This Big Freeze Malarky!

So it’s a brand new year, new start and new things to come for all of us at Custard Media Solutions.

Even the recent “Big Freeze” is pretty new for this country and its funny to see how unprepared we actually are for it.

I heard a joke the other day, which I will share with you guys…prepare yourself it’s a bit of a shocker…

Q. “How do you know if it’s snowing down south?”

A. “They have a News bulletin!”

Look, I told you it wasn’t brilliant, but it’s absolutely true.  All we have heard about for the last couple of weeks is how this weather is affecting us, and how bad it is. Schools are off, exams postponed, offices closed down due to it. But weeks before, the bookies place odds on whether we will have a ‘White Christmas’ and everyone saying it will be really nice and all that jive and then when it arrives, everyone goes on a massive downer about it.

Except us! In the heart of Leyland, in the midst of the blizzards, is our office.  Nothing could keep us away in this weather. However, there are some disadvantages of this that I will share with you.

1.      Having to defrost my car! No one likes doing it, but it’s one of those painful things that has to be done, if you aren’t lucky enough to have air conditioning or heated windscreens, then this isn’t a problem, it’s when you have nothing but a credit card to scratch the frost off, with no gloves and gained frostbite by the time you have finished, is where blagging being snowed in becomes more appealing!

2.      We have to perfect our drifting skills on Tesco’s car park to avoid, college kids having snow ball fights, businessmen falling over and getting up in the hope that no one has seen and busy mums chasing their kids in sliding runaway trollies.

3.      Arriving on a Monday morning, when the rather pathetic heater (I say rather pathetic, I actually mean downright rubbish as it doesn’t get warm until about 4.30 on the following Friday) hasn’t been on all weekend.  In fact it would be more beneficial to have someone with asthma blow at me through a straw. Hmm, maybe a new job for Rick J

4.      Sitting at my frost covered desk, below lengthy stalactites that have formed on the ceiling, trying hard not to keep my fingers moving in desperation that I don’t freeze to my keyboard.

5.      Then at the end of the day, wading out through the white stuff, bounding across ice, that Torvill and Dean would be proud of! To get back to my car to find its frozen over again! Repeat disadvantage 1!

But when it comes down to it, I don’t really mind, we all enjoy what we do. I often think of our office as a bit like a Santa’s Grotto, can be easily missed when not looking for it, as the weather of Lapland inside, but the SEO work we do is absolutely magical.

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