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[Gaffers]

It is rather pathetic how this country reacts to a little bit of snow.  With a little preparation you can overcome many of the difficulties you will encounter.  I studied in Sheffield and I hate travelling by bus, I cycled everywhere regardless of the weather.  Yes I had a few scrapes but you just get up, dust yourself off and carry on.  I do remember unclipping my bike once to help push a bus up a hill on Eccleshall road 

[albitz]

As for schools closing down when theres a inch or two of snow - words fail me.What happened to snowball fights in the playground ?
We used to go early when it was snowing so we could pelt each other with snowballs before morning assembly.

[omegod]

As for schools closing down when theres a inch or two of snow - words fail me.What happened to snowball fights in the playground ?We used to go early when it was snowing so we could pelt each other with snowballs before morning assembly.

Banned under health and safety......no really, they are!!!! 

[STMO123]

As for schools closing down when theres a inch or two of snow - words fail me.What happened to snowball fights in the playground ?
We used to go early when it was snowing so we could pelt each other with snowballs before morning assembly.

Did a few hit you on the head, Albs?

[bigegg]

It's two inches deep here and coming down in a torrent.

I'm self-employed and if there's still snow tomorrow, I'm giving myself the day off, and I'm going out cycling - might do 50-100 miles
For fun

[STMO123]

It's two inches deep here and coming down in a torrent.

I'm self-employed and if there's still snow tomorrow, I'm giving myself the day off, and I'm going out cycling - might do 50-100 miles
For fun

Cycling? Tour de France in the summer mate. So Christa and Harry have just been saying.....for a full half hour.

[bigegg]

I fall off a lot.
Better in the snow, it hurts less.

[STMO123]

I fall off a lot.
Better in the snow, it hurts less.

Bigegg..falls down...I've heard a story about that somewhere.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I fall off a lot.
Better in the snow, it hurts less.

Bigegg..falls down...I've heard a story about that somewhere.

".......and they couldn't put him back together again"

[albitz]

As for schools closing down when theres a inch or two of snow - words fail me.What happened to snowball fights in the playground ?
We used to go early when it was snowing so we could pelt each other with snowballs before morning assembly.

Did a few hit you on the head, Albs?

Yes.Why do you ask ? 

[cem_devecioglu]

meteorology report: tonight STMO storms from the west , keep your heads down

[albitz]

1962- now that was a proper winter.I was only 4 years old ,but I can still just about remember it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/17/uk-weather-winter-1963_n_2495334.html#slide=1994997

[bigegg]

I fall off a lot.
Better in the snow, it hurts less.

Bigegg..falls down...I've heard a story about that somewhere.

".......and they couldn't put him back together again"

I have the scars to prove otherwise...

[Varche]

It's getting right on my tit's all this nonsense. Not 15 yrs ago I walked miles through thigh deep snow to get to the train station, got a train to town, crossed town through deep snow,got anther train then waded through it again to the Hopsital I worked in. Trains worked, I worked ...end of.

Emails from work today, it's going to snow.....weather warning.....don't travel unless nescessary..We run a drug treatment service, if the homeless,vulnerable and desperate of society can make it to our sites then the least I can do is get my arse out of my comfy warm bed and deal with them as they expect.

Country has turned into a pile of shitty wussie lilly livered pansies who can't be arsed putting the effort in.

P.s  anyone fancy doing a snow chain guide tonight by torchlight as I haven't a clue and can't be arsed in the morning

I never missed a day at school due to bad weather. No bus, no problem WALK. Did the three miles in deep drifts (one year the snow was so deep it was over peoples six foot high hedges) to the main road then wait for a pay bus. I remember once getting to school at 10.12 a.m. Got such a bo11ocking and the cane for "being late".

I think it was 1974. We had really, really bad snow, My brother was home on leave from the army (in Germany) and set off in his Capri. He abandoned it stuck in a drift 20 miles away. It was over a week before the road was re opened. and I could recover it. He got jankers (posh word for days scrubbing dustbins till the bosses boots could be seen in it) for arriving back 50 minutes late. Two days later my Mother had to abandon her Mini in snow despite having knobbly tyres and being a very capable driver. The next day, my Dad had an accident on a tractor when a towing chain came loose and knocked him off when it hit his his nose. The doctor walked FOUR miles across the fields and reset his face/nose in our kitchen.

It makes me laugh when I see a Sky News presenter at Watford (the North) saying how bad it is with half a cm on the ground.

[Vamps]

I bought a set of Lidl's snow chains this afternoon. 

I took them out to look at them and read the instructions and now I can't get them back in the case.... 

God knows what they'll be like to fit, so I'll be quite happy if I never use them and I've wasted my £19.99!! 

I did similar 2 years ago, took one look and thought how the heck do you put then on in the snow...........