Mode Zero

It’s not good here, Minus 12 windchill and snowed in again.

Ron.

Come on lads.. we are rough tough Northerners

I have more snow in my fridge so don't let the southerners think we are going soft....

Shaun

PS - I'm lying through my teeth and have had the heating on full blast all day only venturing out for a 5 min walk to the local Italian Bistro for a coffee and cake also dropping off a parcel at the post office. I was suitably attired in Arctic survival gear.

What's all that white stuff

Looks like a pyjama day today again

Ron

We're snowed in here (Suffolk) too but every cloud has a silver lining and it means that, since I can't do anything outside, I can spend all day in the shed with the heating cranked up...... A couple more days of it and I should get the new model pretty well finished!

Get a grip lads, get a grip! What's happening to you Northerners, you've all been 'softyfied'. It's just a normal winter in the UK. You've all been mislead by the previous warm winters since 2010. 1963, now that was a 'winter'. I was 15 and living at the Elephant and Castle in central London. Had a foot of snow over night(Boxing day) and it didn't leave the country until the end of March. I remember it well, not least because we had an outside toilet!!!

jackdaw wrote: 01 Mar 2018, 09:24 not least because we had an outside toilet!!!

...... and the Daily Sketch just wasn't absorbent, particularly when frozen!

PaulJ wrote: 01 Mar 2018, 09:46
...... and the Daily Sketch just wasn't absorbent, particularly when frozen!

A bit like tin foil

Ron

Our local Ice rink will open this afternoon.

But with a windchill of -19°C I think I'd rather go to the indoor rink tomorrow for my twice-a-week Shorttrack routine....
Swapping blades for less than an hour of longtrack also isn't one of my favorite jobs....

Shaun wrote: 28 Feb 2018, 23:36 Come on lads.. we are rough tough Northerners

jackdaw wrote: 01 Mar 2018, 09:24 Get a grip lads, get a grip! What's happening to you Northerners, you've all been 'softyfied'.

I love the snow, thats not the immediate problem. If you've not worked with animals it will be hard to appreciate what a frozen water supply entails - carrying hundreds of litres of water from the house to the kennels, manually keeping an airgap water tank full (its feed is frozen), bathing dogs in a teacup cos the grooming room shower has no water, maintaining a supply of clean bedding for 40+ dogs when the washing machines have no water, and as well as all the usual routine kennel stuff, theres been the access road to clear & salt, frozen boiler feed to fix, heating oil to transfer, customers cars to push... thats what I'm fed up with, the snow is lovely