[start rant]**** snow shite! its now 'snowing' this wet sludgy stuff now! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

i want the summer now! :evil:[finish rant]

phew

where's dat then?
Was promised 4 inches of snow here, and have seemingly got 4 inch of rain instead.

cotswoldcestershire! [slopes off to go and find something to break]

Been snowing here in North Wiltshire all morning!! I have seriously had more than enough of this being a self employed Gardener is no fun at all in this weather. Winter is always a slow time but this is ridiculous!!

Was sent the slightly tongue-in-cheek piece below from my irate father experiencing the same….funny how our attitude changes as the snow keeps on coming!

THE DIARY OF AN ENGLISHMAN LIVING IN THE HIGHLANDS

"Our First Winter"

DEC 20th
It's starting to snow. The first of the season and the first we've seen
for years. The wife and I took out our hot toddies and sat on the porch
watching the fluffy soft flakes drift gently down clinging to the trees
and covering the ground. It's so beautiful and peaceful.

DEC 24th
We awoke to a lovely blanket of crystal white glistening snow covering as far as the eye could see. What a fantastic sight, every tree and bush
covered with a beautiful white mantle. I shovelled snow for the first time ever and loved it. I did both our driveway and the pavement. Later that day a snowplough came along and accidentally covered up our driveway with compacted snow from the street. The driver smiled and waved. I waved back and shovelled it away again. The children next door built a snowman with coal for eyes and a carrot for a nose, and had a snowball fight, a couple just missed me and hit the car so I threw a couple back and joined in their fun.

DEC 26th
It snowed an additional 5 inches last night and the temperature dropped
to around minus 8 degrees. Several branches on our trees and bushes snapped due to the weight of the snow. I shovelled the driveway again. Shortly afterwards the snowplough came by and did his trick again. Much of the snow is now a brownish – grey.

JAN 1st
Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush which soon became ice when the temperature dropped again. Bought snow tyres for both our cars. Fell on my arse in the driveway. Went to a physio but nothing was broken.

JAN 5th
Still cold. Sold the wife's car and bought her a 4×4 to get her to work.
She slid into a wall and did considerable damage to the right wing. Had
another 8 inches of white shite last night. Both vehicles are covered in
salt and iced up slush That bastard snowplough came by twice today.
Where's that bloody shovel?

JAN 9th
More **** snow. Not a tree or bush on our property that hasn't been
damaged. Power was off most of the night. Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a paraffin heater which tipped over and nearly torched the house. I managed to put the flames out but suffered 2nd degree burns on my hands. Lost all my eyebrows and eyelashes. Car hit a **** deer on the way to casualty and car was written off.

JAN 13th
**** bastard white shite just keeps on coming down. Have to put on every article of clothing just to go to the post box. The little shits
next door ambushed me with snowballs on the way back – I'll shove that carrot so far up the little bastard's arse it'll take a good surgeon hours to find it. If I ever catch the git that drives the snowplough I'll chew open his chest and rip out his heart with my teeth. I think the bastard hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shovelling and then he accelerates down the street like Michael Schufuckingmacher and buries the **** driveway again.

JAN 17th
Sixteen more **** inches of **** snow and **** ice and **** sleet and god knows what other white shite fell last night. I am in court in 3 months time for assaulting the snowplough driver with an ice-pick. Can' t move my **** toes. Haven't seen the sun for 5 weeks. Minus 20 and more **** snow forecast.

JAN 18th
**** THIS, I'M MOVING BACK TO ENGLAND

But you've only had it a week or so

We [in the NE] had it for a month solid, only just gone now

MTFU 😀

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should that be SMTFU 😆