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To be hoping for a frosty snowy winter?

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tak1ngchances · 06/09/2012 15:26

Don't know what's come overme really. It's 20-something degrees outside. But I've been reading about Lakeland Christmas stuff, woolly tunics and boots on here today. Now i just really fancy snuggling under a blanket with hot choc watching reports of Arctic weather on Sky

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monsterchild · 06/09/2012 16:16

I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand it's fun to be nice and cozy in a warm house, drinking port and cocoa, and watching very bad movies.

On the other hand, it totally sucks trudging gallons of hot water through the snow to the chickens and horses because the pipes have all froze. ( I did finally get a tnk heater for the horses!)
And the putting on of blankets and off and stumbling over frozen piles of horse poo, and fishing out the cracked and frozen eggs. That part isn't much fun.

And then it all melts into horrible, horrible mud by the afternoon. Then freezes again that night for me to trip over again in the morning.

But I love being snuggly warm with the snow falling quietly outside....

lolaflores · 06/09/2012 16:16

old where are you? It is about 20 degrees here in the big smoke. won't imagine things getting any harsher till end of october. remember a few years ago it snowed in november though and it was a white christmas. Oh yes those were the days

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 06/09/2012 16:24

I'm in Ayrshire, lola, we've had odd sunny days but much rain, flash-flooding and thunderstorms all bloody "summer". It's not been terribly cold, but it's bloody depressing to look out at drizzle again. The combines were running late last night to try to get the silage while it was still dry.

CremeEggThief · 06/09/2012 16:25

YABU! It's not as romantic when you live a mile and a half away from the school, don't drive and can't rely on the bus to get you to school on time :(.

KentuckyFriedChildren · 06/09/2012 16:25

No! When it snows here it is usually about 4 ft deep and we can't get a shopping delivery (or a bus to the nearest town to buy food) and our rubbish doesn't get collected for months. The only way to get the dcs to school is by sled that I have to pull all the way there (school is nearly 3 miles away btw in the village) as no cars or even fecking tractors can get up our hill. We have to start stocking up for winter about now just in case. Last year we lost the gutters (again) and the chimney which we couldn't get fixed due to it being unsafe to put a ladder up so we had a gaping hole in the roof for ages which we tried to sort with a tarp but it wasn't too great and the loft still got an indoor winter wonderland. It's lovely where we are but I do not want winter yet as we are only just getting prepared now!

notsofrownieface · 06/09/2012 16:27

YANBU I love it , although the thought of getting up at half 4 on a frosty morning may just be enough for me to change my mind.

Goofus · 06/09/2012 16:29

YABVVVVVU. I hate to have to get the kids to school in it. And I hated having to get to work in it pre-kids. I'm like Bambi on the ice and I panic. It's awful.

However, if I could shut myself off from the world and not venture out until the snow had melted then I wouldn't mind.

lolaflores · 06/09/2012 16:30

old silage....in those special suits and the smell. oh god be with the days. did you get your hay in alright despite the wetness in may and june

Ithinkitsjustme · 06/09/2012 16:34

I'd just like to go back to the "old days" when I was a kid and Summer was Summer (ie. hot and dry) and Winter was Winter (ie. lots of frosty mornings and snow over the window sills). Now it's just all merged into a weird wet mush!

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 06/09/2012 16:37

I'm not a farmer, lola, my neighbours are and I live in an old farmhouse. They lost a fair bit of root vegetables (cattle fodder) in a flashflood a while ago, another neighbour ended up with enough beet on her doorstep to sustain her through winter!

Meh, I'm just moaning.

SecretCermonials · 06/09/2012 16:37

Im definitely against snow... Purely because im pregnant and having a CS in dec so trying to negotiate slippy slush (which is always what we get) whilst huge and trying to keep DS on his feet would be blahdy impossible! As would snow walking immediately after a section. Once im recovered snow can come if it must at least then id experience driving in it, although that would then be woth toddler DS and newborn DS in the car... So on second thoughts... No snow no ice, thankyouplease!

RuleBritannia · 06/09/2012 16:39

I'd love a frosty, snowy winter if God can find a way to keep snow and ice off the roads and pavements and just drop it onto gardens, on verges and in parks.

kinkynagbag · 06/09/2012 16:48

ohh i am with you. monday i went out and you could just smell christmas coming ...( yeah... i hope that doesnt sound to barmy... it just has this smell to it.. to me any way lol)

cant wait till we can get the scarffs out, hats.. nights cuddled up on the suffa with a hot choc. ohh i love it.

only thing im not liking is the gas now im on meter :/

thanksamillion · 06/09/2012 16:49

No No No! (in response to the OP). My pipes were frozen for over 2 months last year and I don't want to go through that again thanks .

Ithinkitsjustme you need to move to where I live in E Europe - summer is 30 degrees or hotter every day, winter -10 regularly down to -28 and snow for up to 2 months.

Pascha · 06/09/2012 17:00

NO SNOW PLEASE BETWEEN 15/12 and 15/01. Just cold crisp clear sunny days and frosty nights.

WelshMaenad · 06/09/2012 17:02

NOOOOOOOOOOO! Snow can FUCK OFF.

We live in quite an isolated village and snowfall can leave us stranded for days. It terrifies me. I tend to start getting stressed about the prospect of snow around October time and relax again in about April.

freddiefrog · 06/09/2012 17:04

Nooooooo!

I love sun and light evenings and BBQs on the beach and mooching around in flip flops.

I hate cold and dark evenings and proper shoes and wearing coats

TapirBackRider · 06/09/2012 17:05

No thanks - I work outside, and even with thermals etc it makes life bloody hard going. The coldest I've worked in (so far) was -18c. Not nice.

BadgersRetreat · 06/09/2012 17:07

it was -39 here one morning last winter Tapir!

Psammead · 06/09/2012 17:11

No. No, no, no.

I will have a 2 month old and a 3 year old. I just cannot be arsed with the snowboots, snowsuits, hats, gloves, wetness in the hallway, pram getting stuck in snowdrifts, slipping and sliding all over the place tiresomeness of it all.

I will grant you 3 days of nice, clean, crisp snow. Good for making a snowman and taking a couple of pictures of Dd. Then gone.

StripyShoes · 06/09/2012 17:20

Yanbu. Snow rocks!

TapirBackRider · 06/09/2012 17:42

Badgers

No thanks! I'd end up in so many layers I'd look like a bright blue version of the michelin man...

rainbowsprite1 · 06/09/2012 17:53

Laurie do you live in my house??? I have exactly the same problem, except I celebrate when the temp gets to 20! :)

LaurieFairyCake · 06/09/2012 18:00

I do live in your house rainbow I live in your loft, that's what that creaking noise is at night....

can you please buy more cheese of different types, and get some nice biscuits while you're at it - the cupboards are not stocked enough for my taste

Glitterknickaz · 06/09/2012 18:15

YANBU.
I heart snowmageddon.
Bring it oooon.

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