Preparedness for when

fuddle

Aw happy birthday Mar?! Snow! Best prezzie ever eh? enjoy your evening x

craigywv

Happy birthday MAR XXX hope you have a lovely time. weather not too good over here but nothing to the mainland seen 2 poor people have died due to weather terrible.x. keep safe all and I hope it blows itself out soon

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Still nothing weather wise :huh:

A light breeze, but no rain, and it's still quite mild.

ginnyknit

Ok Bob, why is it the last tax disc, I know Im nosey but couldnt pass by without asking - if you dont mind that is?

herbily

Happy Birthday, Mardatha! :beer: May your power stay on, and your freezer frozen, and your fire hot. (It's time someone came up with a modern equivalent of "Lang may your lum reek" - I'm still working on it!)

mardatha

:D:D lol!

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ginnyknit wrote: »

Ok Bob, why is it the last tax disc, I know I'm nosey but couldn't pass by without asking - if you don't mind that is?

Because, from October next year, the disc is being scrapped.

You will still pay the Vehicle Excise Duty (oh and you will be able to pay it monthly, if you prefer), but you will no longer be given a disc to display.

I imagine it'll seem odd, seeing cars without tax discs.

Wyre

Hope you are having a safe and happy birthday, Mardatha!

Solomon_Broad

If your power goes out and you have several flashlights, you might still be able to cook your turkey.

Butterfly_Brain

GreyQueen wrote: »

I expect the broken-backed polytunnel on the lottie next to mine is a gonner. Been up 6 months, required re-inforcement after its first week, and then again a few weeks later, and has been busted up and repaired several times since.

I did try to tell them that putting it broadside to the prevailing wind on the side of a hill wasn't a good idea but, hey-ho, they went ahead. They must have learned by now the reason why there aren't any greenhouses or polytunnels on my part of the lottie site.

Hope my lottie shed is OK. It was re-felted and had new bargeboards in September and will have to take care of itself until New Year.

Can't get over Wild Thing refusing to go outside. You normally can't get that blessed critter indoors for most of the year, she looks like a Norwegian Forest Cat and acts like her nickname. If she's decided that it's the weather to hide indoors, I'm concerned about how bad it'll get tonight.

Parents have a plantation of very tall trees just beyond the foot of their garden. If they fell towards the house, they'd hit it. The last major fall was the Great Storm of 1987, when a chunk of them came down like skittles, but went sideways and not towards the houses. Fingers crossed they'll weather the storm.

It was a heavy glass one GQ :eek: