thanks Fly Through, your humility is refreshing.
Your colleagues in Area, the weathermen, pilots, the regulator, and the unpredictably predictable weather are all conspiring to make your job so difficult. But being a trooper that you are, you make the best of a bad situation.
For the record, when the Co-ord called, his words verbatim- "Hold all traffic", and then he hung up, no reason given, and none sought because of the volume of traffic on freq.
Also for the record, when the discretionary 20 miles was called, the traffic had already departed the hold. I agree that it is better to use the dicretionary 20 miles than the blanket 20 miles, just make sure you use your discretion when using your discretion.
With regards to the exchange program whereby we come and visit eachothers facility, I'd love to but I'm getting some teeth pulled this week. Does next week suit you!!!