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Title: Snow on the way
Post by: Old Cruser on February 03, 2012, 06:52:50 PM
I have looked on the BBC weather site for chessy and yes heavy snow is forcast from 6pm saturday night turning to sleet in the early hours on Sunday morning.
Take care out there folks if we do get it!
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Fly on February 03, 2012, 07:03:54 PM
Luckily for me, I don't work weekends or nights.
So just the shopping tomorrow to do.

As OC says, just take it steady if your out and about  :)
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Gerty Gumdrop on February 03, 2012, 10:03:20 PM
I HATE SNOW!!!! 
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Slacker on February 03, 2012, 10:14:37 PM
Always seems to start on Sundays
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Fly on February 04, 2012, 09:13:32 AM
There's been snow on the ground for the last 3 years on my birthday.

Guess when my birthday is  .  .  .  .  .   SUNDAY !!   >:(
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Old Cruser on February 04, 2012, 10:26:25 AM
Have a snow party Fly --- and  happy birthday for Sunday -- any celebrations planned?
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Fly on February 04, 2012, 01:48:35 PM
Nowt planned. Got a copy of Mrs Browns Boys series 1 to watch though. :-)
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Old Cruser on February 04, 2012, 02:20:55 PM
Have a good day relaxing then  ;D
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Alsatian on February 04, 2012, 05:19:15 PM
Have a good 'un Fly  :)
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Scimitar on February 04, 2012, 09:50:06 PM
Nowt planned. Got a copy of Mrs Browns Boys series 1 to watch though. :-)
Just be careful not to strain your chuckle muscles!
Happy Birthday!!
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Pete on February 05, 2012, 12:26:38 PM
Happy Birthday Fly!

Have nice day :)
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Kent on February 05, 2012, 01:48:26 PM
There's been snow on the ground for the last 3 years on my birthday.

Guess when my birthday is  .  .  .  .  .   SUNDAY !!   >:(

Happy Birthday Fly
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Fly on February 05, 2012, 07:58:40 PM
Cheers for the birthday messages guys and galls :-)
Appreciated x
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Gerty Gumdrop on February 06, 2012, 03:12:59 PM
Nowt planned. Got a copy of Mrs Browns Boys series 1 to watch though. :-)

Mrs Brown's Boys - my favourite!  Also had Series 1 for Christmas  ;D
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: simondjuk on February 07, 2012, 03:51:25 PM
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/as-weather-fronts-clash--temperatures-plummet-to--13c-in-%E2%80%9Cbattleground-britain%E2%80%9D.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/as-weather-fronts-clash--temperatures-plummet-to--13c-in-%E2%80%9Cbattleground-britain%E2%80%9D.html)

Here we go again.  What a crock of shit.  Its Winter.  Weather like this is expected.  Get over it and get on with it.

And Britain as per usual would complain if we didnt have any cold weather.
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Old Cruser on February 07, 2012, 04:42:42 PM
It's certainly very cold out there today, as you say it's winter we expect to have some cold weather/snow. The media like to sensationalise things!
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Fly on February 07, 2012, 04:45:39 PM
It turned very cold about 12.30pm this afternoon.
Twas just a bit of a breeze. Brrrrrrr
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: simondjuk on February 07, 2012, 06:41:46 PM
Just seen the forecast for tonight! -15 expected
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Fly on February 07, 2012, 06:58:30 PM
Just seen the forecast for tonight! -15 expected

BBC and ITV say -8 for S44 Brrrr
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Pete on February 07, 2012, 07:31:29 PM
Met office says minus one...

Looks to me like "pick a number out of a hat"  ::)

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/em/chesterfield_forecast_weather.html (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/em/chesterfield_forecast_weather.html)
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Fly on February 07, 2012, 08:20:39 PM
One thing is for sure. The windscreen will be frozen in the morning  :(
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Pete on February 07, 2012, 08:31:12 PM
Sod the windscreens, they can be cleared. I'm more worried about my icle bunny wabbit.  :(
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Fly on February 07, 2012, 08:43:10 PM
Bring the hutch into the house you daft sod.
Ickly bunny will be Iceland baby frozen meat in the morning !!
If Simon's -15 is right, I'd feel guilty leaving the gnomes out !!
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Pete on February 07, 2012, 08:49:51 PM
The hutch is a lot bigger than the door...
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Fly on February 07, 2012, 08:53:29 PM
Pet carrier box and package tape it up.
Wabbit will wove wou  :-*
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: therealjr on February 07, 2012, 09:06:09 PM
which reminds me

A little 5 year old girl goes into a pet shop. She asks the man at the counter "can i have a wabbit please?". His heart warmed, he drops down to her height and asks"what kind of wabbit would you like? A brown wabbit like the one over there or a white wabbit like the one in the window?".
The little girl replies " i don't think my pet snake really gives a f*** what colour the wabbit is."

Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: simondjuk on February 08, 2012, 08:17:58 AM
If you havent seen the forecast, its not looking particularly great.

Over Thursday night and Friday morning, they are forcasting up to 20cm (about 8in) of snowfall over Yorkshire, Lincs and East Mids.  We seem to be on the edge but i know that snow is very difficult to get right.

They got it right last week when it snowed on Saturday and that was predicted almost a week in advance, so if it continues, get ready for some significant white stuff.
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Old Cruser on February 08, 2012, 09:38:39 AM
Sod the windscreens, they can be cleared. I'm more worried about my icle bunny wabbit.  :(

We used to put ours in the shed during the winter, went in one tea time with a torch to feed them and had three sets of eyes looking at me  :o  :o
Plenty of bedding and carpets over is maybe all you can do then to help keep warm icle bunny.
few weeks ago my daughter decided to have a icle house bunny --- not a good idea! But that's another story!!  ;D
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Gerty Gumdrop on February 08, 2012, 10:28:36 AM
Pet carrier box and package tape it up.
Wabbit will wove wou  :-*

That's a very sensible suggestion, and one I think you should take up.  I would - if I had an ickle wabbit  :D
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Pete on February 08, 2012, 10:38:20 AM
He lives! Flapjack survives his night of icyness!

(http://www.ichesterfield.co.uk/images/wabbit.jpg)

Actually his hutch is a bit of a thermal Fort Knox - my missus has been insulating it for weeks now - carpet tiles, clear plastic over the wire mesh and huge multi thickness tarpulin, etc.

Just to be on the safe side I am getting a small hutch today that we can have in the house.
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: simondjuk on February 08, 2012, 01:24:07 PM
He lives! Flapjack survives his night of icyness!

(http://www.ichesterfield.co.uk/images/wabbit.jpg)

Actually his hutch is a bit of a thermal Fort Knox - my missus has been insulating it for weeks now - carpet tiles, clear plastic over the wire mesh and huge multi thickness tarpulin, etc.

Just to be on the safe side I am getting a small hutch today that we can have in the house.

I must say that although he survived, he doesnt look impressed
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Old Cruser on February 08, 2012, 02:02:47 PM
he's well insulated then - but a good idea to bring him in if it's going to turn mega cold.
lovely rabbit by the way - my daughter had one just like him years ago.
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Alsatian on February 08, 2012, 04:55:20 PM
Sod the windscreens, they can be cleared. I'm more worried about my icle bunny wabbit.  :(

We used to put ours in the shed during the winter, went in one tea time with a torch to feed them and had three sets of eyes looking at me  :o  :o
Plenty of bedding and carpets over is maybe all you can do then to help keep warm icle bunny.
few weeks ago my daughter decided to have a icle house bunny --- not a good idea! But that's another story!!  ;D

I, sorry - my daughter, had a dwarf french lop umpteen years ago, he used to own two properties - a hutch in the shed and a pen on the patio!!
In the morning I would undo his hutch and he would run up the path and go into his pen, at night he would run down the path and into his hutch! He was allowed into the house and was fully house trained - in other words we weren't afraid to eat anything with currants in!!  ;)
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Old Cruser on February 08, 2012, 05:49:55 PM
My daughters chewed the ** wiring on her  reclining sofa. I bought it for her from Eyers --- not cheap! so wasn't the current buns  ::) The grandchildren had the rabbit!
The rabbit's she had when young were allowed out in the garden - with the dog. They were great friends but the dog hated cats so we knew the rabbit was safe with him. As a pup he used to sit in the hutch with the rabbit - and the rabbit began yapping like the dog  ;D
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Pete on February 08, 2012, 06:12:12 PM
>> I must say that although he survived, he doesnt look impressed

You should see him when he's not smiling...

 ;D
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Fly on February 08, 2012, 06:22:23 PM
Thinks of Monty Python . . . . . . .  ;D
Title: Re: Snow on the way
Post by: Gerty Gumdrop on February 09, 2012, 03:42:54 PM
My daughters chewed the ** wiring on her  reclining sofa. I bought it for her from Eyers --- not cheap! so wasn't the current buns  ::) The grandchildren had the rabbit!
The rabbit's she had when young were allowed out in the garden - with the dog. They were great friends but the dog hated cats so we knew the rabbit was safe with him. As a pup he used to sit in the hutch with the rabbit - and the rabbit began yapping like the dog  ;D

LOL!!!!!!!!!