chickencam Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Sounds pretty scarey All of our snow has gone now apart from where it had been piled in heaps. My chooks are filthy today I am sure that they have been mud bathing, the older girls were ok until i let them out into the garden for the first time in a week and by the time I put them away they were just as bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 16, 2010 Author Share Posted January 16, 2010 I can see more grass now - still some parts of the garden are blocked off - can't get to the veggie patch yet. There are giant piles of dirty snow along the road where the digger has cleared it out of the way. Some reach to Erin's shoulders still. I think they'll take some time to go. Still snow in the fields, although a lot are under water now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 With the snow melting, I found 3 piles of dog poo and an old washing up brush I use for roosting bars today . Who knows how long they'd been there . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 Out the front we have only the huge piles that were made clearing the road. I think most of it looks as though it has gone from the bottom of the garden - just a few bits in the veggie patch out the back. At the top of the garden my snow angel is now a green angel - the snow hasn't gone from there just yet - but that's the shadiest part in winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 All gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Virtually all gone here. Just the odd pile by the roadside and the remnants of Snowmen in front gardens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 The sun is out and it's a balmy 6 degrees. Got out to one of our favourite dog walks which has been impassable due to snow drifts. Still managed to get thigh deep in places. There's usually a great view of the Langdales from the top but it was too misty to see that far. DH had to leap into a field to free a sheep caught by the horns in one of those circular hay mangers. They are deadly. We once found a dead sheep in one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadietoo Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 All of our snow has gone, and we took DD back to Exeter yesterday (postponed a week due to weather) when we arrived the sun was shining brightly and people were in tee-shirts (no really) it was warm!!! On our return journey to Sussex we weathered torrential rain and fog it was truly dismal through Devon and Dorset.... Today has been absolutely gorgeous...I managed to clean out the girls and instead of wishing myself back indoors asap was happy to sit out and have a coffee for some serious chook watching!!! might have been something to do with my new Tay Muck Boots...never have my tootsies been so toasty!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Still got some in the garden and the pavements are packed hard with tonnes of grit on top - looks disgusting . At least driving isn't like a slalom course any more . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 OH came home this evening and said isn't it amazing how all the snow's gone. Erin immediately came back with no it hasn't! Then he said he meant the roads and pavements. It's nice to be able to walk around without looking like you've done something in your knickers! But then when you get to the mud it's more like sumo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Almost all gone today, but still some patches of ice. frost first thing yesterday which wasn't fun, but it made it up to 7deg, so nice for cleaning the girls out. Dull and warm today and I hear that we're forecast more snow mid-week! Loads of flooding this away - the Cherwell burst its banks yet again and flooded the other end of town. we went walking in Kings Sutton yesterday and that is very badly flooded. The Boy took some photos, so I'll post them when he emails them over. Most of the rivers looked to be at least 6' above their normal height. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Only the snowman remains Sitting in the conservatory with the autumn sun streaming in listening to the doves cooing. Positively tropical here. Snow? What snow? What short memories we have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 18, 2010 Author Share Posted January 18, 2010 There are still huge piles of snow along the road where the digger piled it up. Most are quite white - others are filthy. There is a huge mound - bigger than me (in height - nothing can be wider ) at Te$co's. Went to Scats in Sherfield today - still lots around there (Paola - take note - there is a lot of snow still in the fields there too) but Basingstoke doesn't have as much as the outerlying areas. We still have some in the garden - although Kitty has been having a jolly good scratch around in there and hopefully broken bits off to melt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Great filthy piles of it here too - & more on the way if the forecast is to be believed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 18, 2010 Author Share Posted January 18, 2010 Wednesday I gather - Erin has her fingers crossed so that she doesn't have to go to college (late night day). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angels4 Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 We got dumped with another 6 inches here over night. Luckily today was Martin Luther King holiday or it would have taken me ages to get to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Ours has completely gone now, but Paultheweatherman said to expect more tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia W Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I'm off to Southampton tomorrow - and guess what is forecast! Tricia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 19, 2010 Author Share Posted January 19, 2010 Tropical weather conditions and a slight mist from the sea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 All the fields are clear. No more forecast for now but I can't forget last February I read in the paper yesterday that the BBC is not renewing the Met Office's contract to provide it with the weather forecast. I wonder why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Very little left here now. Cloudy and balmy here today, 6deg when I left home but the sky looks like rain. I heard the snow warning too - metcheck (according to a colleague) threatens a severe weather warning with snow for Wednesday, BBC weather says snow showers... which will it be then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helly Welly Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Very little left here now. Cloudy and balmy here today, 6deg when I left home but the sky looks like rain. I heard the snow warning too - metcheck (according to a colleague) threatens a severe weather warning with snow for Wednesday, BBC weather says snow showers... which will it be then? Metcheck don't seem to have got much right lately s i'm more inclined to beliee the snow won't be too bad. Still, you never know!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 We have a Met Office warning for heavy snow tomorrow morning, turing to heavy rain by Thursday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 19, 2010 Author Share Posted January 19, 2010 We've still got some reluctant drifts out the back, but a look on Accuweather for here says no snow tomorrow - 2mm of rain and 20% chance of thunderstorm. I can live with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I heard the snow warning too - metcheck (according to a colleague) threatens a severe weather warning with snow for Wednesday, BBC weather says snow showers... which will it be then? It's the other way around here, Metcheck say I'm getting no snow tomorrow, the BBC say heavy snow from 9am-3pm. Now that's quite a difference and actually quite an important one to me because if I drop Georgia off at nursery in the morning then we get heavy snow there's no way I can take my car back out again to pick her up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
