SIR - The snowfall of February 8 and 9 came and went but still this newspaper and its website publish critical remarks about school closures and bitter comments.

I'm sure that the majority of critics wrote from frustration due to inconvenience in one way or another, but John Phillpott's article, All those who stayed at home last Thursday are a disgrace' (Seven Days, February 18) was absurd.

The snowfall on February 8 was reported as the heaviest in the county since 1981. Schools were closed for the first time in several years.

On that amazing day and the next, I was thrilled to see parents playing with their children, adults playing like children, children playing outside, people walking along the streets, strangers helping others stuck in snow, people checking on older neighbours and smiling on passing for no specific reason.

On the same days, Mr Phillpott and other like-minded critics looked out and saw, instead, delinquent children who should have been in a classroom, spineless individuals and slackers.

Yes, I lost money when my place of work was closed but it was well worth it to see what I saw and for my children to experience their first real snowfall.

KIM MILLBERY, St John's, Worcester