Cold weather alert from met office

When you grow up referring to the hills as fells and the valleys as dales, when playing is laking and barns are hlaths, children are bairns and every neighbouring town ends in "by" or "thorp"...

The North of England is the Danelaw, and the whole of the South is still the Jute-peopled Wessex...

Pass the Surströmming, please.
 
DabDab said:
Here's the thing that always puzzles me...

People panic buy bread, soup, freeze dried milk, pickled herrings etc because they are worried that they will get stuck in, and then at the same time they panic buy fuel for the car...? What's the thinking, that if all else fails you can run the car with the heaters on to sit in while warming your roll mops on the engine?
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Promise I wasn't panic buying diesel, have been free wheeling for a while !
 
AdorableAlice said:
Promise I wasn't panic buying diesel, have been free wheeling for a while !
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Haha, sorry, wasn't meaning you :D
Yeah, probably best to get fuel at the freewheeling stage, rather than waiting until the 'hop the last 20yards to the fuel station on the engine turnover' stage like me :o
 
Keith_Beef said:
When you grow up referring to the hills as fells and the valleys as dales, when playing is laking and barns are hlaths, children are bairns and every neighbouring town ends in "by" or "thorp"...

The North of England is the Danelaw, and the whole of the South is still the Jute-peopled Wessex...

Pass the Surströmming, please.
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I would if I knew what it was... :)
 
The cold and snow wouldn’t normally bother me but I fetching the horse from the vets on Tuesday afternoon and do not want to tow in th snow
 
AdorableAlice said:
I just fuelled the car at a Tesco garage and there is no bread. Shelves empty, how annoying I was looking forward to cheese and brown sauce on toast.

The world is obviously about to implode. I will have to skewer Ted and have him on a kebab instead.
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You'd need a pretty big skewer. :)

Im hoping to get snowed in, our drive is a third of a mile long and then there's a bridge that gets icy. *wishes hard* Then I won't have to go to work.
 
It's been the most beautiful sunny day here. I've cleaned all the outside windows and sat in the sunshine with a cup of coffee and some very happy dogs, who have been romping round the garden and not getting muddy for a change.
 
Rowreach said:
It's been the most beautiful sunny day here. I've cleaned all the outside windows and sat in the sunshine with a cup of coffee and some very happy dogs, who have been romping round the garden and not getting muddy for a change.
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Yes. Been like that here too. Beautiful and not even that cold.
 
I really can't stand winter. It's miserable !!
However, it's far nicer for my horse who struggles terribly in summer. She's a black cob with sweet itch, so it's not much fun for her. Plus flies, sunburn on her pink nose, dry ground/feet and shoes falling off, no shade in field but a sauna in the stable. Dare I say it, this time of year is better. Now to slap myself in the face for even thinking that winter is better than summer (????)
 
Beautiful sun and blue sky here but bitter cold. 2” of ice on the outside water this morning and inside buckets not frozen because I covered them.
I managed to ride this morning but only walk and a few trots as ground so hard it was slippy.
Lower temperatures and snow forecast from Tuesday. I am not looking forward to that.
 
AdorableAlice said:
I just fuelled the car at a Tesco garage and there is no bread. Shelves empty, how annoying I was looking forward to cheese and brown sauce on toast.

The world is obviously about to implode. I will have to skewer Ted and have him on a kebab instead.
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I've just been past Tesco and the queues to get in were similar to Christmas Eve at 6am. Couldn't believe the tailbacks. I'm just glad I was going the other way as I had the trailer and pony with me.

Wanders off to check chocolate cupboard to see if I have enough :D
 
We've had a lovely few sunny but cold days although has been a little on the windy side.

Now I see snow is due later in the week. Not so happy about that
 
I got sunburnt today :o
It's cold here but very sunny. Getting burnt in February is still bizarre though :cool4:
 
Beautiful couple of days here and not too cold, took off the ponies rug this morning as he hadn't had an airing for a while as I've been keeping him clean to work. Feel he won't be worked this week if the snow comes. Didn't take the rug off my grey boy, I'm not crazy, still muddy enough for him to turn bay :D

Also just discovered a large stollen, iced fruit cake and sloe gin mince pies stashed at the back of the cupboard so we won't starve.

Might get an extra sack of feed just in case the weather arrives
 
Keith_Beef said:
No, I'm originally from Sheffield, but I by a quirk of geography some parts of the city used to get TTTV better than YTV, so I grew up with Byker Grove, knew a few Geordies in my late teens and early twenties, and then went up there for my degree.
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My parents had bit parts in Byker Grove. Ant used to hang round the chip shop at the end of my street.

Blazing sunshine here although icicles hanging off the waterfall first thing. I went up the path barefoot to check cos I’m a hard Geordie (who may have had the electric blanket on first thing :redface3: )

Snow predicted here for Weds-Fri. I would love a snow day at the end of the week!
 
I'll be heading off out for work in fifteen minutes or so, and it's -4°C here.

We had nice blue skies and sun all day yesterday; the forecast is for a light dusting of snow sometime on Wednesday and snow showers on Thursday.
 
Keith_Beef said:
I'll be heading off out for work in fifteen minutes or so, and it's -4°C here.

We had nice blue skies and sun all day yesterday; the forecast is for a light dusting of snow sometime on Wednesday and snow showers on Thursday.
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-4!!! Good grief... that's the lowest it's been since before Christmas!!!!!!!
 
I will just stick to putting my head out the door to see what the weather is like. I think the met office should try that sometimes!
I am enjoying the nice ,dry days with no mud, only problem is, my old mare finds the hard rutted ground too sore to walk on and can't keep her in as she needs out because of her arthritis! Any suggestions welcome!
 
Flora said:
I will just stick to putting my head out the door to see what the weather is like. I think the met office should try that sometimes!
I am enjoying the nice ,dry days with no mud, only problem is, my old mare finds the hard rutted ground too sore to walk on and can't keep her in as she needs out because of her arthritis! Any suggestions welcome!
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Do you bandage her legs when she’s in? It makes a huge difference to my mare.
 
Flora said:
I will just stick to putting my head out the door to see what the weather is like. I think the met office should try that sometimes!
I am enjoying the nice ,dry days with no mud, only problem is, my old mare finds the hard rutted ground too sore to walk on and can't keep her in as she needs out because of her arthritis! Any suggestions welcome!
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Hoof boots?
 
meleeka said:
Do you bandage her legs when she’s in? It makes a huge difference to my mare.
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Yes, she has wraps on but her arthritis is in her knees and hocks and she tends to stiffen up if in too long. Hopefully the frost doesnt last for long and she can get out!
 
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