Author Topic: Winter is here with a vengance  (Read 14144 times)

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Winter is here with a vengance
« on: January 31, 2014, 08:41:17 pm »
Anyone else got snow ? It started mid morning and has snowed most of the day, its been blowing off the field so there is a good 18inches of snow at the top of the drive tonight  :-\
Graham

mab

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • carmarthenshire
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2014, 08:45:17 pm »
Still mild and (very) wet in south wales

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2014, 08:47:37 pm »
ohhhhh... I so didn't want to hear that...

First off, hope you're all coping ok and have enough in stock!  and snow shovels!

We went across to Stocksfield today, via Hexham (out on the military road, back on the A69) - no snow at all.  Cold, and a bit of density in the rain, but no snow.

(My - slightly early - birthday treat : lunch at Wheelbirks!  Came home with a goodie bag too  :excited:)

Some pals and I were planning on heading across to Morpeth way tomorrow...  wonder what it's like up on the military road now... :thinking:
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2014, 08:48:52 pm »
only 1 deg here tonight or at least it was at 7pm
Just had the dogs out and at least its only drifting at the top of the drive, further down its only about 4-5 inches  ::)
Graham

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2014, 08:50:41 pm »
ok so what did you come home with  :D  live or frozen ?
Graham

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2014, 09:21:54 pm »
Oh, there was a lovely one... and a very nice angus cross too... but no, two of mine are due next month  :excited:

We just had the Jersey Beef main meal and a pud each, splurged on a nice Jersey mug (BH couldn't resist - reminded him of ours, he said) and some cakes, milk (ours are dry at the mo - bad planning to have them both dry at the same time  ::)) and butter to bring home.  We weren't coming straight back so I couldn't bring ice-cream home  :( - but I have promised not to leave it so long next time!  :yum:
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2014, 09:28:26 pm »
I love going there and TBH apart from our goats milk that's the only milk I drink. The icecream is great aswell .
The place we got the angus x calves from also do icecream from their jerseys  and the tiramisu one is  to die for
Graham

Fowlman

  • Joined Apr 2012
  • Wiltshire
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2014, 09:30:04 pm »
Still wet and windy in wiltshire, no sign of snow.
Tucked away on the downs in wiltshire.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2014, 09:34:13 pm »
BH made me laugh - we were sitting with our backs to the very end bit, where the kids' play area is.  There were quite a few kids in, mainly screeching having fun with the occasional squawl of frustration - pretty normal for little kids who've been eating ice-cream!   :D  Anyway, BH commented that he thought they must be wrecking the place  ::) which made me laugh, saying if it had been able to withstand generations of cattle beating it about I thought it'd cope with a few hyped-up kids!   :D

Sorry for the thread-jack everyone, back to the weather reports :)
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Bert

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • Isle of Mull
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2014, 07:37:19 am »
We have snow this morning. Only a light scattering down with us, but lots on the hills :thumbsup:

Kitchen Cottage

  • Joined Oct 2012
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2014, 07:41:35 am »
Here in Essex it's not been below freezing since last year.  It should be between 5 and 7....

But it hasn't stopped railing for 36 hours and the fields are underwater.

We haven't been hit like other parts of the country, but January is that miserable time.

NEVER MIND, WE ARE IN FEBRUARY NOW.... SPRING IS IN SIGHT!! ;D

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2014, 09:03:00 am »

NEVER MIND, WE ARE IN FEBRUARY NOW.... SPRING IS IN SIGHT!! ;D

Indeed  :thumbsup:

Sunny here with blue skies; water levels are dropping  :thumbsup:

Shropshirelass

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • South Shropshire
  • A country lass who loves it all!
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2014, 10:03:15 am »
No snow in Shropshire - it's actually quite a nice sunny day after all the rain x

kelly58

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Highlands, Scotland
  • Home is were my animals are.
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2014, 10:46:04 am »
Sunny here too and blue skys  :thumbsup: Cold wind but you can still get your chores done   :)

goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
  • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2014, 11:26:21 am »
Pinch punch 1st of the month to you all, a nice dusting here in Scottish Borders, enough to make our place look tidy as it's a building site mud bath again, oops just looked out and it's all gone - back to mud bath  ::) f
registered soay, castlemilk moorit  and north ronaldsay sheep, pygmy goats, steinbacher geese, muscovy ducks, various hens, lots of visiting mallards, a naughty border collie, a puss and a couple of guinea pigs

 

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