Do I live in the most miserable country on Earth?

The snow came today to Rickmansworth.  It doesn't snow much here - I think it's only snowed like this once before in the 15 years I've lived here.


DSCN2770 Unsurprisingly, with an event that happens less than once every 15 years or so, everything grinds to a halt.  The roads are pretty slushy and everything seems to be shut.  The kids are pretty pleased because they miss school and when I nipped in to see my doctor this afternoon he said it was great because all his appointments had cancelled and he was off home early.

But typically the radio was full of people moaning.  Brits love to moan about anything apparently.

We hate paying high taxes but still expect the state to invest in the infrastructure needed to cope with a day of heavy snow once every 15 years.

Get a handful of us together and we'll moan about something - regardless of the effort that individuals or organisations put into make life better for most of us.

For example, I heard this morning that a children's charity had published a book suggesting that our social values of individualism were resulting in a raw deal for children.  Up pops on the radio some chap suggesting that the report was suspect because the charity was linked to the Church of England. And the chap making the criticism?  He was a Church of England vicar!  (who presumably doesn't have access to the internet to discover how silly his criticism was - it took me about 30 seconds to find it out).

But what got me was that, here is an organisation trying to stimulate debate about policy for children and it gets attacked.

And this is on the same day that there are protests about non-british workers having jobs in Britain - it seems that now would be a good time to start a newspaper for miserable people.  Or is that what the Daily Mail is for?

I do wonder about this place sometimes.....

Liam