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[chickencam]

We have a blizzard here and 2 inches of snow and counting.

 

On the plus side OH has spent the morning in the kitchen making mince pies and latte biscuits, lovely smells. I have been ironing to keep warm.

[Alis girls]

About five and half inches in NW London - chucks have taken to Eglu and refuse to come out even thou run is snow free

[chuckmum6]

No snow here ,please send some this way - I love it even though the girls don't!

[Charlottechicken]

You can have some of ours, chuckmum6, six inches or more now, and still snowing Wild birds have all congregated in the back garden and are begging for food.

[grracee]

We've had absolutely loads of snow overnight here in Powys!! Over a foot of snow, my brother came back from uni in Cardiff yesterday and he said it was really bad there, I think he chose the right time to come back!

 

Here's some pictures,

 

 

 

 

And my brothers' snowman,

 

 

My dad and brothers are currently trying to make an igloo

[abwsco]

We've had around six inches since last night. Hasn't snowed since this morning and was thawing earlier on. It's beginning to freeze though now. Chickens haven't come out at all and are all looking depressed in one section of the WIR.

[Valkyrie]

A friend up the road in Farnborough reckons she has a foot of snow. Methinks 5/6 inches at the most. We had a fair amount of rain and some hail with a little flurry of snow on Thursday when the Rotary Santa came round to collect and it looked quite festive, but left virtually nothing by morning. A cousin said they had more in Basingstoke because it settled there - probably an inch at the most. Nothing yesterday at all and OH went to Te$co's early this morning and said it looked iffy, but when he came home it fell down. I reckon we had about half an inch and then it started up again so possibly ended up with an inch plus a bit.

Fed up with snow. When you are little you spend all winter wishing for snow and it never comes. I do hope the younguns are enjoying themselves though.

[chickencam]

Still coming down heavily, this has gone on for over 2 hours now and we have 4 inches or so. No travelling for us tomorrow or maybe at all this week

[Charlottechicken]

I've just had to dig a path out to the chickens I'm thawing out and going back out now to move the snow off the WIR roof before it collapses under the strain.

[fluffyfeet]

I'm just bracing myself for the walk outside to shut the door to the coop.

 

The two RIR's are still insisting on waiting on the roof to be put to bed - silly girls!

 

This is what we've got at the mo.

 

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2091864&id=1037287477&l=fd0402cb6b

 

Keep warm and safe everyone.

 

Dawn x

[keyhole kate]

Brrr It snowed about 2" inches here yesterday and got down to -12 here last night between 9.30pm and 1.30 pm when we went out twice to collect DD2 and DD3 respectively. Even worse today we have had at least another six inches of of snow today OH and I had to cobble together some vinyl shower curtains oddments of plastic sheeting to protect the girls from the worst of the wind and snow that was blowing into there WIR (haven't sourced some tarps yet) they looked so miserable huddled together however OH picked up one of the girls and declared she was as warm as toast one and silkie had given up by 3.00pm and gone back into the cube who says there not smart

[Alis girls]

There is a deathly hush in garden as on main road round the corner the traffic is gridlocked. I didnt need security light to shut up girls as its so light out there

[chuckmum6]

Not fair - it looks fun!

[Old Speckled Hen]

Yes, full moon in three days. It's really light here too.

No more snow but temps are plummeting .... -8˚ already and the sun's been down only an hour

Never mind....... winter solstice soon then it the days get longer, then it will be spring then summer and we'll be complaining about the heat

[scarlettohara]

We live on a hill and people have been pushing their cars up although one person has abandoned theirs in front of our drive You would think they could have rolled backwards a couple of feet

[Lesley]

Inconsiderate!!

 

We set of at 8am for the market - a smattering of snow and clear, gritted, roads. While we were all in the cafe the snow was steadily falling and settling. Clare and Moochoo left early and both struggled with getting home. Sunrising Hill on the main Stratford to Banbury road was closed so Clare had a detour to get back. We left about an hour later and also struggled to travel the 7 miles - the once clear roads had 3" of snow settled on them. We've had another 3" quite quickly after we got back.

 

Lauren was out on a small sledge - complete with her wrist in a splint, I just tried not to look , hoping we didn't have to try to get to Warwick hospital again through the snow The dogs love it!

 

 

[Alis girls]

Scarlet I feel your pain - my drive is a magnet to people making calls, anything but find a space not over a drive I even had a couple arguing and told her to go and argue somewhere else - needless to say I got an earful. If anyone abandons car over my drive I will take a pickaxe to it

[scarlettohara]

Think the boys are planning a moving mission later (I'm turning a blind eye ).

[chickencam]

The roads are gridlocked here with Christmas shoppers trying to get home, don't they take any notice of weather forecasts? It was about as acurate as i can ever remember. They had 15 inches 38cm of snow just a few miles out of Cheltenham on the Oxford side

[The Dogmother]

Had a pretty dramatic day really - no snow overnight, Phones Lesley in the morning to check on the snow near Stratford as it's always different the other side of Sunrising Hill/Edge Hill, all fine, so set off for the market to collect the dog meat.

 

Phil called at about 10am to say that it was snowing like mad (not quite the word he used ) at home so I set off back. It steadily got worse as I got nearer home, Sunrising Hill - massively steep hill - had just been closed by the police despite being gritted earlier so I turned round and came back through the villages and out onto a main road. It was quite an adrenaline rush as the windscreen wipers kept freezing up with enormous lumps of ice on them and it was a white-out, so I had to stop every now and then to knock it off. Some eejit behind me in a BMW coupe kept trying to overtake - impossible to go over 30 mph - but his back end was fishtailing like mad each time he tried, so I jammed the hazards on to try and make him see sense.

 

Eventually got back after a (normally) 30 minute journey took me over an hour and a half! I really don't mind driving in the snow or bad weather and consider myself a competent driver (used to drive through the Alps on snow chains) but this was quite dramatic.

 

7" and counting here at the moment with some pretty high drifts against the back gate and in the side alley. Central Banbury is deserted so I donned my YakTrax and took the shopping trolley down to stock up on a few things at M&S. Blooming hard work struggling back up the hill though!

 

In for the night now work christmas do is cancelled and I have my wish to watch the Strictly final while ironing

[Charlottechicken]

It's around 7" deep here as well, Clare

 

I've been in all day waiting for Argos to collect a faulty telly, I didn't think they would come once it got to lunchtime as it became dodgy driving round here at that point. I'm a bit miffed though as I've not had a call or anything to let me know they weren't going to get here (which I can understand) and if I had chosen to go out no doubt they would have turned up. They probably have deliveries as a priority, and I can understand them wanting to get those out to people, but it would have been nice to know!

 

Hence I was rushing around like a mad woman in the garden once the delivery time had passed, clearing the paths and getting the snow off the WIR. I also had to dig out the front path as the gate wouldn't move all that snow. I've swept all the snow off the car with a very soft nylon broom, as the local children were hacking at snow covered cars with a plastic shovel, they didn't appreciate me moving the snow off mine, tough! It hasn't been this bad for over 16 years. I'm going to see if I can sort the footpath out in front of the house tomorrow, and see if my elderly neighbours want their front path cleared. If this lot freezes we'll be stuck!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Would have been nice to meet up ANH, maybe next time?

 

Definitely .

[Chickvic]

It's around 7" deep here as well, Clare

 

We didn't get that much here We've had a couple of inches at the most and the roads are passable. Means DH had to go to work tonight after all

[Goosey Lucy]

OH should have been flying home from Birmingham today, our airport opened just as Birmingham shut theirs

 

He's now in Manchester, hopefully he'll get back tomorrow

[patsylabrador]

Living in London means you get used to the sky at night having an orange glow and I think other Londoners will agree that the sky is spookily light tonight because the snow is reflecting all the man-made light. Although it should be dark now at 9.20pm it looks like the sun has only just gone down. It's weird but I quite like it.