It's snowing heavily here. We're hoping for a snow day. I've promised son number 4, the home eductaed one, that he can have a snow day if the schools are shut. I don't really work and my husband is unemployed so we can all look forward to our snow day! I know it's really awful for some people, but it doesn't half look pretty.

Oooh, I hope we get a snow day off school-I could do with it

I would normally love the prospect of a snow day and I'm actually hoping for at least some snow around here as we haven't had any yet, but I'd rather not have a full on snow day just yet - I'm on placement till 17th Dec and I still have loads to do, so a snow day would be really awful timing right now!!

I've just had a call to say the advent carol service tonight is cancelled. I was quite looking forwadr to arriving in the snow and everything being pretty, but it's no so good for the older members of the congregation.

I hope you get your placement finished okay.

we got a snow day!! So now curled up on the sofa on the forums, watching Frasier and writing a bit of an RE essay

"Do you want snow ... or not"

This is a question that separates the young (or young at heart) from the old fuddy-duddys

I don't know about that... my partner is only 3 years older than me and he really doesn't want snow.

Neither do I , I have to come over to Horsforth tomorrow! But Iam a lot of years older than you !

It's not too bad around here, we only have a few cms of snow and the roads are pretty clear (apart from some small ones)

I want snow and I want it now

I would be much obliged if the snow fairies would make next Sunday a beautiful snow day as I don't have to go anywhere. I coud play snow games in the garden with the cats and dogs. Then those obliging snow fairies could melt away for Monday when I will need to get the car out.

However my guess is that the mudgoblins are more likely to rain on us.

oi! Who do you think that you are calling an old fuddy duddy? lol

I have never wanted snow even when I was a young little girl, was I an old fuddy-duddy then too? lol

...and those of us who are self-employed perhaps.

We got it Not much though. It's very cold, minus 15 on my car therm on Sunday morning when I went to work.
Schools are open much to Jen's disgust,

Would you like some of the 10 inches of snow that's fallen here, and is still falling?...

Please. Then little Jen can sledge, and her big sister.

Well over a foot here now and still falling. Hubbies work closed today too, as the site is in accessible. I am just so pleased that my elder sister was still at my Mum's when we had the first snow, so that she is still with her. I can't imagine what it would have been like if my Mum had been there on her own as the carers can't get to her.

I hope this doesn't last much longer, the world just stops.

Have you only just had snow today? We've been up to our knees in the stuff all week (and deeper if you try to take a short cut home from your violin lesson and walk into somewhere where it's drifted ).

Woman dials 999 to report theft of snowman

I'm watching the SE news now and that's about to come up

I went out with friends on Monday, and in some places it was literally almost waist-height on me (which of caused cued much teasing, as they're all over six feet tall and I'm barely 5'2".... ) there's just so much of it!

I'm still having to walk to the local shops due to not being able to get the car out. Yesterday they'd completely sold out of milk so I got there really early this morning and they had no skimmed or whole milk, and only a few bottles of semi-skimmed. Also no bread (which I didn't want anyway fortunately), and very little in the way of fruit and vegetables, although again fortunately I've got plenty of frozen vegetables. They said supplies just aren't getting through due to the snow. The main roads are clear here now so I don't know where the hold-up is.

Admittedly a different part of the world, but there's a huge bakery near me. Down an ungritted road. Getting the large lorries out of there would at the moment be a nightmare

http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m251/ic...wimmingsnow.mp4

someone likes it anyway...

I've had 70% cancellations this week from pupils (can't blame them...can't get down my street - those that have come are those in walking distance)

my 2 exams for today have been cancelled

but it is beautiful



even if it does make travel slightly difficult...

I loved this! Reminds me of the past when our now aged Welsh Springer used to bound through the heather.

Gorgeous!

And lovely photos, too, icklechick (your road looks just like mine!).

There were never any "snow days" in my time. Even during the prolonged cold snap of 1987, when our school was being rebuilt and we had lessons in portacabins, I never missed a day of school.

Don't shout at me for saying this, but.....





Schools seem to shut for snow at the drop of a hat (or the drop of a snowflake), whereas businesses tend to soldier on. How often do you hear that Tesco, Sainsburys or Morrisons is closed? Hospitals don't grind to a halt, police stations, fire stations and ambulance depots carry on.


Better look out my old army gear and find my tin hat

I think this depends on the area, Aeolienne. I was at school around the same time as you, and both my primary and secondary schools did tend to close in heavy snow. Whilst my primary school was only around 4 miles away (if you took the shortcut across the fields - it was 5 miles by road), I don't think childen as young as 5 should have been expected to walk that kind of distance through several inches of snow which was often deeper where it had drifted (and I'm talking about hidden drifts which could be a deep as a child was tall). My secondary school was 15 miles away, and it's catchment area had a diameter of around 35-40 miles. In heavy snow, the only way in or out of our village was on foot - and it was the same for lots of other villages in the area. Sometimes one of the farmers would manage to clear a bit of the road - but the snow tended to just drift again so the road was never passable for long. People were prepared for such weather - you always made sure you had enough supplies (including things like dried milk, camping gas stoves, spare fuel etc) to last if you ended up stuck in the village for several days.

I was class teaching around that time - and my schools were quite regularly shut once or twice every winter. Both of them were on hills and were really inaccessible when there was heavy snow. One in particular took children from a very wide area.

Mind you, I do remember at the latter (a VERY wealthy area), one of the parents saying that all the teachers (there were only three of us plus the head) should come and live at her house in the winter (it was round the corner from the school) so that we could keep the school open at all times!

I have a feeling we all declined this kind offer...