On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:42:19 +0000, Succorso
wrote:

rant

Over 300 schools closed in Norfolk this morning. Why? This is madness! I
drove from Swaffham to Wymondham at 7am. The roads were either wet or
slushy, and the snow was turning to rain.

Here at 10:30am there must be some pretty embarrased head teachers
around. The snow is melting (fast) and the last two showers have been
moderate rain, so this is hardly "severe" weather.

I don't remember there always being this trigger-happy desire to
practically declare a state of emergency when something slightly out of
the ordinary happened. What the hell is happening to this country?

/rant

Slushy greetings from a wet (and decreasingly white) Norfolk.


To add to the rant it appears that kids are not allowed onto the
playground if snow is lying because the poor darlings may slip and
fall, and possibly graze or bruise themselves, and the nasty
Elastoplast-chasing lawyers might take the school for a few hundred
quid "compo".

Kids can't have any fun in the snow anymore. Many kids of my age (57)
will remember that a good snowfall was an excuse for the creation of
long ice-slides in the playground and all sorts of other dangerous
sports, such as ice-cored snowballs, shoving snow into the girl's
knickers and trying to get teacher (preferably headmaster) with a
well-timed snowball.

JPG