Well it's all gone now. Untrampled fields still looked glorious in yesterday's sun.
It seems that the gritters were held back till the last minute, but thousands of people heeded the forecasts and left work early. The roads filled up, the gritters were stuck in the traffic, and the soggy snow froze on hitting the roads.
The underlying problem seems to be that our chronically underfunded transport infrasructure is so overloaded that any minor crisis brings it down.
London's mayor says that if he was allowed to keep a fraction of the wealth London creates, it could have a world class transport system.
Instead it is all taken to subsidise and featherbed the rest of the country. But I'm not saying that.
Oh the good times of old England,
Keith.