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[tunnie]

Had to go to work today, had to pick up laptop and dongle to work from home, took a while to dig the car out yesterday (though not as long as Debs!)

Time to get spade



Not sure how this worked, nothing was supporting it underneath



Need to dig that out before i could go anywhere



The road





Mother tunnies Estate on the right



Most snow i have ever seen in Brackley



Underneath the snow was ice, left over screen wash from me fixing the jets 



Driveway cleared, i found a rake worked really well at getting most of it out of the way quicker thanks to its size, used spade on harder bits



Decided to go for a wonder after that with the hounds.....

[Debs.]

  Lovely pics......a Winter wonderland indeed;`though the palm tree in the garden seems somehow uncomfortable under it`s unfamiliar crown of snow.

[Lazydocker]

I've got some pictures from my digging out... Over 3 hours of it

Gotta try and get to work in a few minutes, even though we won't be doing anything

Still... If I make it I can play some more cards

[tunnie]

Lovely pics......a Winter wonderland indeed;`though the palm tree in the garden seems somehow uncomfortable under it`s unfamiliar crown of snow.

Surprised how well thats done, been there since we moved in, actually creates a flower during the year which smells quite nice

[Marks DTM Calib]

Lol, I spent the morning making this:

[tunnie]

no hills around my way to make it worth bodging one up.

Should have taken the snowboard to work, people were Skiiing down the big hills at Jc6 on the M40 cutting

[sparkyw666.]

its well worse down south and i though we had it bad up north

[Marks DTM Calib]

no hills around my way to make it worth bodging one up.

Should have taken the snowboard to work, people were Skiiing down the big hills at Jc6 on the M40 cutting

Not many good hills round here that you cna sledge but, the kids are quite happy being pulled round the streets on it.

Not many people have a sledge with old steam loco steam pipe as the runners......

[TheBoy]

Tunnie - your road doesn't look too bad. Halse road is completely clear now as well

MDTM - save your enegy, tie it to the bumper of the car

[Marks DTM Calib]

Tunnie - your road doesn't look too bad. Halse road is completely clear now as well

MDTM - save your enegy, tie it to the bumper of the car

What, like this prize idiot:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191050/Father-faces-jail-towing-son-sledge-4x4-lifetime-experience.html

Now for those that dont know, what you can see in the background is the carpark for the police station.

So not only is he on the worng side of the road being bloody dangerous, hes driving past the police station.

[cem_devecioglu]

nice piccies and good work Tunnie..

MDTM, I had one similiar and priceless ..good work

[Debs.]

Lol, I spent the morning making this:

A grand job, Mark!.....

......you get the OOF "welder of the day" award.

[TheBoy]

Tunnie - your road doesn't look too bad. Halse road is completely clear now as well

MDTM - save your enegy, tie it to the bumper of the car

What, like this prize idiot:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191050/Father-faces-jail-towing-son-sledge-4x4-lifetime-experience.html

Now for those that dont know, what you can see in the background is the carpark for the police station.

So not only is he on the worng side of the road being bloody dangerous, hes driving past the police station.

Yeah

I remember my mate's dad nearly killing us, towing us behind his car   (felt like he nearly did, but I suspect it was mostly safe-ish).



Another related story. I must have been around 20 at the time, an older mate welded up a sledge. Far larger than yours, designed so the 'gang' could all get on it at same time.  We strapped it to roof of his estate and set off for the hills.  We commented it was awfully heavy, but he said once on the icy snow, it would glide well.  He was right. Too well.  At the bottom of the grassy slope is a small ditch, then the woods start (for those near Aylesbury, Aston Viewpoint/Daniels Trudge).  We cleared the ditch, the sled stoped really quick when it buried in a tree.  5 grown men in a heap crying.  Still, we had plenty more goes   (only learned to turn it over before it got to bottom)

[TheBoy]

I remember my mate's dad nearly killing us, towing us behind his car   (felt like he nearly did, but I suspect it was mostly safe-ish).

I should add, that although it was on a public highway, it was on a small estate road, and roads were never busy back then, particularly in that weather.  Still probably daft though, but we enjoyed it.

That article - what the hell was he smoking

[tunnie]

Suicidal on main roads  - What a plonker

Can't see a problem on small estate roads, problem comes if you have to stop suddenly, kid on the sledge can't