I'm not happy. The word from work at 07:30 is that we are closed to
students today, but that staff have to go in, unless unsafe to do so, until
13:00 when the building will be closed.

I call 020 7222 1234; it's still saying that due to the volume of calls no
information can be provided by 'phone, and suggests the website. On the
website there is a snow section which suggests various sources of
information, including the TfL website, which I'm already in and, yes you've
guessed it, calling 020 7222 1234.

The website says something along the lines of, most buses are running
reasonably, and lists a few routes, in Edmonton, Enfield and Brentford,
which are not running. I leave home, and walk to the bus stop, there are no
buses to be seen, but a large crowd of passengers who say they have been
waiting for a long time. I can see no tyre tracks pulling in to the bus
stop, so I'm doubtful there have been any buses recently. If one does come
along I'm not going to be able to get on it with the size of the crowd
that's waiting. I walk to the next bus stop, which gives me an additional
route, but otherwise the situation is the same as at the first one. I carry
on walking; a 60 and a 405 pass me heading South, but nothing going North.
Somewhere approaching Purley I'm passed by two 405s which are full, and
don't stop; they're running on the main road, and not on their normal route.
Still no 60s. Eventually I do manage to get a 60 from South Croydon. No
sign of any 166 or 466 buses. Somebody said that there were no trains, and
I didn't see any crossing the bridges over the road, or on the line running
parallel where it can be seen from the road.

The pavements are covered in deep snow and ice; the East one being much
worse than the West for some reason. The road surface is wet, but almost
totally clear of snow and ice. There are significantly less vehicles on it
than normal, but none of them seems to have any difficulty. This applies to
the main road, there is still a lot of snow and ice on side roads; a
Waitrose lorry is stuck in snow completely blocking one side road for
example.

At 13:00 I leave work and walk to the bus stop. A 60 comes along, but I
don't notice the destination on it. We get to South Croydon, and it
terminates. I decide to walk down to the storage place to pay my rent. Get
there to find nobody in the office, as had been the case at 09:00 when I
passed it in the other direction. Unfortunately, in doing so I miss both a
405 and a 60. Wait quite some time for another 60 which does get me to
Coulsdon. We pass another 60 heading North, destination South Croydon. A
lot of buses seem to be terminating there, from both directions, but I can't
see why. Do they have a shortage of drivers to take them on?

This is clearly nothing like a normal service; why can't the web site give
more accurate information? When I arrived at work I looked for information
on those two specific routes, and was assured that they were operating
normally.

I've had to do a lot of walking on uneven snow ad ice in the last two days,
which has done my bad leg no good at all; twisting the knee, which I have
done several times, is particularly painful, and my feet are bleeding where
the ill-fitting boots have rubbed the skin off them. I hope things improve
tomorrow.