David's Digest

I don't know what all the fuss is about. Yes, we had an inch or two (sorry - a few millimeters) of snow here yesterday morning. But by mid afternoon the flurries had turned to rain and most of it disappeared. A few stupid motorists who presumably thought they should be able to turn corners at the same speed as they normally do ended up skidding off un-gritted highways. But it really wasn't bad enough to close schools, curtail train and bus services and so on.

I must concede that conditions were worse in the far south east (as shown on TV news bulletins and reported by FW colleagues). That meant, of course, that the London-centric mass media assumed the whole country was the same. But it wasn't. Indeed, although we had a sharp frost here in Norfolk last night and the lanes were pretty slippery to start with, since then the sun has come out and I was tempted just now to go out into the garden to sunbathe. Fortunately for anyone who might have been watching I resisted the temptation. Global Warming continues here in the balmy east of the country.

But I do think we have become a nation of wimps. How we would cope if we had snowfalls and low temperatures like they do in Canada, the Alps, Russia, etc I don't know. Its time to toughen up - not allow ourselves to be ruled forever by Health and Safety legislation. Let's make Britain Great again and begin by facing up to and beating a bit of bad weather.