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Chatting to my daughter in Maryland last night, she's snowed in, past experience tells me that we get their weather here two or three days later. :(
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Gibbo2286 wrote: 06 Jan 2022, 12:01 Chatting to my daughter in Maryland last night, she's snowed in, past experience tells me that we get their weather here two or three days later. :(
I guess that means a further postponement of my MX3 paint repairs!! Shame, I'll just have to stay indoors in the warm!! :-D
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Yep, snowed in here.
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Just the usual here in Wales - Rain!

That's scuppered the plans for adding my second USB port to the Head Unit today......
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GiveMeABreak wrote: 06 Jan 2022, 12:50 Just the usual here in Wales - Rain!

That's scuppered the plans for adding my second USB port to the Head Unit today......
I've got other things to do, my speeding ticket safety class starts in fifteen minutes. :(
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Oh, joy of joys - I've been on 2 of those. Really depends who you get running it on the day - the first one I went on was dull as ditch water, the second one was far better as it was a bit more interactive and the materials were slightly updated.... not from the 70s :roll:
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Jason Manford on speed awareness courses:

Thanks to @DriveSafeGM for an enlightening afternoon at their Speed Awareness Course!

An interesting informative hour, spread over four 😜!
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Interesting enough and my first go with Microsoft Teams so a learning opportunity on both projects. :)
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The 'light snow showers' forecast here has amounted to a tiny bit more than expected....🤣😁
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Is Michael Fish your neighbour and if so has he been doing a bit of freelancing?
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There was, apparently, a bit more snow in 1940;

https://www.questmedianetwork.co.uk/new ... ossopdale/

And quite a bit more in 1947!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of ... ed_Kingdom
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have started to watch the met office 10 day forecast created each Weds on youtube.. it's a lot more geeky than the usual stuff on TV, recommend :)
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I remember the 1947 snow it war two feet deep in our road in Birmingham but we also had a coal shortage.
Our house was heated with a single small grate in the front room...........it was bloody cold, we kids made peep holes in the ice inside the windows using a warm penny. :(
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My first heavy winter was 62 - 63. Loads of snow everywhere. Once when I was walking across the fields to see whether the pond there had frozen enough to bear my weight I suddenly disappeared into the snow so that the surface was above my head. I had inadvertently fallen into one of the dips in the field that had filled up with snow when the wind had caused it to drift. It was quite a shock but I managed to get out (obviously).

The other thing I remember is that many trains were cancelled. I was particularly annoyed about this as it meant that my comics didn't get through to me. How dare they!
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