General Chat

I have heard of that pub Sylvia.......


Sue, you might be missing all sorts of bargains :-D

The Tan Hill Inn near here is the highest in the country. The Cat and Fiddle is the second highest

I have a picture of me taken there in July 2005 ........... and ti was bleak even then!

Perhaps Sue should come back in winter, and keep going there in hope. :-D


It was accepted years ago that we got heavy snow every winter.
I remember three foot icicles hanging off the gutters.

and the traffic and trains kept moving.

Now we get three to four inches and everything grinds to a halt :-(

Three days :-0. Oh how awful - pub food and drinks all round :-D

We were going to go to the markets but can't be bothered.

I'm thinking of the Cat and Fiddle, between Buxton and Macclesfield :-)

There was a pub at the highest point of the Pennines where people would get stuck for days

We have a pub like that near here, Sue has been to it, I think she was secretly hoping to get snowed in, not very likely in summer though

Yes - I can't imagine anything more awful than being trapped in a pub for three days,

unless the bar ran dry............. :-D

Tec .........



that must have been terrible :-)

Linda ...............


I can remember huge dumps back in the 1950s and 1960s, especially over the Pennines.

And, I'm not including the hard winters of 1947 or 1963


This was the general run of things ..................


the difference was that the snow did not linger for weeks and weeks.

The linesmen have a terrible job in those conditions.

I remember once there was a remote pub in North Wales where the customers were trapped for three days until the snow plough got to them after heavy snow.

How awful :-D

here, in the wet banana belt, we just keep an eye on the roof ............ for leaks :-)


we have a carport, and OH will drive the car in there instead out on the street, even if we intend to go out again very soon ................... that way we keep dry.




The ground is becoming waterlogged, and areas near rivers and streams, and even small creeks, are on flood watch


We are at least 100' higher than the nearest river :-)

We don't have snow like that now, but we did when I was a young lass

Tec ...............


it is a lot of snow ................. and the worst thing is that power is out to a lot of the area, with lines being brought down by the weight of the snow or broken tree branches falling on them


it's going to take time to get the power back on .................... there's two communities seriously affected although the other one "only" got about 3' of snow in the same time period, and it could take a couple of days at least.



Our nephew-i-l lives in a town about 100 km east of there and is a lineman for the electricity company. He's going to be working very hard, even though it is "out of his area". Line men will be drafted in from all over.

I have also known snow drift half way up the front door, and digging a trench to the front gate - not here of course.

Sue ......................


imagine half to three-quarters of the way up your front door ............... most front doors are between 6' and 7' high



when I was living at home in the 1950s, Dad would get up at least once every winter, and snow would be about half way up the front door ....................


that was on the Lancashire edge of the Pennines, and that amount would ahve fallen overnight.

Hello Sylvia,

Hope that you don't get too wet in the next storm.

That is a lot of snow :-0

Sitting in the sunshine under the pergola certainly sounds wonderful!!




I like some noise in the house ............... I always have the radio on in the kitchen when OH is not home, and usually another radio playing quietly in whichever room I am in


OH is easily distracted by the radio or cd, so I don't have them on when he is around


when he is away overnight ................. I put a cd on my bedside radio / cd alarm, set it very low ................ and drift off to sleep very easily :-)


Much more easily than I do when he is home ................... butt he music keeps him awake :-(

Hello Sylvia - I can't even imagine four feet of snow :-0