For a few days, they might even appreciate the farmers clearing the roads for them!
Hard winter on the way?
- Thread starter Goweresque
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For a few days, they might even appreciate the farmers clearing the roads for them!
pgk
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- Location
- south warwickshire
Daughter has a beast booked in later this month, we will do a couple of hoggs, winter cabbage and kale in, two sheds full of hay, bring it on!
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
i tend to just scroll on through quite quickly picking out best bits , he can be a bit windy sometimesHave you worked out how to slow his videos down so he can be understood?
- Location
- somerset
south somerset, what irks me, is friends less than 5 miles away, have had bumper yields ! we have just missed the rain.Whereabouts are you ? The last 2 years in Pembs have been fairly dry.....up till the end of July......when the heavens have opened nicely for harvest.
you wish, last big ice 2014/5 ? we gritted the road to the 'council cleard' to enable the milk tanker to get here, we had 6 cars behind us, 1st was the wife, and she was grateful, the next 4 were tooting and waving us to get out their way, as it was 2 tracks down the middle of the road, they couldn't pass, when i did pull in, i had some rude signs, last car stopped, and thanked us.
Until we get another one....
One thing for sure by the end of Feb I will be thoroughly pee'd off by the wet and cold.
Book that week in the Canaries NOW!
Something to look forward to...
Im 40, since I can remember so about 38 years..... we have had 4 decent snow falls lasting for more than three days. These all occurred between 1979 and 1988. However... back then days were looking longer as I hadn’t discovered beer and women. From 1995 when I got my first moped. The winters were only a mornings worth as I had to venture to work so tine I got home at night the snow had melted to ice. I think it was 1997 that my Yamaha bee whiz broke down to ice (more probably too much water from melting ice ) now, if it snows. I go to work in the snow, watch it thaw and drive home in ice... so snow lasts 8 hours. Very very rarely does it snow at weekends. Fast forward to 2008 and we had snow for four days, I left the girlfriends house in Stilton ( women again) at 5am and A1 was under 10 inches of snow. Fine I got home that evening and had a beer, it was ice... fast forward to 2018 and beast from east. Village was cut off for a day... if I still had my Suzuki DR350 and I had a hot date , the village would not have been cut off....
but like summers, back in my childhood I got sunburn every year... that was because either a) my mother didn’t understand sun cream or b) I played on beach for three hours with my shirt off. It was always hotter from memory but that’s explained as we stayed in static caravans in Europe ( roll forward to 2003 when I had a date night in a static caravan in August in Norfolk, caravans were bloody hot and always have been!)
Now I have money and a wife , I holiday with air conditioning . That means holidays are cool but come home or air bnb as I do during the week and the uk is hotter than ever in August.... it’s not really it’s just I wear trousers and a shirt and tie and am fat so I sweat...
the climate is changing but like beer and women, our memories and expectation are too....
Edit... now read that and not agree
but like summers, back in my childhood I got sunburn every year... that was because either a) my mother didn’t understand sun cream or b) I played on beach for three hours with my shirt off. It was always hotter from memory but that’s explained as we stayed in static caravans in Europe ( roll forward to 2003 when I had a date night in a static caravan in August in Norfolk, caravans were bloody hot and always have been!)
Now I have money and a wife , I holiday with air conditioning . That means holidays are cool but come home or air bnb as I do during the week and the uk is hotter than ever in August.... it’s not really it’s just I wear trousers and a shirt and tie and am fat so I sweat...
the climate is changing but like beer and women, our memories and expectation are too....
Edit... now read that and not agree
With the corresponding baby boom in October!
Don’t get @ajd132 ,@Clive ( do they have internet on super yachts
) and I started on thanking farmers for getting paid ( red diesel and subsidies, tax breaks etc) to clear the road! If my village was cut of and my shogun could push a snow plough ( without breaking down) then I would happily be out all night clearing snow.... I know my neighbouring builder was in his 3cx on his own fuel and didn’t want a thank you!
Willie adie
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Every year we get the " worst winter in 30 years " speil
Twitter was ridiculous a couple of years ago with loads of farmers with snow clearing contracts doing #thankafarmer absolutely cringeworthyDon’t get @ajd132 ,@Clive ( do they have internet on super yachts
Got the tickets booked for my winter trip... 5 months work on the highest farm in Iceland.Book that week in the Canaries NOW!
Should make a Scottish winter look quite tame.
It will be a piece 10 seconds long about the snow, and 10 minutes about how agriculture is entirely to blame for global warming and the coming armageddon. Different day, same old tired sh!t journalism.
I would rather #thankacancersurgeon / nurse / doctor / fireman / soldier etc
It’s not only cringe worthy but it’s is insulting to anyone else’s profession like suggesting what they do had no or less value
Not good PR at all
weather forecasting apparently all the latest satellites etc and still its worse than 30 years ago
michael N123
Member
A few Roads near me got made extra lethal by a farmer and a snow plow all he did was create a 2inch pact of compacted snow that turned into sheet ice
Dipstick on the plough took a 10 ft plough down a 9 ft road dislodging stones from the bank!
- Location
- South Wales UK
Leave Council to it
icanshootwell
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- Location
- Ross-on-wye
I have a dic head around here that does the same, as soon as one snow flake falls there out. clocking the hours for the council.
