Fun time in the snow!

We did have some fun time in the snow this afternoon. I say in the snow, but it was more on a couple of inches of the stuff. Masses of people in Elmdon Park, Solihull toboganning down the hills. Lots of people walking about. Quite easy, actually.

I get back to see that the BBC is talking of "transport chaos warning over snow" and various other apocolyptic warnings about what snow can do. It's this sort of loose talk that befuddles the minds of local government chief executives.

Solihull roads were well-gritted today, but not enough for the teachers, who had all decided to take the day off, encouraged by their superiors. Salt levels are dangerously low, though. Paul Bettison of the Local Government Association told the BBC's Today programme that the UK should look to importing fresh supplies of salt. "That requires government to actually work with us all, and then we can do it as one - rather than, as we've seen, having this scrapping for what limited supplies are available," he said. Scrapping around is third world stuff. Surely they could anticipate that during an English winter the possibility of snow is more than likely.

I am amazed that people on high salaries have a very poor understanding of simple project management. It seems that unless they get a grip we will have all this on a year on year basis. Nothing learned, nothing gained!