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hmmmm coming down a a fair old pace now

snowing here but not sticking

Nothing here in NWales...looks a bit damp,but we certainly haven't had much here this winter....hope we don't have any to come!

Woke up to half an inch in my South Wales valley. And still falling :-( :-(

Edit. Our snow here (quite thick now) due to turn to rain later and, with lows of 3C tonight, little chance of it sticking till Thursday morning.

But looks a bit more serious in north of England and Scotland - though temperatures there look quite mild into the weekend. :-)

Just seen this on weather report on Yahoo

"Snow has begun falling in parts of southern England, prompting fears of ice and disruption in the Monday morning rush hour.

There was expected to be a covering of up to six cms (2.4ins) in some areas."

:-( :-( Thought we had come through the snow problems

Yep ,same her we've had a flurry of the white stuff.

Lol DET , we saw the funny side after....the thing was the Council snow plough had already been up a while before and pushed a load in front of our 3 cars in a row.
We've knocked down our garden wall to make a parking area for son and dau's cars, hubby's is normally parked at the back of the long drive at the side of the house, but cos of snow he had left it at the front.
I expect it looked like a 'second hand garage forecourt'.
Son's car is the most expensive of them and still has the private reg plates from the previous owner (they are in the process of him having them back ) .That car is his pride and joy and he doesn't want the private plates on it, but it's taking longer for the chap to buy them back.
Son's words were along the lines of 'he purposely dumped it in front of my car cos mine was the best of them lined up , jealous person ,I expect he thinks what a flash git , I dump the snow there! ' :-D :-D but I've changed the wording for obvious reasons ;-) ;-)
It was rather annoying as our cars were off the road and there were no cars parked the other side of the road on the pavement and there are no driveways opposite ,so he did have a choice..but he chose to dump it on the pavement our side, still it gave son a bit more exercise and toned his biceps a bit more ;-) ;-)

Snowing quite heavily here in Valleys but not sticking. Temp -1C about 5am Saturday, but from then on it appears to be between plus 4C and plus 10C 24/7 for whole of next week. Not even cold at night. So little likelihood of more snow in E & Wales and what snow we have should have gone by late Sunday.

Hope I have read hourly forecast correctly :-)

flippin' 'eck - here it comes again :-( :-(

Have to laugh at Sandie’s post.

Back in 1980 whatever when the SE had feet of the stuff, someone dug out their long drive, then went to get their vehicle.

By the time they got back to the end of the drive, they found that a plough had come along the road and plied up a 4 foot wall across the end. They weren’t happy either and gave up. :-(

Whilst realising that the severe circumstance in the Valley’s can’t be compared to others, our County/Borough has farmers under contract who come out with tractors fitted with snow ploughs to help clear the side roads in the rural or semi rural areas. It works rather well. Something similar may explain the arrival of the JCB.

well at last the sun is out and things are beginning to melt although there's still a stack of the stuff that needs to go

the bay tree which I managed to lop off - well a bit of it - looks pretty silly now, but it has given me an opening to get at the rest, so I shall be down there with the loppers and a ladder and hopefully reduce the height by half - watch this space :-D :-D

Obviously a lower class of clientèle in your neck of the woods Ann ;-)

We have a local councillor living at No 1 and a Policeman at No 26, so I think that's reason we often get one of those large lorries chucking salt and grit about.

This afternoon someone came up in a JCB clearing the snow ,( don't know who was, he doesn't live in our road ) problem was, he piled at lot of it where we'd just cleared..... and in front of son's car.
:-| :-| :-| :-| Son's language was not very good !!! No surprise there !
And.... I think his temper melted the snow away :-D

Still snowing here but very lightly.

wossa gritter!!! :-D

still coming down here but fairly light now

Hubby and son are both clearing the overnight snow that's fallen,another 3 inches :(

It's in the air now tho ,don't know why they're bothering....
Well I do really ,cos son or dau haven't been to work all week ! and just to keep it under some sort of control.
Son can work from home tho and has been , and dau has lots of leave that she need to takes soon else she'll loose it .

Edit 15.16pm..just checked where I'd cleared last evening,and it was down to a pathway on the patio ...we must have had a foot in places, I was guessing from the snow on the roof of dau's car outside the window when I said 3 inches .
And no bleeding gritter in sight again !!!

coming down at a fair old lick here now!!

Just finshed digging out the drive for the second time and amazingly a snow plough went past. First time I have seen one in years around here :-)

Still chucking it down here:)

jude ;-)

mail poster??????

well it stopped snowing here around 3:00 am but has now started yet again - have had to cancel a long awaited get together with some ex colleagues from the sixties - we all worked together at Freeman's cigar factory here in Cardiff - Manikin - we were so looking forward to it, but not possible today - we're dong it again next Wednesday - hopefully

So personal Sue. I know that dead fire in the hearth jibe was at me. I think I am the only mail poster to have a dead fire. All the other men at least talk about their fire a lot :-( :-( :-( ;-)

Lol Sue....
Push off.....

John and were just talking about hair colour,

Can be a very sensitive subject, I know what my original colour was as I had it cut and have kept the tress,,dau thinks it is 'gross'.to do such a thing.

Her friend has straight blonde hair and it is right down to the floor..,she does tie it up sometimes ,but gets really awkward looks from peeps when she doesn't..

I'll go grey gracefully sometime ;-)

I thought this was the snow thread not a snow on the roof thread (with a dead fire in the hearth) :-D