suzeanna Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 Well..its snowed most of the night, my garden is nearly waist deep! Buses aren't running, so the road is bad, and OH has stayed home! Dylan can just about negotiate it, Rosie vanished altogether My daughter is snowed in at the top of her hill in West Handley, how about you Owl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cycas Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 Even the frost has gone .... it's a mild sunny morning in Cornwall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merledogs Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 After a light smattering yesterday and a bit more overnight, I am very pleased to report that we now have proper heavy blizzardy type snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 Well..its snowed most of the night, my garden is nearly waist deep! Buses aren't running, so the road is bad, and OH has stayed home! Dylan can just about negotiate it, Rosie vanished altogether My daughter is snowed in at the top of her hill in West Handley, how about you Owl? Likewise! Yesterday afternoon I cleared a foot of snow from round the door, then 2 ft early evening and another 2 ft at bedtime. Opened the door this morning, Polly shot out and had to be pulled from a 3 ft drift. If I hadn't kept clearing it yesterday we would have had to climb out of the window. Shovelled a space for her to go for a pee, then took Wispa out further down the path in 3 ft of the stuff, came in to do breakfasts and found the door wouldn't shut. It had got damp and swelled. Door now held shut with a bag of compost, very draughty hall. Breakfasts all round, lit fire, dug out coal bunker, filled bucket and a dustbin with a few days coal. Took Wispa out for a road walk, usually out of the question due to car-lunging. No cars to be lunged at, nothing getting through, so we plodded up the road which was about a foot deep but drifting to 5 ft each side. Snow is up to top of field walls and hedges, and Wispa was not pleased that I would not let her off long line to scamper at will over all the gate tops. Going to have another walk later. Where we go will depend on where we can get. Unlike Wispa, I don't think neck-deep snow is fun to jump about in. There is a large snow-covered lump in the drive which I assume is the owlmobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trudi Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 The snow is about half way up my thighs in places now (I am 5' 11: tall for reference) I have dug a path for Benji up the garden and he shot up it and dived in the deep snow the loon - then whimpered and whined till I also dived in and got him out again Have dug an area big enough for hubby to get on the drive when he gets home later but it is still snowing lots so may have to shovel again Didn't dig a path to the front door though so he'll be getting soggy knees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 (edited) Hope your hubby gets home without too much trouble, Trudi. We have been for our usual walk in the wood. We did the short version which normally takes three quarters of an hour. It took 2 hours because faced with 2 to 3 feet of snow I don't travel very fast, unlike Wispa who was leaping through it dolphin style. The field before the wood was deep, but once under the trees it was better, only about a foot on most of the paths. We came back through another field which was easier as someone else had tramped through their earlier and left a bit of a path. It was all very beautiful to look at, now can it go away please! I need to dig out round the exhaust and the driver door of the owlmobile and run the engine for a bit. Some 4x4s have been up our road but I don't think anything else would do very well. Edited December 1, 2010 by owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merledogs Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 It's proper snowing again here I am going to leave shortly, cos I wouldn't want to get snowed in at work, would I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 Heavy snow forecast here for tonight and all day tomorrow. Possible thaw around Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulesB Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 More snow here in the North East today. It's absolutely perishing too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gooster Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 More snow here today, mum turned up at the train station in her landrover to give me a lift down the big steep hill to my house!!! I love my mum!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cycas Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 There is finally a tiny tiny carpet of snow in South East Cornwall! It's just deep enough for the cats footprints to show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zico's mum Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 Ditto here in Somerset but it is already icy and forecast is for -10 tonight so guess I'll be working to walk tomorrow if it turns to sheet ice Trixie's first experience of sno since she arrived and not even sure she noticed it except the scents she follows every morning must have been much sharper as she raced around nose to the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasta Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 Its snowed overnight here in East Kent and we're catching up with other parts. My son was meant to be going to London for 2 days tomorrow on a school trip, its his 18th birthday on Saturday and as he would have been away I have nothing for him planned, but stuff for me to do.... poor lad. I might have to bake a cake... god help us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 Tiny thaw this morning, then fine snow about an hour ago and it's now pelting down in huge flakes, pretty well a whiteout. I should really give the car engine a few minutes running every day but whole car is now under 4 ft so it's not going to happen. We aren't going further than wherever I can get Wispa to do the necessary. She doesn't use the yard, so am off now to dig her a loo area near bushes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greys mum Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 Started snowing about 04.30 in Ipswich and it is still snowing. Got the day off today, but not looking forward to working tomorrow. I don't have any choice but to drive doing my job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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