Pollyana

Alfresco

Ahem! tsk tsk tsk...

2cm snow as of this post...
Kids are hoping no school tomorrow.

bcworld

2cm!? That's a groundfrost!! Although you may have lots more on the way...

I was up in Aberdeen visiting friends yesterday - they have stacks of snow (in the pics), and it's been there for 2 weeks - everyone has a mini mount everest at the end of their driveway from clearing the snow.

I'm in Dundee....we don't have much, maybe 3 or 4 cm. Getting a bit worried about Thursday though - due to fly out of Edinburgh but snow forecast to pile into the East coast - might end up staying a bit longer!

Nu-Shooz

We've had loads of snow too. More on the way.
Are you looking forward to going back to OZ now after all this snow?

bcworld

Well my first day back in Melbourne has a forecast of 38C!

I've never known such consistent cold as these 2 weeks....but I have to say it hasn't been unpleasant....sunny days and it's been very still so really as long as you have a couple of layers, not bad at all. Of course the house has such mod cons as central heating, insultation & double glazing so there's no need to continue freezing your bits off indoors oz style!

paulry

By the looks of things a quad bike will be the better mode of transport tomorrow morning. It's about 1cm deep right now and still falling.

paulry

My kids have told me to turn off their alarm clock if the snow is deep in the morning .

paulry

Yup it's been really cold. Earlier the forecasters were saying that we might get as much as 20cm down south over the next day or two

So much for global warming

Nu-Shooz

My kids are hoping for another day off school. They did go this morning but i picked them up at lunch time as the snow was getting worse. So we went sledging

Pollyana

ARGH!! Supposed to be going south for a week....I am sooooooo tempted to change my flights and go home for a week instead

Nu-Shooz

Don't forget to pack your sledge then

Pollyana

I remember years ago when my then boyfriend and I worked in a petrol station, and we had a really hard winter. BP had just changed all their signs, and so we had these sheets of tough plastic lying around, about 4ft by 3ft, with the BP logo on one side. They were the best sledges ever, went down the hillsides in the park like greased lightningI think we had about 20 of them and after two days we had destroyed the lot as bits gradually snapped off the edges! The manager never did find out where the signs went - he was supposed to return them to BP

spartacus

I do love the absolute sheer blind faith it must take for Aberdonians to own patio furniuture . . .

Bernieboy

That's you deported then

Nu-Shooz

I had one of them wooden ones when i was a kid with rusty metal strips underneath. It was crap

I'm not freezing cold though when i'm out in the snow. I have acclimatised very well