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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: LittleKidder on March 23, 2013, 08:55:36 AM
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Hi
Make sure ONLY go out IF you REALLY need ro go out
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Jordan
Little Kidder
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Jordan O0
Little kidder
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Update: Stagecoach bus is trying to run a service. Main routes only and not running on a time table. I would call travel line and ask on 0871 200 22 33. Royal Hospital staff due to go in you bus is running but that is the only offical one I can tell you.
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Thanks for the updates and numbers Jordan ;)
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Don't go out unless you really need to...? Get out there and clear the footpath (if you have one) outside your house!
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Hubby did ours and along the front as well as next door neighbours and daughters.
My brother went to some bungalows in our village yesterday and cleared paths for them - bless him, he has a dicky hip as well.
Not so long ago we were being warned of the 'global warming'
Think we are moving into another 'ice age'
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Be interested to hear eveyone else's take on this
From the OP
"Make sure ONLY go out IF you REALLY need to go out"
So yesterday morning I didn't really need to go out. But if I hadn't turned in to work I wouldn't have got paid. And those people who had managed to get to Sainsburys would have found the shelves half empty.
My OH works for the 111 call service. She didnt REALLY need to travel either yesterday or today. If she hadn't there would have been fewer people to answer the calls of course.
Where do you draw the line of 'Do you really NEED to travel'?
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I would imagine it meant if you hadn't got to go to work or gp/hospital appointment etc.
Someone like myself wouldn't normally 'need' to go out - only I did 'need' to because my daughters care agency couldn't get to her and as I live on the same street I have walked down the last two days.
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If myself and my colleagues didn't turn up for work no roads would be passable
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All you need to do is be prepared and be sensible.
We went to the Plough at Hathersage for lunch today. All the roads were passable with care though there was drifting snow beyond Owler Bar but three snow ploughs were dealing with that.
It's ridiculous the way people in this country panic at the first snowflake and use a few inches of snow as a reason not to go to work. The media don't help by telling every one to stay in doors, the message should be 'get to work if you possibly can' not 'don't go out unless it's necessary' - going to work is necessary!
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We didn't work Friday what with the schools closing and all our contracts off, plus we didn't fancy sitting in town in snow all day.
Apparently our mate was in town from 9am. He went home after his 3rd pickup at 3pm :o
We'll be up at 6am tomorrow ready to face another day ;)
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Schools now close if there's a chance it MIGHT snow
Back in t'sixties there were a few snowy winters and the schools never shut. in the days of the Eleven Plus we had kids from all over the place, they didn't go to the nearest school. In extreme weather they occasionally let us go about 2 o'clock
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There's an over the top 'risk averse' attitude in the public sector, brought on by this insidious compensation culture in which people refuse to take responsibility for their own actions and look for blame everywhere else. I heard a headmaster say on TV he was closing his school in case one of the children slipped on their way across the playground! Children have to learn that they might fall if they run on snow and ice - how are they supposed to learn if they're not allowed to experience the risks?
Thankfully I heard on the news a few minutes ago of plans to curb 'no win, no fee' claims - not before time!
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My junior school's plaground was on a slope - there were always at least 3 lanes of 'slides' during icy weather. If we fell - so what! It was fun!
It's time they put a kerb on the no win no fee malarkey it just encourages people to make claims.
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It's time they put a kerb on the no win no fee malarkey it just encourages people to make claims.
OC - that's precisely what I heard on the TV news this morning was going to happen!
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Brilliant! :)) :)) :))
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Your right about the summer!!!!!! HAHA :! :! :! :! :)
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nice one. Nice and true
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OC - that's precisely what I heard on the TV news this morning was going to happen!
There needs to be an offence of walking without due care and attention. If a highway inspector is expected to spot a defect then why can't a pedestrian (visually impaired excepted) ?
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A pedestrian doesn't get paid thousands of pounds a year to do a job.
Are you saying you want the likes of me to report road defects
If a highway inspector is expected to spot a defect then why can't a pedestrian
A taxi driver ?
I also find this comment a little, lets say, not nice from a local councillor.
There needs to be an offence of walking without due care and attention.
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Report a road defect? Wharf Lane - the new DCC jet patcher would be busy for a week there!
Who do I report defects to, I'll just send them a single word, 'Chesterfield'.
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There needs to be an offence of walking without due care and attention. If a highway inspector is expected to spot a defect then why can't a pedestrian (visually impaired excepted) ?
Guilty as charged me lord I have been known to walk into the odd lamp post - I blame the council for letting em stick em up in my way :P
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On a more serious note it is being reported of the sheep who have vanished into 20ft snow drifts and farmers desperately trying to find them - probablt too late in many instances. it's also lambing time which has to bring with it added concerns. Many farmers will suffer big financial losses - and here we are moaning about a bit more snow - we don't know half of it do we?
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I'm not moaning, I love snow! On the way back from lunch on Sunday afternoon:
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I'm not moaning, I love snow! On the way back from lunch on Sunday afternoon:
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You have a point
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Apparently we may get a climate change and thais may happen all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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anyone else noticed the subtle way the 'experts' have stopped calling it 'Global Warming' (because we sure as hell aren't getting any warmer) and started calling it 'Climate Change'.
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Some lanes were too deep for tractor ploughs, only JCBs could cope. I'll post some pics when I get them
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A pedestrian doesn't get paid thousands of pounds a year to do a job.
Are you saying you want the likes of me to report road defectsA taxi driver ?
I also find this comment a little, lets say, not nice from a local councillor.
Not saying that, just that people should look where they are going or put it down to misadventure if they trip up. I've walked into bollards a couple of times whilst walking the dogs and reading something on the phone. I'm sure I'm not the only one doing something similar.
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Ignore me Andy, when I first read it, I sort of thought you were having a dig at stupid Joe Blogg ;)
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Winnat's Pass near Castleton (not one of my photos, will post those when the JCB driver calls in)
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What did they use to dig a route through ?
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When you look at that photo we have been lucky in Chesterfield, I reckon the drivers are brave for attempting that lot!
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Still an incredible amount of snow on the side of Oxcroft Lane less than half a mile from civilization (well Barry's place anyway)
Photos later
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I have been waiting a long time to put the grass in my new garden, I hope this will be done in the next two weeks.
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Are you putting down new turf or grass seeding it?
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New turf pete
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Best way Alphonso - you'll be sunbathing on it a couple of weeks after it goes down. 8)