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Looks like HBC have dropped another one this morning. I was awakened by the sound of revving engines at 5am as the first lorry of the day got stuck at the top of Bolton Avenue. Guess who hasn't been out gritting then?

It looks as though there is about an inch of snow on the ground and only pedestrians are moving.

It's now 5:23, the first lorry has been joined by a second and a white van.

The Met Office have this to say:

Widespread Icy Roads & Heavy Snow
Affecting Blackburn With Darwen, Blackpool, Cheshire, Gtr Manchester, Halton, Lancashire, Merseyside & Warrington
Heavy snow at times today will lead to dangerous driving conditions. Further accumulations of 3-7cm can be expected away from extreme eastern coasts, along with icy stretches on any untreated roads.

HBC cannot say that they didn't know that this was coming.

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Here are a couple of articles that you may find it worth considering this morning...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatecha...083419,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/featu...108853,00.html

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It was like a winter wonderland at 6am. Kids moaning because i've got them up for school/college but i said "until i hear different it's getting ready and setting off as normal." hehehe

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And quite right too, Sara. Remind them of how we had to go to school barefoot in all weathers - and were grateful of the privelege.

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That's right luv, you too? Young people today - don't know they're born!

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Yep.

Now you've really depressed me with those two Guardian articles. I hate this sort of weather and a new ice age person I am most certainly not. :(

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Once you got to school A-B and Willow we had to sit there with coats on. No sending us home because the heating had broken down, once again.

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You had coats................Dad had to go and kill a sheep and we where allowed to rub its fleece all over ourselves to keep warm and dry.

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What heating? That kind of thing was only for effete southerners.

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LUXURY! We had to make do with old copies of the Telegraph, which we had to pinch from next door's dog's basket.

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Next doors dog was a Telegraph reader??? Ours could only manage the Sun!

BTW, I like the anagram A-B !!!

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Lancashire Evening Telegraph not the Daily Telegraph. The really posh people lived at the top of the street, they had the Times in their cludgy.

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Aww c'mon Willow;I can't tell you yet.It would spoil it for everyone else!.

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It does make you laugh every time it snows its 'Artic' conditions sweeping the country. l can't wait for the ice caps to melt. London will be gone completely, Hynburn will survive as a group of wet soggy islands like the Orkneys. People will want to hang their washing on the Coppice earth works as they'll catch a fine breeze.

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A-B,if Bolton Avenue has lost it's appeal you can enjoy the spectacle of the recycling team trying to negotiate the bin wagon down the streets near Peel Park;it's a bit like a bizarre slalom event with blue boxes thrown in!

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Location: Tragic Conn.

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When taking my son to school this morning I was soooo suprised when he turned round and said ''guess we will have to stop in at break time again'', I asked why and he said ''cos we are not allowed to play out in the snow''. THEN YOU WONDER WHY KIDS ARE GROWING UP SOFT. When I was at school we could be six feet under the snow and we were made to play out while the teachers stayed in the office drinking warm coffee by the fire!!! but we enjoyed it cos thats what kids do!!

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it never fails to astonish me that an inch or so of snow can cause so much disruption. I notice that this week there is a ski-ing resort in the US which is trumpeting the fact that they have had 24 to 36 inches of snowfall - this week! How would we go on if it was like that here? Severe weather indeed! Southern Drama Queens more like!

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When I went to school we used to have snowball fights, and when I mentioned this to my wife (who takes our son to school), she told me that they are not allowed to do this.

Apparently it's dangerous.

I really worry about this country sometimes

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I seem to remembered it has snowed before in living memory, yet we are always taken by suprise @ grind to a halt. The rest of the world seems to cope without such a fuss, l ve just shouted at some silly kids for trying to skate on the ice @ the nature reserve, l won't say what they shouted back.

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Yes your wife is right!! When I took my sons into the school play ground the head mistress was telling then ''don't throw snow balls'' then doing a really bad job of showing them how to have fun in the snow without throwing it!!!........................the kids just stared at her like she had grown a second head!

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What was she doing?

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Don't Eat Yellow Snow

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i used to love it when it snowed as pendy will verify, we used to throw snowballs at the girls who came out of paddock house, cos they wore their motorboard hats then, he he he must say i admit to getting one or two hats off.;)

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KICKING IT AROUND ON THE FLOOR lets just say I think she may have got her head kicked of the bigger kids after I left the yard. DAFT MOO

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What planet do these people live on?

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now now mez, kids maybe reading this thread, and they are encouraged not to take part in snow ball fights. Do you know how many injuries there have been reported through throwing the soft snow that falls from our sky!!! there have been loss off eyeballs.........serious head injuries.............suffocation (hehehe used to like T BAGGING PEOPLE THAT WAS FUN) so please take a leaf out of my sons teachers book and just show the kids how to kick the snow (hell the teacher was having a good old time)

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planet p/c (not comps either) when will they see that kids NEEDto play//

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Tell me about poor little sod's. They wait all year for snow, keeps them awake at night cos they are so excited then the bloody teachers won't let them play in it.

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hi acrylic bob omg the weather outside is asolutely ridiculous im in college and its snowing heavy and they wont send us home its stupid

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And quite right too! Get on with your work. We are relying on you to get a good job and support us all when we retire. How are you going to do that when you are hardly ever at college? What are you studying by the way, don't tell me it's Media Studies?

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I remember when i was at Moorehead one of St. Christophers teachers coming round all the classrooms at Moorehead with the Head Master Mr. Neville trying to identify her snowball assailent lol!! Now they were snowball fights!!!

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[QUOTE]What are you studying by the way, don't tell me it's Media Studies?
and so say all of us. lazy students. i'm going sledging in a bit.

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Good for you! Acrylic-biff and I have spent a splendid morning outdoors, playing "fetch" with snowballs and building a snowdog - his idea not mine - and now we are looking forward to an outing to the coast this afternoon. No time off for us just because it's snowing or because a double period of Quantum Physics is stressing us out. We just have to get on with it.

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Yup, I remember all too well getting my mortar board knocked off - thanks, Mez! We are coming up this weekend - should I be bringing skis, etc?

As for it taking us by surprise, going back one weekend the train to Preston was 20 minutes late. When we asked why, and why it was going so slowly, the guard told us it was because of the rain! - possibly wrong type - the trains slipped on the rails. THIS IS LANCASHIRE!!! - IT RAINS!! - A LOT!! It was never like this when we were kids, there was plenty of snow then, but everybody cleared their own paths and put ashes down, AND the roads were gritted.

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That used to be quite a popular excuse when I used the Accrington to Burnley line. It's because of the danger of flooding. The line has been there for the last 150 years and has never once, in all that time, been washed away by a raging torrent. Why should it be a pressing problem now all of a sudden?

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Shall only write one word on reply to that Litigation.

Well maybe a few more.

Apparantly a girl from Mount Carmel had to be taken to hospital yesterday, due to a snowball hitting her eye. I think it must have contained ice.

I for one don't like children playing out in the snow at school, it's okay when at home as when they come in they can change into dry clothes. They can't do that at school, unless they have a PE kit in school.

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All kids at school (primary) have a p.e kit, that they can get changed into.
Another thing, when we were kids like I said earlier they kicked us out in blizard conditions and I am still here to tell the tale. The weather is few and far between, take it from my son who was so depressed about going to school because he knew he would not be allowed to play out in it. At least give them a choice, saty in and stay warm, or play out.

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The school i work at you'll be lucky if half the kids have a PE kit in school.

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aw poor little thing!!!do you work in high school or primary?

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What a lovely sight. I worked last night and every time any of us went near a window we were watching it coming down. It looked lovely and to cap it all we didn't get our usual ward full of time wasters coming in, only the people who were genuinely in labour.:D Driving home wasn't too bad either, although getting off the untreated car park at QPH was the worst bit. Hyndburn's roads were definitely worse than Blackburn's. I think they are a little more on the ball with the gritters in Blackburn.

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That's what I mean willow, kids were alot tougher in them days. They are ruined now ''don't touch my kid or I will sue you''
Even the kids say it now ''you can't do anything about it or I will sue you''.

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Makes you wonder where it's all going to end doesn't it?


Here are a couple of photos I took today.

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Ahh yes, they all know their rights, but precious few of their responsibilities, the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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I remember not that long ago my daughter said to me if i continued nagging and grounding her she would ring childline. My reply was that only 1 in 3 children gets through to childline and i would have probably murdered her by then. (Can't have been that serious as i have forgotten what she had done.)

By the way slinky it's a primary school i work in.

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I see you have been draging busman away from a nice warm fire again Willow hehe

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Not all kids are that lilly livered;had my 9 year old daughter up at the Royal Infirmary and she unexpectedly had to have a blood test taken;calm as anything but I feel she maybe dining out on story for weeks!

"really the needle was this looooong !"