General Chat

Been around zero all day in West Berkshire
Foggy or misty on and off all day today
When driving from Reading towards Wokingham around midday we went into what looked like fog but it was actually a snow shower then we came out of it. Never seen anything like it before. Then we drove back into it.

Still cold tonight.

9:30 pm

Linda :o) XxX

PS Forgot to add from Yahoo news:
A man died trying to clear snow outside his home in Darlington, County Durham - taking the number of recent weather-related deaths to eight.

Evening........brrrrr its bloomin cold here again -4. Off to bed and keep warm

Monmouth 22.48pm

jude

It's very foggy here in Clitheroe (and -1.5 now), there was a lot of ice underfoot in Chipping (Forest of Bowland) today and I am told that there is freezing fog and it's icy underfoot around Ormskirk at the moment - but I haven't seen that for myself as I haven't been over there lately.

West Berks ...
down to -2 and accidents on M4 due to frozen ground between junctions ......as you get near to towns it warms to 2 and therefore they ground is not frozen!!

foggy in some areas

Very cold and bleak in Newcastle T & W
No gritters, no bin men for 2 weeks,maybe tomorrow?

7.12pm. Cold and frosty here, temp is minus 3. Want to got to Abergavenny tomorrow, so I hope it doesnt get too hard. Taking a chance going out in the cold, but I have a heavy fleece duffle coat to wear.

Freezing here in N. Wales at 17.36pm, some snow still lying and our drive is like a skating rink! Lets hope for a better week to enable us to get our xmas shopping finished!

Annx

Same here K... in S E Wales, N Gwent.

Just been shovelling the snow off the drive with my snow scooper, the tracks either side were clear for the cars, but if ..when it freezes the depth of the snow may damage the underside of the cars.

Clear skies but very cold !

5.13pm
Sandie.

Beautiful day in Herefordshire. Very cold but sunny and at last most of the snow has gone from the roads were the sun shines and melts them. To help getting to work tomorrow took a wheelbarrow and used the grit in the road bins to help on the steepest hill which is always in the shade.

Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Snow in the fields but the sheep still preferring to scuffle for grass to the hay

West Berkshire 3:30pm
Have just been and cut down some plants to go in our recycling bags for tomorrow morning.
It is cold but not freezing abot 3C I guess.
Only a scattering of snow in the gutters left thank goodness.
It was misty this morning
We have had a litle sun, but not much.
The compost in the pots is still frozen

Hope everyone is keeping warm

Linda :o) XxX

Here in West Berkshire have similar weather to Bedfordshire
No snow to speak of
Estate roads look OK, though I haven't ventured out yet
Dull and overcast

Have a safe day everyone

Linda :O) XxX

9.43am in Monmouth. Temp outside is0.5. Frosty morning with sun just breaking through. Cars seem to be moving OK.

About 11:00 pm in West Berkshire
Temperature 4C so much warmer and will hopefully not freeze overnight.

Hubby home from work at Heathrow said it was 6C there so better too.

Looks slushy outside got to be better than ice !!!

Check in again in the morning

Linda :O) XxX

Hi folks,snow here in Sheffield is thawing at last.

The wingers that I was refering to,seem to be local able bodied men.who couldn't drive to the betting shop. They don't appear to have gainful employment,and expect everything served on a plate.

They are usually outside the betting shop or in the newsagents buying fags and scratchcards.
We have all met them wherever we live,the world owes them a living don't you know!

Not long returned home from Ashford, Kent. It rained much of the day and roads are now clear, but plenty of snow showing on north-facing banks of the motorway.(M20)
Quite mild with no biting wind, so shopping was OK.

Gwyn

Has almost gone, that white stuff! Still very cold and grey The temp outside at 7.27pm is 4.5 Hope it stays clear for a few days at least so can get shopping done.

Hi Annina

I was not living on the common, when i was school age. I do remember the school though, it is a housing estate now. I have spent one or two nights, at the Hollingwood Hotel just above where the school was.

Rain stopped here about a hour ago, just seen the weather and they have given fog and ice for derbyshire. Take care all

Spruce

Spring Clean,you are posher than me then,as you know,the white city,as we called it,is a coal board estate built in the 50s. Which school did you attend? I went to Hollingwood girls,I think it is a Barratt estate now.

Sheffield ,it is now drizzling,and I hope that it dosn't freeze and make things worse.

Traffic seems to be moving around better,but no busses as yet on our route.

Annina.

Where I live we've had a lot of heavy snow, and until I married and moved here I lived in a small country village where everyone helped each other out in the bad weather or in the summer:)
Hubby lived in a small town where there was a good community spirit they did the same.

We still both help out our neighbours when needed, we clear the elderly's drives, shop for them if they want, they all have my tel no.

I suppose I'm a sort of townie now ....
It still doesn't stop me whinging about the lack of gritting the council do.. the cost of our council tax is enormous , We live up very steep hill from the main road and have 3 members of the family that have to get to work.
We clear our drives and the roads outside.

My father lived in the same little village from the day he was born til the day he died at 90 , he had all his marbles and boy did he complain about the lack of snow clearing that the council did... his council tax was even higher than mine.
Perhaps it's just 'townies' that grizzle on the boards us rurals are used to the inconvenience , it's bl**dy annoying but more used to it and don't post about it.

Sorry you fell, glad it was only bruising , still hurts tho I suspect !

Sandie.

Yes Spruce, so is mine.
Raining quite abit now, just hope it does not freeze ontop of it, tonight.
Julia in Derbyshire