its snowed... a bit..

KeithB said:
Got to work no bother this morning only to get stuck in the car park behind some woman just skidding backwards and forwards basically polishing the snow into ice. Once she moved out of the way I drove straight in to the space she was trying to get into. Getting out tonight may be another matter :D
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helped a damsel in distress next to Wallsend Metro last night who, like the woman in your example, was polishing the snow to a mirror finish...revving the engine to buggery doesn't work I've found :D
 
It took our lass 2 hours to drive from Doxford Park via Hylton Castle to South Shields last night and the snow wasn't as bad then. She arrived at work this morning to find only 4 members of staff had been able to make it in and the boss has told them to cancel any meetings or visits they had planned and that's only the Sunderland and Houghton le Spring areas!

Glad I'm off work as I'd never make it into Stockton from here!
 
track to the house an hour ago!
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having an adventure up to the top of the fell this afternoon... could be interesting!
 
Well we've got nowhere near the amount you have Mark, enough to stop me getting the car out though. I've waited almost ten months for an appointment to see a specialist at the General and I'm supposed to go tomorrow :mad: :mad: Just about to cancel it now. God knows how long I'll have to wait for another one.

Jim.
 
Can they not send one of them ambulance/ bus things to get you Jim or are they not what they're used for??

Cheers

Tony
 
I probably could have but for the snow Tony. As it happens the ambulance service anounces on the news last night that they were only responding to life threatening emergencies and as I intend being around a bit longer I wouldn't have a Rabbit's chance in Royston Vasey :D :D

Jim.
 
Rang the bairn's school this morning before setting off to check they were open as most of the others in Blyth were listed online as being shut - yep, open... so took him down and dropped him off. Came home to get a text a few mins later saying they'd decided to close and were sending the kids out. tch!
 
Shame that mate, since you've waited so long. Is there no one near that can take you or are they all rabbit hunting up Royston???,,Lol


Cheers

Tony
 
Lee that is not good at all mate. We have had similar cases round here because certain people are frightened to make a decision. Better make a mistake and close it and the conditions get better than take a chance on children getting stranded. All it takes is a couple of cars to get stuck in this area and the whole of our bank is brought to a halt, as happened for a short time last night. If the snow had continued it would have been stopped altogether.

Not really Tony, we are expecting quite a bit more snow later today and again tonight so no guarrantee they could get into our street and I doubt very much if I could walk right to the end the way it is mate.

Jim.
 
willywetegg said:
Lee that is not good at all mate. We have had similar cases round here because certain people are frightened to make a decision. Better make a mistake and close it and the conditions get better than take a chance on children getting stranded. All it takes is a couple of cars to get stuck in this area and the whole of our bank is brought to a halt, as happened for a short time last night. If the snow had continued it would have been stopped altogether.
Jim.
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What bugs me is the same places (the 2 new Academies) have been ripping into parents to get the kids to walk to school as a reason to cut the cars pulling in and out of the estates which annoys the residents, but then had the kids turn up and have to go back home - so those of us who dropped them off for a change because of the weather had to do a double run. They also don't list on the Northumberland Council site since they're not state ran and instead sent home a letter after chucking the kids out today at short notice saying to check their own website or call the school after 8am.. slight issue when the bus for our estate is 7.45 - 7.50am and the kids are told they'll get detention if they are late for any reason :/ I dread to think how many parents were arriving at work and having to put their coats back and head home to let their kids into the houses.
 
5150 - schools are now judged not only on exam results but also on things like "Healthy Lifestyles", part of which is how many of the students use a healthy way of getting to school......I leave you to your own conclusions.

It's so bad that one of the OFSTED criteria is the way in which kids have learned about a healthy diet and then used that knowledge to change family choices, presumably responding to some questionairre by saying that instead of going to Maccies 5 times a week they now adopt a salad and sushi diet, no fags and the occasional spritza.

We've opted for a more hands on approach........no parking in or around the school (someone would get knocked down, sooner or later). I will now manipulate that into a statistic that says that 1600 of our 1700 kids walk to school. I weep at the time we waste satisfying insignificant criteria when some of our kids are facing major social issues at home yet get into school, properly dressed and can look forward to 5 hours of relative calm only to find staff having to pressurise them to produce more and more, usually as a punishment, in order to increase school grades.

We're closed today and tomorrow 'cos of the snow. Shame I can't take some of them fishing.
 
People struggled to get out of the car park after work, pushed 4 people out myself who wouldn't listen to the "don't over-rev your engine" advice...couple of the directors also found that their nice posh rear wheel drive BMWs struggle in this kind of weather

to top it all the cost of rock salt (if you're lucky enough to secure an order) has doubled in the last week and is still rising...our suppliers are all very apologetic but must be rubbing their hands with glee at the same time

In fairness though our meagre 3-4 inches is nowt compared to those out in back country...cleared the path outside my house and dug out a few car tyres in the street tonight in readiness for tomorrows madness...s'gonna snow again though and undo all my efforts :(

packing the shovel in the car tomorrow but am dreading the drive to work...it's not me I worry about it's the other road users IE the ones who either drive painfully slow or way too fast
 
mark said:
food's coming to us if we get really desperate. the place is running thick with rabbits, desperate for anything they can find to eat.

took this 5 mins ago from the living room window, just outside the front door where we throw bits of food for the birds, they're scoffing anything they can get

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i know what id be doing...shooting my food they are in close enough range but depends if thats your sorta thing
 
dizzydaz said:
i know what id be doing...shooting my food they are in close enough range but depends if thats your sorta thing
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shot loads & loads & loads of them over the last week, all skin and bone and not a picking on them, been good target practice though, used my mates semi auto .22 rimfire as the bullets are cheaper than shotgun cartridges.


Finn's fattening a few of the garden resident's up he reckons, they've even got names - stew, pot, pie, and ginger. bit worried about his thought process for the last one.

dave: I feel for you mate, I hade to bail out of being a parent governor, think the LEA were pleased I went to be honest. give it 5 years you won't be allowed to call yourselves 'Teachers' any more, as that will be deemed an insult to the illiterate scroates who are incapable of 'learning' and will therefore contravene their human rights by singling them out for falling out of the stupid tree and hitting every branch on the way down
 
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mark said:
dave: I feel for you mate, I hade to bail out of being a parent governor, think the LEA were pleased I went to be honest. give it 5 years you won't be allowed to call yourselves 'Teachers' any more, as that will be deemed an insult to the illiterate scroates who are incapable of 'learning' and will therefore contravene their human rights by singling them out for falling out of the stupid tree and hitting every branch on the way down
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Sorry Mark, don't want to hijack your thread as I've already copied your photos so I can show the kids what real snow is like but........

The latest trend at school is that our kids become independant learners and we, the staff, become "facilitators" of that process, supporting and guiding our students so that they learn by their mistakes. If I'd have been in charge of my education at 13,14 or 15 I'd have done sod all. Unfortunately it appears that we've stumbled upon this educational theory (which, in theory, I've no objection to at all) at a time when the majority of kids at a school like mine need MORE guidance and direction.
Since you no longer need a proper "qualification" to teach (regardless of what the lying government say) you'll have, in our lifetime, schools with a head of department setting the work for a whole year group, French Ed style, and delivered by "Study Supervisors" or "Classroom Support Staff" or some other name - all much cheaper than "proper teachers"

To be honest it may actually make little difference as all kids will be made to stay in "training" until 18 in the future (to manipulate the unemployment figures, I suggest) and there's no jobs out there anyway. Education to Training to Income Support.

You can tell we're off school again can't you lol.
 

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