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Panic buying, don't give you the grumps? Like the last heavy snow fall we had, my local supermarket is empty of everything apart from a few tins of soup.

I spoke with the manager and he said that one person last Thursday purchased beans, bread and potatoes and the bill for the 3 items was... £56.00. Crikey, this is good old Britain, and after 4 or 5 days the cold snap will be a distant memory. Gawd, it gives me the pip...[8o|]

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.
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my local supermarket is empty of everything apart from a few tins of soup.

Soup? They've still got soup?? Hey everyone, somewhere's still got soup - break out last year's ski-wear and let's go before it runs out...

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.
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 Crikey, this is good old Britain, and after 4 or 5 days the cold snap will be a distant memory. Ga


 Yeah, that's what they said last year, and we had snow on the ground for 3 months where I am Crying

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.
Andrew Everard:
plastic penguin:
my local supermarket is empty of everything apart from a few tins of soup.

Soup? They've still got soup?? Hey everyone, somewhere's still got soup - break out last year's ski-wear and let's go before it runs out...



Last year's? Ooooh, get you and your lah-de-dah latest fashions, I'm wearing a ski coat I last wore 12 years ago (when I last went skiing)!
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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.

I have never been skiing. It holds absolutely no interest for me. Therefore I own no skiwear.

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.
Andrew Everard:
I have never been skiing. It holds absolutely no interest for me. Therefore I own no skiwear.


 


I sold all my skiwear on ebay a couple of years ago because i also had not been skiing for about 12 years too.

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.

2"? Pah! I've got 6". No exaggeration or hyperbole. I went out to the garden, into the centre so no question of it being a drift. Stuck my tape measure into the gouind. 6" ornear as makes no difference.

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.

We have 2' here in the frozen North East!

I kid you not. Smile

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.

Hi,

In Dunblane 8" is at the shallow bits lol.

A9 north gets closed here.

Haven't had a council wagon around to empty our bins but I've been up farm tracks to collect milk around here - in similar trucks.

No salt bins anywhere.

Temp is currently -11 outside - Wink any lower and I might have to put the heating on.

Cheers,

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.

It's so weird when you're in a part of the country with no snow (south coast)  - reading all this just seems like you're making it up !Big Smile

 

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.

a few inches here...

 

 

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.

Well I reckon we must have at least 2 if not 3 flakes in our back garden...


(I'm really going to regret saying that when I wake up tomorrow morning...)

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.
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a few inches here...

 

 

Bang goes my image of max's windswept coastal cottage, peat burning in a potbelly stove in the corner...

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.
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2"? Pah! I've got 6". No exaggeration or hyperbole. I went out to the garden, into the centre so no question of it being a drift. Stuck my tape measure into the gouind. 6" ornear as makes no difference.


6"? Gravesend, Thames estuary? bet there's no panic buying there?


Stuck my finger in the snow a little while ago and it came up to my knuckle (3-4")

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Re: Don't Panic! We have 2" of snow.

I can see the bleach from here.

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maxflinn:

a few inches here...

 

 

Bang goes my image of max's windswept coastal cottage, peat burning in a potbelly stove in the corner...

sounds great, but its suburbia for me.. ive got a potbelly though..
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