Quote of the week from Cro: "I believe it is snowing in large parts of Europe, but not here."
I thought yesterday's strong winds were Storm Whatshername, but it arrived today, bringing even stronger winds.
Are you the outdoors type who scampers outside after breakfast to play in the snow like a child, or are you like me who loves to watch cars desperately trying to get traction whilst facing 180 degrees the wrong way - from the warmth and safety of a cosy house?
There are rumours of a thaw during the small hours of tomorrow morning. This means I will have to climb onto the roof and clear the central gutter. Our Georgian building is so cleverly designed. The central gutter is about 20 feet long and 18 inches wide. It takes all the rainwater from the other 5 houses up the road, and all that water runs into a very small hole in OUR lead work, then runs in an open gutter UNDER our back roof to discharge from an even smaller hole at the back. This gutter runs over H.I.'s bed.
If the snow starts to melt, the solid stuff blocks the little hole in OUR gutter, then the whole 20 feet starts filling up with water. When it rises to about 10 inches, it goes over the top of the lead work and pours onto the upstairs ceiling. It then finds its way through the light fitting - which is directly over H.I.'s bed.
H.I. is quite keen for me to do this task today. For some reason, she does not want to be woken up at 3 in the morning by a cascade of dirty, freezing water landing on her as she sleeps.
You'll be able to see what you are doing, there's a full moon tonight.
ReplyDeleteThere is supposed to be freezing rain tonight.
DeleteSounds like a task on the urgent list. To procrastinate might be a bad decision.
ReplyDeleteYou sound just like H.I.
DeleteThe water comes in through the light fitting? Water and electricity don't mix, so hip to it!!!
ReplyDeleteThe last time it happened, nothing electrical happened. We let it dry out, then used it again.
DeleteDare I say it, but we're just about to take tea, in the sunshine, OUTDOORS, on the terrace. Happy Gutter cleaning.
ReplyDeleteYou'll be complaining of the heat next.
DeleteMeteo says you are supposed to be on high alert for snow. Put the cup down and chop wood, immediately.
DeleteNonsense; it's going to be 15 C tomorrow!
DeleteForward into a bright new future, blah blah.
DeleteBe careful on the roof ..... you don’t want to do a Rod Hull XXXX
ReplyDeleteI don't even know what a Rod Hull is and I still don't want to do it.
DeleteHe fell off the roof aligning his Sky dish so he could watch Man United. He did it regularly but he did it one time too many. He fell and was no more. Rod Hull and Emu. Ventriloquist.
DeleteI know who he was and which bird he stuffed his hand up, I had just forgotten about his Archers episode.
DeleteBe careful or pay somebody to do it for you.
ReplyDeleteI am waiting for someone to come round and do it, Yael. I cannot get through the window these days, what with a great wall of snow in front of me.
DeleteIs this the view from your Georgian drawing room Tom? The building opposite is that the site of the Merkin exhibition? I seem to remember going to an art show there last time we were in Bath. Talking of merkins, like you do, I always thought it was a measure of ale? Best you don’t ask for a merkin of bitter next time you visit the Bell. And be sure not to wear your spikes on the roof otherwise HL’s little plumbing problem may be exacerbated.
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It's a firkin of ale, but I am always asking for merkins in the pub. Yes, that is the museum.
DeleteThat sounds like a complicated drain system and I think it's better to have someone else clearing it out. It looks like you received quite a bit of snow.
ReplyDeleteI employed a man 20 years younger than me. All sorted now.
DeleteThat's the price you pay for living in a posh Georgian town I am afraid.
ReplyDeleteWell, the arse-end of a posh Georgian terrace anyway.
DeleteSnowing again here , just back from the vets
ReplyDeleteSnowing here again too. x
DeleteHow’s Winnie ? XXXX
DeleteFeeding the chickens.
DeleteUnhappy jac x
ReplyDelete😢 XXXX
DeleteLittle better view from this window. Little bit of teal, little bit of red. Why are all those fools in the road and not on the sidewalk?
ReplyDeleteDon't worry about it. It is not important.
DeleteThose fools are very sensible. Walking on the cleared road which has little or no traffic rather than the pavement (sidewalk) which is covered in treacherous, and difficult to walk through, snow. Same here in Salisbury (40 miles away from Bath) where many people are walking in the middle of the road as it's easier. Very little and very light traffic as buses are cancelled, businesses are closed as are schools and most shops. No post either. Snowflake generation.
DeleteI walk on the snow - with spikes!
DeleteI'm the type of person to look at snow from the safety of my own home.
ReplyDeleteI did, however, attempt a jog today & was met with a dump of ice-cold rain. I made it about ten minutes around the 'hood before returning home drenched. Boo.
Sounds refreshing.
DeleteOff subject I know but this last few weeks I've been regularly enjoying a product from your neck of the woods - bottles of Bath Ales Gem, a really superb amber ale.
ReplyDeleteIt is the main regular at our pub, on tap.
DeleteLucky you
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