General Chat

I'm with those that HATE SNOW! :-)

@ Barb .................. :-D :-D :-D :-D

Shirley I hate reversing too and wont drive in icey weather anymore

John. you say you are always first on your bottom. The size of your hat you could use it as a toboggan down them there mountains LOL

Well here in Kent its taitters but no snow as yet.

I had the car in yesterday for the second time since OCT for a scrape on the passenger side rear wheel arch. Its very awkward to reverse the car in the garage as its a 1960,s build when cars were smaller, that,s my excuse!!

They brought it back after dark so it had to sit outside the garage cos no way can you see to reverse it in..

Went out this morning ,all of a doodah, to put the car away and it was 4 degrees outside.

After LOTS of backwards and forwards and realignments the car is safely in the garage and I was able to get out of it .

Got to do it all over again tomorrow cos take OH to Mass and pick him up after it.

Am beginning to hate the garage and parking in reverse!!

Paula. Am totally anti-snow. I am always first one on my bottom :-( :-( :-(

Paula
I couldn't have put it better myself :-| :-| :-|

My OH loves the damned stuff

Keep it up there please

I've just come back from Asda - the Coryton one!!! good job my friend and I decided we wouldn't go to Abergavenny as planned!!

The same deacons used to run the Temperance Society and the Band Of Hope in the village - at least until the accident when they were somewhat discredited. I'm ashamed to say I was related to some of them which is why I never touch a drop (that's a little lie there- oh, all right, a great big one). Off to Asda.

Annie

I HATE snow! It has been forecast for Midlands, but will be nowhere near as bad as some of you will have. I HATE snow, I hate driving in it I HATE walking in it, and HATE it when it turns to ice. It is like Dancing on Ice for me when I go out. Did I mention I HATE snow. Please take care everyone. :-(

:-D :-D And the Minister came into the Con Club, was totally shocked to see his deacons lying there in the rubble and said: "Diaconiaid, dach ch'n rhagrithwyr" (deacons, you are hypocrites).

"And for those who have liittle Welsh" he continued, "my chapel deacons are a load of apricots"

I also digress. Back to snow. "When I marry Mr Snow........." :-D

John, I think it's because there were at one time a great number of communists in that part of the valleys, although it was a sort of underground movement. My grandparents' house had a picture of Karl Marx on the wall in the middle room, as we called it, but they were all members of the conservative club. This was because it was the only place in the village where you could get a drink - an alcoholic one. My mother remembers a terrible scandal one night when the floor of the conservative club collapsed and the place was full of chapel deacons who had to be rescued.

I'm sorry, I digress from the subject of snow.

Annie

Annie. They call Maerdy little Moscow, don't they. Not sure if because of left wing politics of miners or the fact that - at 750 ft - it is above the snowline. If I am shopping in Ferndale in August and it is an uncomfortably hot summers day, I like to drive two miles up to Maerdy and have a snowball fight :-D ;-)

Snow still not come down to Pontypandy yet, and my temp gauge say 41F - so too mild hopefully tonight. :-)

A small village off the Heads of The Valleys Road, Ann. John, I used to live in your part of the word and those mountain roads never seemed to be open for long in the winter. Those were the days when we had real snow. I'm off to Asda now. If I'm not back by this evening send a St. Bernard.

Annie

tell us where you are Kuros - roughly if you don't want to specific!!!

Oh, flippin heck Annie. That means Rhigos and Maerdy Mountain will be closed tonight and we will get it next in Pontypandy. Hope it is clear before I go back to work Monday week :-)

Sounds like you live off Heads of Valley road. Hope they grit it really well. And try to keep warm :-) :-)

The first few flakes are just falling here, 30 miles north of Cardiff. We're 1200 feet up so we usually get a good covering. There's a biting east wind too. It's enough to cut you in half.

Love it - as long as we have already got home. Looks like some here on Monday but I don't work that day luckily.

Remember 20+ years ago when we still had horses. You couldn't see the end of the garden due to a drift and the snow was too thick for cars. We rode 3 miles to the village for bread etc with rucksacks. The old horse was so excited by the smell of fresh bread he wanted to climb into the rucksack. It was great fun until we disappeared down a snow covered ditch on the way back :-S

As long as I am stocked up with dog food for the old girl then I am not worried.

Never ready for snow I hate it :-| okay to look at through the window perhaps for an hour ;-).....but it always bring trouble imo.. :-(

Although we might get wintery showers over the weekend, the snow isn't expected to fall until Monday afternoon through to rush hour on Tuesday.

The resident offspring will be on 'Nights'. As her route home is on a 'Red Gritting Route', we are keeping our fingers crossed that they've been out by then. It's unlikely to be much more than a couple of cms, but you know how everything grinds to a halt!

If the next shift of staff are late, she and the other Night Shifters will have to wait for them. :-0