I never f@@@ing knew

[Siggy]

FFS, it's only advice - take it or leave it. unfortunately the people who really need it will ignore it. Remember everything is fine until it is isn't. I remember driving home in the snow down a motorway, a few years ago, happy as Larry in my 4x4 which was great until an articulated lorry jack knifed in front of me - 9 hours later I got home.

 

[Ciganka762]

Yep - it is a bit chilly about -5C yesterday morning when I was ‘in the office’

Out again last evening & the door handles froze shut on the Disco in the two hours I was away from it!!

Now if only we were going to get some decent snow down this end of the country ️

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Great pic - did you bag owt?

 

[Sat Rat]

If it's not warnings over the temperatures, whether it be summer or winter, that gets my goat, it's the warnings you get when watching a tv show or documentary when the adverts end and voice announces, you are about to watch a programme containing violence,smoking or a graphic nature!!

 

[Flash G 74]

On a similar theme, they issued a yellow warning to the elderly (possibly 70 plus) to make sure you keep warm! Those of us who are that age lived through times before central heating and knew very well how to keep warm.
Mind you the warning is not much help if you were relying on your winter fuel payment!

Hello, Sadly i think a lot of elderly pensioners will succumb to the cold weather this winter due to the cost of heating and not getting the WFP

 

[Donkey Basher]

Great pic - did you bag owt?

Not in the morning, no - very frustrating, two groups of fallow came from a wood out of pic to the right, one crossed a field 340 yards away without stopping so no shot offered. The other came down the hedgerow to my right then crossed through into the neighbours field behind & stood there for 10 mins before ambling off

Made up for it last night though with 2 fallow does to bring the total for my Xmas break to 18 - the chiller got emptied in the morning & you can’t have an empty chiller now can you

Sorry to take this off topic, but to bring it back on - when the chiller was being emptied yesterday morning the temp gauge on the outside dropped from 4 degrees to zero as it cooled down inside because the door was open Went in last night to put the two fallow in & it felt as if it was blowing warm air

 

[Donkey Basher]

Great pic - did you bag owt?

Oh, should have added that I was watching a barn owl hunting through the thermal & hopefully have recorded it dropping onto prey & with a kill in its claws flying off - will have to look later & see

 

[Dunwaters]

Yep - it is a bit chilly about -5C yesterday morning when I was ‘in the office’

Out again last evening & the door handles froze shut on the Disco in the two hours I was away from it!!

Now if only we were going to get some decent snow down this end of the country ️

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I don’t know about your deer, but mine are generally not too interested in gagging down a belly full of frost.
You tend to get them out feeding midday - 1600ish in areas where the frost has melted. As the sun sets and the temperature drops they go back into the trees and lie down

 

[bowji john]

When I was about 7 years old my dad did a 12 month locum at the hospital in Toefield Alberta

We came straight from Rhodesia so winter was an eye opener !

One of my dad’s colleagues invited us to go fishing on their family boat on a local lake

The two sons took us as the father was on call so needed to be available at the hospital

I remember being so cold that it was all I could think of

After a couple of hours the sons suggest heading back to the launch spot

Their dad was not expected back to pick us up for another hour so we were greatly relieved to see him already parked up

As we got closer, what we took to be his welcoming shouts turned into a tirade of swearing

This was levelled at one of the sons who still had the car keys in his pocket

The Father has been stuck, locked out the car and only in shirt sleeves

He was lucky to be alive

The son that is

 

[bluesako]

this lot will keep me warm stuff starmer bs

 

[Donkey Basher]

I don’t know about your deer, but mine are generally not too interested in gagging down a belly full of frost.
You tend to get them out feeding midday - 1600ish in areas where the frost has melted. As the sun sets and the temperature drops they go back into the trees and lie down

They don’t feed on that field, it’s a transit route - hence seeing two groups but just not quite in the right place to shoot them!

The wood opposite in the photo has a good understory of bramble so is often a good place to find roe feeding & it’s open enough to shoot into.

 

[Jagare]

-10 with a couple of cm of snow on the ground. Was out throwing a bucket of maize for the boar as we're hunting on Monday. Did a bit of dog training as well. Must say it didn't feel like -10 and I wasn't over dressed. Drove down a narrow rutted forest track in the Duster and back out again with no problem. Just another winters day.

 

[ChesterP]

What used o be reported as "weather" (ie it might be a bit snowy tomorrow) seems increasignly to be a massive scaremongering attempt with yellow amber and red warnings plastered over the country. They seem to be pushing the climate agenda more and more these days instead of just reporting the forecast. Even when they do, they seem to get it wrong far ore than historically. Hopeless.

 

[FrenchieBoy]

Hello, I can remember 1963 and 1982 , Now when we get a Snow flurry the whole county comes to a standstill !!!!!

Like you I remember the winter of 62/62 only too well. We woke up to find snow up to the bedroom window. No central heating with ice "patterns" on the bedroom windows, just a log/coal fire in the sitting room. Had to dig out way out to the coal shed to get kindling and coal to set and light the fire. The only upside of it was that I made a heck of a lot of pocket money clearing people's paths with the old coal shovel!
We knew what snow was back then and we just got on with life, we had to and we simply accepted it - Nowadays if we get 2 or 3 inches of snow the whole country grinds to a halt and everyone is panicking!

 

[Tazz]

Must be a storm, surely it has a name....

Give it time

 

[ChesterP]

Like you I remember the winter of 62/62 only too well. We woke up to find snow up to the bedroom window. No central heating with ice "patterns" on the bedroom windows, just a log/coal fire in the sitting room. Had to dig out way out to the coal shed to get kindling and coal to set and light the fire. The only upside of it was that I made a heck of a lot of pocket money clearing people's paths with the old coal shovel!
We knew what snow was back then and we just got on with life, we had to and we simply accepted it - Nowadays if we get 2 or 3 inches of snow the whole country grinds to a halt and everyone is panicking!

Same happened where I lived in the winter of 81/82. Woke to find 3 feet of snow on the ground, roads cut off and remember trudging the half mile through the snow in wellies to get to the school bus stop. Nothing was running as the roads were too deep in snow and the diesel had frozen in the buses fuel tanks. When the skies eventually cleared we recorded a low night time temp of -18 degrees and the packed snow turned to hard ice making our local lane impassable for over a week. We had an open fire and no central heating so the insides of all the upstairs windows (no double glazing in our old cottage) were a frozen collage. We managed. Us kids pulled a sled behind us into town over a mile and a half's walk through the snow, and managed to get to what shops were open, pulling the groceries back.

Fast forward to my time in Aberdeen in '94-96. I was looking after a small holding for a mate whilst he was away for a week when snow built up to over 5ft drifts across the local lanes near Ellon. We were snowed in for the best part of a fortnight, but I remember after that tentatively driving up to 30 miles a day to work through snow covered roads. People who regularly had to drive in snow got used to it and whilst some did get stuck, we seemed to manage ok. These days, it's infuriating to be on local roads after a few inches of snow, seeing so many panicking, abandoning cars willy nilly and being utterly hopeless liabilities on the roads which for the most part are passable with care. people just aren't used to it in this county any more and have no winter driving skills, or are using well worn summer tyres on snow and driving like idiots.

 

[Bugsy]

As uncle Albert quoted on Only Fools / Horses “ it was that cold that the flame on my lighter froze “

 

[enfieldspares]

It's the warnings you get when watching a tv show or documentary when the adverts end and voice announces, you are about to watch a programme containing violence,smoking or a graphic nature!!

And then sit through it for the next fifty minutes only to be sadly disappointed that there was none.

 

[finnbear270]

We did have a balmy minus 11 a few weeks back, the cheapo Halfords jump leads snapped like a carrot.

 

[Smellydog]

I think I've only ever seen and heard one car in the UK with studded tyres!

 

[alberta boy]

When I was about 7 years old my dad did a 12 month locum at the hospital in Toefield Alberta

We came straight from Rhodesia so winter was an eye opener !

One of my dad’s colleagues invited us to go fishing on their family boat on a local lake

The two sons took us as the father was on call so needed to be available at the hospital

I remember being so cold that it was all I could think of

After a couple of hours the sons suggest heading back to the launch spot

Their dad was not expected back to pick us up for another hour so we were greatly relieved to see him already parked up

As we got closer, what we took to be his welcoming shouts turned into a tirade of swearing

This was levelled at one of the sons who still had the car keys in his pocket

The Father has been stuck, locked out the car and only in shirt sleeves

He was lucky to be alive

The son that is

I'll be going through Tofield today to visit a buddy of mine ........................................it's still cold .

AB