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Showing posts with label cold weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold weather. Show all posts

Snow is falling, still

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Snow is fallingkids in snow
all around me
children playing
having fun
it's the season
love and understanding
merry February everyone

 

Yes it’s February & it’s still snowing. The kids are off school, the teachers are off work & the UK has got a few days holiday, if they want it or not.

How long will it last for ? , will it be a repeat of 1963 ?.

Who knows.

The government doesn't that’s for sure. They’re running out of salt for the gritters, & you all know why, they tell us often enough. We all eat to much salt in our food. This is why they have run out. This is why they can’t grit the roads. This is why all the schools are shut. This is why there’s a recession. This is why we have ended up with Tony Brown or is it Gordon Blair, this is why we have Coronation Farm 3 times a week. We should all be cutting down on the Saxa.

So everyone please do as you're told or we will end up with the Easter bunny looking like this.

easter bunny

Thanx to Shaky for the little bit of poetic licence.





Thursday, February 05, 2009 | 1 Comments



Getting Busted

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The picture on the left is of a large "bust". As you read on you will find out more about the bust I found in a local supermarket.

I must start though by taking back everything I said about my son coming to work with me for the week. He turned out to be very helpful, never complained, did as he was told & finished each day with blisters on his hands. For his next work experience in May he has decided to try working in a restaurant kitchen.
So well done son.
Now lets get back to the bust.

My wife & I were recently shopping in the local supermarket. When we came to the check out I couldn't help but notice the size of the bust of the woman on the till (& it was not only me that noticed). This was mainly because her blouse was half undone. Or half done up, which ever you prefer.
My wife refused to even discuss the matter but I'm sure they were surgically enhanced in someway. They were not huge because the word doesn't begin to describe how big they were. They were what the plastic surgeons of the world call "oh my god they're moving towards us". It was, I must admit slightly warmer at her till, this I think was because she was creating her own micro climate under her bust. I don't know why I felt it necessary to share this with you today. But given how cold it is, I couldn't help but think that maybe the bust would give that woman (& perhaps her partner) a certain amount of built in heating.




Sunday, February 01, 2009 | 0 Comments



They were right, it was cold

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OK OK so they got it right on the meteo (weather) about how cold it would be this morning. -6 degrees here in the Vendee. My day started at 7am when I went out to the boiler room to check on the boiler (no surprises there).

I noticed that the heating water pressure was a bit low, so decided to top it up. As I open the valve I knew something was amiss as nothing happened. The water pipes had frozen up. So what do you when this happens?, you get out your plumbers blow torch out, select the widest nozzle and gently heat the pipe up. This worked fine for all of 3 seconds. At the 4th second the pipe decided it would burst. And burst it did, directly at me. Unfortunately it was -6 outside and the mains water stop tap is down by the gate. I didn't realise ice could form that quickly on your face, hair & clothes. So I've had the day off work to fix the pipes (& defrost my face). Big mistake, as by lunch the pipes were fixed and I decided it would be a good idea to take the boiler apart whilst it's switched off and vacuum out the soot. I had just turned the vacuum cleaner off when I thought I could smell burning. Must be the chimney as the fire in the house was alight. I had just finished putting the boiler back together, when I realised the burning was coming from inside the boiler room. As it turns out the soot hadn't cooled down as much as I thought it had & the burning smell was coming from the vacuum cleaner full of hot soot. But on the bright side, running around with a burning vacuum cleaner did warm me up a bit....




Wednesday, January 07, 2009 | 0 Comments



cold,cold,cold & tomorrow cold

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OK today it's cold, & tomorrow it's going to be even colder (the papers say -5) but what can you do.

Today I thought about not going into work, but my French work mates would have taken the p**s all day. I could of only think of two words "kettle" & "black". The kids didn't go to school today as the buses were not running. Because it was too dangerous to drive in the ice. I left just after eight this morning and all the roads were clear of ice (& buses).  But I will say one thing about the local councils, they had all their men out with shovels, sand & salt. They covered everything that wasn't moving with the stuff. By lunch time the roads were very slippery due to the fact that you kept slipping on the bloody sand & salt. If tomorrow is as cold as they say it's going to be I'll take a shovel with me to dig myself out of the sand & salt just in case. If this blog does not get updated tomorrow then you will know that I am still digging....




Tuesday, January 06, 2009 | 0 Comments

no the car didn't start

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I was going to say that my car didn't start but in the end it did, without the need to hit it with a branch. But at four o'clock this afternoon my wife was going to get the kids from school and guess what the car would not start. She called me at work and told me. I said "if you go around the back of the house, you will see some old branches" this didn't go down too well. I suggested the AA. This was also a bad move. I think if she could of reach down the phone she would of pulled my balls out via my mouth. As it turned out the kids were already on their way home on the bus because of the snow. I know in the UK a little bit of snow and everything stops, but in France every school and government dept. decide it's time to go home & hit the Bordeaux the moment the first flake hits the ground. This isn't very good for the parents, who then need to rearrange the afternoon to be at home for the kids. But it does then give the French another reason to hate the government and discuss it over breakfast........& lunch.....& dinner the next day. By the way the TV viewing tonight is easy as the kids are tired out, so am I, and I don't give a s**t as I will be outside fixing my wife's car in the snow with a big branch.



Monday, January 05, 2009 | 0 Comments

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