Author Topic: Winter is here with a vengance  (Read 14154 times)

fifixx

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Shillingstone, Dorset
    • Bere Marsh Farm
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2014, 11:31:46 am »
Rain, sun, rain, wind, ginormous puddles, mud, river at top of banks, full ditches.  But - the poor people on the Somerset Levels are worse off, so mustn't moan too much.

roll on Spring!

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2014, 12:00:49 pm »
where do i sign up for snow?


one of my reasons for moving to scotland was for proper winters... i have been disappointed so far...

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2014, 01:20:39 pm »
My father-in-law just rang to say that somewhere in Austria yesterday thay had two and a half meters of snow in 24 hours :gloomy:

shygirl

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #18 on: February 01, 2014, 02:09:36 pm »
theres supposed to be 12ft drifts in glenshee.

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2014, 02:58:07 pm »
where do i sign up for snow?


one of my reasons for moving to scotland was for proper winters... i have been disappointed so far...
One of my main reasons for moving to the Central Belt was that i was pretty sure there'd be a lot less snow than where I came from - Aberdeenshire. :innocent:  Hate the stuff.  Got snowed in on  important occasions  too many times for me to like it AT ALL! - Like not getting to Crufts in March!  And nearly missing my nephews wedding in  Inverness - got there by the skin of my teeth courtesy of a friend in the village with a landrover, an other neighbour who is a signalman and held teh train fro me, and a 4 x 4 taxi at  the other end. :rant:

Did I mention I hate snow?  :innocent:
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Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

rockstar

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • powys
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #20 on: February 01, 2014, 05:34:50 pm »
Winter oh yes but not a white one but a very wet one from Llyswen Powys.Surely we wont hear the word DROUGHT in 2014. :gloomy:

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2014, 05:45:32 pm »
A bit of snow here this morning but it didn't settle.  I am now officially FED UP with the weather.  I know this because my language through the day, trekking through mud with rain being driven horizontally down the valley courtesy of 45mph gusts, has steadily deteriorated from the polite to the scurrilous.  Have you seen the weather forecast for Wednesday ....?!

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 #22 on: February 01, 2014, 06:08:15 pm »
where do i sign up for snow?


one of my reasons for moving to scotland was for proper winters... i have been disappointed so far...

Oh, David... be careful what you wish for! 
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

Victorian Farmer

  • Guest
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #23 on: February 01, 2014, 09:28:23 pm »
43 days of winter left 2 weeks more of the same 3 days snow cover just fantastic .Iv had the burners on 11 weeks 24/7 iv onley got a months wood left.I just hope march is ok as last time we were cort out .

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #24 on: February 01, 2014, 09:48:06 pm »
where do i sign up for snow?


one of my reasons for moving to scotland was for proper winters... i have been disappointed so far...

Oh, David... be careful what you wish for!


i was so excited the first winter at the prospect of snow, not knowing that it was all actually a big lie, i laid in emergency supplies for a month just in case...


please remember my nearest shop is all of  a 5 minute walk in even bad weather....


this is my third winter and so far in scotland I have seen about 1 inch of snow total.


Oh and to cap it off last winter the midlands we had left as it never gets snow had 8inches that stayed for a fortnight...


I feel my complaints are justified, it was false advertising I tell you...




Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #25 on: February 01, 2014, 11:29:19 pm »
No snow in Shropshire - it's actually quite a nice sunny day after all the rain x


Didn't last long though. Most of the day it rained.

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #26 on: February 01, 2014, 11:52:10 pm »
Started bright and sunny this morning, since then poured down, scary high winds in afternoon, white stuff tonight but I think it was turning to mush as I gave the goats their late feed.
Apart from a heatwave I think that covers everything in one day.
 
Having been flooded for just a few hours, I really don't know how those poor people in somerset are managing to cope with it, I know you do because you have to, but I really feel for them, it's weeks now.

sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • S W northumberland
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #27 on: February 01, 2014, 11:57:33 pm »
Well this morning was a nightmare as it changed to rain during the night then froze  so we had thick ice on top of the snow  :o
its been heavy rain most of the day today so most of the snow and ice has gone  :thumbsup:
Graham

cloddopper

  • Joined Jun 2013
  • South Wales .Carmarthenshire. SA18
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #28 on: February 02, 2014, 12:28:57 am »
 :idea: Hosepipe ban imminent in Somerset?

 For the last 36 hrs it's been pretty gruesome  cold fine rain , cold  hard rain , cold  stair rods  , light sleet, heavy sleet  hail and any combination that you care to think of.
 It's become a bit brassy tonight , just taken the dog out to be clean and wished I'd have been clever enough to put a hat and heavy jacket on,  I looked like a page three gal with chapel hat pegs after just a few minutes outside waiting for him to finish .  :roflanim:
Strong belief , triggers the mind to find the way ... Dyslexia just makes it that bit more amusing & interesting

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Winter is here with a vengance
« Reply #29 on: February 02, 2014, 09:16:10 am »
It's hovering on the edge of snow and rain, so for a few hours it snows, then it rains on top of it.......Just had a sleet downpour. Gotta gather sheep for scanning in a minute, please let it stop for a while.

My poor sodden, limping sheep.

I'm so sick of mud.

 

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