A couple of customers and the staff of a pub get snowed in for eight days at the pub on top of North York Moors National Park. They were fine: they had plenty of food and ale. They improvised sleds from serving trays. Best of all, at least from the staff's point of view, the owners (management) were snowed out, meaning they couldn't get in to microman, er, supervise.
Not to say they didn't have their problems. Chef Daniel Butterworth admitted he had been talking to himself during the enforced lock-in. Waitress Katie Underwood, 18, said "the novelty is definitely starting to wear off." For the first few days, the staff hit the inventory a bit hard, but by the third they eased off.
Butterworth told the Beeb "It's been fun and we have had a laugh…. We have wireless internet here and the television works so we have been fine." Right oh! O tempora o mores, as Cicero would have said.