I’ve been watching the 3 part thriller about a Jack the Ripper copycat – one of my favourite websites used to be crimelibrary.com before it got too commercial, as I find reading about the motivations of murderers fascinating. If I didn’t love the internet so much I would seriously consider a career as a criminal profiler!

Anyway, back to the point of this post! The ending of this was truly awful. The copycat murderer got away despite not killing the final victim, then he committed suicide. Kinda made me think the whole series was pointless. Everything built up to this final murder and the ending was a major let down.

Just got back from a very pleasant evening with bosses and a few others! Dinner and a few glasses of wine and good company is always a nice idea!

In addition, today I received a request from the God that is Stephen Fry to follow my tweeting on Twitter – I genuinely feel so privileged!

Oh, and just to add to the unpredictable weather – now the floods have started to subside, it has snowed again – and it’s a couple of centimetres deep despite the wet ground everywhere. The A12 was slush and to be safe, we didn’t say in the outside lane because it felt so unsafe! God help us all tomorrow – ice will be everywhere!

Blimey – I have never seen Essex as flooded as it was this morning!

Our normal route to work was blocked by flooding at the bottom of Boreham down by the campsite, so we decided to play it safe by going back on ourselves and go down the Maldon Road. On the way we passed miles of traffic queing to get on the A12 at Boreham – going home and waiting for the traffic to disappear was no longer an option! It would have taken us about an half an hour to get home! To put this queue into perspective, on a normal day it barely goes back to the start of Boreham – this queue went all the way back through Boreham all the way back to the start of Hatfield Peveral! That’s about 3 miles of traffic!

We got as far as a bridge at Langford over what is normally a gentle stream/small river – it is now a lake and covered the road too deeply for our lowered car to get through! That explained the overlong queue through Boreham all the way back to Hatfield Peveral!

We ended up going away from work up to Witham so we could get to Maldon the back way – the road to Wickham Bishops was flooded but we managed to get through and the rest of our journey was fine. However, the normal 20 minute journey turned into a 55 minute ordeal – but we still managed to be at work before some others!

Luckily I am not going to drama tonight – I dread to think what Blackmore is like!

So we have finally had some decent snow in the UK – yes the country ground to a halt but it’s years since we’ve had “proper” snow! And the fact that I can do my job from home means I don’t have to drive!!

Because I am a dedicated professional, I didn’t go out and build a snowman during the day – so I worked through my lunch then James and I went out and played in the snow at 5pm! I soooo love snow!

I am getting frustrated by the comparisons with the 60′s – the world has changed a lot and far more people do not work in the town in which they live. The roads can only be gritted, trains and buses can only run if the staff turn up. I do think we should cope better with the weather but the majority of problems would be solved by better driving from the public, and companies showing some understanding and allowing staff to work from home – we live in the digital age!

I personally think that a compulsory part of passing your driving test should be spending time on a skid pan and learning about how to control skids – this would certainly help with some of the weather we are now experiencing.