All good fun. Hardly any schools open and very little traffic on the move. For my part I ended up walking almost all the way to work. Downside of living quite close and being the manager - no excuses for not getting in and a need to cover other people who can’t make it. So I dug out our car, drove as far as I could and then left it in a layby and crunched my way to the garage.
I’ll pause here to bask in your admiration for my heroism.
I was the only member of staff who could get there, too, so I was completely on my own for seven hours. Thankfully, very few people were stupid enough to be driving about so it was eerily quiet.
Just one more thought - isn’t it funny how everyone moans about their regular life and the day-to-day drudgery of working; then when something happens to break the routine they moan about the disruption…??

RC 1-3-18