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What a way to go...... (with a smile on my face).

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But Hugh those girls could be your grandaughters :p:

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I'm sure he's well aware of that :)

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Daughters, perhaps - grand-daughters, no.......

(anyway, my first wife was from Teeside, not Newcastle - so v. unlikely....;))

(Mind you, there was those girls in RAF training who were Geordies, and....... Nah!!!!).

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I don't know if it's something in the tap water in Newcastle but last year I saw a couple of lassies in the city centre wearing santa hats and bikinis.
And a scarf each as a concession to the temperature.........it was -10c.

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Last year I saw 2 'top heavy' girls about 18 having a smoke outside a club in the snow
at about 11:30 only wearing bikinis and my first thought was they are going to freeze
made me feel really old

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Frankie Boyle in the sun said today

It was so cold up north last night, there were rumours of a geordie wearing a coat, but it turned out to be a tattoo. :D

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Hard as nails the lasses in the NE are pet!

Oh an its 'kin snowing in Mansfield.

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Driving rain is defrosting the snow fast..Just hoping and praying that the temperature doesn't drop to freezing by morning.

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yeah that would be pretty funky if that would happen Maggy.... home made icerink :S

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Quite a balmy 2 degrees here this morning :)
The MET Office say it will get a lot worse by Tuesday, :erm: more snow and ice

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Well blow me down..... we had a JCB arrive last night at about 9pm to clear a track up the hill we live on. First time that's ever happened so well done to the local council. :tu:

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You are lucky.

I only live 2 miles from the town centre and yet this is the 4th day we have not had a bus service.

I did see a gritter going past last night but it didn't look as though he was spreading salt, if he was I doubt it would be as much as I may put on my dinner. We walked down to some local shops yesterday only to find they had no bread or milk and one of the shop assistants said they did not know when it would be coming in.

Yesterday afternoon I finally finished digging the snow from my driveway, so later today we are going to go to the next village to what we can get there.

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We have had very little snow here in Liverpool, last night we had a very light dusting followed by some rain then a nice frost to top it it all off, so the side roads and pavements are nice and slippy.

I also saw one idiot out for run at full pelt, an accident waiting to happen.

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Well I think the panic buyer brigade are largely to thank for the shortages. We were in town two days ago and saw folks in Tesco's loaded up with umpteen loaves of bread and cartons of milk as if the world was about to end. The result was that for the rest of the day the store was entirely sold out of these basics. Quite why the stores don't restrict sales in situations like this defeats me - they readily put a limit on special offers. :confused:

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Due to the lack of snow we have not had the panic buying brigade as yet, but if this continues I expect we will get them soon enough.

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Snows all melted away after anight of driving rain.There is no frost and it's a lot warmer than it's been for the last two weeks.

Sun is out and life is back to normal. :)

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Went for a cheeky wee run in the snow. Tough, very tough but fun. Surprisingly not that slippy.

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Beware yellow snow... :D

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well rain here so no more snow just hope its not going to freeze tonight

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It's coming down thick and fast again this morning in central Scotland. School head was on the phone shortly after 8 ... closed again.

Two children standing in the lounge practising their lines for the Christmas play - assuming it even happens. The Christmas fair was postponed for a fortnight on Saturday.

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About 4" has fallen in the past two hours here in the G72 area. Oh joy...

I've not been out the house in over a week now because of the snow. Starting to get a little bit of cabin fever.
Worse still the lights are flickering, knowing my luck a power cut is coming...

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Well I made my way from Glasgow to Bellshill this morning and am still in the office! May not get home.

This is the car park about 30 mins ago. Been snowing like this since about 8.40 this morning and the M8 Motorway is totally backed up.

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No snow here atm, but it hit -10 C last night, it was still -8 C when I set out for work (at 9:20).

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Well snow got so bad all the roads were blocked and trains all cancelled. No way to get back to Glasgow so staying at my cousins in Hamilton. I walked the 6 miles along the motorway!

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why dont we have any sand pits as we use to in the old days
to help clear the paths as i would defo help in clearing the paths if we did had any in the area but we dont an fear to go out on those paths as they not been treated

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YUP - had that earlier this year during the snow. Two guys in a pickup pulled up next to the grit bin at the bottom of our hill, emptied it and drove off with what looked like a lot of other stolen grit on board. I expect they're the same **** bags who charge to clear trees, rubbish, hardcore etc. then dump it down some country lane.....

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the problem isn't snow any more its ice as hard as rock -i saw people clearing shop fronts with pickaxes today

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Me too...:td:

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i looked at the weather forcast for the next week and stocked up with some sharp sand of the building site i am currently on :D

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Well I remember the winter of 1962-63, it started snowing just before Christmas and snow was on the ground until the beginning of March. I remember pictures of the sea freezing of the coast of Kent. Where I lived at the time we had almost 3 foot of snow and I still went to school everyday, no school closures then, even though the outside loos froze up, we had an arrangement with local pub to use theirs in emergency.

Parts of the country were cut off for weeks and it was the whole of the UK that got the snow and ice, with the South East I think getting a fall of just over 2 ft.

The temperatures were below freezing most days and we had no double glazing or central heating, with ice forming on inside of windows. Most people still went to work, usually walking as most people then living close to their place of work.

So if this winter is to be worse than that it has alot to live up to and if does come it will cause chaos on a scale not seen before as most people would not know how to cope.

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I remember that winter as well.My family were living in Meriworth Drive on top of Shooters Hill in London.The council workmen cleared the pavements and the banks of displaced ice were hanging around for weeks after long after it had thawed elsewhere.I went to school(Plumstead Juniors) everyday after Christmas as well.

It's the only white Christmas I ever had..:)

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The bit I put in bold really goes to the heart of the issue. These days it is not uncommon for people to commute by car for an hour or more to work - often much, much more in the southeast of England. Our pattern of life simply isn't as resilient to disruptions in our transport infrastructure as it once was.

All our roads are far more heavily used and a great deal of freight is carried on them. A vast number of the problems on the roads over the last couple of weeks has been jack-knifed lorries - something that would have been less of a problem in the 1960s with fewer lorries on the road and fewer cars to get stuck behind them.

As for frozen toilets and the use of your local pub .... well I don't doubt that worked as a solution to the problem, but thankfully attitudes towards health and hygiene in schools are now a light-year away from what they used to be. Indoor toilets will have solved most freezing problems, but if our childrens' school suffered a loss of running water for any reason, these days it would be forced to close, and rightly so in my view.

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ouch, just passing Rugby on the train and it's been coming down. Can't imagine it being too clever when I get home. Should have packed me skis to get down our road.

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Temps been dropping rapidly here in Central Beds and it's just started snowing

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There is the lightest dusting of snow up in Perthshire. It's very, very cold though. Already well below freezing and not supposed to get above -5 tomorrow for my drive back home.

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We had quite a flurry of snow early this afternoon but it didn't stick. Just made the roads and pavements nice and wet ready for the freezing temperature that has now arrived.

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Coming down quite heavy now in South Cambs.

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Just started snowing in Hove! :xmas:

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Stopped now! :mad::mad:

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Two feet of snow here...

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...5&d=1292536744

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Lol Cobby!

As predicted we have had snow overnight, not a lot just about 1 inch; I didn't think it would lie because the streets were wet. If we get anymore it's going to be dodgy. :erm: I'd better lay in a stock of the necessaries. :D:D:D

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About 4 or 5 inches here... loads of hilarious looks from the neighbours when out playing in it with my 2 year old just after 8am... great fun! No way I am driving anywhere anytime soon though.

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4" of powder, then 2" of flake, now it's snowing mini snowballs!

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We finally had some snow, so like a big kid I was out with my camera. ;)

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/52.jpg

Lots more images here:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=2010...=7944055%40N08

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I take it you enjoyed yourself DW. Some lovely shots including some interesting ones. I particularly liked the design element in the Snow Light photograph and the Police car with the Ice Cream Parlour in the background made me smile. Well done Sir. :)

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Thanks jo, it was a fun morning. Shot over 200 images in the four hours I was out and about.

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like this one
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/50.jpg

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It is snowing in Liverpool at the moment.:)

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Snowing in Warrington now :)

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And in the centre of Manchester...

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We have around 4/6 inches in Liverpool and it is still snowing.

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Coming down thick here as well. Fingers crossed for tomorrow. Flying out to Amsterdam then on to Singapore after a 2 hour layover. It's looking a bit precarious at the moment with lots of flights cancelled coming into Schiphol. The weather for tomorrow doesn't look too bad. Hopefully, the planes are in place...

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Thick snow here in Swinton M27, and it's still falling.

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About 5/6 inches of snow here! ill take a picture in the morning when its a bit bright, i love this!!!.

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Anyone know how things are going in Bristol? Got a mate supposed to be flying out of there tomorrow if all is well.

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Answered to door to the postman and found this scene.

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Luxury!!!!

We've been buried under 20ft of snow for the last 3 weeks with no heating/lighting and only our frostbitten fingers and toes for sustenance.....

:D

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bet that's cured you of biting your nails anyway..

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I'm just going outside. I may be away for some time.

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heavy in luton now

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Lol.......She wishes. :D

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I hope his mam's sewn his name inside those tighty whities, it's perilous out there.

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Please make it stop!!!

Atleast until I've travelled.

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Skies looking very Heavy over South Cambs at the moment. Snows not forecast though.

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A bit more snow overnight.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/48.jpg

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/49.jpg

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Very Nice pics mate.

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It is snowing now in the City centre :(

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It was pretty bad in TW this morning, BUT you still had a load of pillocks driving madly, as if they wanted to prove something - total madness.:mad:

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Disappointingly no Mr. Tumnus and the tunnel didn't lead to Spare Oom

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/47.jpg

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Been snowing heavily for a while now here in south Cambs!!!

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Where the hell are the gritters, l have seen ONE, and yet the major roads in TW are terrible, my street was like an ice rink and the TWroad was poor, A4 was in poor condition still no grit in sight.

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At around 1pm today it dumped over 3" in less than 1 hour, it was a nightmare getting from my sister to home.

Along the way I saw a Beemer which had span as he was driving to fast:rolleyes:.

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No snow in Nottingham. I fell kind of left out.

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there! there! you may have mine as it is xmas.:xmas:

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/28.gif

Here's your own special snow https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/45.jpg

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A foot fell overnight on Teesside, we had about 3 days snow free in many parts since the last snow that fell on 24th November.

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yeah we had a dusting last night with more to follow in newcastle,las thing we need :(

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I took my wife to work this morning and it took me 30 minutes to get defrost the car and the thermometer in the car said -10c on the way occasionally.

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Most of ours defrosted and what was left has turned to ice.Husband got to work and home again this am safely so I gather that there were no real problems.

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When i woke up this morning i was blown away by the clear skies, the sunrise and the snow.

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I hear that the idiots with a mountain of snow on the bonnet and roof are starting to get booked for dangerous driving with 3 points added to their licences, I for one fully condone them getting booked.

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You missed out the ice.:D

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haha, thats the thing, its nice to look at but not nice to go out in haha.

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I agree with this. Seen plenty of cars with loads of snow on the roof and they don't realise the first time they brake suddenly it goes over the windscreen and they can't see

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Bit of an urban myth. You'd need to fail the attitude test spectacularly as there isn't a specific offence for not clearing snow from the roof of vehicles.

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I read on the BBC website that not clearing the roof is an offense, although they could have made a mistake

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Not unless they've made it an offence in the last couple of days without telling anyone. :)

http://local.stv.tv/cumbernauld/news...of-and-bonnet/

So as with most things its not a specific offence but if you extract the urine you can be dealt with in a suitable manner. ;)

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The most stupid one I saw had almost a foot of snow covering the roof, they deserve to be slapped, either with points, a fine or just a slap from me :)

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I also have mutch snoww and it will snowing and snowing...

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Where is that?

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Spend two hours shovelling the drive and the hill at my house. Came in, sat down with a well deserved beer, glanced out the window and yep snowing again!

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AFAIK the law stems from unsafe loading (like if you drove around in the summer with a pile of sand on your roof) or having an unsafe vehicle (like if you had a roof panel unsecured which flew off)

The police know they can't stop and prosecute everyone so prefer going down the awareness route or failing that, the attitude test route.

It is dangerous though. I saw an artic going round a roundabout and the snow and ice slid off onto the car in the next lane. It made a sizeable donk so there was obviously ice there. The car didn't seem too afected but if it was a (motor-)cyclist then the result could have been more severe.

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:clap:

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Well on saturday I just cleaned the windows and lights, I didn't go fast enough for the snow to come of the car. Some drivers didn't even clean indicators.

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I believe that is in Germany somewhere...

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The was an idiot in Tesco today with snow on his roof and bonnet that covered his indicators and headlights, now if that is not an offence I am at a loss.

Also if you have a mound of snow around 8/10 inches deep on the bonnet and similar on the roof that has to be either dangerous driving or driving without due care and attention.

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From http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAn...code/DG_069859