MY daughter ordered groceries online at Tesco to supply my wife and I to save us from having to out in the bad weather.

“Cannot deliver,” says they. Guess why? “The weather!”

Just over 4cm of snow and everything comes to a standstill.

What’s happened to the British spirit? When I was just 15 years old I was walking from Stoke Aldermoor to Longford to work in one of the worst winters [1947], then waiting in line for coke at the gasworks.

Eventually, we managed to go out and purchase a few things. It wasn’t too much trouble, considering we are both knocking on a bit, and I noticed quite a few people our age doing the same.

Seems to me most of the services just use the weather as an excuse to skive off.

R Yates,

Henley Road, Coventry.