Spring, UK
We are at Andrew's 40th which keeps us out late. Andrew the Managing Director of Optalis, one of the first local authority-owned trading companies in the UK created to provide adult social care. He was brought in to make the organisation more commercial and he has done so.
Snow and foul weather traps drivers in cars, closes airports and halts train services, and puts communities on alert for flood where 59 alerts in place. Unlike a proper winter storm which, usually, puts people in good cheer this time there is a collective groan - what a bummer following an unusually long winter.
Madeleine and I agree to 30 minutes of video games to my television then an afternoon of reading.
