The wet and windy, with occasional snow, 2019/2020 thread

[Digga]

eharding said:

Digga said:

Lid on the village green grit box blew wide open.

Hideously ambiguous. Is your village grit box green, or do you grit the village green, and have a box for that purpose?

I won't be able to sleep until I know the answer.

My sincere apologies. The box itself is green plastic and resides on the pavement adjacent to the grass on the north eastern side of the triangular village green.

I do not grit the village green. I live up a steep lane from the green and we have another grit box (also green plastic) about 250 yards up there which I have used, in the past, to grit the lane.

Let it not be said I deprive anyone on here of sleep for lack of meticulous detail.

[bobbo89]

Digga said:

eharding said:

Digga said:

Lid on the village green grit box blew wide open.

Hideously ambiguous. Is your village grit box green, or do you grit the village green, and have a box for that purpose?

I won't be able to sleep until I know the answer.

My sincere apologies. The box itself is green plastic and resides on the pavement adjacent to the grass on the north eastern side of the triangular village green.

I do not grit the village green. I live up a steep lane from the green and we have another grit box (also green plastic) about 250 yards up there which I have used, in the past, to grit the lane.

Let it not be said I deprive anyone on here of sleep for lack of meticulous detail.

So it should have been..

'Lid on the green village green grit box blew wide open.!'

Also, green grit bins?

[eharding]

Digga said:

My sincere apologies. The box itself is green plastic and resides on the pavement adjacent to the grass on the north eastern side of the triangular village green.

I do not grit the village green. I live up a steep lane from the green and we have another grit box (also green plastic) about 250 yards up there which I have used, in the past, to grit the lane.

Let it not be said I deprive anyone on here of sleep for lack of meticulous detail.

Thank you. My grit box OCD is assuaged.

[Digga]

bobbo89 said:

Also, green grit bins?

Recent advent, I assume some nod to the fact we are in an AONB.

eharding said:

Thank you. My grit box OCD is assuaged.

[popeyewhite]

eharding said:

Digga said:

My sincere apologies. The box itself is green plastic and resides on the pavement adjacent to the grass on the north eastern side of the triangular village green.

I do not grit the village green. I live up a steep lane from the green and we have another grit box (also green plastic) about 250 yards up there which I have used, in the past, to grit the lane.

Let it not be said I deprive anyone on here of sleep for lack of meticulous detail.

Thank you. My grit box OCD is assuaged.

When we last has serious snow for a couple of weeks (three years ago?), we had a swathe of grit box burglaries. not the boxes, the contents. What sort of utter rotter deprives people of the joy of using council supplied non-slip? Questions were asked in the local (bi-weekly) magazine and on the internet via neighbourhood watch websites. Curiously enough, the robberies stopped quite abruptly. In all fairness one local gritbox couldn't be used because local youths used had vandalised it (well, vomited in it on the way back from the pub), and no one wanted to clear frozen puke.

[ElectricSoup]

If you're going to have to clear up puke, I'd venture that frozen would be the most preferable state it could be in.

[PositronicRay]

ElectricSoup said:

If you're going to have to clear up puke, I'd venture that frozen would be the most preferable state it could be in.

Would puke remain frozen in a grit box?

[Digga]

PositronicRay said:

ElectricSoup said:

If you're going to have to clear up puke, I'd venture that frozen would be the most preferable state it could be in.

Would puke remain frozen in a grit box?

In 2010 it probably would.

We had people 'helping themselves' to the grit box back then too and we also managed to put a stop to it. (By that I mean via the parish council style, not as in Tony Soprano.)

[JonChalk]

Digga said:

(By that I mean via the parish council style, not as in Tony Soprano.)

Shame; in a Godfather type mash-up, it may have been a good message for some to wake up in bed, next to a handful of grit.

[Digga]

JonChalk said:

Digga said:

(By that I mean via the parish council style, not as in Tony Soprano.)

Shame; in a Godfather type mash-up, it may have been a good message for some to wake up in bed, next to a handful of grit.

It was suggested at the monthly parish council meeting, but most present in the village hall were not in favour and it did not pass the vote.

[FiF]

Just to continue the point about saturation levels, already seeing flooding, this is at A4110 Wigmore, west of Ludlow, north of Leominster.

[Puggit]

Yep, standing water here is as high as it was before Xmas.

[Digga]

FiF said:

west of Ludlow

O/T

Have you spotted anyone with a tail yet?

[J4CKO]

Is it me or does there seem to be no sting in the weather any more, well apart from rain and wind, really cant see any decent cold spell now we are in mid Jan with nothing on the horizon. Jan 18th is meant to be the date with statistically the biggest chance of cold/snow, looks like it may be chilly but nothing interesting.

[PositronicRay]

Hardly any rain, getting very windy. But it's a warm wind, no need for a hat or jacket. Warwickshire.

[Puggit]

J4CKO said:

Is it me or does there seem to be no sting in the weather any more, well apart from rain and wind, really cant see any decent cold spell now we are in mid Jan with nothing on the horizon. Jan 18th is meant to be the date with statistically the biggest chance of cold/snow, looks like it may be chilly but nothing interesting.

Hottest ever temp last summer, in a very quick ramp up. That was a sting.

[eltawater]

I don't recall last year being particularly uncomfortable, heat wise in the UK. Might have had some peaks but it wasn't exactly go fan mad like the previous year when everyone was panic buying them.

[funkyrobot]

The wind was worse for us yesterday than today. Yet the met office have a warning for today, but didnt do one yesterday.

They seem to have a habit of doing this.

Its blowing well in Lincolnshire and raining. Was stronger and more noticeable yesterday though.

[Puggit]

funkyrobot said:

The wind was worse for us yesterday than today. Yet the met office have a warning for today, but didnt do one yesterday.

They seem to have a habit of doing this.

Its blowing well in Lincolnshire and raining. Was stronger and more noticeable yesterday though.

Weather is vastly worse in the south today. Yesterday pretty much missed us.

A couple of squall lines crossing England at the moment.

[anonymous-user]

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