6th December 2010  

I returned home from London by car last week, through a landscape covered in deep snow, and a journey which normally takes me three hours this time took five! I was due to make an early morning visit to the Royal Mail sorting centre in Yeovil on Friday, but decided to postpone this given the state of the weather and of many side roads – including my own. I was relieved that I had re-jigged my plans, because on Friday morning it was only with the very greatest difficulty that I managed to get my car out of my driveway and out onto the main road. My first visit of the day was to Yeovil Hospital, which I reached just before 9am- about 10 minutes late. I was due to meet Chief Executive Gavin Boyle, and the hospital’s Chairman – Angela Dupont. Angela wasn’t able to make it in that morning, because of the awful state of the roads near her house in Dorset. I was sorry...