Daydream thread continues.....

rhiwfield

Good job well done

Cleared the drive of about 5" of snow.

Neighbour came to help and then three of us gritted the hilly side road that was impassable yesterday except for 4 x 4s, even snow tyres were not enough. 2 hours later I think we now have access to the main village road which is kept gritted by highways.

Warm glow of working with people on a mutually beneficial task.

Take care peeps

Itismehonest

Rummer wrote: »

Today I have lost my inner bounce and would love to just escape to somewhere sunny and wonderful.

Ooo - Pack me in your suitcase, please

Alex - Not what you want or need when you're doing up to move

No more snow has fallen here overnight but what was on the ground when darkness fell is still there.

CTC - I don't think bread was rationed during the war. There was the National Loaf. It did get rationed for a while after the war, though, because a wet summer wrecked the wheat crop.
Rationing continued for years after WW2 with items gradually coming off the list. In fact, I was a few weeks old (oddly, I can't remember it myself ) when meat rationing - the last to be rationed, I believe - was finally lifted.
Rabbits were widely kept for eating. Even when I was young the unused hutches & chicken runs were still in people's backyards & gardens.

Lucielle - Has your lambing son come across much Schmallenberg? Apparently there's loads down south Around here, where lambing is later in the year, they're hoping the ewes got bitten at a time which may have given them a bit of resistance & not at a time the lambs were forming.

Glad you're 'free', rhiw. No snow ploughs get out here. The nearest is usually about 4 miles away on the A roads but even the A39 is still blocked. So, for us, it's a case of sit tight & wait.

Davesnave

We seem to have been on the edge of the snow. To the west of us I don't think there's much at all, and traffic here is moving normally. We have even seen the sun.

Getting at least three eggs a day, though whether that will last is uncertain, with the hens spending so much time indoors. The younger ones are still out foraging, but the originals are looking from the pop hole and saying, "Not going out there!"

A couple of winters ago they were out in much worse than this!

Alexelisey

Thanks everyone for sympathy over the carpet incident. I think it may well be the last in a long line of things going wrong over stupidity, as DH has now lost patience with the person responsible. As he (DH) still has a bad cold and cough, which I now have, I have not dared ask him if we're going to cover it up with a rug or replace the carpet. While it's still so fresh in the mind, it's better to wait and not stir up trouble.

We have barely had an inch of snow so far, although DD said on her way home from London last night the train kept losing power and sparks were flying off the back of it. As well as every train out this way being over an hour delayed! How come other countries don't grind to a halt when they have snowfall?

I am having a lemsip then going back to bed. I'm grumpy and need cheering up - anyone have anything nice to tell? Or funny?

lostinrates

Brrrrrrrrrrerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Lighting woodburner now.

Have to say, I cannot believe this is our third winter of this. It's really, really miserable, not because of the cold but because we have spent money NOT to be cold.

Apart from the dogs I am trying to minimise the use of the electric heaters but resident parent returns today so they need to be warmer.

rozeepozee

Oh my word. A day off and there are pages that I've missed. No hope of catching up. Can I have a precis please?

We built a snow cat yesterday. Possibly a snow dog today. We've probably had no more that an inch on each day. Enough to roll a snowman's body if there's enough of a surface area. It's great having some land

COOLTRIKERCHICK

fridge freezer has packed up:mad::mad::o:o

we knew it was on its way out...

right better go see what the prices are on-line

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

fridge freezer has packed up:mad::mad::o:o

we knew it was on its way out...

right better go see what the prices are on-line

Just thinking about it......remember to get something the right size of
the ranch not your current house. I have a fridge freezer after years of just a fridge and a separate freezer (still have the chest freezer) and honestly......I hardly know how to use the freezer now, I have an odd collection of 'stuff I might use soon' in the kitchen freezer. It makes no sense to anyone, not even me.

rhiwfield

For those of you who havent yet had snow, here's some views from our lounge windows and of the chooks winter quarters

Picc 1
Picc 2
Picc 3

As Itsme wrote, we're free :j and able to get up and down the hill atm.

When we got down to the village road, it had been blocked earlier by fallen trees/large branches and was just cleared with chain saws, so we had a passable drive into town, where we restocked just in case and had the obligatory coffee and cake

Both chooks in lay and we're getting at least one egg a day, despite the low light levels. Temperature briefly rose to 2C this morning, but is now freezing again. They are hardy little things and managed the deep freeze two years back with no real problems, this is much milder than then though they clearly do not like the snow.

Itismehonest

It's looking pretty, rhiw.

CTC - If there's stuff in the fridge/freezer & you still have snow bury it under the white stuff. We've done that before when the power used to go off for a long time.