To not go into work today?

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Here are my excuses reasons:

1. Its 5 am and i am wide awake because i am wheezing and my inhaler as run out of gas, so i am never going to get back to sleep now, hence i will be tired all day

1. It has snowed, thick thick snow, at least 5 inches from what i can see, so my hour commute will be a nightmare and probably take 1.5 hrs

Or am i just being a wimp?

"why do men insist on braving these hazardous conditions to get to work?"

My husband only is at work, because I dropped him off on the attempted nursery run. He basically ordered me to go home because he deemed it not safe, when I was still planning on trying. It's not a man thing.

I too am completely snowed in - again - and I'm just to the North of Manchester !

Fortunatly DD isn't due back at school until next Monday anyway so I don't have issues with childcare, but I too am pregnant and fed up of being virtually housebound

My hubby has just been out on foot and has informed me that the major A road nearby is deserted and doesn't seem to have been gritted, so I think you have no alternative but to have a duvet day !

Just back from getting bread and milk etc. Walked to shop very slowly. Meet some nice Brazilians on the way who think this snow is great. Started a snowball fight!!!

Hope I can get into work tomorrow. Saw lots of abandoned cars on the way to the shops.

Oh, and guess what was on the giant screen by the Manchester wheel? Manchester stuck in the snow!

Hope it gets better for the big match tomorrow.

agedknees - red or blue?

Well I am a Scouser living in Manc, so I support (hushed voice) Liverpool.

dh supports Manc City.

He was going to see the match, but may stay home tomorrow and watch it on the TV.

DH (blue) was thinking about going too, as his brother has a spare ticket. not sure he'll bother at this rate. we went on boxing day and snow plus hideous matchday traffic was not a good combo.

DH's office in North Manchester (He didn't bother even trying to go to central Manchester one) is shutting at lunchtime, it took him 2 hours to get there (normally 35/40mins), gawd knows how he will get back as the M60 slip roads (and thus the Motorway, I suppose!) are all closed near to him.
It is still snowing here in East Lancs, complete white out. Have honestly never seen so much snow in my life.
Imagine how peed off you'd be if you'd battled in, Vinny, only to be sent home after a couple of hours?
I honestly don't know how close DH will get to us by driving, can't imagine any buses will be running either........

I'm in North Manchester and DH has gone to fucking work. He works next to MRI so it's a bloody long journey. Not sure how/if he will be getting back. He probably should have thought it through better.

Went to get bread, but there was none and I can't carry DS all the way to the next nearest shop.

I'm another one in Manchester. I only live in Hulme so walked into town to work.

John Dalton Street is like a bloody ice rink - I've just watched a double decker bus have to be towed from the Deansgate end to the King Street end.

Lizzy I am in East Lancs too and I have also never seen so much snow in my life!! There is no way I could get to work today so am working from home as is DH (he was supposed to be going to Birmingham today). Managed to walk my DS's to nursery but if it carries on snowing, I guess we will have to pick them up sooner rather than later (if the nursery is doesn't close first!)

My employers are vaguely (or have and ruled it out) introducing official duvet days, where, we will be allowed say 2-3 days per year where we can take our holiday (not additional holiday, days we already have) at the last minute, ie decide that morning, as duvet days, in recognition of the stressful nature of our work and that sometimes we just 'can't be bothered to go in'. It would be appropriate to do when work allowed, ie when we were on top of things, our diary was clear or could easily be cleared without impacting on other colleagus. The idea is to reduce the number of sick days taken for the 'headache' which impact on other colleagues. Also avoids the whole guilt thing as it is approved.

I like it, but think it probably won't go through, too sensible.

I am not going in - spoken to ds' nursery three times this morning and they were dithering about whether to close or not so didn't want to get there (only four miles on the bus but the main road was at a standstill this morning so would be a long journey) only to be told to turn back.

Plus around nursery it is like an ice rink (or was yesterday - will be worse today!) and at 21 weeks pg and crap at walking on ice and snow anyway, I was in tears just thinking about it. It's equally bad just outside work.

Still feeling guilty though as I know most others have made it in to work. If it were just me and I didn't have to get a 3 year old into nursery and home safely I prob would be ok.

I've known for ages that you were you btw, but didn't want to blow your cover...

Pavlov - Duvet Days are an ok idea (provided you're reasonable about when to take them (i.e. not when something important is coming up or half the staff is off etc...)

I think it'd be unfair though if when it's physically impossible to get to work due to adverse weather conditions that it was taken out of the annual leave entitlement.

Personally I just hope that my employer comes up with a work from home in emergencies IT solution soon. I know they're working on it

Martha the snow here is amazing isn't it - our school told us it was closed at 6am and the dd's waited unti 8.30 - off to walk somewhere nice for lunch now then sleging this afternoon.

I bet the Football is off tomorrow - give the rags time to calm down after Sunday {tee hee}

I wish DH could work from home. One cannot pull pints from the comfort of one's living room though

Does anyone know if the trams in Manchester have started up yet?

I'm doing okay - bit up and down atm as technically should be on maternity leave for our first baby which would have been due on 19th Jan. Plus still waiting for some test results back on the one we lost before the wedding. But y'know, new year, new me and all that. I'm determined this year will be our year.

How are you feeling anyway? Hope everything with the bump is going well. x

Loving the snow. Not loving being one of a few matrys who made it into the office.

LOL lucycat

I believe the trams are running on the bury and altrincham lines, but not eccles. though that all might have changed!

MrsChemist Yep, the trams are definitely up and running in the city centre. Not sure how far out of town they are running to, tho.

Thanks DH should be able to get home then. He told me earlier that the trams weren't running. Though this could be lies told to him by the bus driver.

The football might be off just because it would be too dangerous for so many people to get to the ground and park etc. It's an accident waiting to happen. They postponed the Bolton/Wigan match for that reason.

It is still snowing here but it has now turned to ice so there are tiny little (what look like polystyrene) balls of ice forming onto of the fluffy white snow

Looks very beautiful but absolutely hazardous

The pre school that ds goes to rang me to say they are closed today and tomorrow, but his private nursery is still open so i might be able to make it in to work tomorrow if it clears tonight

Ceebee74 , I have never seen so much snow either. Beyond belief.
DH is prob ging to go to PIL's in Bury as we don't think there is anyway he'll make it here.
Daft git, should have stayed at home.

Going to brave going outside in a minute, now it is just a light flurry