Snow and school closures.

“People like that” have you listened to yourself Madame chairman ?

Take a break FGS Gilly

And calm down dear!

I thought it a lovely white holiday. Plenty of food and fun times. My dgc loved the days outside.

Seriously Who left you in charge OldMeg?
“Dear”?

One road closed (landslide), the other has one lane open, the other lane piled high with snow and as it's now raining blocks of snow keep falling on to the part of the road that is open so driving is quite dangerous.
Oh, and it's 11 miles from home to the nearest secondary school for the older children.

Perhaps we should all move to Heaton (wherever that is).

And, to make travelling even more difficult, apparently the M4 is shut because of an overturned lorry and fuel spillage. I do hope that no-one is injured.

Jalima Heaton is in the east end of Newcastle upon Tyne and I think the school dj is referring to is Heaton Manor.

Thanks harrigran, so it is a suburb of a city.
700 schools closed in the NE though, but perhaps not those in cities.

Heaton primary schools as well, harrigran.
I never thought of Heaton as being in the East end. It's over the road from Tyne and Wear schools. I was talking about primary as well as secondary. It was on radio Newcastle that all the Heaton schools were open all the time.
Monica, I live in rural Durham, in a village 15 minutes drive from the Weardale ski centre. I am talking about villages in rural England, with 12 foot snowdrifts. Even had a snow plough go past my house yesterday.

Harrigran suggested that schools in Durham were rubbish. The schools in my village are all outstanding.
The reason we have schools plural is because they are all religious, but it's not all religious people who go to them, because they are like community schools.

I did not say all the schools in Durham were rubbish, I said the village school that my GC attended had failed her. County Durham to be precise as distinct from the city centre.
Your schools may well be outstanding but if you are not availing yourself of them what is your point ?

We are availing ourselves of the schools. My grandson was quite happy at the primary school, and his sister is happy there and going to secondary in September. She got her first choice.
In fact my grandson said that if the secondary had been smaller he would have enjoyed it. What he didn't enjoy was all the boys coming in from other areas, some of whom bullied him.
I've always thought it a shame that Northumberland now seems intent on getting rid of middle schools.

I am pleased that your GC have found a school that they are happy with. The secondary schools now seem massive and I fear that they are quite impersonal. My GC would have to have been bussed to secondary school as there is no school in the village. I don't know about yours but mine are not at the stage of travelling on their own, perhaps always having been escorted to school.
A couple of GC's friends moved closer to a school in Hexham because it was considered a better school but the houses were a lot more expensive there, so swings and roundabouts.