If you get overtaken by an artic then you are doddering!

Except for in snow when artics will still be doing 5 times the speed of sound.

'Limits on workin' 'ours innit.'

I don't have million-spindle chav wheels I'll have you know.

Nor do I have 42 tonnes of Latvian made pet food nailing me to the road either.

Reminds me of around this time two years ago. I was in Stockholm and found that the Swedes have a great sense of humour.

The news that East Midlands Airport was closed due to 1cm of snow had just hit and everywhere I went there were people weeing themselves with laughter over it. It was like Swedish national take the p*** out of the English day.

Taxi to the office that morning was a SAAB 9-5 travelling at breakneck speed with all four wheels only very rarely pointing in the direction of motion.

The East of England is never mild if the weather comes in from the east - my newspaper round was about 8 miles a day on my bike and the winter of '62-63 was a real challenge.

In the late '60s I bought an old banger with bald tyres and managed to drive it from the Midlands to East Anglia on packed snow - I learnt a lot in that one journey !

Wednesday we had an inch and a half in Billericay. No roads were gritted so it lay over ice.

I own an X Trail with M+Snow tyres so I was fine. However I did pass people spinning away whilst I drove past up hills etc. I rescued a colleague and we got into work. No fuss. Plenty of people had real difficulty one in a ditch, Essex had people injured and over 80 accidents. Left the Hybrid at home.

Edited by Ethan Edwards on 06/12/2012 at 23:24