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to be distraught at being the only place in the UK without snow?

143 replies

TCOB · 01/12/2010 22:46

Okay, I get that it makes life tough. I live in the middle of nowhere and we had our work cut out the last two years. But I am GUTTED that the rest of the UK has a big freeze and are all talking about snow (to the left, right, up and down according to the weather maps) and we have just got a feeble little meh cms of the stuff.

It's like there's a really exciting event that the Cotswolds aren't allowed to take part in.

(childish rant over, toys back in pram, no longer lying on the floor, licky tissue applied).

OP posts:
pigletmania · 02/12/2010 00:15

Milton Keynes, peh what a pathetic covering of snow, only a few mm not even cm

Lynli · 02/12/2010 00:28

I have spent the last three days climbing to the top of a huge hill, and watching the DCs sleigh riding down.

The view across the roof tops is amazing.

Pulled the sleigh to the shops and loaded up with food.

Building a snowman with the DGD and DS tomorrow.

And best of all I have lost 5lbs.

But I am shattered now, you may have my snow.

MerrilyDefective · 02/12/2010 00:31

Bournemouth has SNOW....at bloody last!

RockinRobinBird · 02/12/2010 01:55

Well you can bloody well have ours. DH and I both have really bad chest infections but can't even get to the doctor because of the beautiful snow sheet ice that surrounds us. I haven't slept for two nights because everytime I lie down I'm sick.

SeaShellsFiringUpTheQuattro · 02/12/2010 02:48

Merrydefective you beat me to it! Snow on the beach Grin

QueenStromba · 02/12/2010 04:04

After a dismal performance on Tuesday morning which produced enough snow to turn isolated patches of the pavement into ice rinks we've just had a couple of inches in SW London.

lady007pink · 02/12/2010 05:03

YABU

We are in Ireland and completely snowed in. My husband can't get to work so doesn't get paid. Less money coming up to Christmas. And our food is running out.

theevildead2 · 02/12/2010 05:16

YABU

pregnant and house bound

goingroundthebend4 · 02/12/2010 06:01

we got in East herts still coming and weant to bed all my darling dc be home today Noooooooooooooo.

goingroundthebend4 · 02/12/2010 06:14

ekk and thats want and bet that is from waking up at 1am then 3am and then getting up at 4am and wont be able to nap today either

tjacksonpfc · 02/12/2010 06:15

we had about a foot over night in wiltshire. You are more than welcome to it im now housebound due to recovering from shoulder surgery. No way am i risking going out in it. Dp now has to have time off to look after the dcs Angry

NinkyNonker · 02/12/2010 07:13

Yanbu. I'm on dorset coast and we've only just got some. I've had serious snow envy.

shoshe · 02/12/2010 07:38

The snow hit North Dorset last night, we now have about 3 inches.

Greenshadow · 02/12/2010 08:14

Also Cotswolds (but further south than OP) but after the last 2 years of being snowed, in am more than glad not to have enough to have any impact.

Having said that, the worry about it snowing, even when it doesn't, is enough of a problem - one DS at school in relatively inaccessible location that I couldn't walk to in an emergency unlike when he was at primary.

Also, minor issue I know, school Christmas Fayre on Saturday - main fundraising event and would be awful if had to cancel.

egopostulosomnus · 02/12/2010 08:28

no snow here totally annoying as i love the stuff (married in an igloo haha)
but its fun to watch the news and rant about why doctors nurses gritter drivers midwives etc do everything in their power to get to work and teachers are told not to bother, really dont get that!!!!!
do education authorities see education as not important? all the kids are out playing anyway so h&s makes no sense to me, what if it snows from now to march? are snow bound children going to lose a whole winter of education????? (gcse yr dd here who would absolutely freak out if lost so much as a day)

duchesse · 02/12/2010 09:18

We were utterly without (bar a few flakes two days ago) until last night here near Exeter. Now have a light covering- so light you see grass poking out in places.

NinkyNonker · 02/12/2010 09:20

There are normally a few dozen threads debating that around now. Hundreds of reasons including:

  • The propensity of people suing councils now for accidents on council property
  • Keeping roads clear
  • The size of catchment areas...many town schools might have rural catchments where roads aren't as clear
  • School buses not running
  • Not wanting 1000s of children on the roads being escorted around by parents
  • Teachers not living near work/being able to get in. Only takes 10% of teachers to not make it in for it to be uncoverable.
  • Etc etc etc.
dementedma · 02/12/2010 09:22

shocking here in Fife - two feet in some places. haven't been at work all week and am going crazy. can't get in or out of the village - no bread, no post. Feckin sick of it!!!

christmasheave · 02/12/2010 09:28

We have a wee little dusting of snow where we are and there has been great disappointment among the DCs that they've not been able to sledge / build snowmen / get a day off school.

Personally, I'm delighted. There's enough for me to look at and go "ooh its snowed" but not so much that it affects me in any way shape or form.

You may throw snowballs at me now Grin

mistletoekisses · 02/12/2010 09:29

YABU.

DH and I are ridiculously busy at work and stuck at home. Yes I can log on and work, but others are not logged on so am not getting much done.

Plus, I had two great parties this friday/ saturday, I wont make it to either!

FindingMyMojo · 02/12/2010 09:30

Snow on the ground - we've now got snow on the ground in West London. Except it's more like a sheet of ice already on footpaths & roads. Treacherous!!!!!

MumsieNonna · 02/12/2010 09:42

Snow in rural East Sussex, lots of it! Did some 'panic buying' yesterday but shops were empty of people (plenty of food left). Off outside to dig out bird table and replenish.

PatTheHammer · 02/12/2010 09:43

Oooh, I'm in the Cotswolds tooGrin

Feeling quite smug actualy as I remember the horror that was last January. I bloody hate the stuff.

Or I would be quite smug if it wasn't so bloody cold..............and icy. Like all the worst bits of snow without the closed schools, days off etc.

Whereabouts are you OP?

TheBolter · 02/12/2010 09:45

I'm in Somerset and am enjoying the fairy-dusted landscape and the fact the roads are mostly clear and I can go to the supermarket later!

Snow is only fun for the first morning - after that it becomes disruptive, messy and bloody cold!

There are far too many things to be doing at this time of year. The snow in other parts of the country is disruptive enough with deliveries etc!

PatTheHammer · 02/12/2010 09:50

Eurgh yes, the mess that is blackened melting, dirty snow. It hangs around for weeks if the temperature doesn't lift.

I'm with you on deliveries, still being able to get to the supermarket etc and feel sorry for all those posters who are cut off. Although, amazingly despite what can only be called a heavy frost at the most people still seem to be panic buying in sainsburys as there has been no milk the last few times I have beenShock