[Backinwellies]

 

Who started the morning like I did .... rescuing fruit and netting over poultry from 4 inches of snow?  .... Fruit net will need replacing ... poultry net is sunken down to level where I have to bend down!    It is still snowing so may have to do it again later!

[Fleecewife]

We have only about an inch of snow, but it was minus 10 last night, looks like being colder than that tonight.


It's amazing how net holds snow.  A few years back when we had a good foot of snow, the net over our brassicas became so heavy the plants were all crushed, so by the time the weather improved (took ages) all our brassicas were slime.


How is everyone in the North?

[pgkevet]

We have a little snow here..trudged through it to feed the sheep. Also lost our hen's netting.

[Louise Gaunt]

No snow here in South Devon, just a howling gale. Foolishly tried to go for a run this morning- outwards was ok, being blown along, return journey at one point I was at a standstill! I felt a bit like a sweaty mime artist!

[macgro7]

We have around 3 inches of snow and it's still snowing although it's warmer now so it's a bit wet.
This is the day I was waiting for when I decided to save all the ivy and brambles to feed the 

[Backinwellies]

Have done the nets for a second time.

Went for a walk about the smallholding snow is now 5-7 inches deep on fields .... cant remember the last time I saw snow this deep .... probably Kent in 1982/3

[mab]

2" this am, up to 4ish now and it's still snowing - and forecast to do so until after midnight when it turns cold & clear.

had to shake out the pig (electric) fencing and decided to give them a bit more ground to clear so they don't have so much incentive to try the fence if it's shorted out...

sheep are eating through my hay supply at a rate that'll exhaust it by newyear.

[Anke]

Beautiful sunshine, and not a single snowflake in sight! Trees all nicely frosted over.


But cold.... water buckets inside the goathouse iced over again after being cleared/refreshed this morning, and had to de-ice the tap in the goats house at lunchtime again.... but we do keep a hairdryer there for exactly that reason! Milking machine also needed the hairdryer treatment this morning.

[in the hills]

We were down to -9 on Friday night.


Light snow on Friday and Saturday.


We have 9 and a half inches of snow now and still snowing!
It hasn't stopped all day.
Only vehicle we've seen on our lane was a tractor at lunchtime. Think we are virtually cut off now, especially seeing that it's now freezing.


Looks very beautiful and daughter is very happy because school is closed tomorrow.

[henchard]

Who started the morning like I did .... rescuing fruit and netting over poultry from 4 inches of snow?  .... Fruit net will need replacing ... poultry net is sunken down to level where I have to bend down!    It is still snowing so may have to do it again later!

As you know just down the road from you in the Cothi Valley and no snow here at all.

[Rosemary]

No snow in Carnoustie but minus 5C about 15 minutes ago and it's been at or below freezing all day. Sunny and not a breath of wind though, so I can live with this even if I have to take water to the animals.

[Penninehillbilly]

We are in w. York's, following forecasts, expected to be snowed in today, collected big haylage bale, extra bags of feed, nowhere to put them so still in van.
Just a couple of light showers today. And no I'm not complaining  .
-2.5 Friday night, but supposed to be colder tonight, pipe or pump to barn frozen, so carrying buckets from well. So goats aren't getting buckets left in pens, not carrying gallons of water for them to mess in them within minutes  .

[GribinIsaf]

Just been out and measured eleven inches on some ground where it has fallen evenly today.  Montgomeryshire.

[Lesley Silvester]

It's about ten inches deep round here so we are housebound. OH is doing the goat feeds for me as I daren't set foot outside in this.

[DavidandCollette]

No snow here in North Lincolnshire, but very