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I'm in Oxfordshire and we've got about a foot of snow outside, we only have a little clio and just can't get the car off the drive way and the country road we live on is awful. One of the ladies at the yard with a 4x4 has been able to get down, we both live about 10 mins away from the yard but come from different directions. YO has kindly feed and hayed all horses as we are all DIY. YO dosen't allow us to turnout when it snows as we have white electric fencing and she thinks they won't see it and will run through it. So i'm going to have to wait a few hours and see if we can get little car out soon
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Have made it in the car, but wont be driving back unless the car will turn around in 2 foot of snow!
Hey ho, wonder where o/h left the ski's/snowboard
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Looks that way dosen't it! I'm not walking by myself though, it'll take me an hour, I'll wait until my boyfriend gets up and drag him and the dog with me!

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I would leave the dog at home. I've managed to get through some pretty bad snow this morning to muck out etc. But have left his lordship in. The weather is just nasty.
 
No I couldnt, but i've had 2 come 2 work so mum kindly is doing my boy 2day if I can leave work early then I might go down in mums car but mine just cant get down the small lanes.
 
yes just about earlier this morning, i have a lowered sports car and the front spliter was ploughing the snow and i have rws too that was fun.
snow even went into the barn = madness

Its quite deep here too much more than last time for sure and its still snowing and due to get more later today...grrrr
i can walk to yard if i really need to but takes me about 45mins each way...and unlit country roads on your own is no fun
 
Luckly our yard is in the back garden. (don't hit me!!!) But i am ment to be cycling to my cleaning job later and i don't see that happening and i can't walk down the country lanes to get home in the dark! So think i'll have to cancel.
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Lucky enough to have a 4x4 but it is decidedly dodgy when I get up on the Fell.
The last road to the yard is like a bobsleigh track, pure ice and ruts where the cars have travelled. If you meet something coming the other way, you have to get out of the ruts and onto the verge.

I certainly wouldn't attempt it in my Fiesta!!!
 
I didnt try this morning. I have a 4 x 4 but there were cars all over the estate and I decided as I had left his brekky at the yard just in case it was fairer to stay out of the way and let the people who really have to get to work get on with it.

I am going to go down a little later and hope I dont get greeted by a moody horse.
 
I very nearly didn't make it to the yard this morning, whilst driving my impractical in the snow car (BMW Coupe) it spun 360 degrees, shook me up good and proper, i didnt even have my foot on the accelerator, was letting 2nd gear rev's do the work
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Have left Belle in today with two rather large haynets for company, some liveries have turned out but i would rather not risk it just incase im struggling to get back up to her later, its a long walk from home to the yard but if i have to walk i will, deffo not using my car
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Took me over half an hour to get back home, in good wather it usually takes me less than 10 mins via car, went past my doughnut i made earlier, was rather impressive, but hope never to do one again
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Told work that i couldnt make it in, anyone without a 4x4 must be mad to drive in this weather
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Will add the 4x4 to my wish list for 2010 me thinks
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I couldn't get up to my yard yesterday and its too far too walk so YO kindly did Gil for me but I'm just aoout to try again today. Fingers crossed we get there and back safely and don't get stuck!!
 
My yard is at home thankfully but have turned Bog out. Best friend on standby to get him in at lunchtime if weather turns really nasty. Our village hasn't had any snow yet all round us has.

Snowing a lot at work though - am hoping I can go home early if it gets really bad!!!
 
I can't get to my boy. Kindly yard owner did him for me. Luckily both her and my ned live out with field shelter. Am hoping to try to walk there later!
It took me about 40 mins. to walk there just before Christmas when I couldn't get there then!
 
Tried to get out this morning but couldnt get more than 10 yds down my drive, hoping to try a bit later but meant to be working from home and worried about driving in the dark :S others have put some hay and fresh water in for him
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rubbish weather and having a little car... this is another reason a 4x4 is on my christmas wish list.

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i just about made it this morn in my little 306. my yard is only a couple of miles away so i can walk if needs be, its a pain as its down ungritted roads so they are lethal. some people are still atempting to get up the hills and are getting stuck! dont understand why they bother, all the hills iv have seen people stuck on there is a flat route that takes a little longer but atleast they will actually get there!
 
My yard is 9 miles from home and the roads are dreadful. I have a Ford Focus which is OK, but its the other idiots on the road I worry about. School is closed today as well, so would have to drag the Small Person with me, and i am not running the risk of getting stranded or having an accident with her in the car, so the YO is doing Ella today. I think may have to put her on full livery for today and tomorrow *argh at livery bill*.
 
I can walk but not a chance of driving anywhere so off work and bored. I'd rather be at work to be honest but at least i can help the other liveries who can't make it
 
yep, managed to drive most of the way then got stuck on a hill! so walked the last mile or so, weren't too bad but I would love to have them at home!
 
I got there, left the house at about 5.30am this morning, drove most of way at 20mph. Journey there was ok, the journey home however was awful, I was swerving badly at one point all over the road and almost got completely stuck, the cars wheels were turning but I was not moving, I managed to keep calm enough and reversed down the hill and give myself a much better run up slight hill after various failed attempts.
I have not gone to work, I am not driving again in this, not after my white knuckle ride this morning, there are no buses running here either atm.
Problem is I have alot to do and could really do without it, as nice as it is being at home!
 
I rang the woman who does the full liveries on the yard this morning to say if she could collect me in her 4x4 I'd give her a hand doing the horses. She's got 4 of her own, and usuallyl turns out all the horses but this morning as she was leaving everything in, we did waters, filled nets, skipped out and I just got in -- I'm only a mile away from yard but to be honest, as much as I can physically walk that distance, it's seriously hard going, very dangerous as drivers are not going slow enough to stop and skidding off the road in areas.

If she coudln't have fetched me, I'd have been a bit nuts to walk that today - but would have if she couldn't get in by 4x4.
 
I am sitting at home, snow falling heavily, unable to get out of our estate. We are in Portsmouth, Hampshire and have never seen anything like it.

I am just under 18 miles from the yard, along the A3 corridor, which was closed this morning from Bedhampton northwards due to ice and impassable conditions, then its up hill and down dale through windy country lanes to the rural farm I keep Archie and Tia at.

Have just rung and spoken to farmers wife and she has said not to worry they have already hayed this morning and will put a bale in this afternoon.

Two of the girls, I know, attempted to walk in for several miles and were eventually rescued, bitterly cold and sodden through the lanes by a tractor. I understand they had wrapped up as well as they could have but with driving snow it wore them down.

For those of you who are about to walk to the yard or field, wrap up warm, take your mobile and a hot drink and remember weather like this can be and is at times lethal. If you can, don't be proud and ask your YO or someone who has managed to gain access to do you a favour.

Fingers crossed, this extreme weather will pass very quickly. Stay safe everyone.
 
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