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Snowing hard here in NW Cambridgeshire, just put some food out for the birds on a sheltered spot
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I love snow!
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Mrs F was due to go to Wisbech today, ain't happening now, even wit a 4WD. Just heard that a lorry has jack-knifed on the black cat roundabout!
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I used to, then I passed my driving test!
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Good call, settling well here and the smaller roads will be treacherous if they're not already
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I enjoyed it even more then. Especially if I was at college that day. Get to college early and have some fun in an empty car park. Get the car stuck in the snow and then light the tyres up in 1st and reverse turning the steering wheel until the car had dug itself out then start all over again.
We have some snow here in Essex for a change, although not heavy and it's not supposed to last. Should turn to rain in a couple of hours, back to snow again this afternoon, then rain.
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MK, 4 inches( flat) in my back Garden!
( Yes I did measure it when I went to fill the bird feeders that appear to have been ram-raided)
) tomorrow! Seems they have about half there, lets hope the Beds / Cambs / Suffolk / Norfolk councils have fired up the snow ploughs...
Its a free skid pan ... Put yourself into a situation, and get out of it, soon learn to control a slide / skid
Hours of free fun. Plus of course when it happens unexpectedly, you are fully prepared, to control the situation
( Yes I did measure it when I went to fill the bird feeders that appear to have been ram-raided)
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) tomorrow! Seems they have about half there, lets hope the Beds / Cambs / Suffolk / Norfolk councils have fired up the snow ploughs...I did exactly the same,at the first snow fall after I passed my test. Find an empty car park,
Its a free skid pan ... Put yourself into a situation, and get out of it, soon learn to control a slide / skid
Hours of free fun. Plus of course when it happens unexpectedly, you are fully prepared, to control the situation
I like playing in the snow with my motor showing off starting on hills. Used to have a old Land Rover and were I worked it was on a hill, pulled lorries up fully loaded, charged though snow drifts. Now I only go out if I have to, but still like to show off ( 4 wheel drive ). We have about 3/4 inches at the moment here in midlands.
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We've got snow in North Wiltshire. We don't get it often and I wasn't expecting it today.
That's put paid to working in Exeter for the next few days... Have to get the camera out
Just a smattering of flakes here in the hills 8 miles South of Bath (Midsomer Norton), the weather station and weather app gives a mid afternoon fall prediction, temperature is dropping.
Generally, if my house gets a big dump of snow, being on the top of a hill, it gets treacherous and the local buses are diverted to by pass us.
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It's a good way to learn about car control in the snow though. I would recommend it to anyone regardless of age.I was 27 wen I passed my test, I'd grown up by then.
It also helps if you drive a RWD car (although understeer on a FWD in the snow can be scary), particularly using lower revs in higher gears.
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I do feel slightly sorry for the couple from Newcastle, who were going to visit Bourton on the water today, and instead got stuck outside our house because they couldn't drive up the hill. The snow was already 3-4 inches around 8am, and it's continued to snow without stopping until now. Getting to work tomorrow may be 'interesting, although the wife's mini has winter tyres, so that may mean she's sorted at least.
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I like the first fall of winter. But when it sets in deep for a long period and freezes into ruts for weeks on end, it gets kind of tedious here in Bavaria.
They plough the streets and paths early in the morning. But if it continues to snow, the piles of cleared snow just keep getting bigger, until they need to get the diggers and tipper trucks out. And dump it in the river.
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That's a shame but as lovely as Boutton on the Water is, December is not the best time to visit. I popped in in October and it p***ed down all day.
Hope they are sorted.
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The AA came, with a van no less, and failing to tow them out of the valley in the direction of the M40, they turned around and headed toward the Oxford to Banbury road instead. Since that was the direction Mr.AA arrived from, I'm going to guess they're on their way now.
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It's a nice area overall but winter has to respected.
The whole area was my backyard for a while. I had family in Kingham and spent time working on the environmental improvements to the FSC at Moreton-in-Marsh.
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Snowed all day here, the longest uninterrupted snowfall I've ever seen! Only a couple of inches of depth though, was thawing as fast as it was building. Cars all now moved up to the top of the driveway so when it freezes over tonight we can actually get out in the morning. Driving on snow is one thing (and fun!), ice on a hill is a whole other issue!
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Just back, after postign the OP, then I got called out, had to brave the delights of the M4. Lorry jackknifed into the center reservation. The we were all following a lorry in line abreast at 40mph and a BMW 1 series decided to overtake - cue into the slush, and most of a 1 series scattered over 3? lanes of motorway (hard to tell in the snow)
Not the way I wanted to spend today
Not the way I wanted to spend today
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This came up on my FB feed, ( I know someone that has a kid there) I had to chuckle ... staffing ratio concerns?
Obviously they don't expect half the teachers to appear!
I went to school locally, in the winter of '62/'63 and would have been a similar age, to this...
The weather locally, is adverse I agree, but nothing like '62 / '63 and I don't remember the school shutting..
Well that is apart from the "Christmas break" as the snow started on boxing day ... through to early March
Obviously they don't expect half the teachers to appear!
I went to school locally, in the winter of '62/'63 and would have been a similar age, to this...
The weather locally, is adverse I agree, but nothing like '62 / '63 and I don't remember the school shutting..
Well that is apart from the "Christmas break" as the snow started on boxing day ... through to early March
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I walked to school as normal.
One day I fell into a snowdrift.
When I got to school I got smacked for being wet.
I thought, "Hmmm, I see, that's how it works is it?"
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Yep no mummys and 4x4's to drive us to school, it was about mile for me, I never gave it a thought, and I bet you didn't either.
You got the general drift then?
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I remember that winter too and walking everywhere.
The ubiquitous ‘Duty of Care’ enshrined in the 1974 6 pack on the management of H&S in the Workplace is the main driver of why organisations follow the path of least resistance.
The simple ‘Health and Safety won’t let us do.....” is BS. Fear of the penalties for getting wrong makes many organisations risk averse, especially in schools.
I often wonder what risk assessments were done during my scout and air cadets days.
Still my company made a decent from H&S work!
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And I'm sure you remember making "Ice Slides" down the playground, Mine was on a slight slope, that made it even better
Can you imagine doing that these days?
And yet I don't remember anyone ever falling over and getting anything more than a bruise.
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I remember one on the path down to the gym.
Slide making was banned, with threats of death and dismemberment for anyone caught doing so, after the deputy head inadvertently ended up heading down to the gym flat on his back...