Topic: woke up this morning feeling fine

[MrsKP]

and then looked out the window and what did i see ??


 :o :o :o

[tim]

Yes - just heard on the radio - Glasgow 4".

Well - get shovelling & get something sown??

[MrsKP]

just been out to get the papers and shovel the worst off the bulbs. 

it's really thick and fluffy, just how snow should be.

 ;D

[mat]

I haven't seen snow like that (down here anyway!) since 1991... (that was the year the Thames froze over...) "light snow" forecast for here today, but no sign of it yet..

mat

[MrsKP]

this is the first time i've seen it like this since i moved up a couple of years ago and usualy never settles this much.  i've been keeping an eye on the weather as well, and they never warned me about this  :o

can't wait to drag the oh out of his pit and make a snowman  ;D

it'll be hellish trying to get to work tomorrow, but it will probably have disappeared by then anyway  ::)

[tim]

The grandchildren were going down to the beach today!!

Don't recall '91 - but do recall '46/'47 when we were supply dropping to sheep from Turnhouse.

[MrsKP]

on a slightly serious note, what am i supposed to be doing to rescue the bulbs ?  anything ?  or let nature take it's course ?  there's a fair bit flattened.   :-[

[tim]

They'll be nice & cosy under the snow. Better than the frost.

[Gardenantics]

Well I'd just sit in the window and sing the blues, you've got the first line..........

Woke up this morning  and I was feeling fine

Looked out the window and the snow lay all around

My snow drops they don't mind it but my daff's are on the ground.

Wo I got da Blue's............Those snowy garden Blue's Ya.. I got da Blue's.....

Over to you MrsKP

Brian

[MrsKP]

When it snows, ain't it thrilling,
Though your nose gets a chilling
We'll frolic and play, the Eskimo way,
Walking in a winter wonderland.

 ;D

[Gardenantics]

That's the Shopping Mall Blues!!

You got the real thing!

Brian

[mat]

The grandchildren were going down to the beach today!!

Don't recall '91 - but do recall '46/'47 when we were supply dropping to sheep from Turnhouse.

'91 was supposed to be the coldest since 46/47, I remember it well as I was living next to the Thames and the main stream completely froze over... Our tributary often froze over, but not the main river.  Locals said it hadn't happened since XXXX (I think being 46/47)  My working sheepdog was very upset as he couldn't understand why i wouldn't let him into the "water" as he always played in it... I had two weeks of watching him like a hawk and he didn't have the freedom of the land whilst I was at work (which I had to walk to)  I do have a photo somewhere...

I also remember 87 when we had snow drifts of 3-4ft at college in Berkshire... They were the days  ;D

mat

[powerspade]

1947 was very bad here 1963 was even worse we were cut off for 3 weeks and only after the army dug us out could we get to town

[MrsKP]

1947 was very bad here 1963 was even worse we were cut off for 3 weeks and only after the army dug us out could we get to town

i (just about remember) '63.  we kids were on holiday down at nan's in sussex and it was up to our necks.

that's when we knew what season's were all about.

[SMP1704]

No snow here :'(  I remember '91.  We were living at Blackheath and working at Heathrow (don't ask about that commute!)  We have some brilliant photos of the heath under snow.  One night, we couldn't get home, so the company put us up in a hotel on the A4.  The following morning went out to the car park and no-one could find their cars - just bumps in the snow ;D took ages to dig out.......

[Bucky]

Horrible in Bradford, we have had about 2" in an hour and half.  Oscar the dog loves it though.

[tim]

Sister-in-law rang to say she was going to London tomorrow. Until she woke up to 8" in Cumbria!

[grawrc]

Drifting in Edinburgh - so over a foot in some places. Peter had to dig the car out to go  for more logs.

[Vez1]

that's how it looks here in Dundee and it's still coming down. Well the plans to go and play in the new greenhouse are on hold. ;D

[Wicker]

Blizzarding here in Edinburgh which is pretty unusual really - the cat won't put her nose past the door so neither will I!

Living in Caithness for all of my younger life I'm inclined to measure weather by conditions there and nothing ever seems so bad (or good!) and 1955 was the worst I remember and meant having schoolfriends boarded with us for a couple of weeks at a time - and of course Operation Snowdrop

The year 1955 got off to a poor start in the county of Caithness. First an almighty blizzard - the worst in living memory - swept down and virtually immobilised the whole area from January until the end of the month, laying some inland spots under 30 feet of snow and triggering the 16-day aerial relief operation known as Operation Snowdrop. Then, just as things seemed to be getting halfway back to normal, on the afternoon of February 16, the snow was on again. The whole county sighed and shrugged its collective shoulders; what could a body do about the weather, indeed?

That last part just sums it all up - nothing seems to change!

Tim this bit may interest you but it's helicopters
http://www.heritage.scotsman.com/videos.cfm?vid=259