The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:04 pm**

I did see a bit of the white stuff myself yesterday.

Andover back to gods country 9.5 hours, 1 mile in four hours through Brum after they shut the M5, didnt see a plough or gritter on the A road diversion.

Did we not have an empire that stretched across the bloody world at one time. it didn`t snow after mid afternoon in the midlands and it was gridlock up to 2pm this morning.

Happy days

Posted: **Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:22 pm**

Posted: **Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:23 pm**

light snow forcast today ............. light snow my arse

and this is the main road

seen the blokes i know from the council going about with grit on a transit tipper and with the tractor a bloody big trailer and one shovel

dunno where there going though :-/

Posted: **Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:42 pm**

2 ft in the valleys today took this passing in a van about 40 mph i was'nt driving

Posted: **Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:44 pm**

Micheal that's just a dusting I've got about 14" of the stuff just now and more's on the way. Went skiing in the moonlight tonight down the field and used my nephew on a quad to haul me back up was mighty craic.

Posted: **Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:45 pm**

helped a council worker get his automatic merc sprinter out of the road earlyer at me mums he pulled in for someone an span round :0 ended up reverseing down the road an its not exactly short :p

yep it may be a dusting but under it is the ice from the day before i aint risking the van in it i know other people have it worse though ........

Posted: **Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:48 pm**

bobbi o wrote:

dear santa.......

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:53 am**

Pablo wrote:Went skiing in the moonlight tonight down the field and used my nephew on a quad to haul me back up was mighty craic.

Managed 3 turns in the back field - walked back up just the once more. Wish just a little steeper -
We demand photo evidence from Pab for midnight naked skiing..?

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:38 am**

M5 motorway yesterday morning in Somerset

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:39 am**

And look what I spotted!

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:47 am**

Went out for a ride on my MTB, there's nothing like riding a virgin first thing in the morning.....sorry that should have read "There's nothing like riding through virgin snow first thing..........."

A38 twixt Wellington & Taunton was impassable

It was bloody cold the night before

Mustn't forget our feathered friends.....

Went to check on the olds, made sure they had the heat on etc - as you can see, all was well.

After all the fun out in t'snow, my boy was rather tired!!

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:41 am**

I don't know, you get a few inches of snow down south and the world grinds to a halt

We've had this weather for over 5 weeks now

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:20 am**

Gotta love clueless drivers - they buy a car and fail to put the snow chains/socks on the driven wheels LOL

and another

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:29 am**

in extremes you can put the chains on the steering axles but obviously you need them on the drive axles as well

it didnt get about -9 all day yesterday, nothing wanted to start blow torches and easy start and a 24v boost from the js130's for all the 12v stuff

dozer and older js130 welded to the ground wont move tracks frozen solid with mud etc,

dad got called out on sunday morning in the 3cx to clear the snow rd sale sharks rugby ground so they could play.

our stock piles of soil are frozen solid have to use toothed bucket and comes up like concrete in big lumps.

still white out here in south yorks/derbyshire has been for 5 or 6 weeks

thursday last week, started off an ok day, then nasty big cloud

then wet horrible snow

driving to work 1400ft looking down the hope valley towards manchester the old old blue circle now lafarge cement plant just in view.

Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1292935349

Posted: **Tue Dec 21, 2010 2:27 pm**

our yard this morning

c.b.a. supposed to be jet washing two driveways cant see the point

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