General Chat

the promised snow has just arrived here in Cardiff - coming down with a vengeance!!!!

Hi there Jude - bracing myself here!!!!!

Ours has'nt cleared not by a long way, the thaw stopped pretty quick.

jude :o)

Hello Ann of GG:o)

Hi Everyone
Well only a little bit of snow left
we now have rain still very cold though
stay safe and warm those of you who still have snow

it's clearing up quite quickly here now

:o))

well we had light snow for most of the morning here in Cardiff - it is bitterly cold now and we have been promised a shedload for tomorrow night!!!

my back garden is still covered but the centre of our road is now clear - pavements and drive still iffy though

We had a trickle in the night which left a covering, but thats going from the cleared area's. The rest was thawing slowly, 34.9F right now.

jude:o)

Seems it's getting warmer Nicky. We had a bit of snow on Saturday but only a cm. It's still here though because it's freezing. No North wind so it isn't too cold.
heather

Heather....... Yes think Aldingbourne will have had more snow than us...I`m less than a mile from the sea. Aldingbourne slightly more inland and the Chichester area always seems to get it worse than us.

We`ve had a very slight thaw today temp is +1........ but no more snow, seems Kent seems to getting more today, and maybe North of the downs in Sussex? Anyone from there??


Nicky

Thawing fast here on my side of Monmouth. Temperature outside is2.0C. The forecast now is for light snow only. What happened to the blizzard we were told to expect!

Not snowing here in Burnemouth,
Sue B

thanks for that Aunty Sherlock - very informative

AnnXX


snowing here in Cardiff at the minute by the way

There just isn't any snow around here. I have checked the freezer but that is a frost free model. I wish it was winter!!! This is our second heatwave in about two months. There is only so much clothing you can take off before they arrest you for indecent exposure.


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back from seeing Les Mis - terrific!!! and thanks to some people from Monmouth who failed to make it to the show we got our tickets upgraded!! an ill wind an all that - a lady runs a club called Culture Vultures and had organised a whole coach party for the show - they go all over the place apparently. Well at least half a dozen failed to make it so she was selling the tickets off and charging £10 a ticket - so we upgraded our £15 tickets to £45 ones!!! our £15 tickets were all we could get as it has been a total sell-out and we had "restricted view" written on them, so had no idea how bad they would be - now we'll never know, so we were sorry for the people who failed to make it, but happy to take their place

We appear to have more children about than I knew of in our street! I know of only three old enough to be out sledging, but I counted seven and an unknown Dad out the field at the end of my garden! I should explain there are only 21 homes here, so we know everyone. There is a good slope and they are coming down ata terrific speed. The 93 yr old next door is panicing in case they cause damage to her hedge, but then she always gets in that sort of panic if children are playing. I tell her they are doing no harm, just enjoying themselves.

We had some more small hard snow for about an hour this afternoon here in Chelmsford.

I had to deliver something to someone about half a mile or so away so walked the dogs (labrabors) round there.
They loved it and when we got back it was cold enough to just brush the snow off their backs with by hand, it hadn't melted on them at all so they were almost perfectly dry underneath .
The pavements have snow which hasn't melted on them, so perfectly safe for walking so long as you've got a decent tread on your boots.
The roads are another matter, though !

Just went down the shed and got the sledge out, it's ancient with steel runners, so should go well down the road tomorrow. I might indulge in a second childhood.

No snow here Jude so keep it over your way wont you?

It's the turn of our south east corner now..Can't complain because we haven't done too bad up to now.........
Coming down thick and fast, mixed with gritty hail, all blowing in on a stiff easterly wind.
We are near the south coast, but 'round the corner' the other side of Dover, there are road closures because of the amount of snow.

Keep warm everyone.

Gwyn

ooer - is it coming my way? I'm off to see Les Miserables this afternoon

Its started here again in Monmouth S Wales !!!!!

jude :o)