[i wrote this on friday, though i’d posted it but obviously hadn’t. Anyway, my new resolution is to post any old crap as I’ve cut the audience down to pretty much just a few people I know and I’m comfortable with that]

I’m totally in favour of the snow disruption, I’m glad that our transport system fails in such situations, it means people get to stay at home rather than working themselves to death for the man (OMG 400 million ‘lost’), productivity isn’t everything you know. They said on the today program yesterday that we would still have a better quality of life (cash wise) than 30 years ago if we all chose to work three day weeks. 4 day weekends. That would be amazing. I’m up for that but I think my employer wouldn’t be so much. Anyway, hopefully the train to Manchester tonight will be working OK but if it’s not I’ve packed a good 9 or 10 hours worth of DVDs to watch on the way up (The Wire and The Westwing a few Seinfeld episodes and a 1920’s shadow play animation).

Also this kind of disruption seem to hit Daily Mail readers particularly hard which is always entertaining. My favourite example is in the comments thread here in amongst the general moaning about how soft everyone is and how it’s all Tony Blair’s fault there are some real gems. My favourite is Don from Cheadle who remembers a time when

…the unemployed were mobilised to clear and grit the pavements and urban roads when snow fell, but that is probably against their human rights now and all of us will just make the best of it.

did that really happen? it seems unlikely unless we’re talking Victorian times or something and the means by which they were mobilised was the threat of a sound thrashing and the promise of some beer, like in Dracula when they go around buying the lower classed beer in order to track down the count’s London pad.