What are you all up to
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We used to make a damson vodka in a similar fashion, and then ate the remains after processing the mix...lovely😁
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I think we have been fortunate having so far missed any snow, although there appeared to be a light dusting on Penhill this morning. It has been cold but dry and sunny for most of the week but much cloudier this morning. We have moved to another new to us CL near Northallerton today, an easy enough drive but very slow through the town because of road closures for an Xmas fair.
Listening to a different Christmas album... Snow on Snow by the Albion Christmas Band....well worth listening to.
Hope all those with frozen ground and snow take care.
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I think I am going to be up till the early hours finishing this bathroom floor for the builders returning tomorrow. I am feeling my age crawling around on the floor, the standing up again is the worst bit, so having to take plenty of breaks. Still 3 difficult bits to fit, then we have to cover it all up to protect it from the grouting of the wall tiles tomorrow.
This coming Wednesday is OH's birthday, so DD arranged a small family gathering at her house yesterday for dinner. We had a "mini Christmas dinner", just the turkey and trimmings, followed by a cake she had made, which was nice as she will be with her in-laws for Christmas this year and we at our son's house.
We stayed over so were not home till lunch time, and after confirming with the builders that they would be here tomorrow, I decided I would lay the floor so as not to hold up their work.
Very cold here, but no snow.
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After thick freezing fog all day yesterday we now have a sprinkling of snow. Hope we dont get anymore as we have to go out this afternoon. Still very cold.
Enjoy Northallerton Nellie. OH used to have relatives there as well. It is a lovely old town.
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We were meant to be travelling to Chatsworth today but I decided to cancel a week ago having seen the forecast. Fortunately under the old system so no loss of deposit, although it was the last booking under the old system! We have had snow overnight, not particularly deep although I imagine it could be slippy. I am sure the main roads would have been fine but unsure about the minor roads.
David
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It's bitterly cold here, but no more snow - just what's still frozen on the fields. Later today we'll take some hay out for the sheep.
We don't have central heating, but our main room is always warmish with the Aga, and later in the day we light the woodburner. I'm nerving myself up to go into the pantry to wash up. But I've four layers on, so should be OK!
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Deep frost here, -4c overnight, still -3c at the moment. Foggy as well. Mum’s is lovely and warm, has to be to keep her safe. We have an elderly Aunt and cousins coming over to say hello this afternoon, then as usual I hope to get back home this evening. Ruddy glad we have a proper 4x4, there were a few cars struggling yesterday, as it’s very hilly where we live. At least we can get out and about ok.
Watering and feeding birds twice daily at the moment, they have started to queue up😁
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Yup they’re getting thru the food for sure👍🏻. I was out with a hair dryer this am unfreezing the sunflower hearts & seeds😂. The water dishes & fountain are having to be dug out & replenished with hot water to warm the metal up to give em a chance pre freezing.
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Parts of Sheffield (as you know) are notorious for heavy snow falls, particularly the Western hills. West Yorkshire towns are very hilly as well. 4x4s are used greatly in Winter here in Yorkshire. Our new neighbours from London ended up getting a Range Rover for their first Winter, they had no idea how much snow might come down, and how tricky it can be away from gritted bus routes. We’ve had to go out and rescue neighbours in the past. All bar one family on our little street has a 4x4 of some sort. All family have them as well. Mum lives on the top of one of our town’s highest hills, quite rural as well, so it can be fun😄
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I knew a surgeon about ten years ago in Leicestershire, whose young colleagues all bought 4x4 s , probably for the school run as at the first drop of snow they were the first to phone in saying that they couldn't drive in the 1inch of snow that had fallen!
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We once did an overnight stop at Gretna and when we woke up we found people asleep on the travel lodge floors, all over the place, everyone had been pulled off the motorway and we had to follow a snowplough all the way to Glasgow. No frozen loo paper thank goodness but it was a bit crowded!
It's slightly less cold here today, treacherous yesterday with black ice. That is my worst fear, nothing stops on black ice you just keep travelling......
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No further snow overnight, but it's stayed bitterly cold so that yesterday's fall has stayed crisp on the fields and not turned to sludge. Must have been about 20 or so dogs out on the fields this morning having a fabulous time while us owners we were waiting patiently for them to tire themselves out so that we could get back in the warm!
Ralph was having great fun chasing snowballs and not being quite able to work out where they went on landing; Lady, now almost 13, was going through a puppy stage, just rolling and getting covered in the stuff - looked more like a red & white setter, very Christmasy!
Going to make the most of this cold, clear spell, we're off down to Cornwall at the weekend and it looks like the weather might be taking a turn for the worse by then.
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Good call David. We got caught out with snow at Chatsworth many years ago. We had a motorhome at the time for which we were very thankful but some of the minor roads were still a bit of a challenge!
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This is reminding me of the first year we had our Choccy Lab, 2010. We had something like six weeks of deep frost and snow, of course he loved it as a nine month old, absolutely crackers. He would push a track through the snow and our elderly Airedale would follow in his tracks to get anywhere. I think most dogs adore snow if they get the chance to play in it. Despite arthritis and dodgy eyes, Choccy was out yesterday rolling around in it.🤣
Millie, our Golden Lab, leaping for snowballs. It was her last Winter, she’s about 12 years old in this photo.
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We have a very hairy Cocker Spaniel who loves the snow, but has real problems with it getting matted into the hair around her paws. After a few minutes, the snow turns into really icy pebbles between her pads.
Only option has been to get the clippers on them, which she hates, and she now looks like shes on stilts
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We are at our second home FM before we head to Cromer next week,about eleven LVs on
When we got here yesterday,camper filthy from A1 salty spray ,found out that I had forgotten to drain toilet filler so spent the next half hour unfreezeing it with hot water before I could refill the flush tank
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Oh yes, any pooch with hairy feet can end up with ice balls underneath. Our Airedales hated having their feet clipped, but it had to be done.
I had forgotten how “interesting” it can be when a horse gets ice balls in their hooves as well. 😱 We used to fill hoof cavities with Vaseline. Didn’t stop the slide, but it wasn’t as bad. We used to do a Charity Xmas ride each year, that was always good fun. I don’t miss the mud though.
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TimboC you made me laugh with your Cocker Spaniel legs and we have memories of both of our Springers playing in the snow and even catching snowballs.
Not so cold today about -4.2C at 8am, starting to feel better both of us so managed shopping and trip to Pharmacie for Cough Syrup so hope it will soon go, first time we have been out for 9 days and we needed to go to the local Poubelles all done now thankfully.
Looks like one UK visitor had arrived for Xmas season as we saw UK reg small camper van in Carrefour supermarket carpark this morning.
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I was brought up in Stannington, ttda - when it was still a village! I remember us returning home from spending Christmas with grandparents in Hull in 1963 (I think) to find snow up to the bedroom windows and we had to dig a tunnel to get to the door. Dad had a Ford Anglia and the only way we got up the 800' rise from Hillsborough to the village was by driving in the tyre tracks of the farmer's tractor who was delivering milk. No 4x4's then
We just don't get snow like that now, do we?It's cold here - but no sign of snow whatsoever - just miserable freezing fog. Shortest day next week - and then things will improve
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We checked our van today, it's near the house and we haven't heated it this year so although all the taps were open etc they had all stuck. We've now put the heater on a frost stat to keep things at bay and put the fridge vent covers on. We froze solid at York a few years ago and it was hard work as we couldn't leave the site due to snow everywhere. Hope you'll find being on the coast a bit easier!
Sorry to hear DavidK has had to abandon Chatsworth, I remember you were both looking forward to the Christmas display.
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Brue
It was a shame but we have been several times before at this time of year. The last time we were away in December was in 2019 when we went to Bladon Chains (now unfortunately closed) I am beginning to think that we probably won't go away at this time of year in the future, unless the forecast is pretty good!
The time we gained from not going was put to good use as we had someone out to measure up the small bathroom with a view to a refurbishment!
David
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Coo😱 That was The Big Freeze year I think? There was a programme on a few nights ago about that year. It was country wide I think, even the sea froze.
This made me chuckle…….
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I remember trudging to school with the snow coming over the top of my wellies in our 'light dusting' of snow.
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Pretty chilly here last night - 6c never been above freezing all day. No more snow just icy. Just up the road in Braemar it was - 16c and never got up above - 10c all day. Coldest night for 2 years.
Our youngest lives up on the Pennines near Penistone. Lots of hills there, he works in Sheffield and his wife in a small village in the hills. Neither of them have 4x4s but both grew up in Scotland and passed their tests here. If they can get out their drive it's a good sign but mostly when it snows they go nowhere as its just to deep.
In the 32 years we have lived here we've only been snowed in 5 times, if we can get out of our street to the main street we are OK as that gets cleared, our street doesn't.
Years ago when we lived in Germany we got so much snow one winter we still had mounds of it in the farmers fields come Easter in April.
Never seen a winter like that in the 20 years we lived there winter of 78/79. OH was over in Ireland from Sept to end January, we had snow continuously from Nov onwards. Used to take the eldest (3) out on the sledge to get shopping while my neighbour looked after the youngest who was only 5 mths old.
I think that's why I still to this day always have a full freezer and packed cupboards at the start of winter, just in case.
We've made sure we have plenty of candles, new hot water bottles and the torches all have new batteries. MH and caravan have plenty of LPG as a back up should the power go off. The vans leisure batteries are in the house keeping warm.
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