Lifeboat Muster Point for TalkExiles - Thread 2

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Continuation of previous thread.

Gather here all ye refugees from the foundering ship of JTT, if ye be in need of "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

Or just to chat randomly.

Some frost still on the ground here but the trees aren't white the way they have been for the last few days, definitely milder.

We still have snow on the ground here in ThatLondon.

It's snowing steadily at the moment, it started with really big flakes, before 9, so I thought I'd better get the dog out, ASAP. It tailed off for a while, then started again, when I got back. It's now warmed up to balmy -2°.

Still only -4C here. A bit of snow in the mix would be nice, rather than just fucking freezing.

Blue skies and brilliant sunshine here, but still freezing although at 1°C perhaps I shouldn't complain.

Condensation had frozen on the inside of my windows this morning.

Today I ‘ave mostly been enjoying this thread:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4698098-ta-doesnt-like-my-child-and-made-her-really-upset-today?page=1

Had a wren in the kitchen, brought in by the cats. It’s almost always wrens as they’re ground feeders, but this time the cat let it go so I opened all the doors and windows (it’s still -4.5C here!) and it flew out. Hopefully it’s learnt a lesson and will never let a cat catch it again.

I have to drive later so am a bit anxious about the sub-zero temps, but the sun’s shining brightly and snow/ice is crashing down from the roof (making my bastard dogs bark each time it happens).

I need to go out in the car soon, so I hope my wife isn't late back. I've got a disabled friend (above the knee amputation) and he needs some food shopping, as he hasn't been able to leave the house since Friday.

Anyone else get 5 minutes of server error here, just a few moments ago?

yes, server error here too

Yes, had a server error here too.

Watch out for the crazies on the road, Sinner.

Yes, but only for a moment, just as I posted above you, Sinner.

Temp now 0C! A 4:5C increase in such a short time! Think I’m gonna be fine to drive if I leave it late enough for the sun to reach the north-facing hill. I’m quite pleased that both my (thatched) roof and the annexe’s tiled roof have remained completely snow-covered for the last week, suggesting both are pretty well insulated. You can tell which bedrooms my neighbours all sleep in going by the bare patches on their roofs!

Once bitten, twice shy...

Because I'm such a froody young dude at heart, I often have Radio 1 on in the car and while I've managed to avoid Whamageddon I got fully Mariah Carey'd the other day, which I didn't see coming.

disabled friend (above the knee amputation)

Am afraid I completely misunderstood this on a first reading and was rather confused.

I know it's f cold because I got £25 off of the DWP. There's still some snow on the ground here in rural West Sussex though it hasn't snowed since Sunday which goes to show how f-ing cold it is. It's the ice that's the real problem. I walked up to the high street on Sunday evening and it was bloody lovely. Walking home yesterday (got a bus back from the next door village but got off in the High Street to go to a couple of shops) was not bloody lovely, it was a bit scary. I was really surprised that the local primary school hadn't put grit outside the whole of the school. Bloody idiots.

Anyway, packing is neverending and I am not properly stressed and going to have to ask for help because it's just not all going to be done by Saturday and I don't know how I thought it would be. The fact that my ribs and one knee is still banged up from my fall which was now nearly three weeks ago, has been an absolute fucking bastard. I'm going to call out for some more help. Snoop, my mate gave me a couple of hours today, I'll see who can give me an hour tomorrow and if there are enough people it will hopefully get it done. I'm just looking forward to Saturday evening when I don't have to worry about packing because I'll be in my new home, utterly knackered, filthy, but over the absolute worst of it all.

And yet still I post!

Oh and books. They're all packed. 15 boxes and while there are CDs and DVDs in some of them that doesn't really add up to only about a hundred books left. My name is Crows and I have a book problem which is only a problem when I am moving to be honest.

I hear you on that packing thing. Today I completed on the house purchase and picked up the keys, have only had about nine hours sleep in three days what with night shift and stress etc etc so am a bit too zombied to appreciate it all just now but I am kinda glad I have until February to leave this rented house because I just toolk a look in my garage and I don't think the new house is large enough for everything in there alone (LPs, Cds, books, DVDs etc) and that's before I even start to think about the stuff that's in my current house.

Some tough decisions are going to have to be made.

Anyway Grace, sorry about your banged up knee, hope you get someone to help you move, I am lucky enough that once I decide what I am taking and what I am not, I can afford to pay someone to do it, I'd be overhwhelmed if it was just me. As it is, I am just whelmed.

Have you checked the book boxes are liftable?

Dotellhimpike · Yesterday 22:47

Bugger, sitting here in work doing some paperwork when out of nowhere BAM! Whamageddon from the radio in a patient's room.

I've been in the car for more than 2 hours today and managed not to hear it, although there were many others, including Slade and Wizard and tragically, "Mistletoe and Wine."

On packing and moving, I'm still staggered at the amount of stuff we binned, only to have little room in the new place, which is an awful lot bigger!

I drove to the shop (3 miles each way) but it was scary, could barely get out of the off-road parking bit because of ice, although the lanes weren’t too bad once I was out. Had to reverse half a dozen times due to oncoming traffic, they’re single-track lanes at the best of times but now even the passing places are iced up and skiddy. Even the busy village with the shop and lots of traffic is still very snowy and icy. And it took half an hour to de-snow my car before I left!

And on Monday it will be 14C, from the current temp of -4C - no wonder Brits are obsessed with the weather when it changes so wildly from week to week!

I tried yo de-snow my car a bit last night. I won’t need it until the snow is gone but I’d rather it didn’t melt into the car and it looked like it had potential to turn into a lot of water.

There is still snow on the ground. For what amounted to a thin coating of snow, it’s certainly hanging around!

I could hear a gushing water sound from the annexe, thought a pipe must have burst, but it was all the snow on the roof melting into the gutter and down the drain at the bottom - sounded like a torrent!

One of them nearly did for me and Snoop has hurt her back a bit but they are liftable. The guy who's doing my moving is a neighbour who works as a removal man. He's doing my removal off the books so it's much cheaper than it would have been and a friend has loaned me the money which I'll pay her back monthly next year. The greatest thing they'll do for me is take my bed apart and put it back together again. Seriously, that's magical!

Oh, I went off on a tangent. His missus, who I'm friendly with said that he and his mate will be fine with lifting them and he's had to move a piano before, so, we're all good. I, however, am not going to be filling boxes as heavily as she has!

Anyway, lovelies, you're all great and I'll see you next week. Broadband is being put on on Monday and I shall be back then. Between now and Saturday I have to get down to it and not be internet-ing.

Good luck with the move @IReallyLikeCrows x