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Old 06-01-2010, 19:31   #411
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I feel better now. Got home and there's about 4" now. Seems very random where it's fallen, a workmate who went down to croydon said there was a few inches, yet when I went to South Norwood, not that far from Croydon, there was only an inch or so

Stopped off at Em's on the way home, and sat with my foot on the brakes at the top of a hill (the handbrake was totally innefective, as soon as I let my foot off the brakes the van started sliding ) while I waited for the 4 or 5 buses to finish snaking their way down. Felt a bit sorry for the drivers and passengers

The roads have been pleasantly empty today. Shame my satnav has thrown its toys out the pram 2 days running so having to remember how to map read!
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Old 06-01-2010, 19:32   #412
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My car is covered in another inch of snow and it's still a blizzard out there Considering not even setting my alarm tomorrow!
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Old 06-01-2010, 19:45   #413
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where my mum lives.
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Old 06-01-2010, 20:10   #414
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Not sure about the road legality, but looks a fine way to travel
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Old 06-01-2010, 21:12   #415
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You could be calling it kinda damp here today.

Back in 1981, it snowed really heavily and deep for the same reasons it currently is, and the only way mum could get around was to have my sister and I sitting on this huge old sled my grandfather had made, with me in my pram seat that she'd strapped to the sled (and me strapped tot he seat) with my sister sitting on the front. I was 1 at the time, my sis was 3. The sled was designed to take up to two adults, and has nice wide tread on it so it's stable as a rock. Ideal for taking little kids sledding with parents.

Turns out my parents still have that old sled, so today mum and my sister took my 9 month old niece out fairly wide tread so it's stable as a rock, strapped to the sled in her detachable high-chair
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Old 06-01-2010, 21:49   #416
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This is the snow in my neck of the woods. Only about 5-6" but it's enough to keep us entertained!

Prepared my exodus for work tomorrow!
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Old 06-01-2010, 22:41   #417
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Yeah there is slush everywhere, yeah the pavements are a couple of inches of compacted snow/ice, yeah the country is running out of grit/salt but I LOVE SNOW

*big kid*
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Old 06-01-2010, 23:36   #418
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Noooo I want moree!!! Here it just looks like a flour delivery truck has exploded
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Old 06-01-2010, 23:46   #419
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it's getting a bit tiresome now. Shop has run out of bread and we STILL can't move the car!
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Old 06-01-2010, 23:48   #420
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Banbury has ground to a halt, we've had about 6-7", the buses aren't running up the hill to our estate, the roads are all compacted ice, even the main ones. And everyone is panic-buying, both the shops near us have sold out of bread and milk...
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