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for not looking forward to SNOW!!!!

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littlemisssarcastic · 14/12/2011 08:52

I feel like I'm the only one in my circle of RL friends who doesn't look forward to snow at all. My friends all get excited about the prospect of snow, and get particularly excited if snow is forecast in our region.

Why??

When I think of snow, I think of how it looks lovely until it's been tramped all over (so not very long) and the inevitable cold..but more than that, it's not long before it turns into slush, which then freezes overnight, creating hazardous road conditions, hazardous walking conditions for alot of people, and the icy roads and pavements are nothing to get excited about are they??

I have noticed that the friends who get most excited by the prospect of snow don't drive and don't work. I wonder if there's a connection there.

I am dreading the icy slippery weather. I live in the arse end of nowhere and have to drive to get anywhere..and I am not looking forward to it at all.

Bahhhh Humbug!!!!

OP posts:

JaneBirkin · 14/12/2011 09:28

thankyou Sarah

Sirzy · 14/12/2011 09:29

I do agree with you Jane, although the fact those countries get a lot more snow and lot more regularly means they have to adapt more and economically it is more justifiable. That said a lot more could be done in this country to help the situation!

However, no matter what was done I would still hate the bloody stuff!

SenseofEntitlement · 14/12/2011 09:30

For the last two years, I and the dc have been stuck in the house, except for me going to work. The snow last year was making drifts that were taller than dd1, who was 3 at the time. Dh was walking the three miles to work each day, as the buses had to stop - they were literally getting stuck in the snow.
On another note, the young women at the Bigg Market still went out in bikinis. I saw one woman lying on the snow having a tab wearing a Mrs Santa miniskirt and bikini top. I stomped past in wellies, leggings, long skirt, two jumpers, gloves, thick coat, scarf round head and so on. Bloody Geordies.

Kladdkaka · 14/12/2011 09:30

Yep, we have spiked shoes (like the yaktrax linked up page) and spiked tyres. Ice and snow make no difference to us when we're out and about.

Sirzy · 14/12/2011 09:31

Mrsjay that always gets me at Christmas when the shops are shut for a day I have seen two women fighting over the last loaf of bread!

TheHumancatapult · 14/12/2011 09:31

I like to look at it , but then after day it two I need it gone as can not go out at akl

JaneBirkin · 14/12/2011 09:41

I kind of think it would be best to try to adapt more, much more to our natural rhythms and needs...the children are all tired and emotional at the moment, tired from a long term but not just that. they are tired because it's dark for most of the day.

I think schools need to wind down as does everything else, really, for the deepest part of winter, as it's when so many accidents happen, so many people get ill, a lot of which I suspect is because we should all be asleep or hibernating.

I dunno, just a theory. I'm tempted to keep mine off school for most of december and january!

Kladdkaka, do you do this sort of thing up there? Does everything get slower and do people sleep more, go out less etc? I'd be interested to know.

Kladdkaka · 14/12/2011 09:50

I don't know, it's hard to tell. You don't see people out and about much anyway. There is much more interest in outdoor winter activities such as cross country skiing, iceskating on the lakes and stuff, so it probably evens out.

SantaDesperatelySeeksSedatives · 14/12/2011 09:52

Bugger. Do you think it'll melt by next Thursday? That'd be handy! The snow in London a week before christmas last year was amazing. It took hours to get home from shopping but it was worth it! DD looked so funny wading through it all down the high street, mouth open, eyes like saucers!

confusedpixie · 14/12/2011 09:53

I love snow! But I'm not looking forward to it this year as I have to drive for work, live at the top of a massive hill which apparently doesn't get de-iced and the family I work for live at the top of another massive hill (also doesn't get de-iced) thirty mins away and the only way to get to work without going through the hills will take double the time on a normal day :(

I also have bad joint problems and the snow usually means them seizing up for a few days!
But I will be buying a sled and will be happy even if my joints do hurt!

itsstartingtofeelalotlikexmas · 14/12/2011 09:54

Are we forecast snow then?
Down south it is just grey & miserable

SpagBollyandtheIvy · 14/12/2011 09:58

YANBU. Although I usually quite like it, I am 37 wks PG, and they never grit our road. So am a bit worried as we usually get a fair bit of the stuff.

JinglePosyPerkin · 14/12/2011 10:01

Well I hope it doesn't come here the week before Christmas again. Last year, on 23rd December, I had to go to Asda and broke my car trying to get up the icy, ungritted, hill .

JaneBirkin · 14/12/2011 11:20

I love the sound of that, Kladdkaka...dp (well sort of dp, best friend really but that takes ages to write!) is from Denmark and he likes skating. I'd love to go and see what it is like up there, the sky, the light, everything.

I agree it's horrible to drive in, we stupidly tried to go out to get grit last year and ended up sliding around icy roads on a deserted retail/industrial estate, with almost no control of the car. It was frightening, I shan't even try this year.
We've the steepest drive ever and so I have a huge supply of salt and grit for when the roads are gritted but we can't get up or down our drive! I'd rather not drive at all in it tbh. Everything has to slow down, we walk places, I like it as it's a novelty. Maybe wouldn't for more than a week or two though.

Last year we tried to walk the mile and a half to school, as well, and what with two very unhappy children - ds1 desperate to go to school and refusing to wait, and ds2 desperate to go home and refusing to walk - we made it half way, and turned back exhausted. That was horrible, but it wasn't the snow's fault!

EdithWeston · 14/12/2011 11:28

I love fresh snow!

But I hate the days of impacted slippery hazardous stuff underfootwhich follows.

And I worry about my mum, who is getting on (even though there is another relative very close to her so I know someone will check on her and fetch shopping etc so she doesn't have to go out and risk a fall).

valiumredhead · 14/12/2011 11:37

mrsjay - I was weilding an axe and shouting 'red rum red rum' by the time it had all melted

Abcinthia · 14/12/2011 11:43

I love the snow for about a day. I love snowball fights, making snowmen and being the first person to walk on a patch on snow to hear it crunch underfoot.

After that it bores me and annoys me.

hiddenhome · 14/12/2011 11:49

We got snowed in last year and I have a photo of the dcs sitting in the dining room, in their dressing gowns, drinking hot chocolate and playing chess. It was lovely. I hate driving in it though.

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