Winter Shiterland

[dollywobbler]

Guess we can officially start the wintery shots then. Only one rule - photo must be taken this winter. Wonder how long until we get shite in snow...

[nigel bickle]

How very depressing .

 

Thankfully I didnt get up early enough for such pics...

 

Did get one of my old m/cycles out yesterday though. Ace timing!

[dollywobbler]

I took those pics at about 9am! Still below zero here.

[fotorabia]

Ha..42C here....air con on the Merc is non existant...and all the windows open dont help either,,,but ice coffees and litres of lime n bitters does...keep warm gents...

[M'coli]

Snow on shite? Already done that on October the 26th!

[beko1987]

Buggar didn't see this at half 5! Jumped in, heaters on, rolly smoked wipers wiped and drove to work!

 

Will remember to get a pic tomorrow!

[ashmicro]

It won't snow here at all. Every time I've owned a 4WD/AWD vehicle, no snow where I live.

[lovejoy]

Ten foot snowdrifts here in "paradise", Nigel (smirk smirk )

big job to get the Fiat 900 snowmobile started, had to use neat rum, again...

[trigger]

Wow! That is mental! did you build it Lovejoy?

[scruff]

That is the coolest thing I have seen on here for ages, in more ways than one! Awesome

[nigel bickle]

No, Lovejoy (Chris) is taking the piss out of me, because hes sitting in the sun, down in the Caribbean, drinking rum till next Spring/Summer.

 

His lil Fiat camper will be safely locked up someplace down in Cornwall.

 

Git.

[willswitchengage]

This is a (sorry if it's massive) phacebook icture from my last weekend... it's still summer darn sarf.

 

[Wilko220]

Some good contenders for winter months' calendar pictures already...

[Shep Shepherd]

Took this one of the Volvo at work almost exactly a month ago, October 28th to be exact:

 

 

It can get pretty cold in West Thurrock in early autumn.

[KruJoe]

The night of the first of November this year, we came home to this:

 

 

MrsKJ and I had been over to Settle with the folks that evening for a show. On the way home, we were caught out on Kirkby Fell, my mother was driving, in the wet snow she slithered down a steep bit and bounced off a highland cow. Result:

 

 

The cow didn't feel it (much). Lucky it was there really, it saved us from hitting the stone post by the cattle-grid!

Despite being double-skinned, I've popped the worst of that out of the bonnet, and fitted her snow tyres the next day.

 

So, 1st Nov 2012. And I claim my five pounds.

[beko1987]

Came out to this at 10 past 6...

 

 

 

 

 

Really need to get the rear demist fixed! My equally nutty colleague's van (Nissan 1.5Dci - worthy of shite in itself) said -2 at quarter to 7.

[whitevanman]

Sorry, but -2 is hardly cold......could possible be described as pleasantly cool Tayne hows Sunny Aberdeen??

[whitevanman]

Thought it might be ....

[beko1987]

Hoonerage in the snow this morning when I left:

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 fun miles later in Marlow...

 

 

 

 

Just a shite rainy day here now!

 

I'm waiting for the office twunt to arrive in his semi 4wd Kuga, who has to drive up the M40 past my house, and start moaning...

[Shep Shepherd]

Took these photos at 0900 today:

 

 

 

Just enough snowfall to make it difficult for the south Essex roadtards during the morning rush.

[beko1987]

Ah - I leave at 6ish, so not many fucktards on the road.

 

Apart from one this morning. De-wipered fiesta, snow all over it back window not cleared doing 5mph and still braking.

 

Piss was boiled until he turned off and I could carry on at a perfectly safe 35/40. Apparently the M40 is stuffed now though, people are arriving late.

[Shep Shepherd]

Ah - I leave at 6ish, so not many fucktards on the road.

 

Apart from one this morning. De-wipered fiesta, snow all over it back window not cleared doing 5mph and still braking.

 

Piss was boiled until he turned off and I could carry on at a perfectly safe 35/40. Apparently the M40 is stuffed now though, people are arriving late.

 

I'm not at work today, but when I'm working the day shift, I arrive long before the majority of sheeple and roadtards have even woken up

 

I imagine that the roads I use to get to/from work, the A13 and A127 are pretty bad traffic-wise by now...

 

EDIT: I was right: http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_n ... n_on_roads

[Micrashed]

[Angrydicky]

Ah - I leave at 6ish, so not many fucktards on the road.

 

Apart from one this morning. De-wipered fiesta, snow all over it back window not cleared doing 5mph and still braking.

 

Piss was boiled until he turned off and I could carry on at a perfectly safe 35/40. Apparently the M40 is stuffed now though, people are arriving late.

 

I'm not at work today, but when I'm working the day shift, I arrive long before the majority of sheeple and roadtards have even woken up

 

I imagine that the roads I use to get to/from work, the A13 and A127 are pretty bad traffic-wise by now...

 

EDIT: I was right: http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_n ... n_on_roads

 

You're not wrong. This morning it took 40 minutes to get from North Shoebury Road to Thorpe Hall Avenue (about 1 1/2 miles). Two inches of snow at the most, but Southend was gridlocked because idiots who haven't got a clue how to drive in the snow kept crashing their cars. The A127 looked awful as well, but I managed to avoid it.

 

I passed four cars in ditches, three along the same stretch of country road. KA, Scenic, BINI and a 406 estate if anyone's interested.

[Shep Shepherd]

You're not wrong. This morning it took 40 minutes to get from North Shoebury Road to Thorpe Hall Avenue (about 1 1/2 miles). Two inches of snow at the most, but Southend was gridlocked because idiots who haven't got a clue how to drive in the snow kept crashing their cars. The A127 looked awful as well, but I managed to avoid it.

 

I passed four cars in ditches, three along the same stretch of country road. KA, Scenic, BINI and a 406 estate if anyone's interested.

 

I really despair at the drivers in our area

 

I've not driven anywhere today, and have no intention of driving anywhere until Friday evening; when I walked to the Tesco Express at the Kursaal at midday, almost all of the snow had melted.

[beko1987]

No reports of total chaos this morning, and I saw no abandoned wrecks at the side of the road.

 

Still some snow on one of my shots, Amy and Eva walked to baby club. I`ve just moved it so it doesn't get arse ended.

 

 

No snow on mine after being parked in the sun for 7 hours

 

[RoadworkUK]

Yep, We had An Amount of snow, the kind of amount that makes you slightly late for work.

 

Here it is at 07:40 this morning;

 

 

Here's t'other half on her way to work (having de-iced her car while I watch from inside a warm house in my dressing gown);

 

 

The sum total of pain-in-the-arseness experienced by me today was that the man who was supposed to be delivering my kitchen tiles apparently couldn't leave the depot. Anyone know about a white-out in Witham? I suspect bollocks.

 

Yesterday the local untreated roads were absolutely treacherous with black ice. My ABS was going brrrrr almost constantly. As was I 'cos of my roll-a-six-to-start heater fan.

[Black_GT]

No snow here yet, but a very heavy frost on Sunday gave an interesting effect!

 

[andrew e]

For Essex based shitters I had snow on the roof of my Astra still when I got to Slough at 18:30, my garden apprently is still snow covered. Bearing in mind I'm at the M25/A12 end, probally half hour from SOS or Witham. So OMGSNOCHOAS might be true.

[whitevanman]

I forget sometimes how hard life is down south...I spent 4 years there and and still I forget guys it's only frozen water......not the apocalypse ....