Personally, I am not terribly excited by the fact that it has snowed, because I still have to go to work and I wasn’t allowed to go home early yesterday. I admit to being a little perplexed as to why if I can get to work with no problems, none of the teachers in Birmingham schools are capable of doing likewise, but I am rather glad that they seemingly cannot, because it meant the roads were nice and free this morning and my bus arrived in record time I would add that I am also rather impressed with myself that so far I have managed not to fall over in this particular snow, but they say that pride comes before a fall and so perhaps I’d better not! (more…)

Despite the fact that we successfully checked in online for our flight to Munich, we still had to get up at 4am 4am on a Saturday morning in December is not a pleasant sort of time, all the more so because it was literally tipping it down with rain. The world’s most talkative taxi driver refused to drop us right outside the terminal building, so we had to walk quite a distance in it and ended up very wet indeed Feeling rather tired after a week at work I was desperate for a coffee, and as soon as we got through security, the plan was to head to Costas. Security was unfortunately rather a nightmare on account of it being a Saturday, and by the time we made it to the departure lounge there were only twenty minutes until boarding. That ought to have been long enough to get a drink, but sadly the queue in Costa was so long and the staff so inefficient that my sister and I were literally just in the process of paying for our lattes when my mother arrived to tell us the flight had been called As you can imagine, I wasn’t a happy bunny and it’s made me question the whole value of ever checking in online. (more…)