General Chat

11:45 in West Berkshire
No real change
but heard that the carol concert at Wellington College is cancelled tonight:

Christmas Concert CANCELLED!
Unfortunately tonight's Wellington College Christmas Concert has been CANCELLED due to poor weather conditions. We are however trying to re-arrange the concert, so please keep checking this page for up-dates!

Willput up a seperate thread in case anyone else is/was going

Linda :o) XxX

11.45 South East Essex

Been snowing for the past 3 days, over a foot deep in the garden.

We were supposed to have been going on a coach trip up to London to see Les Miserables but we don't think we can get to the coach station- never mind getting home at midnight!

11.25 am, Kent/East Sussex border.

The snow in the garden comes over the top of my wellies! Have to take the dogs out for a drag soon, they don't want to go out, and my poor hens need some water as theirs is frozen.

I picked hubby up at the station last night - got there in the Landrover about 10.30 pm after a 15 mile drive through deep snow and his train arrived about 3 hours later. So much for the High Speed train! It was minus 5 but I had taken blankets and a spade, just in case. We towed a small car out of a ditch for a family and also towed a very smart BMW sports car around a corner and up a gentle hill as it was wheel-spinning. I said to OH that since the government charges 4x4 owners around £400 for car tax, maybe we should get a reduction for each time we help someone else out! If the roads are dangerous, and small, carbon-friendly, fuel economical cars can't cope with road conditions permitted by the government...... there's a thought for the next time a politician comes knocking on the door.

OH has just set off to drive to Eltham to collect our son whose uni lectures have been cancelled and of course can't get a train. He has even more supplies and is worthy of a polar expedition. Not expecting them back for hours. Fingers crossed.

11:20 East Kent, just outside Dover
Made it to work but very iffy on roads. Have 10 inches on table in back garden and about 6 inches on roads etc. Traffic moving but road conditions very bad, public transport seems to have died and gone heaven but port and channel tunnel running intermittantly. No school today and kids having fun. Hubby and kids have taken elderly neighbours dog for a walk as we did at the beginning of the year and we will do so until this clears. He has also checked with other neighbours to see if they need anything. Snowing heavily on and off so can't see it clearing in the near future.

More snow and more icicles.........North East.

10.25

Kitty, you were very kind to that young family.

A dusting of snow overnight, very heavy sky at the moment and quite cold and icy.

Snowing quite consistently in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales now. Not sure what the temperature is outdoors as i have not ventured out.
My son has just phoned to say even the main roads are getting quite nasty now.

Alyson

9.45 am here in Monmouth and its still snowing. I am about 2 and a half miles from Jude. It still looks very full of it out there. Temp outside my window(probably colder in the garden) is 2.5

morning all
9.20am lincolnshire light dusting over night very cold and windy just started snowing again looks loverly where its drifted, loads of schools shut again
take care and keep warm everyone
sharon

9.11am Monmouth S Wales

Snowing this morning and has been for about half hr. Vic is going into Chepstow through the Wye valley soon to take my sister home, then back to take a neighbour to local hosp.

Friends in Worksop area have approx 3 ft, her OH and father can't go to work for the 3rd day!!

Brrrrr its cold

jude :o)

Morning Kempinasunhat
Yes we had a covering overnight. About an inch, not much happening locally, few cars gone out. But main roads weren't gritted last night.
Temperature -2C

Think you might want to change your name?
Maybe in a wooly hat or bobble hat.

Have a safe day everyone.

Can't believe that Gatwick is closed all day again, saying til 6:00 am Fri now.

Linda :o) XxX

Morning all

West berks ....about 40 miles from Linda !!!
-3 and bl@@dy cold as its windy ...
we had snow overnight making roads slippy and very cold ...
Roads seem ok and are open but as yet I,m not sure if grit is down as none was spread two days ago when it snowed!!!

Kitty~~~

That was very kind of you,I don't have a spare room , but like you would have offered them refuge .

It's1.50am here in S Wales near Ebbw Vale, last snow we had was about 3pm about an inch, but it was minus 5 degrees at 9am this morning with a bitter wind.:(

It's now minus one ( just brought the thermomater in .lol) Cloudy sky.

Dau has to drive to work tomorrow and she's not looking forward to it, she normally goes with her dad, as they work in the same town.
I had to get to used to driving in bad weather very quickly having to transport my children to mil when I was at work, and it doesn't bother me ,

Sandie.

Nearly midnight in West Berkshire
There has been a light covering of snow
Temperature -1C
Waiting for hubby to come home before I can go to bed.
Returning from Heathrow, should have been back a while ago so hope all is Ok.

Linda :o)PS He is home safe and sound but says it is very slippery on the Nine Mile Ride between Bracknell and Wokingham. He doesn't think there has been any gritters out.

Just wanted to say how kind of you that was Kitty. I am sure theyw ere so grateful to you especially with a baby so young.

Still snowing on the outskirts of Edinburgh and hardly any buses running.
We've had about 3ft to date and more still to come!!!!
Schools to remain closed til Monday at the earliest.

Gritters only doing main roads so far as they can, and a village in Midlothian closed off.
No need for a snow machine here lololol

7.14 pm we have snow laying here, but not a lot. The roads are clear, even our cul-de-sac, as OH went down to the slope at the entrance and gritted the road there so vehicles could get up. He does this every year though he is disabled and 75. The young just wont see in front of their noses.
The mobile library which comes every three weeks managed to get here today, which is a miracle. The first sign of trouble and the van goes off the road. We are lucky compared to other parts of the country, but I see looking out, that the tyre tracks in the road are covered again Temp 0.2 ouside my window.

It looks really bad for you people up North when I see the weather forcasts. The amount of snow you have had.
No sign of any snow here in Bournemouth.
No frost last night either.
Sue

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are all okay.

In London, no snow, some ice.

Allright, don't throw snowballs at me!

At the local Sainsburys, people were panics buying.
Good grief.

Take gentle care
Very best wishes
xx

17:31 East Kent, just outside Dover
Bitterly cold all day - had to be at work for 0700 today and managed to negotiate way off estate in 4x4, solid icy crushed compacted snow. Picked up kids from school - totally disgusted with council as car park near school, footpath to school and road outside not gritted again, all compacted ice, accident waiting to happen. Fine snow off and on all day and strong winds whipping lying snow off fields. Still no heating hopefully be fixed tomorrow pm which will be 8 days since boiler packed up - not a happy bunny.