The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

[Duck59]

We've just seen a train! With passengers on it!

The only one today, admittedly, but it's something.

 

[Lullabelle]

We have very little snow but it is supposed to come over heavy over night so we went shopping earlier so we will be fine if we get snowed in

 

[Yorky]

Well, yesterday signalled the end of our winter. I actually fired up the aircon for 1 hour last evening. It's currently 36 degC at 14:45 but not expected to go any higher.

 

[Lullabelle]

I am going to make a snowman

 

[Lullabelle]

My abstract work of art, it challenges perceptions of the visual world in which we inhabit.

 

[Yorky]

My abstract work of art, it challenges perceptions of the visual world in which we inhabit.

It looks like Spine Millington!

 

[sidevalve]

we do have a fine crop of icicles

 

[Duck59]

We've just ventured out for the first time in three days. Snow all over the place. The Co-op has almost nothing; no vegetables, no milk, no bread, no eggs. Even the UHT milk is all gone. The scene resembles what you'd imagine from a remote Eastern Bloc town in about 1977. Barely anything on the shelves and a trudge through several feet of snow to face on the way home.

 

[Lullabelle]

We've just ventured out for the first time in three days. Snow all over the place. The Co-op has almost nothing; no vegetables, no milk, no bread, no eggs. Even the UHT milk is all gone. The scene resembles what you'd imagine from a remote Eastern Bloc town in about 1977. Barely anything on the shelves and a trudge through several feet of snow to face on the way home.

The MET office gave plenty of warning so you would have thought that shops/stores would have made provisions for the bad weather.

 

[Kake Lover]

Some people have probably bought more than their share of the available fresh produce. It makes me realise how much we rely on the lorries to keep our shops stocked.

 

[Morning Glory]

Next week we will all go back to normal temperature wise. It was crazy seeing all those people stranded on motorways overnight - one does wonder why they chose to drive when the news bulletins said 'don't'.

 

[sidevalve]

We cheated tonight and bought a take away curry But with a couple of beers it was very nice and made peering out at the snow just a bit less depressing

 

[Morning Glory]

We cheated tonight and bought a take away curry But with a couple of beers it was very nice and made peering out at the snow just a bit less depressing

Did you trek through the snow to collect it or was it delivered?

 

[sidevalve]

All deliveries are off - haven't seen the postman for three days !! We managed to get out and collect - once out of the street it really wasn't that bad - first day out [other than dog walks to the woods] since shopping last tuesday

 

[Morning Glory]

All deliveries are off - haven't seen the postman for three days !! We managed to get out and collect - once out of the street it really wasn't that bad - first day out [other than dog walks to the woods] since shopping last tuesday

Well you weren't really cheating then! You braved the snow and helped out a local business. I haven't dared go out as I'm too frightened of slipping and falling (osteoporosis - so bad news if I fall).