Can this White cold stuff please go away now!

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I would like to ride.
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Be able to get to work without driving slowly incase I slide.
My horses would like some grass to eat too!
thank you.
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AGREED
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I haven't ridden for 5 days now and even though feeds have but cut down accordingly Ban is still podgy
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All I want is to be able to ride down the bridlepath and back safely........fat chance of that as we are due more snow overnight *wails*
It even got our local christmas show cancelled so no puissance for me
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*Grumbles......
 
Havent had much snow but all our roads look like ice rinks. The yard is frozen so havent been able to ride for 4 days now. Thought would be able to today but its just too icy everywhere.
 
I agree, its driving me insane! Cant ride, no grass as its under about 8 inches of bloomin snow still....grrrr

Every day now I'm waking up hoping it hasn't snowed anymore, but it keeps snowing overnight!!
 
Haven't ridden the TB since Thurs, and have showjumping on Sun, and have only jumped him once since he came back into work after nasty lymphangitis..i had very little steering and brakes, so am desperately hoping for the snow to clear so i can remind him it is possible to jump like a sane horse not like a kangaroo
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ROFPMSL here. I wondered when I'd read the first "I've had enough of it now" thread.

It will go soon enough I dare say, and then it'll be back to moaning about frozen ground/ boggy ground/ rain/ dark nights, etc, as we do
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If this trend continues, Britain and her residents will actually (God Forbid) have to pull the finger out and get used to snow and colder temps and just flipping well LIVE with it in winter and get on with life, it isn't the end of the world, it is only weather.
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Get winter tyres, sort the road maintenance out, sort out pipe and tap insulation, source heated water buckets, get in salt and grit for yards and drives etc, etc, etc, masses of other countries manage with months of snow why can't Britain manage with a few weeks of the stuff?
 
Sounds silly, but I really couldn't care less about it. I am able to get to work, home and out again to do the horse.... admittedly the farm lane is like an ice rink but as long as I am sensible I am not struggling like some other liveries. We have every container filled just incase the pipes freeze I was the only one that managed to ride their horse at the weekend, due to copious amounts of effol in her hooves.... I was branded as MAD by the other liveries.
I will be glad though when I get my car back and have given my Dad his van back as I am terrified of dinking it.

The one thing I do dislike is the being cold bit, and oddly I am warmer down the yard than I am sitting at my desk.
 
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masses of other countries manage with months of snow why can't Britain manage with a few weeks of the stuff?

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There is the problem, as its only a few weeks a year sometimes less, councils / YOs etc seem to be unwilling to invest in making those few weeks managable.

I for one will definately be glad to see the back of it due to having a horse stuck in since Thursday as the access to the field is covered in sheet ice, and only the weather breaking is going to sort out the problem
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Other than that I could manage happily
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Don't get me started! Absolutely fed up with it, a struggle to get anywhere its so bad, all our pipes have frozen so no water in the yard,which is bad enough but none in the troughs in the fields either so having to take water containers home, fill them up in the bath and bring back to the yard, put in wheelbarrows and take out to troughs in field, great fun - not!
Roads are dreadful, haven't ridden for a week, yard is skating rink, haven't seen one gritter lorry anywhere in the area, not even on the main roads, let alone side roads. Not a happy bunny
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I can at least get to work as I have a 4x4, can get to my horse as it is a 3 min walk, but I am rapidly running out of water in my water butts so will have to start filling containers in my house and somehow getting them to my horse on a daily basis. Could also do with letting my horse have a bit of grass as I have had to put him on hay again and am worried about his copd getting worse. Other than that we are fine...counting the days left at work so I can be at home in daylight and do my horse easier!
 
I feel so sorry for my daughter - we bought her a new pony 6 weeks ago, and a second came from a friend as a companion. She has only ridden them after school a couple of times (rain, no school, boggy fields, roads too dark and now snow) and just one weekend she rode both each day and her previous loan pony she's trying to keep exercised for the owner (no replacement rider).
Now it's the school holidays all she wants to do is ride and it's snowing again. We could borrow a school - but it's through the ford - too deep, too icy approach, and far too far by road as it's icy the long way round, can't get the trailer out of the back garden due to the boggy/snowy (depends on weather status) bottom field.
Oh and I cancelled her weekly lessons at the RS for the Christmas hols thinking she (I) won't have time as had 3 ponies to ride and I've lots to do.
 
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