Here we go - start of bl**dy winter.

[Lons]

Just spent an hour shifting 75mm depth of snow off the driveway and it's only the beginning of December :roll:
Not looking forward to the next 3 months and to cap it all had an email from my brother in OZ lazing around the pool with a barbeque on the go. :mrgreen:

Bob

 

[Doug B]

Yebbut think of the exercise your getting :-s

All that BBQ meat will only bring on early onset coronary heart disease & the sun will give you cancer :shock:

So enjoy Britain & be healthy :-"

You know it makes sense :lol: :lol:

 

[stevebuk]

not to mention all them deadly spiders and the like over there, give me snow anyday of the week..

 

[Andrewf]

Am presently crossing the Indian ocean lovely warm and sunny. No chance of sunburn as sitting inside surfing internet.

 

[RogerP]

I've never understood why hot=good. I like all the seasons including winter but spring is my favourite the heat of summer (when we get one) is too debilitating.

 

[Bigdanny]

I've been busy last week or so getting my wood stacked. Im now ready for what the winter can throw at me. I think have around 13-14 cubic metres

 

[henton49er]

Every winter, all our outside pipes freeze over meaning we have to take water from the house out to the animals in the fields. I carry 15 - 20 buckets of warm water every morning and afternoon to make sure that all the livestock can drink - vital when they are living off dried food through the winter. Keeps me fit I suppose but bl**dy hard work when it is slippery underfoot!!

 

[devonwoody]

Speaking to a friend on Skype yesterday, she was suffering 40C+, I was suffering 40F-.


BTW I was typing in this post 30 minutes ago, and got the dreaded blue screen and switchout, did a system restore and things seem OK again now. but there are Windows updates going in and I am supposed to have stopped them. Why is this happening?

 

[tekno.mage]

Every winter, all our outside pipes freeze over meaning we have to take water from the house out to the animals in the fields. I carry 15 - 20 buckets of warm water every morning and afternoon to make sure that all the livestock can drink - vital when they are living off dried food through the winter. Keeps me fit I suppose but bl**dy hard work when it is slippery underfoot!!

I know that feeling, Mike - and we don't even own any livestock! When the shepherds here were lambing inside sheds in early Jan there were a couple of years when the water supply to the sheds froze and the shepherds asked if they could take water from us in buckets - and of course we offered to help carry it round there Not fun at all when the ground is frozen and covered in ice.

 

[Mcluma]

Every winter, all our outside pipes freeze over meaning we have to take water from the house out to the animals in the fields. I carry 15 - 20 buckets of warm water every morning and afternoon to make sure that all the livestock can drink - vital when they are living off dried food through the winter. Keeps me fit I suppose but bl**dy hard work when it is slippery underfoot!!

I know that feeling, Mike - and we don't even own any livestock! When the shepherds here were lambing inside sheds in early Jan there were a couple of years when the water supply to the sheds froze and the shepherds asked if they could take water from us in buckets - and of course we offered to help carry it round there Not fun at all when the ground is frozen and covered in ice.

I have to do that to for the horses, but then again i use a little 4 wheel drive kawasaki mule

 

[RogerS]

Snow? Snow? Don;t talk to me about snow.

Just got in from digging this lot out :lol:

 

[andersonec]

Was recently talking (electronically) to Duncan A who posts on here, he is currently here sunbathing.

http://www.gm0hcq.com/jcr_update

Andy

 

[whiskywill]

not to mention all them deadly spiders.

And Ant and Dec. :roll:

 

[nev]

Was recently talking (electronically) to Duncan A who posts on here, he is currently here sunbathing.

http://www.gm0hcq.com/jcr_update

Andy

I think the captain may have had one rum too many, judging by his approach to South Georgia :shock:
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shippo ... ll=AMOUK40

 

[Bigdanny]

Looks like he was absolutely sober
http://www.gm0hcq.com/images/dailyimages-a/SCREEN51.JPG

(hammer)

 

[thomvic]

Every winter, all our outside pipes freeze over meaning we have to take water from the house out to the animals in the fields. I carry 15 - 20 buckets of warm water every morning and afternoon to make sure that all the livestock can drink - vital when they are living off dried food through the winter. Keeps me fit I suppose but bl**dy hard work when it is slippery underfoot!!

Yes, I guess the exercise may be good for you but if you get fed up of it you could always insulate the pipes! My sister has a smallholding on Saddleworth Moor - the water supply there has only been frozen once in almost 40 years - and on that occasion it was the underground incoming main that froze!

Richard

To be more constructive - have a look here
http://www.pipelagging.com/frost-protec ... c-184.html

 

[dickm]

Think yourselves lucky - we've had frost, icy roads and snow-pellet blizzards over the last three days and I've had to get into Aberdeen every day for jury service. Which entailed about two hours actually listening to evidence, then the remaining 16 + hours sitting in a hot, stuffy jury room while the solicitors and the Sheriff played word games with the legalese somewhere else.
No doubt justice was finally done in the legal sense, but the cost and opaqueness of the process did worry me.

 

[mailee]

I HATE WINTER WITH A VENGEANCE! I am convinced I should have been born in Australia. I can stand a lot of heat but hate the cold and quickly freeze up. Could be something to do with me being so thin I suppose. when I was a youngster I often passed out through the cold when I was out playing in it! Mum got used to the kids knocking on the door to tell her I had fainted again. :roll: