zmiya_san is on her way home now, sounds epic for her colleagues - 4 hours from Croydon to central. I'm missing my TA-issue kit, it was designed to deal with this in case we got to play with soviets in Norway. This county's completely forgotten how to handle snow, when I was a kid in Manchester, we were only sent home if the toilets had been destroyed by frozen cisterns. UK= neurotic with alzheimers when it comes to weather.