Snow

[The Great Wallsendo]

Got three quarters of the way to work this morning (geographically) but was still at least half an hour if not longer away judging by the traffic...

...I had to turn round to come home for the loo :red:...going to try again in a bit LMAO

Haven't seen any of them gritters about...although did see a snow plough

 

[mark]

big southern softies

big southern softies

oh no! the world's is coming to an end, there's some snow in london

cracks me up every time, few flakes of snow in the south east and panic sets in. we've got a little bit out here, average really, might be a bit more by tomorrow apparently

the drifts are canny big in places I suppose (i'm stood up in that hole!)

not been out in it yet, but this is probably what the A689 will be like

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

I'd love snow like that round here

 

[mark]

I'd love snow like that round here

come and take as much away as you want - please!

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Well the worst snow in 12 hours came and went...the southerners are still off work I see

 

[Norman]

Cant Understand it, I drove down to South Wales on Monday and wow what a good journey, no snow (not on the M1) and everyone must have stayed at home .... great drive....

Came back today Tuesday, and but for the first hour in south Wales the roads were dry and the sun shone .. again, great drive ...........
yup southern softies

 

[Stores]

You should have popped in Norman. I was at home with the feet up as the school is closed again today. Drove in this afternoon and, to be fair, the paths and steps (and we have a lot) were bad - compacted and icy. We just don't have the money to equip ourselves for the one or two days a year that we miss. This is the first time in 33 years that the school has been shut for snow on two consecutive days. Mind you it's only H&S - when we were at school the challenge would have been making the best slide down the longest ramp - I haven't seen a slide on any of our yards for years - they're gritted at the first hint.......











and they're southern poo***rs

 

[Charlton]

...I had to turn round to come home for the loo :red:...going to try again in a bit LMAO

trying to go to the lieu or getting to work

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

...I had to turn round to come home for the loo :red:...going to try again in a bit LMAO

trying to go to the lieu or getting to work

In lieu of going to work I went home to the loo ...I did eventually get to work an hour late

 

[mark]

we're still snowed in! couple of foot of the stuff, now frozen hard so its brilliant for sledging though, possibly another big dump of it tommorow night as well

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Ahhh the joys of living in the wilderness eh Mark

 

[mark]

not been out all week, down to our last 2 bottles of beer and and a bottle of benedictine left over from 2 Christmases ago

gotta dig out tomorrow - 300yards of track, with 18" of packed snow on it

have been hoping someone 'local' would do it with a tractor but no such look

couple of years back I tried burning it! poured petrol on it and lit it

melted about 3" of it which then froze as ice almost instantly

 

[Norman]

Aye Dave , memories there the schoolyard slides were brill especially if you got it onto a long downward slope like we had in one school (mind I was only 7 or 8 at the time)
I remember the white yards with all these black ice slides in all directions

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Aye Dave , memories there the schoolyard slides were brill especially if you got it onto a long downward slope like we had in one school (mind I was only 7 or 8 at the time)
I remember the white yards with all these black ice slides in all directions

Even as recent as 20 years ago you were still allowed to have "fun" in the playground...before the PC brigade got their mits on society

Marden Bridge hard courts - you could slide all the way along them until you got to the grass edge

 

[mark]

its absolutely piling down here again right now

little known, but if there any skiers/snowboarders out there, there are several runs out here, with proper tows and the conditions are perfect.

every night its been several degrees below so its pretty hard packed powder on the hills

 

[mark]

thought we'd try get out today... and failed

this is the road into the village at lunchtime:

and thats as far as we got. that little black square top right is a land rover discovery that was stuck, figured if they're stuck not much point going any further

took us an hour to reverse back 200 yards from there.

 

[Oblickta]

There hasn't been any snow over here although the hill tops are covered and it has been cold. Outside the front door we have daffodil shoots about 8" high

 

[Oblickta]

Should have kept me clack shut, it's chucking it down now

 

[KeithB]

Never mind Mark, by the time it clears Ell will have that deck sorted.

 

[mark]

Never mind Mark, by the time it clears Ell will have that deck sorted.

august then! its piling down again here now, another 20cm forecast for tonight