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I'm fed up now :(

Postby slparry » Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:04 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21898083

trapped at home ..... not even my Funduro is venturing out at the mo'
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Postby Herb » Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:06 pm

This has to be the longest winter I can remember. It started in 2008 and no let up since.
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Postby Droptarotter » Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:15 pm

You guys think you have it bad............

Come to Canada for a visit..........


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/ ... storm.html

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Re: I'm fed up now :(

Postby Boxered » Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:25 pm

slparry wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21898083

trapped at home ..... not even my Funduro is venturing out at the mo'


I would consider trading it in for a skidoo mate :wink:

I've been reseaching sun dances in hope of a better spell in a months time :shock:

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Postby dave the german » Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:11 am

Herb, just been talking bout that tonight - been 5 long months of crap. Had fun tonight with a 16' high trailer thats 15.65 mtr long carrying bog rolls - to quote el nicko "i had some sphincter tightening moments"
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Postby madthemad » Sat Mar 23, 2013 8:36 am

Sorry to rub salt (no pun intended) in but it's beautiful sunshine down here. Not a flake of snow this year so far. What does that say about Cornwall(Kernow). :D
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Postby Herb » Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:46 am

Personally I blame Gordon Brown.

The bad weather started when he came to power (remember the floods and the Brown bounce?) and it has been bad ever since. When was the last time we had a proper summer?

Someone needs to let the weather know Gordon is history.
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Postby ned1 » Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:54 am

madthemad wrote:Sorry to rub salt (no pun intended) in but it's beautiful sunshine down here. Not a flake of snow this year so far. What does that say about Cornwall(Kernow). :D


Have you not got problems with flooding !!
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Postby Blackal » Sat Mar 23, 2013 12:46 pm

Herb wrote:Personally I blame Gordon Brown.

The bad weather started when he came to power (remember the floods and the Brown bounce?) and it has been bad ever since. When was the last time we had a proper summer?

Someone needs to machine-gun him and his immediate family.


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Postby Hayden » Sat Mar 23, 2013 2:37 pm

Steve, hard to believe, but this time last year:

http://www.boxertrix.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15367

I seem to remember doing some miles this time last year also......will this crap ever bloody go?.... :cry:

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Postby Herb » Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:13 pm

Blackal wrote:
Herb wrote:Personally I blame Gordon Brown.

The bad weather started when he came to power (remember the floods and the Brown bounce?) and it has been bad ever since. When was the last time we had a proper summer?

Someone needs to machine-gun him and his immediate family.


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I would not quite advocate going that far. I would make him work a penance cleaning our forces latrines in camp bastion.
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Postby Grip Fast » Sat Mar 23, 2013 5:12 pm

'twas exactly a year ago I took my new (to me) R12S for a tour up to Scotland. I met up with an old school friend in Dundee and we went up north into Aberdeenshire. The weather was overcast first thing but the sun came out and we ended up, late afternoon sitting by the harbour in Stonehaven, basking in sunshine, eating ice cream.

We headed back home, parked the bikes and walked to the pub for a bevy or two. Fast forward a year and I'm looking out at a couple of inches of snow.

I think the best day out on the bike this year was with the local IAM group run to Birmingham motorcycle museum...

...and that was on New Years Day!

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Postby slparry » Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:22 pm

Hinckley man wrote:Steve, hard to believe, but this time last year:

http://www.boxertrix.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15367

I seem to remember doing some miles this time last year also......will this crap ever bloody go?.... :cry:


Tell me about it

This was yesterday morning

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and this is this morning .....

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**edit** Sunday morning .... (shall I report it missing)

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The joys of living next door to the proclaimed "Highest Village in Wales" Bwlchgwyn :(

Sadly I forgot to get supplies in so I'm out of bread, butter etc but there's enough of me to survive :)

The council JCB plough gave up at about 2am and abandoned the road, it's not stopped snowing between light and heavy snow since midnight or so on Thursday.

At the moment the powers still on so thankfully warm and cosy, it normally goes off so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. It's not so much the cold it's the bloody boredom when the power goes :)
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Postby cornishflat » Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:36 pm

[quote="madthemad"]Sorry to rub salt (no pun intended) in but it's beautiful sunshine down here. Not a flake of snow this year so far. What does that say about Cornwall(Kernow). :D[/quote

Gods country that's what tis. :D Although they said 10C for today but I didn't feel that.
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Postby cornishflat » Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:40 pm

slparry wrote:
Hinckley man wrote:Steve, hard to believe, but this time last year:

http://www.boxertrix.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15367

I seem to remember doing some miles this time last year also......will this crap ever bloody go?.... :cry:


Tell me about it

This was yesterday morning

Image

and this is this morning .....

Image

The joys of living next door to the proclaimed "Highest Village in Wales" Bwlchgwyn :(

Sadly I forgot to get supplies in so I'm out of bread, butter etc but there's enough of me to survive :)

The council JCB plough gave up at about 2am and abandoned the road, it's not stopped snowing between light and heavy snow since midnight or so on Thursday.

At the moment the powers still on so thankfully warm and cosy, it normally goes off so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. It's not so much the cold it's the bloody boredom when the power goes :)



Bloody yell, now that is snowfall.
kernow,the last bit


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