Working from home has many advantages - one of which is not having to struggle through the snow to try and get into the office. Given that I have had no transport problems, haven’t had to get up early to try and get in, haven’t got home late, haven’t wrecked my car or broken a limb in accidents it would be churlish to complain that when my wife and son were both given “snow days” yesterday I had to dip into holiday to join them sledging at the park. So I won’t, I’ll just say it was a day worth taking off.  Even if I wasn’t a home worker & had been forced to stay at home I could have quite easily done some work from home so taking holiday seems a reasonable thing.

There have been various complaints about how schools close so quickly - people blaming our health and safety culture on not wanting to risk kids in an icy playground. Certainly when I was a kid we didn’t get time off for bad weather. The truth is that it is not about icy playgrounds and parents suing for fallen kids but that teachers can’t get into work.  I didn’t get snow days as a kid but all (bar one) of the teachers lived in the town and could walk in.

The difference between then & now is the distance people travel to get to work - and health & safety & political correctness and … But you can’t blame them for everything.