Not going to Malvern today...
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Just as bad here mate
I'm staying inside with coffee and lots of episodes of 'Shed & Buried'
Mind you, I might nip out for a slice of lemon meringue pie
I'm staying inside with coffee and lots of episodes of 'Shed & Buried'
Mind you, I might nip out for a slice of lemon meringue pie
One of my former employer's vehicles...
I wouldn't even have attempted travelling today, just stupid.
I wouldn't even have attempted travelling today, just stupid.
T's sister's puppy went out at 8am and had to be dragged back in at 10:30. First time she's ever seen snow and it turned out to be a hit!
Anyway, just a couple more from me:
Tracey made a snow angel...
Anyway, just a couple more from me:
Tracey made a snow angel...
When she suggested doing it, she was a few seconds away from just floompfing down on her bum like a toddler. I told her I would not be driving her to the hospital for a fractured hip. I took a snowball to the head for my trouble.
It'll be the next couple of mornings when it freezes hard it'll be really slippery. I've already told work I'm not going in early tomorrow.
Unless something goes wrong with our backend web or SQL servers*, I can do most of my job from my sofa. I mailed the boss with the entirely reasonable, "I will re-evaluate the situation in the morning and will make every reasonable effort to be at my desk. But if I can't be there, I can still fullfil all service requests from here."
:EDIT: Because otherwise why do I have a laptop?
Given where I work (for those of you who know where that is) I don't need to be yet another car on general-use tyres on a snowy country road.
*For obvious reasons I can't discuss our security precautions, so all I'll say is that you can't tunnel into the server estate externally, even over our own VPN.
Good call mate. I would take the CRV but as mum might need it I don't want to leave it at work if its advantageous to me to take the van home.
So I'll get up in the morning, clear a bit of driveway and see about unearthing the Mongy as I don't really want to drive the Cougar about in the salt.
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I don't really know what that means, but I certainly wouldn't want to try tunnelling under the fence
So I'll get up in the morning, clear a bit of driveway and see about unearthing the Mongy as I don't really want to drive the Cougar about in the salt.
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I don't really know what that means, but I certainly wouldn't want to try tunnelling under the fence
When we spoke on the phone earlier, it did occur to me that the last thing you'd want to do is leave her in a pickle. The job you do is genuinely important to the people you look after, but they can cope with a day or two. Your mum's charges? Not so much.
I doubt your Mondeo has any more underseal on it than your new Cougar does. The more important thing is that you don't make an unneccessary journey and end up as a road hazard.
We've only had 5-6" in most places (though Lucid has seen drifts of well over 18") and it's not a snowpocalypse, but why go out? Leave plenty of road room for people who absolutely must.
Of course this might all be moot in the morning, but... I can't help but think that we shouldn't travel unless we have to, no matter now well-prepared we are.
LOL I'm guessing that you probably experienced Germany in the winter at some point?
But seriously. Unless you're (everyone except Rich obviously) down south with Mart where it's just...raining...and if you're able to stay off the roads, please do so. Nurses, doctors, surgeons, ambulance drivers, firefighters, carers and anyone else whose job demands they need to be on the road will need the room and don't need any of us to be a big metal blockade.
We spent a lot of time this morning helping idiots - mostly in RWD cars - get off roundabouts. We walked around the estate with a shovel and a cloth doormat. I never want to get my face that close to the back end of a 5-Series Diesel ever again.
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