Snowed in!

In Bracknell around 245pm yesterday the snow really started coming down so my boss told us to all get home before it got too bad. Too late. It was complete and utter chaos. Having left the office at 3pm, I proceeded to sit in traffic for over 9 hours?!! People were abandoning cars left right and centre. I needed the loo when I left the office but thought it would take me an hour at most to get home. BIG MISTAKE!!!! I spent about 3 hours trying to work out the logistics of weeing in a tupperware box (TMI?!). It was most definitely the journey from hell. I was starving, thirsty, dying for the loo and most definitely extremely grumpy.

I eventually got back to Caversham just before midnight and had to abandon my car at the bottom of the hill as there was just no chance of me getting anywhere near the flat. The roads have about 6 inches of snow and although it seems to have stopped around 2am this morning, its not melted at all.

How do we not cope in this country with a bit of snow??! This was my view on the dual carriageway - cars just at a total standstill.


Clearly there was no chance of us getting up North yesterday and it's looking increasingly unlikely we'll get out of Reading today. I am sooooo annoyed!! Think I had better pop down to Iceland and buy some emergency supplies!