Non-panel date

In my last post I completely forgot to write about last Friday. We have known since mid-January that it wasn’t going to be the case any more, but last Friday (February 6th) was the original panel date we had been given. We were both a bit disappointed on the Thursday evening as the following day was a date that we had been looking forward to and it was marked on our calendar. Also, a couple of friends that we’d forgotten to tell that the panel wasn’t to happen got in touch to wish us good luck, so we had to tell them that it was delayed and so on. But then on Friday when we got up we saw all the snow that had fallen overnight and realised that we couldn’t even drive out of our street let alone the 30 or so miles to where the panel meets. I’m fairly sure that the panel didn’t meet as most people could not get to work in our area. So it really worked out well that we had three weeks to get used to the idea that panel was not happening on that day as opposed to looking forward to it, doing all the last-minute preparation and coping with the nerves only to find on the actual day that we could not make it due to the weather!