Damnit!

[Fallguy]

How dare it snow the night before the fell gathering! :fuming:

You lot obviously haven't been thinking warm and sunny thoughts hard enough, so much so that I might not even be able to get out of Lancaster tommorow...... grrr.

Feel free to punish yourselves (bad Dobby, baaaad!) suitably..... :whip:

Fallguy

[Terminator]

Snowing and settling :(

I'll see if my digi camera is any good in the dark and post a piccy

[^7_of_9]

You can't drive in the snow?

[Squeaky]

Originally posted by Fallguy
Feel free to punish yourselves (bad Dobby, baaaad!) suitably..... :whip:

Fallguy

Cruel Fallguy hurts us. Master tricks us.

..Of course he did. I told you he was tricksy. I told you he was false.

..Master is our friend... our friend.

..Master betrayed us.

..No, not it’s business. Leave us alone!

[Terminator]

@ ^7 this is Britain we don't do snow very well :p see the news (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2711977.stm)

Might not amount to much, although I've not seen a gritter yet :D and it's suppose to warm up tomorrow

[^7_of_9]

OMG ........ There's like 1/5" of an inch on the ground ..... For us over here we get more than that on our shoes in the winter.

[Terminator]

And it's stopped now, looks like I can put the snow shoes away :D

[^7_of_9]

And your snowmobiles :D

[Fallguy]

Hmmm,
the problem is this - none of the lazy gritters bothered to grit the roads today, despite having well over 48 hours warning of this snow. Hence the roads are all snow bound, and the temperatures have just dropped below freezing.

Tommorow morning I will be attempting to drive my renta Corsa (wooohoo) on what passes very easily for an ice rink. Which should prove fun.

The reason I am tentative to drive is that the Corsa is frankly a death trap - should I spin on the motorway at 70 (cough) miles an hour the chances are they will be scraping me out the remains with a spoon. Whilst I look forward to meeting ya'll alot, I will have to consider the state of the roads pretty damn seriously before setting off. Particularly the M62 and/or A50.

Fallguy

[Gunslinger]

Yes ^7, but you expect to have snow :rolleyes:

We had around about 6" here in Cambridge, but with the strong winds it has drifted over 4 ft deep in places. Haven't seen it like this for over ten years. My daughter made her second ever snowman yesterday. :cool:

This area grid-locked totally last night, one of my colleagues didn't make it home (ten mile journey) - after four hours he gave up and cadged floor space from some friends, came back to work today in yesterday's clothes.

Fortunately (?) for me I live within walking distance of work - got very wet and very cold last night, so trudged in today in me big wellies, silly gloves and furry hat :)

Melted a little this afternoon, but cold again tonight. Some spectacular icicles around.

Not snowing again yet, but very heavy skies...

Ni! :gunsling:

[Chelle]

You guys call that snow?!? :violin: :lol:

[Terminator]

FG what time you setting off tomorrow ? I'll PM you my mobile number and you can give me a call - assuming it's not too early :D - if you want a weather check before you leave :)

[^7_of_9]

You guys should ciome over here for a real winter show. :xohyes: :nod:

[Chelle]

They would have had to leave last week 7 :lol:

[Terminator]

Me and the better half are coming over the pond to Canada for a holiday in October so we'll see how bad it is then :p

[^7_of_9]

Leave? They wouldn't have left the hotel if they'd seen the snow!

@Termie: You won't see tooooo much snow in October unless you are here on Haloween, in which case you might only see a couple of inches at most if any. Come around ....... say early to Mid January. THEN you'll see snow.

[Fallguy]

Maybe I should have gone the extra £350,
and hired one of those monster 4x4 5 seater pickups you get in America.......

They had one of those in the garage, a massive beast with more than 3 foot of ground clearance, and genuine off road capability. Who needs motorways (other than for the service stations, cos the 5 litre V8 engine would suck rather alot of fuel) when you can travel across fields, up hills, through plate steel doors and concrete walls..... :D

Fallguy

[Fallguy]

Originally posted by Terminator
FG what time you setting off tomorrow ? I'll PM you my mobile number and you can give me a call - assuming it's not too early :D - if you want a weather check before you leave :)

Um,
unless you have changed your number since last time, I still have you mobile, scribbled onto a piece of paper right next to Dougs..... I was planning on setting off at around 9 ish, so I could go training in Loughborough first, but that might change dependant on conditions here.

Damnit, I don't want to miss my monthly training session - its hard enough remembering all my ninja stuff as it is, let alone trying not be insulted when my friends start humming "Kung-Fu fighting"..... ;)

Fallguy

[Terminator]

Numbers still the same, just give us a ring if want to :)

[Chelle]

Are you really Termie? Where abouts in Canada?

[Terminator]

Originally posted by Chelle
Are you really Termie? Where abouts in Canada? A Couple of nights in Winnipeg, then up to Churchill (Polar Bear Watching) for 4 nights, then back to Winnipeg for a night before flighing back home. We're really looking forward to it :sunshine:

[Chelle]

Aaaah, nowhere near me. Not sure what it does in Manitoba in October.. but you might be lucky enough to see snow by then :D

[^7_of_9]

I've got alot of relatives in Winterpeg myself. Well........ just outside Wuinterpeg actually.

And Termie ..... Pack the Thermal Undies. It's not called Winterpeg for nothing! :lol:

[Tweety]

What you brits call snow, we call heavy frost around here...:rolleyes:

Also as fer gritting??? Well these silly people here in southern sweden do that all the time... Very stupid if you tell me... how am I supoosed to bounce of the snow walls then???? Tell me that please???

Not that they have much walls down here... more like small heaps...:rolleyes:

[Jules]

Originally posted by Fallguy
Maybe I should have gone the extra £350,
and hired one of those monster 4x4 5 seater pickups you get in America.......

They had one of those in the garage, a massive beast with more than 3 foot of ground clearance, and genuine off road capability. Who needs motorways (other than for the service stations, cos the 5 litre V8 engine would suck rather alot of fuel) when you can travel across fields, up hills, through plate steel doors and concrete walls..... :D

Fallguy

I drive a '97 F 150 XLT 4x4 Off Road.. I could still get you where you're going :D:beep: (this is almost mine)

[Chelle]

Dang Thelma, I'd need a step ladder to get in that thing! :eek:

[Jules]

LOL Mine sits up higher than this one..it hits me not quite mid thigh.....so yes...you'd need a step ladder :lol: