Daydream thread continues.....

rozeepozee

I'll have a cuppa with you, alf

lucielle

Loads of the ruddy white stuff and forecast for more until 3.00 tomorrow.

Great.
L

Itismehonest

Postie arrived :j so DH venturing out to civilisation (well as near civilisation as it gets locally) to top up on necessities before the next band of snow is due in tonight/tomorrow & we're back to being bunkered in.

Itismehonest

Just looked at the weather forecast & this week stays cold with snow possible to some degree or other until Friday.
Then it turns much warmer .......... with rain :rotfl:
(It's a rotfl because MSE don't provide a "demented laughter while banging head on wall" smilie. )

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

Just looked at the weather forecast & this week stays cold with snow possible to some degree or other until Friday.
Then it turns much warmer .......... with rain :rotfl:
(It's a rotfl because MSE don't provide a "demented laughter while banging head on wall" smilie. )

Not more rain? Ontop of the snow thaw that could be a lot of liquid. More flooding even.


It better be a bloody good summer or else ....well, um.....or else it won't be.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Not more rain? Ontop of the snow thaw that could be a lot of liquid. More flooding even.


It better be a bloody good summer or else ....well, um.....or else it won't be.

:rotfl::rotfl: thats the truth.....:rotfl::rotfl:

ive been waiting for a delivery of an antique silk for someone ...since thursday... keeps going out for delivery but obviously has "pidgeon" in its genes cos ends up back at the depot each night......:o :mad: :rotfl:

the weather hasnt helped i know but vans are obviously going OUT.... and we are one of the clearest roads area ???

i need to get to the bank but just know it will turn up as i disapear down the road !!:o

anyway , the young doves i gave to the keeper a while back [including the one i hand reared ,that wouldnt leave home !] have all turned up this morning !!:D:D i recognised the hand reared ones distinctive markings.... can just picture them sat somewhere saying "sod this for a lark, i know where theres a good nosh to be had".....:rotfl::rotfl:

just had estate electrician [in cahoots with agent may i add]round telling me they are going to put a fuse box by the generator. i asked why not indoors and he replied "well that is extra cost [not 4 metres cable difference!] and they dont want to pay anymore than they need to ".......and that they would have to charge ME if it was too expensive !!!!:mad: my generator has a trip system already but the electrician said he has to issue cert on his work only... i did say "so if it trips i have to go outside to re set it" he said well i have to go to the generator now, and i pointed out that was my choice.... and if THEY wanted another fuse box then indoors makes more sense...but no....:mad::mad:
i asked for the plan of works in writing please and he looked at me as if i was mad .....
what made me laugh was he said their insurance wouldnt cover the house without it. even if it had another prob ie the roof. [ins argue that incorrect details elsewhere] and i said well estate had better fix everything else then or they are wasting thier money...:rotfl::rotfl:

Itismehonest

Yes, I guess that's quite likely, LIR. As the snow on the high ground melts those downstream will be at risk.

DH got out & back (a bit dicey up on the open moor) which was good as ....... it's now snowing again *rolleyes*.
It's only falling as icing sugar here but the hills inland have disappeared behind a white curtain so that will be a coating on the top roads again.

Anyone got any cheerful news? I'm fed up now :rotfl:

Oh alfie. You don't need the hassle, do you?

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

Yes, I guess that's quite likely, LIR. As the snow on the high ground melts those downstream will be at risk.

DH got out & back (a bit dicey up on the open moor) which was good as ....... it's now snowing again *rolleyes*.
It's only falling as icing sugar here but the hills inland have disappeared behind a white curtain so that will be a coating on the top roads again.

Anyone got any cheerful news? I'm fed up now :rotfl:

Oh alfie. You don't need the hassle, do you?

:rotfl::rotfl: my compensation is that i know im a PAIN IN THE BUTT more to them than they are to me....:rotfl::rotfl:

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

I did, but I really didn't need to, as I saw it all first hand! :rotfl:

Some of the timing didn't really tie up with my memories though, as the big blizzard seemed to come in the school holidays, yet I know I was on the last bus to make it out of Barnstaple to my home town. Maybe I was visiting a mate? Anyway, I remember thinking, "Heck, if this thing doesn't get a shift on we'll never make it!" :eek:

My town's car park became a heliport, but there were no joy rides to be had. However, my mate's Dad was in charge of all the diggers clearing the main Exmoor routes, so he took us up there one afternoon. There were workers with snow rooms built into the side of drifts up there, which gave us the idea of building an igloo. It was so easy to carve out big blocks of snow and arrange them, just as we'd seen on the documentaries about eskimos, but we didn't have long enough to get more than a few courses up...:o

Me too, although I was a bit younger. I made me aware how small our world was then.

We went to church the weekend of the big storm and the landrover went straight through a drift, leaving a tunnel behind. That meant the village was connected to the A 30 - or a mile long stretch of it anyway. Needless to say we got to school every day whilst some of the children closer to the school missed 6 weeks.

After the initial blizzard we could not see out of the bedroom windows and it was some time before dad dug out the windows downstairs.

We had no running water for 6 weeks and were forbidden from walking near any building on the farm, because there were 6 foot icicles that could kill dangling from every eave. The ones over the front door were knocked off from the upstairs window.

But since life was home, schoool and church 360 days of the year, we really did not notice.

I have a vague recollection that some prisoners tried to escape Dartmoor and there was actually concern about their safety rather than their capture.

rhiwfield

Just had an ebayer message me and say my postage costs on an item are too high. So I explained how, to prevent breakages, we post ceramics well bubblewrapped, in a box, placed in another box (which all cost money) and I also liked having delivery confirmation. All of which meant it would not be sent for Royal Mail basic rate despite her request. And I contrasted her desire to save postage with the average buyers response to a damaged item, when they would expect a full refund of postage and purchase cost.

Then I blocked her, dont need the hassle.