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trackside528 said:
Fairly bad in Leeds today as well.

Absolutely dreading the journey home.
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A guy that I work with has just told me it took 2.5 hours to do the three miles from Pudsey to Horsforth so good luck. I haven't been into work in a week... the joys of remote access :D
 
4 hours by train from Lingfield to Victoria today, about 55 mins usually? More snow forecast tonight, don't hold your breath for tomorrows meeting!
 
granger said:
Does anyone believe the claims that they were amply prepared for all this and it is/was under control?

Safe driving everyone
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No - we were told in July that here in Brighton the budget had been spent, there wasn't time to get extra snow ploughs in so we would be stuck with the same conditions as we had in January should it happen again.

It happened again (albeit later than elsewhere in the country) and the place has ground to a halt.
 
I'm supposed to be at Lingfield tomorrow for the five horses we've got running - probably down to one match race if half the boxes can't get in, and then off to Marlborough on Friday until Monday. To get to Marlboro before nightfall I imagine I'll need to start out around 10.00 a.m.! The m'ways are probably fine themselves, but they'll be PACKED on a Friday for a start, then double-packed because everyone will use them instead of any A roads they might normally use. It's all looking a weeny bit iffy...
 
betsmate said:
A guy that I work with has just told me it took 2.5 hours to do the three miles from Pudsey to Horsforth so good luck. I haven't been into work in a week... the joys of remote access :D
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An hour and a half from city centre to Burley train station. Disaster.

You're a bastard by the way.
 
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I'm actually in a fairly handy spot. Cheap digs and normally easy commute as well. I'll be living the life out in Alwoodley soon enough anyway...
 
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Looked out of window this morning and knew I was spending the day at home,which is OK because most of my work can be organised over the phone. I don't understand why some people even bothered venturing out today in Sheffield. Why go out in this?

My cousin drove in for 7am and was then told to go home at 9am!!! Took him about an hour or so to do the 15 mile trip. One of my neighbours phoned work and explained she was snowed in and they asked her to walk to work!!! Sometimes I thank my lucky stars I am self employed when I hear stories like hers!
Only thing thats peeved me off is my new phone was delivered to work but I can't get in to pick it up,is that a good thing or a bad thing:confused:
 

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Galileo said:
I think the snow we have had this week is worse than anything we had in January - unreal.
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Normally it snows or it freezes or one after the other. This week it is snowing and freezing at the same time so there are layers and layers of compacted snow that is freezing and the gritting is just sitting on top of ice. I abandoned the car today and took the luas. It looked horrible in Dublin. We need a serious thaw to clear this off.
 
Gearoid said:
It's effecting my drinking. That's the real tragedy.
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Your approaching it all wrong. Im drinking more. I drank all day saturday cos the pub had a nice fire in it, and then when i got the text to say the school was closed Monday i went on the drink again. We dont have enough snow is my problem, we were called back into work today even though it hasnt cleared up...apparently if it doesnt snow tonight we have to go in tomorrow too. It hasnt snowed yet. FML.
 
Been snowing steadily with a very sharp wind, too, in Brighton. I'd been horribly smug earlier when a friend down the coast a bit, in Worthing, had said she hadn't even got the car out to see her dogs run at Hove, it was so horrible. I doubt I'm going to make the run in to Lingfield tomorrow if it goes ahead, but I doubt it will because there'll be just too much work involved in clearing all the site for the public (all of five punters, at a wild guess), let alone the track.
 
Be glad you're just snowed and can't get to work - those of us with stock don't get a choice and the current deep joy twice a day is thawing out all the troughs and lugging extra yellow buckets around the gaff.

Keep telling myself 'Think about the really nice summer show season next year - it will all be worth it' but currently not cutting it as we'll probably go down with bTB or some other dread disease before then anyhow...:mad: Utterly shite year on the losing cattle front from different and unexpected problems, so this weather makes it all just so much more dreary!

Ah, rant over - that's better :lol:

Hope you are all warm and safe out there!
 
When it's like this, all I really care about is how the wild birds and animals are doing. I imagine dormice scuttle about beneath the snow cover somehow, but as for how birds manage - winter berries if they can prise them off the branches, I guess.
 
:lol::lol::lol: Remember to put out a bowl of fresh water for her tonight, Bar. Nothing less attractive than a dehydrated woman - they wrinkle quickly, and you won't want that. While she's out there, she could be doing useful stuff like clearing paths, pruning and dead-heading - far better she gets a bit of exercise than sitting indoors, for sure.
 
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