Snowed in

As I sit here working from home due to the ridiculous situation of not being able to make it into work without a seven hour journey due to no trains actually running or stopping at my local station, a questionnaire saying that businesses are unprepared for staff not making it into the office, has actually got my goat.

I skidded down the hill to my train station this morning and stood on a freezing platform with some other miserable looking commuters and as we waited, and waited, and waited - I realised I could have spent the whole day just standing around waiting for trains.

Then I made the executive decision to work from home. Luckily I was prepared and had taken my laptop home with me 'just in case'.

In reality, it is not the small companies' fault, or indeed the employees fault - it is the transport network and ultimately the government that should be hanging its head in shame.

We don't suffer with snow like some countries (Russia for example), but the minute those white flakes start appearing - this country's transport system just grinds to a halt or at the very best, slows to a crawl.

All I can say is God help us when we have some really severe weather to contend with, rather than a few inches of snow.