Can't sell them just yet.We are going to have a cracking summer for bike riding. I'm just trying to swing another bike for the garage,something red I fancy.
Probably...........I didn't have all day to check it just to pounce and show my geography knowledge was better than another's.
Interesting to note that the Govt scientist and that d***head McGinty are now hyping up the climate change/global warming thing again and these weather extremes going to become the norm..... ......they are obviously blind to the fact that if this weather becomes the norm, it isn't going to be global warming. I can't remember the actual years, but I recall sitting watching TV at my Grandparents house in the 60's.......Really heavy snow right across the UK and Welsh farmers struggling to get their sheep out of the drifts and to feed them....... And in the 70's (75 or 76??? or 77 even).........heavy snow in June. In 1990/91? I was struggling to get from Ipswich to Stamford........heavy snow all the way. 1992?...Just the same trying to get to Co.Durham. Plus I found some glass photo negatives in an old building, which appeared to be of Yorkshire in maybe the late 30s; snow drifts about 20 feet high either side of the roads. The trouble is for the last 20 years we have haven't had snow as I remember it........plus half the population haven't seen much snow.........so now it is abnormal and extreme in their eyes.
End 70's, early 80's, living just outside Blackpool, it snowed 4' deep every winter and stayed for weeks And it wasn't that long ago we were entering a ice age....and a desert age...and a flood age....erm...
Quite cold here still......0c. And the snow is still here and will be for the rest of the week I think, as its not melting very quickly when the temperatures rises mid morning for a couple of hours. As long as it doesn't dump any more by the weekend I'll be able to get out and about and do the things I needed to do last weekend.
Yep snowing again, tried to get to work but the third road I tried was closed, it was open yesterday after an hours wait while the snow plough got its self out. So now back at home, had enough now. Steve
I had to drive to Manchester today so I decided to go the long way round via the M62. Took me 2 hours to do a journey that normally takes 40 mins maximum. On the way back I decided to come "over the tops" via Woodhead Pass. And whilst Woodhead was open all the rods off it to Holmfirth were closed because of snow. So I had to do a circuitous route to get back to the office. One hour forty minutes this time
