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Adamu's soulmate Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 337

This is the heaviest snowfall in London for 18 years and we are not good at keeping transport going. No buses anywhere in London most of the day and very restricted underground service - if your station was open!

I have spent the day watching one idiot after another slide across the road getting stuck on a slope and having to push the car out. No I most certainly didnt help but it was funny to watch Smile

Seems 6 million people didnt go to work and forecasts are that it will be just as bad travelwise tomorrow

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

My step bro in Canada is laughing himself silly at us.

I was driving to meet up with another relative this afternoon.
Was treated to the sight of a snow plough trying travel along one of our "traffic calmed " roads. Lets say it wasn't dealing too well with the speedbumps Rolling Eyes

edit to add its still not lying near me but my pal indeepest darkest Clackmannanshire has lots of snow, her kids are making snowmen in the garden

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:08 pm

Took me 2 1/2 hours to get home! To add insult to injury I had to abandon the car part way up the hill. There's very light powdery stuff over ice & all I could do was go sideways Sad

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 8:13 pm

snow just isn't fun when i need to get to work :/

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:08 pm

@bill2 - sweetie - I wasn't taking it bad. I was stating the fact (with alot of tongue in cheek!). We are pretty pathetic. Like I said, if it's not temperate this country just shuts down! Smile

It started to melt a bit this evening but now the melted bits are re-freezing as ice. So snow with added ice. Tomorrow could be well interesting!! Shocked

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:34 pm

Like you said, it's just what you are used to. My first winter in Canada, the minus 40 didn't feel that bad (very dry air) and my horses still wanted to eat so I took the time, cleaned the stables, gave them extra straw and fed them well. But when I got in and my face started thawing out I knew what I did wrong Very Happy

Typical rookie mistake around here Confused

Which they always tell you after it has happened of course Laughing

It healed, we have new people from Holland in the neighborhood, I'm waiting Twisted Evil

I'm a Canadian now Wink

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:37 pm

DonVito wrote:

snow just isn't fun when i need to get to work :/

I'd prefer it when there is no more snow when i go home from work Wink

It's been raining during daytime here in the Netherlands, i'll find out in a minute if it has all frozen solid because it's the end of my shift. Sure hope it's not too slippery.

So what temperatures are you having in the UK right now?

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Trixi wrote:

We have snow... lots of it...

Trix - have you tried to write your name in the snow? It's an old Canadian tradition when you get that much snow.

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:25 am

I went riding the bike today and actually saw some snow on the mountains. It was 86 degrees on the way home. Laughing

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:25 am

Gold Hat wrote:

Trix - have you tried to write your name in the snow? It's an old Canadian tradition when you get that much snow.

Honestly? No.

I have thought about it though. It might stop the annoying kids in the street from lobbing snow balls at the snow drift that is my car.

Also, unlike some of the pretenders on this forum (and you know who you are) I actually AM female. So I'm not really equipped for the anti-social method of doing it and I can't be arsed to figure out a non-anti-social method.

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:39 am

Warmed coloured water? Or you can wait till it's dark and no one is looking...and...just squat? Laughing

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:28 am

3 hours of rolling snow and dogshit together and I came up with this work of art.

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:59 am

^^Hmmmm slightly.... what did you use for eyes? Looks like Satan's snowman! Oh and erm... I'm a totally hot female. But like I said in another thread, there is already a queue - get to the back if you like, or super-impress me for a VIP pass (but Reaper has it at the moment and I'd hope that he wont give it up that easily)

And Reaper - Nutter! I meant that girls lack the directional control required for writing. I don't think squatting is gonna help! Rolling Eyes

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:08 pm

^^^

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:09 pm

Trixi wrote:

there is already a queue - get to the back if you like, or super-impress me for a VIP pass

So my dogshit snowman building skills don't impress you?

Red chalk for the eyes. He looks worse now as he's thawing and the chalk is running down his face - kinda like the "someone's thrown acid in my face and my eyes are melting" look.
At the moment I'm debating wether or not to sellotape a 12" carving knife to one of his bamboo hands.

I'm then planning on using him to threaten my kids at bedtime tonight:
"Go to sleep or psycho dog-shit snowman will cut your hearts out".

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:00 pm

Trixi wrote:

I meant that girls lack the directional control required for writing. I don't think squatting is gonna help! Rolling Eyes

Here you go:

linky Very Happy

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:58 pm

/\/\

Quote:

Travel the world with the comfort of home in your pocket.

And the smell of wee.

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:05 pm

I live in Florida

Snow sucks.

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:45 pm

Trixi wrote:

I meant that girls lack the directional control required for writing.

Walk really really fast... Razz

@Slightly, your snow person looks GREAT. Well that's what I told my 9 year old when he did one similar. If you put a down jacket on it, the melt will slow down (but the jacket might be stolen, same with the knife... use cardboard Shocked

). I love the threat, your house must be fun... Laughing

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:15 pm

i`m kinda bummed out by the phrase,
`dont travel if its un-nessasary` i`ve got a job and need it. i dont really want to be docked a days pay.

i didnt go to work on monday. i couldnt get my car out.
i got here at work today.. work is dead and empty. people rang in unable to attend, they live 1 mile away.

rant over...

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:23 pm

That's life unfortunately and they will forget this fast

Quote:

people rang in unable to attend, they live 1 mile away

That's flexible work ethics for you, but remember it when they talk about your raise/promotion. Thumbs up

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

We have NO snow
Not a flake
NONE

meanwhile my relative in Bristol is snowed in Shocked

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 1043

Yup Bristol is less than fun if you dislike snow. I love snow, so all is good. The chickens are a bit befuddled. I'll try to get a pic of a befuddled chickidee, but I promise nothing.

EDIT: also, something about pansy northerners with they mild weather. They don't know the meaning of snow....

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:32 am

I'm snowed in too.
I was going to visit my folks 13 miles down the road but even with a 4x4 there's no chance of getting there.
Come to think of it, I can't even get out of my drive.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

Got clear skies and sun shining!
Boat sailing by on quiet calm water
Sis has sent me some pix of her road and garden.
All white and fluffy. Cats very confused
Ach she was raised in Scotland, stocked up at Tesco the other day, has gas central heating AND coal fires. I think she will survive the West country blizzard.
She may not make it up here at the weekend as planned though.
She struggled into work yesterday but got a text from her boss to say log on at home Rolling Eyes

. She waited today for the text before trying to travel.