General Chat

We had snow here in Wales on Friday.
2 fire engines got stuck on the litttle hill at the bottom of my street and waited over an hour for a gritter to come and put some salt down around the engines. Eventually they were able to reverse back out of the street.
The rest of my street remains unsalted.

Alyson

Wondered what the noise was M lol.

I desparately miss living in the country,but the only upside of town living,is that the shops are only a spit away.

I am,however, going to need to get my poorly cat to the vet this week for his steroid injection,without it he gets horrible stomach pain.

I will have to cadge a lift from my lovely neighbour,or get a taxi.

Weather in high up Sheffield,frozen snow and arctic winds,if it wasn't for looking after my moggies I would hibernate.

Yes I enjoyed the Stew and Dumplings,finished it off for lunch today,Having Chicken Casserole tonight.Should be good.Marion, that was,nt thunder and lightning you heard it was the result of all the Methane gas from the Herbivors and Vegitarians erupting.**M**.:o)>.

Glad you are free joan lol.

I'll raid the freezer,needs defrosting anyway, and sit by the tv all day.
I usually make soup but since I was meant to shop today..made do with a tin of tomato.

Marion

joan...

Have you got thunder and lightniing? we have and the snow is like hailstone.
Very weird.The sky had a redish glow in the early hours too.


Marion

We have had thunder and lightning along with heavy snow this am.
Never had that before.
Still heavy snow and its about 5-6inches deep

Marion

Jules your dogs love it try and get a 4 year old back in We did have fun playing in the snow but i did need a cup of tea and he was covered in snow .

Merlin hope you enjoy your stew and Dumplings

Sandy

Annina, that's a pain for you, hope everything gets sorted quickly so you can get transport again.
Take care all, I want to hibernate!

Lizxx

Bad news Annina, so you won't be interested in this news - re safety - appartently some ambulance service are fitting what is called a sleeve to their tyres so may be they are available for cars too.

Oh !!

Sorry about that Annina,
my sentiments for the barstewards also.

I would be , as I expect you are raging ,

Sandie.x

Snow here in Sheffield,but it won't bother us..............................................some barsteward stole our car last night.

I hope they crash it and die in horrible pain.

I don't mind the snow as I lived in Scotland for the last 3yrs and got used to it!! It's the ice i'm not so keen on as i'm not to good on my feet as it is...

But hey, we can't change the weather so we just have to go with it....


Jules xx

PS My dogs love it!!

Years ago you used to be able to by "Town and Country Tyres" which in the winter you usually fitted on your rear wheels.( Spare wheels and tyres did,nt cost so much then) made it much easier in bad weather.the trouble is lots of people have,nt driven in really bad weather and don,t know how to.this adds to problems. the Local Councils are a joke,lots are still awaiting deliveries of salt for the roads,(Probably did,nt order it till it started snowing)We,ve got a couple of inches of the white stuff here and more to come,but it should,nt be a problem.**M**.Ps. Stew and Dumplings tonight.

what I meant Sandie is that unlike the canadians' weather, ours is not severe enough for our powers that be to make proper plans, as was said we cant use chains because the snow is for the most part not deep enough.....of course drivers COULD invest in a set of snow wheels. but they might never get used?
Bob

Bob,

Speak for yourself !

Just been looking at photos (to show my new neighbours of their houses I'd photographed , when we had to climb out of the bedroom window--bungalow ) Snow 6ft deep front and back doors impossible to get out of, fortunately it had drifted away from one of the windows.

When it snows we get it thick and fast, snowed in for days sometimes weeks, and whenever the forecaster says 'Snow on high ground' we get it.

Just hope we escape this time.. it's about 4inches deep ,hubby and son , good drivers both just managed to get the cars home and on the drive.

We get enough of it and often enough, unfortunately.
Pity the council don't react soon enough!

Sandie.

Methinks I shall be spending a bit of the weekend screwing screws into the soles of an old pair of walking boots!!

The short answer is..........we are never properly prepared because.

we dont have it bad enough, for long enough, often enough!!

Bob....

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are okay.

To all our snowbound friends, please take gentle care
of yourselves.

In London, we are still waiting for the snow!

Very best wishes
xx

I don't mind the snow - it's the next day when it's turned to ice that bothers me.
I've just looked for snow grips for shoes on the internet - and most (apart from amazon) appear to be sold out until December!!!!