Good Morning Early Birds!

[waterboatman]

Friday. Another weekend beckons. The moon is shining so bright it's almost like daylight here. I've been up for over an hour, couldn't get back to sleep, so got up and went for a wee walk down the lane, the lights of Gloucester shining brightly, the glow of the moon reflecting off the River Severn makes it look almost ethereal. A little bit too cool for most of the wildlife to be out and about, one fox on the scrounge, a badger going about it's lawful, or unlawful occasions. Neither of them took any notice of me, except to realise I was no threat to them. Quite pleasent.

Have a happy day everyone.

[albaqwerty]

Take care Boaty xx

Minty, I don't mind brrrrr, I do mind the snow and ice tho lol

[murraymints]

just hope there is not the mountain of snow this year !

[ducksie]

Good morning everyone, not read any posts yet, just seen this thread started before 4am. OMG I was fast asleep, only getting up, couldn't pass lappy without saying hello to all here, hope you are all keeping well, I'm on my way into kitchen to get some breakfast - nothing fancy, tea/toast and marmalade, some of you here are ready for lunch I guess (Back soon ) Ducksie - I don't even know how the weather is!!

[murraymints]

morning Ducksie xx

[ducksie]

Morning minty/albs, all I see on this page, just see I missed boaty :( I'll nab him tomorrow :)

Off to put kettle on brb ;)

[albaqwerty]

Morning Ducksie xx

Kettle on eh? Tea for Minty please, I'm coffee :-)

Minty, I wish the councils would get their fingers out when it comes to tidying up roads when ice/snow happens.

[murraymints]

we are at the top of a steep hill that the snow ploughs and gritters can't get up in bad conditions, it's a nightmare.. when it was really bad a few years back we could not get out the door, when it thawed we had to climb over huge drifts and walk to shop ..which had no bread..milk..papers.. nothing could get through.. I ended up having to keep the neighbours going with soup and stew etc as I always have a full freezer..now have the breadmaker which will help if that situation recurs..

[albaqwerty]

Minty, you mentioning steep hills has reminded me about the 'grit boxes' that we used to have in our village.
Haven't seen (or noticed) any for a few years.
Was handy to have access to the grit if ploughs etc couldn't get through.

[murraymints]

there is a box at the top ..but is always empty..council don't think to fill it when the going is good !

[albaqwerty]

Councils don't seem to do 'joined up thinking'
Would probably save them a fortune if they did :-)