Chris

We are officially snowed in; the police have closed the road several miles from here at the point where the gritter stops. Unbelievably there were still people driving up and down until well into the night last night. When our local school bus driver came up in a Land Rover to tell us there would be no school bus today, he said several of those cars are now lying abandoned where they slid off the road.

So, the boy is off school, but he's struggling with the fact that we're insisting he does some school work before he gets to play in the snow (we wouldn't be so strict except he's only just back from a two-week chicken pox break)!