Schools closed

[elnino]

Well here we go again, a little bit of the white fluffy stuff and the country grinds to a halt!!! All three kids schools closed today because of weather, FFS, never happened when i went to school.

Your views?

 

[Rugby-Jock-Lad]

Could understand if the boilers are broken down for the heating!! What ever happened to character building? Used to walk 2 miles to secondary school rain, snow or shine. It beat the bullying on the buses!!

 

[AllWoman]

Well it did happen when I was a kid! I remember having quite a few snow days and being sent home half way through the day because of snow!

We walked quite a way to school as well, but it tends to be the teachers who live further away from schools these day, when we were at school most teachers lived in the same town its just not the case anymore!

I understand schools being closed can be blo0dy annoying and an inconvenience but they don't decide to shut them for no reason!

 

[grumpyoldb]

Could understand if the boilers are broken down for the heating!! What ever happened to character building? Used to walk 2 miles to secondary school rain, snow or shine. It beat the bullying on the buses!!

Yes mate, but the teachers won't walk, and don't like getting cold.

 

[AllWoman]

Yes mate, but the teachers won't walk, and don't like getting cold.

Grumpy, what a load of b0llox!!

You'd walk 20 or 30 miles to work would you.........I don't think so!!!!

You can't blame the teachers for the fact that local highways agencies can't get their act together when we get a few inches of snow and keep the roads clear!

 

[Rugby-Jock-Lad]

Yes mate, but the teachers won't walk, and don't like getting cold.

Bl00dy Unions!!!

How do the Scandanavians ever survive? "Oh look at the Brits moaning about 2 inches of snow. WTF???"

It's the same every year when there's a bit of snow!!

 

[grumpyoldb]

Heathrow is closed, and London transport have pulled all bus services.

 

[RAF Bird]

well I'm chuffed there's whispers of us being stood down this arvo before weather gets bad and we have to drive in it!!

My little lads school is open just now but may close if it gets any colder apparently.

 

[techie_tubby]

How do the Scandanavians ever survive? "Oh look at the Brits moaning about 2 inches of snow. WTF???"

I resent that comment! you dont hear us Jocks complaining about a few inches of it!! my mum got 3 feet of the stuff an she still made it into work this morning

 

[Rugby-Jock-Lad]

One can only hope that if we have another European War that the EU insures we are stood down during the Winter due to H & S!!!!!

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[Rugby-Jock-Lad]

I resent that comment! you dont hear us Jocks complaining about a few inches of it!! my mum got 3 feet of the stuff an she still made it into work this morning

You must be a hard Northern Jock. I'm a 'Soft' Glasgow southener!!DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[grumpyoldb]

One of my neighbours just came back home, can't get to work. Yes, he's a teacher. Deputy head at that.

Tesco are open and fully staffed. How do they do that!
Oh yes. If you don't turn in, you don't get paid.

 

[needsabiggerfuse]

Well this morning there was a small cohort of us '25-mile plus' teachers standing outside a 'closed' school. On the way in I heard the local radio station banging on about "... the A*** is bad ...". "No it's not! I'm on it and there's about 3 snow flakes, everyone is driving sensibly so STFU!!" Oh well, another day lost to my impending exam group.

 

[elnino]

Well this morning there was a small cohort of us '25-mile plus' teachers standing outside a 'closed' school. On the way in I heard the local radio station banging on about "... the A*** is bad ...". "No it's not! I'm on it and there's about 3 snow flakes, everyone is driving sensibly so STFU!!" Oh well, another day lost to my impending exam group.

I take my hat off to you, if only there were a few more like you. I wonder how many employees not just teachers even tried getting in this morning and how many turned on the wireless and thought, feck this, back to bed for me?
Mrs E falls into the, dont go in dont get paid brigade!

 

[gemarriott]

damned if you do and damned if you don't. Police and highway authorities tell people to stay at hom unless their journey is essential. Is school, and half the jobs we travel to classed as essential?

 

[John Lloyd]

damned if you do and damned if you don't. Police and highway authorities tell people to stay at hom unless their journey is essential. Is school, and half the jobs we travel to classed as essential?

Apparently it's snowing in shandy land, the news is full of it.

 

[SORRY CJ]

Still snowing here near the secret Oxfordshire base.......Bugger I've got to go to work in a bit.

Mmmmmmmmmmm let’s see "Don't venture onto the roads if it's no really necessary".

Sorry Sir can't drive 60 miles to inspect your station tomorrow, there seems to be about an inch of fluffy rain lying about somewhere.

His answer would be?????????????????????

Fookin GET ON WITH IT.

So for all the ******'s out there crying cos its snnnnnnowin'

GET ON WITH IT

 

[spike7451]

I never got the bus or a lift to school,Shanks's pony for me!
A few years ago it took me over 2 hours to go 3 miles between N/Ards & Dundonald as an inch of snow crippled the country.
At Bruggen in,oh,1990,it took me well over 2 hours to go from Niedercrutchen & Elmpt when I dropped Smiffy off after we'd come off a weeks Duty Plumb!
He offered to let me stop over but like a prat,I declined!In hindsight tho.....
Spike

 

[R_Squared]

Got the day off today and tomorrow thanks to the white fluffy stuff.

Best thing is, the kids are at school!

Ace. DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[Killer Queen]

Well i have just got home having left for work at 6.05 this morning to walk to the station and then a train in to the metropolis and a walk at the other end taking 2 hours to get in to be stood down at 11 and another two hours to get home. It is still snowing here.

One bonus is that those of us who made it in will be given a full days credit.