Well I tried to get to our farmhouse in the pennines last night. The purpose was to go and meet the boiler engineer who is coming to get the oil boiler to work again (it stopped a week ago and I couldn't get it going at the weekend). I managed to get to about 1/4 mile from the house along the lane (while I could'nt see over the top of the snow at the side of the road), then came to a car stopped with someone shovelling in front.
At that point I phoned the engineer, told him no go and turned around. At the end of the lane there's still two fields to cross and I don't think he'll manage to get his equipment there in an ordinary van.
I'll probably have a solid phase heating system by now!
And as I went back down the hill it started snowing again.