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I've got the heating running in my UK house 24/7 :frown:...heating an empty house is better than burst pipes. Been there...done that...got the tee shirt.

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Few = not many but more than one according to this:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/few

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I saved this pic yesterday as I love it, it's on the road just before where my Mum lives and it's usually warmer than the rest of the country there.

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I need to start taking snowblowers and shovels over there next time, I could make a fortune


so that's how our bastard workmen who said it would be a "few" hundred ended up charging us 14 hundred!

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My dad says he's not seen snow like it in 40 years and to be honest, I don't remember that much snow falling, apart from over last Christmas where we had it bad for 3 weeks. Here's a picture of my parents back garden. They are in Bishopbriggs, just north of Glasgow and their schools have been open but the ones not that far away in a different council region have all been closed, much to the annoyance of my kids who have been harping on about "how come when we leave they get all the snow!!" and "Why don't we have snow!!" and "it's so unfair!!" and blah blah blah!!!!

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Funny how times have changed.. I remember back in the 50s & 60s, if we ever went away during the winter, my father would meticulously drain the pipes to prevent burst pipes. Of course heating was not an option in those days when you were out of the house, since it was mostly coal fires and electric plug-in heaters.

Of course he also unplugged every plug in the house, and defrosted the refrigerator so that going away for holidays was a military operation, especially since it always involved leaving home at the crack of dawn!

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Your pictures didn't work....darn!

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Here's a couple of pictures of my little cuties in their back garden in Harrogate..... Snow is a lot of fun when you have a trampoline and your a kid....:)

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We still switch the water off and drain the hot and cold when we go away! I guess that comes with being married to a plumber! :lol:

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Meanwhile, in Buffalo

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isn't that pretty routine for that area? I have clients in far upstate NY who go on about "lake effect snow" and tell me that it's also fairly common to build houses with the main entrance on the upper floor, because if you have the front door on the ground floor you won't be able to get it open after some snowfalls.

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I'm living it!

On the plus side my daughter is chuffed as she built her first ever, unaided-by-parent, snowman. In case you are mad enough to be interested, his name is Al.

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I hope Al is in your yard, and she didn't have to build him on the berm of I-90!

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Thanks. Al sits (slumps) in our yard. I learned quickly to avoid the Thruway even in summer, so travel via the back roads. Which, even through areas where up to 3 feet fell, are quite passable.

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Blimey! middlesbro aint far behind!