REAL SNOW

eastcoastbernie

eastcoastbernie

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I wish to announce that I am sitting in my kitchen looking at real snow. Not the namby pamby southern pouf type of snow, but real, deep thick, stuff with great big fluffy stuff falling on top of it. I've phoned around the neighbourhood to see what the conditions are like at large, and have been told by the range rover owners that they got in to my industrial estate all right, and having towed a load of other people out of ditches, are now on their way home. In short, received advice from all and sundry to stay put.

Which is very very irritating, because having suffered a bit of a shortage of work of late I am now very busy but can't get to work to do it. Grrrrrrr and Brrrrrrrr.

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Total white out here Bernie, Louise made it in to work (about 25 miles) only to be told they would be closing the office at 11-00. So all that way for two hours work, and she's very busy so would prefer to carry on, but apparently the stuff we've had for the past couple of days has now reached where her boss lives and he's worried about being snowed in. Looks like a snowman and snowball fight this weekend
 
I abandoned my course in Hampshire to my co-tutor who lives clasoe and came home last night. Best drive I've had on the M25 - no traffic, not even a car before me at the toll booth. Looks like I made the right decision. It's been thick in Hampshire most of the week.
 
Thanks for that Roger. I've done about as much as I can do on the computer at home.

If you were to visit my unit and see the size of my embroidery machines and the size of the enormous slabs of foam, the huge laying out tables and so on ... you would see why it is not possible to work from home. If it was, I would. Would save a hellovvalota rent!!!!!!

Hoping it clears up at the weekend, I shall go in then if it does.

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Sorry. Didn't mean to add to your woes.

On Monday - being already down there, the College announced that the site was closed and all local staff went home leaving all the foreign students there looking slightly perplexed. Since the local staff had struggled in, it seemed a little odd to send them away and to declare the 'site' closed when there were visitors like me and 150 students lodging there with nowhere to go was odd in the extreme. Fortunately the chef lives on site! We just carried on work...
 
Ive just rang the marina to ask them to remove the time switch & turn up the oil filled rad O/b as were forecast minus 6 tonight /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif.
We are both in the same positon that we cant work from home.
Roll on Summer
 
If it's any consolation, the snow has stopped falling in the Spalding area and the roads between here and Peterborough are reported to be either clear, or clearing. Peterborough seems to have been copping the worse of it, but it looks like it's brightening up from the North and heading South. So expecting clear roads soon. All white outside, but traffic carried on which stopped the snow settling on the road.
 
Eventually ventured out ... couldn't take it any more. Got within a few hundred yards of my unit and got stuck in the snow. Walked the rest of the way to work. Industrial site deserted except for one other vehicle. Fortunately this was one of the range rover brigade who volunteered to help get me out of my snowy predicament. Did a couple of hours at the coalface and them came home again. Will have another go tomorrow!
 
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