101 great things about winter

[hedgewizard]

Being able to get somewhere in the garden without stuff always needing day-to-day attention!

[Millymollymandy]

No courgettes!

[Chickpea]

No courgettes!

ROFLAPIMP!

[Milims]

Last year I was working on a building site for the first time (trainee sparky) and I had the most amazing love/hate experience of winter. You know that point where your hands are so cold that it hurts such a lot that you feel sick? Hate it!! But you know that in just a few minutes time some kind of miracle takes place and your hands will warm up and stay that way for the rest of the day - Love it!!!

Helen

[Millymollymandy]

That's not fair! I've never experienced that miracle - mine just stay cold (and feet too) until I go indoors!

[Martin]

my feet freeze up in October, and don't thaw till spring!
It's that time of year that you leap into what feels like scalding water in the bath, and three minutes later, you realise the water is near stone-cold!

[Milims]

M3 - maybe the miracle only takes place when you are stuck up a ladder with your eyes shut and your hands above your head clutching a drill and praying that you don't fall off?
Chris says it also works if you stick your hands in a bucket of of hot water when they are cold - like I carry a bucket of hot water up the ladder!!??
Helen and Chris

[HILLDREAMER90]

Love the seasons,spent part of my childhood abroad & missed them.BUT im with martin,cold feet,SAD, & winter seems to last 6 months up here!! Love the snow for a bit BUT have to leave my car a mile up the hill when it snows & walk thru knee deep snow with shopping on my back. last year i got cort out & dident get the car up in time, so was snowed in for 3 weeks[cabin fever time] Quite enjoy it for a week or so,then run out coal,milk tobacco & it stops being fun I do try to stock up but never enuff money. Cant stand xmas anymore,forced jollyness & mass consumerism.BAA HUMBUG!! For SAD i take vits,cod oil & ginseng & as much light as pos,think it helps? A.

[Stonehead]

Love the snow for a bit BUT have to leave my car a mile up the hill when it snows & walk thru knee deep snow with shopping on my back. last year i got cort out & dident get the car up in time, so was snowed in for 3 weeks[cabin fever time] Quite enjoy it for a week or so,then run out coal,milk tobacco & it stops being fun

If it happens again, message me as I might be able to help.

I have snow tyres on my old Land Rover Defender in winter and she goes pretty much anywhere. I took a trailer load of sheep up and over Gartly Moor last winter - three feet of snow on the road and a blizzard. A nice steady 15 mph and the old girl just ploughed on through.

I've got three-ton towing straps, shackles, hessian sacking, shovels, etc so could have a decent shot at getting your car out. And if not, I can try a few of the farmers with their big tractors as well.

And if all that fails, I can always drop stuff off for you.

[HILLDREAMER90]

Cheers mate. when the snow is bad,my trak is in a V shaped vally & the snow blows off the fields to a depth of 5-6 feet!! had an old landrover[still got but dead] used to leave it in the field & was usualy able to escape. Couldent afford to run landys anymore[or any car really] The farmers next door plough the trak from their place to the road end,but not my bit,"they dont like me,had a few bad words few years ago,long story" Im not good at asking for help, i suppose i feel ive put myself in this situation & its up to me to sort myself out [though i never imagined i,d end up here on my own] Anyway thanx & will keep yr offer in mind if i get desperate. Sorry folks compleatly OT. A.

[Stonehead]

Cheers mate. when the snow is bad,my trak is in a V shaped vally & the snow blows off the fields to a depth of 5-6 feet!! had an old landrover[still got but dead] used to leave it in the field & was usualy able to escape.

One of my neighbours has been known to ski into Insch in winter.

[HILLDREAMER90]

Mmmm, if i was 10 years younger & fitter.When we first came here my old sherpa van gave up after 6 months,we walked to the shops over the hills, 8 mile round trip,all uphill on way back with supplys on our backs,did that for several months, i was only 29 then & full of enthusiasm A.

[Ranter]

It's the only time of year that my cat condescends to curl up on my lap, which makes me absurdly happy.

Mind you, this is about the only thing I like about winter.