discussion Unexpected sight this morning

[Tim Marlow]

This certainly wasn’t forecast…..already thawing though.

 

[Jim R]

Snow's alright when you're young and it's fresh. I don't like it when it turns to a grey, dirty slush. It does look pretty though looking out of the window from a warm room.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Always thought the best place for it was on Christmas cards Jim. Most cold countries wouldn’t even notice this but I bet it causes chaos around here…..

 

[peterairfix]

This certainly wasn’t forecast…..already thawing though.

Where did you find that I live in Somerset all I got was rain and more rain

 

[Guest]

I can remember delivering new plastic milk bottles to Yeo Valley Farms, Coombe just outside Crewkerne... And on one trip had just got back to High Wycombe from a night out parked west of Oxford, and being sent down to Crewkerne to 'rescue' one of our other drivers that had got himself onto a patch of ice and could not move. The blizzards on the way down were horrendous, kept having to pull over and wait them out... Just pulled into Crewkerne and it was like a different day - nothing - just this muffled figure sitting in a truck in the middle of an ice rink with two stuck tractors as company.
So Tim I know how it can change in your part of the country... get the snow shovel out.....

 

[Tim Marlow]

Where did you find that I live in Somerset all I got was rain and more rain

Around Bruton Peter (I’m just to the east of there). Apparently it is from Wincanton upwards. Nothing to the east much either, but we are a little higher here.

 

[Tim Marlow]

I can remember delivering new plastic milk bottles to Yeo Valley Farms, Coombe just outside Crewkerne... And on one trip had just got back to High Wycombe from a night out parked west of Oxford, and being sent down to Crewkerne to 'rescue' one of our other drivers that had got himself onto a patch of ice and could not move. The blizzards on the way down were horrendous, kept having to pull over and wait them out... Just pulled into Crewkerne and it was like a different day - nothing - just this muffled figure sitting in a truck in the middle of an ice rink with two stuck tractors as company.
So Tim I know how it can change in your part of the country... get the snow shovel out.....

Not planning on going anywhere so I’ll just leave it to melt Mike. Should be gone by this afternoon.

 

[adt70hk]

Not for us...... Just a LOT of rain yesterday and more forecast today.

 

[Flip]

The country is upside-down - all we've got is rain :tears-of-joy:

 

[The Smythe Meister]

We have a nice view of Haytor,and the surrounding Moor,from our landing window,and it was pure white this morning.
Funny really,as we didn't have any in our garden at all,and it's only a few K's away! :thinking:

 

[Gern]

I was lying in bed this morning looking out on the stars thinking "I wonder if there's some bug-eyed green monster somewhere out there in the universe who's doing exactly the same as me?" And then I thought, "Hang on a minute! Who's nicked my roof?"

 

[Dave Ward]

Yes, I was surprised when I pulled back the curtains this morning - I'm about halfway between Gloucester & Bristol. Only about 30mm. and it's thawed away already, but nothing in the forecast - only perhaps 'hill snow' - I live in the bottom of a valley!
Dave

 

[Miko]

Not planning on going anywhere so I’ll just leave it to melt Mike. Should be gone by this afternoon.

Probably best, it's what Ernest Shackleton would have done! Ha!

The weather is really broken, I have snow drops crocus daffodils and tulips up and seeking the sun! It could freeze solid in a few weeks!

I was lying in bed this morning looking out on the stars thinking "I wonder if there's some bug-eyed green monster somewhere out there in the universe who's doing exactly the same as me?" And then I thought, "Hang on a minute! Who's nicked my roof?"

Probably chav aliens stripping the lead flashing from your roof for their radiation shields! Ha!

Miko (in snow free north Lincolnshire)

 

[AlanG]

Miko (in snow free north Lincolnshire)

Not tempted to re-call it South Humberside? lol

 

[Miko]

Not tempted to re-call it South Humberside? lol

Nope! it never worked as an unitary authority inspired by Royal Mail, the people of Grimsby would never accept the authority of those in Kingston upon Hull the historic rival in the bygone fishing industry

Still, we got a nice suspension bridge out of it. I can see from my window right now

Miko (at the time the Humber bridge was completed in the early eighties it was the longest single span bridge in the world, now it isn't even in the top ten)

 

[AlanG]

Miko (at the time the Humber bridge was completed in the early eighties it was the longest single span bridge in the world, now it isn't even in the top ten)

I still remember going with school to watch the Queen open it.

Gather you're a codhead then...... or are you a cleggy. Virtually the same thing eh? lol

 

[Miko]

Gather you're a codhead then...... or are you a cleggy. Virtually the same thing eh? lol

Yep, I was raised in the great conurbation that is Grimsby and Cleethorpes under the flight path into RAF Binbrook which is a major reason I'm here in this forum today!

Your bio reads Scotland, are you an fact an exiled 'ulleh gulleh from the city of one vowel! Ha!

Miko (Yellow belly, a term for those from Lincolnshire, the etymology of which I am unsure?)

 

[AlanG]

Miko (Yellow belly, a term for those from Lincolnshire, the etymology of which I am unsure?)

Lincolnshire troops used to wear a yellow sash across themselves that covered their bellies. Hence the term 'Yella belly'.

 

[Miko]

Lincolnshire troops used to wear a yellow sash across themselves that covered their bellies. Hence the term 'Yella belly'. :smiling3:

. . . and now I know! Thanks!

Miko (I have 'nothing' in my wardrobe that's yellow, I feel like I'm letting the side down!)

 

[The Smythe Meister]

Lincolnshire troops used to wear a yellow sash across themselves that covered their bellies. Hence the term 'Yella belly'. :smiling3:

I love little Gems of info like that!:thumb2: