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Unless you want to knit yourself a nice bobble hat, scarf, and wooly pully :D

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Did something else happen, Mggy, with all due respect, you must have seen more problems overcome than this in your time, no disrespect, this is not a crisis, it's snow, just like we used to get, and get through :angel::angel:

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Have you got a bread maker?

You can thrn get the ready mix flour and make a loaf at home.

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No, and I'm not at home - I'm in OH's :(

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Say hello to Paddy for me ;)

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Sorry what's OH?

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The last time I saw weather like this I was 30 years younger and far more sprightly so I guess getting around wasn't a problem..plus all the roads got cleared and the pavements were gritted..and there was more public transport.

In the 1963 freeze I lived in London on Shooters Hill.The pavements were cleared by the council workers(with shovels) but we still had snow piled in heaps well into March it was so cold for so long.

Yes I coped but local councils and their workers and the community at large pulled together to take care of others..it was a more joined up effort.This time round it seems more disjointed.

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Boy friend ;)

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Other Half?

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Of course Other half :D

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ah well you can always just buy flour most of those panic buyers wont be after that as they wont know how to make it ;)

now if they are buying up the cola tell me i will have to go get more of that ;)

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Stores are not interested in two customers wrestling over the final loaf on the shelf, they just see ££££££££££££'s.
When the shelves are completely empty and no deliveries anticipated due to the weather they can just lock up shop and save on the overheads!
But given that the above would probably never happen, yes people do panic and go into the survival mode.
Your tale about Asda is interesting, must be different Asda's, I bought three boxes of Bud before Xmas, and I did not have to open each box to split them into 12's.
I know that pain killers are limited, but that is to try to prevent overdoses, has nothing to do with " Rationing ".

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Difference now Mags is probably every area has less Workers to Shovel the snow and throw the grit from the back of a wagon.
Our taxes now go to keep the Council bosses in the comforts they enjoy at home.
And probably a lift home at the end of a tiring day from the door of the town hall to their front doorstep, all at our expense to be fair ;)

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We heard (but have yet to see) that the bin people were supposed to be re-deployed clearing the pavements as they are unable to collect waste from the side roads.

Plenty of bread & milk at the local Spar yesterday :shrug:

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Heard that around here too Angua, but there is still a lot of money wasted locally on the " upper echelons "
Perhaps our local council bosses could get in the spirit and join the lads and girls shovelling the snow?
My suggestion would be for those long term unemployed to be given shovels and asked to clear their local areas if more staff cannot be employed to deal with the " Emergency "
It annoys me no end that the main arterial roads are not so bad, but the effort to get to them is hampered by the house level roads being clogged up with hard ice.
I mean if nobody can actually get to work how can the country survive?
All those benefits to pay, wars to fund, mp's expenses to fund, second mortgages..........;)

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It just goes to show how quickly civilisation would collapse if there was a real emergency.
Most of Northern Europe is suffering under cold temperatures & heavy snow at the moment, even Germany but the media conveniently ignore this. Our news coverage is becoming like the USA, very insular.