It is a great regret of my life that I never had a day off school because the school was closed due to adverse weather. Snow, rain, wind; nothing exciting enough happened to let me have a ‘snow day’. So it’s interesting to see that on this balmy January day, it must be about 20 degrees, that the government schools are closed because ‘a lot of winter is coming’ ie it’s too cold for the children! To be fair the rooms do get pretty chilly at night and the concrete takes a long time to heat up (conversely, in the summer the rooms heat up and don’t cool down, that’s why our rooms are mud because it has better thermal properties) so it can be uncomfortable to spend long times inside, and there is of course no central heating.