So, who actually tried to get into work today?

[sp1814]

I'm in London, and pretty much everything ground to a halt this morning.

My question is this - how many AB'ers managed to get to work, how many tried and were forced to go back home, and how many turned cartwheels in their bedrooms and spent the whole day watching 'Cash In The Attic' whilst shovelling tea and Jaffa cakes down their necks?

[eltelioni]

I have a laptop and broadband so worked from home. I probably got more done than if I'd been in the office. I didn't watch TV but I did eat too many biscuits.

[jno]

jno jnr walked a mile in the snow to a station that was still working. He was the only one in his office who went to work; he's on his own there now. He was brought up with a sense of duty.

[sp1814]

jno

I congratulate jno jnr.

I myself was at my local tube station at 08.00 this morning and had to return home (too few trains and too many people on the platform).

However, I went into work later, and picked up my laptop which means I can work from home tomorrow.

eltelioni - congratulations on keeping the telly off!

[China Doll]

This doll lives ten minutes away from she works and was one of two PA's for an entire Directorate. It has not been a fun day.

Don't even get me started on consultants and patients that were too wussy to get their back sides in!

[WhiteBear]

i walked into work today 15mins early :)

[sp1814]

Serious note to walkers...

Be really careful tomorrow. What's happening tonight is that pavement snow is compacting to ice. It's going to be nasty tomorrow morning.

You may have to tie a couple of tennis rackets to your shoes.

[jno]

yup, don't try any fancy short cuts...

http://whartonweather.wikispaces.com/file/view /Blizzard77Roof.jpg

[Oneeyedvic]

I was at a networking event 25 miles away at 7am, then went to a Rotary lunch, then went to work.

But then the snow hasn't been that bad around here (Norfolk) - lucky I guess.

[brachiopod]

'Ello, 'ello - what's this, an "old school" post?

Hi sp, China and jno all in one post!

Yes, made it to work -then told to go home about 2 ish. Stayed a bit longer to help the guys (& guyy-esses) in the other department (I feel guilty leaving other people working)

And came home via the pub to missus pod who didn't go to work because 'pod jr's school was shut and 'pod-even-more-junior's nursery was also shut.

My turn off tomorrow if school's still shut!

Muchos kudos to us all that made it in - hear from you all soon!

x 'pod

[Supernick]

I was up and about, on a train from Haringay by 7.15am, and marching down Old St by 7.30am. I say marching, I mean sliding around with my hand on the wall and cursing the slippy soled business shoes that I was wearing.

I reckon about 50% of the office made it in total.

[Booldawg]

I walked 2 miles to work, and then back again at 10.30am when I was sent home.

We knew this snow was coming about a week ago. The trouble is there is no central consensus on travel to work set by management. People have to make their own mind up if to risk it or not.

In answer to SP1814. The walk into work was fairly easy, I walked in the tracks left by cars (occasionally hopping on the pavement in the rarity of a passing car)

Walking home 3 hours later was a nightmare, as SP points out, the snow had been impacted on the road and was slippery as any ice rink. Cars were losing it all over the place on straight bits of road at low speeds.

Do 4x4 drivers think the extra traction makes them impervious to snow?

[sp1814]

Hi brachiopod, long time no speak.

Now I'm feeling a bit guilty as I was only in the office long enough to pick up my laptop tomorrow.

My partner is having a car pick him up for work tomorrow, and I plan to work in the living room, whilst watching all three Bourne Identity film back to back.

Praise be to the lord for sending us this snow.

[tiggerblue10]

My mum kept calling me in the morning telling me not to go in. So I txt my boss saying I wouldn't be in as the buses had been cancelled and she called me back saying that her and another colleague had made it in as they live in walking distance. Hardly anyone else turned up so they closed the building down at 12pm and sent everyone home. This is South London / Croydon.

[tiggerblue10]

Oh and as I work for the UKBA I can't access the Intranet from home for security reasons.

[sp1814]

tiggerblue10

We had five people out of an office of 130 make it in.

Unfortunately one of those five was our senior manager...

That was the thing that made me decide to go in, pick up my laptop and make sure he saw me (for brownie points).

[tiggerblue10]

Lol Sp. I don't do brownie points for anybody. My boss said that if its still bad tomorrow I should stay at home. Its apparently going to freeze over by the morning and I don't relish doing a 3 hour walk into work, slip sliding all over the place.

[bensmum]

I did - I work in a school and by 11am out of 120 staff and 1400 children there were 5 of us left on site. I had to stay in to make loads of phone calls and left at 3pm. We have been told however that we are not to go in tomorrow so I have brought work home as I can connect to my files from here.

[Gourmander]

I went to work on my sled, luckily most of it was downhill. Trekking back was the worst part, sled slung over shoulder, it was like mountain climbing, but I feel as though I've achieved something.

[tiggerblue10]

You must be used to it in Sweden though Gourmy.

[Lonnie]

Hi sp,
I'm a driver on the Central Line and only do earlies, I have two hour jouney by train and tube to get to my Depot, because I started at 0630 this morning, I made it in thirty minutes late, then everything ground to a halt, on our line, listening to the Line Controller, we had multiple signal failures, and every train wa experiencing problems, (mechanical, frozen doors etc).

Can you believe that, every train, incredible, and shouldn't happen, also, I would hazard a guess, that most of the other lines were similar.

Took mw four hours to get home.