I have a good excuse for not blogging this week: there was strange powdery white stuff falling out of the sky!

I awoke on Monday morning, to be greeted with this:

I went into shock and have barely been able to function all week: Just like the whole of the rest of Britain.

Airports closed, public transport ground to a halt (including parts of the London Underground – no, don’t ask me), schools closed, shops (if they opened at all) all closed early, and everyone, it seemed, just had to leave work early in order to get home (I received an hilarious email from facilities staff saying that the canteen was closed due to the adverse weather)……. it was (still is, in some parts) chaos. I hear that we have now run out of salt for gritting the roads.

I could do little more than huddle in a corner, sobbing, until the strange white stuff went away. There’ll probably be more. I don’t know if I’ll be able to cope.

I hear that there are countries where this kind of thing happens for long periods of time. I don’t understand how they can possibly have a functioning society.