I've been watching the struggles of my fellow citizens against the winter weather with what might best be called amused indifference.

It's a long time since I did a 360 in my Fiat X19 in a late night snowstorm on the A68 driving back to Edinburgh from Norwich. One of the many benefits of being retired and living in a comfortably warm flat with a supermarket within spitting distance is that I don't have to go anywhere and if I do it's not far.

Who'd be young?