I have decided to work from home today since all the reports on TV and radio would suggest that any attempt to do my usual daily trip from Kew Gardens into Westminster would be, at best, tediously slow or, at worst, virtually impossible.
So here's the view I'm enjoying from my window as I tap away at the keyboard. But isn't that the view that you'd get from many a home in New York for much for the winter? Or Moscow? Or Oslo? The list could go on.
Yet I'm not aware that children go without an education for weeks or months on end in those cities because the schools shut whenever it snows.
And the trains still run, and the tubes and buses still ferry millions of people to and from work.
And as far as I'm aware, the airports in those cities remain open throughout the winter as well.
So is anyone able to explain why on earth it is that it just seems to be Britain which comes to a grinding halt at the first sight of snow?
