This is a very old post from the harsh winter of 2009! This is the post you are probably looking for – it’s about lessons and tests in snow.
That’s another one gone!
I had a 9.17am test and didn’t expect it to go ahead. It snowed a little more last night and the temperature is stuck at -1ºC – and the roads were already treacherous around the test centre and on side roads.
To add to the problems, a lorry had shed its load this morning on the Colwick Loop Road – the examiner I spoke to on the phone said that alone was enough for them to have to cancel the first couple of tests as there was gridlock down there, but the weather was going to stop them going ahead anyway.
It is still hard to believe that the Nottingham City and County Councils have not gritted the minor roads. All it would take is one pass and they’d be free of ice.
Yesterday afternoon I had a lesson with the pupil whose test today has been cancelled. We couldn’t get up her road on the way back – the only way was with a run up, and trying to do it from a standing start was impossible (and that prat in the ice cream van who lives on Allington Road in Lenton who hooted us got stuck as well – serves the tosser right).