Semi!! But coldest ever tonight...with wind chill will be minus 20C!! Rather nippy out today cuz I had a hair appointment! Must get my act in gear and get the tree up (small 3 foot one)! And check with my neighbour to see if we are going there for Xmas dinner...cheeky me!! Still not feeling 100% after those 2 bouts of flu!!
Our's started to melt yesterday, helped along with the rain. Last night it snowed over the tops of the hills around here. From temperatures of -11 on Monday morning we are now at +2. Where's that sun screen
We had 6" snow on Sunday with temperatures down to -9. Another 2" overnight but a mini heatwave of +3 means it has nearly all gone. All I am waiting for now is the Council to resume refuse collections, and for a service engineer to locate a new part for my central heating and hot water boiler which died of cold. Wrap up warm Sue.
@Bonzo Dog - our bin collection has been knocked on a day and the timer had packed up on my boiler. Luckily, my friendly plumber sorted that out on the day before the really cold temperatures, so I did not have to get up in the cold to turn the heating on!
Refuse collections have been suspended all week so far. A collection of electric heaters means we are keeping warm but filling the bath with kettles of boiled water would take all day. Luckily my daughter's FIL is only just round the corner so his shower is seeing more use than usual. The boiler fan, not exactly sure what it does, is normally silent but it started howling like a scalded cat, whereupon the boiler went into fail safe mode. Hopes the problem was simply a dry bearing that could be fixed with a squirt of WD40 were dashed. The boiler is 12+ years old and replacement fans are hard to come by, so fingers crossed. An update on the overturned gritting lorry is that it was in fact travelling towards the hill, not down it, when the driver lost control, allegedly at "less than 10 mph". Reckon he had some awkward questions to answer.
Yet more snow overnight so it looks like refuse collection will have to be cancelled again. As my nan would have said, it's enough to give anyone the pip.
He's posh, Sue. It's the bin lorry around here. I believe they call it the 'dustcart' down south. I remember the last big freeze we had the bins were eventually collected after midnight, BD.
I think that this television programme had something to do with it... Code: http://www.britishclassiccomedy.co.uk/trash-can-laughter-with-the-dustbinmen
Posh gets you nowhere over here. No trash cans, no dustbins, no refuse collectors...it's garbage bins and rubbish bins occasionally but its the garbo who does the collection. Back in the days of yore when footy players actually had to earn a living, it was mostly a job they took on because it kept them fit and they didn't spend all day in the gym (there were no gyms) growing muscles, they earned them.
Still called a dustcart around here - FIL was a 'bin man I suppose we have to call them refuse collectors now - to be gender neutral
