Much as I'd love to boast as to how we braved the elements and conquered the drifts and avalanches ... ... ... ...

we'll be staying in and eating bacon butties till the thaw.

Snowed under by george.m.cooper, on Flickr

It has been snowing almost constantly in dribs and drabs for 36 hours now - thank goodness I got the bacon in.

Trouble is - I forgot the bread! And what IS a bacon butty with no bread? (And that's a rhetorical question, Llanigraham and Terfyn, before we start a pedantry war!!)

Edited 18 December, 201015 yr by Freshacre

Trouble is - I forgot the bread! And what IS a bacon butty with no bread? (And that's a rhetorical question, Llanigraham and Terfyn, before we start a pedantry war!!)

Its a "full English" without the fried bread and the fried egg. (and the black pud, the saute potatoes, baked beans, etc. etc.) Does anyone remember the British Rail breakfasts when they came round with trays of all the above - one of the highlights of my trips to London for BGNW. (it usually went downhill from there.)

Edited 18 December, 201015 yr by Terfyn

Its a "full English" without the fried bread and the fried egg. (and the black pud, the saute potatoes, baked beans, etc. etc.) Does anyone remember the British Rail breakfasts when they came round with trays of all the above - one of the highlights of my trips to London for BGNW. (it usually went downhill from there.)

LOL

Its a "full English" without the fried bread and the fried egg. (and the black pud, the saute potatoes, baked beans, etc. etc.) Does anyone remember the British Rail breakfasts when they came round with trays of all the above - one of the highlights of my trips to London for BGNW. (it usually went downhill from there.)

If it's just bacon it must be an English.

Now a full Welsh, that would contain the eggs, sausage, black pudding, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and a fried slice. For Scottish I suppose George would prefer white pudding!

Terfyn, you should try the breakfast on the Wrexham & Shropshire service.............yummmmmmmmmm!!!! :p

Currently we have just over 12" here and like George mine hasn't moved. It will have to tomorrow, as I'm supposed to be on nights! :S

Edited 18 December, 201015 yr by Llanigraham

Mine this morning. And I'd been out and cleared it the day before. In places round the house the snow was deeper than my wellies!  The car was scraping the underbody shield on the snow getting out on to the main road.

Why isn't it in the garage ?

Why isn't it in the garage ?

It doesn't quite fit. And we've also got lots of stuff stored in there in need of sorting and/or getting rid of...  :-)

Why isn't it in the garage ?

Wots one of them?

well - I took courage in both my woollen Thinsulate gloves, got a handy broom, brushed the fine powdery 12 inches of deposit off the doors windows and bonnet, set the mirrors to heat, ignited the windscreen wipers front and rear - and ventured off down the road, where the local farmer had decided to help the local community.

By that I mean that he'd taken his front-end loader and run it along at ground level, periodically dumping the accumulations in an untidy and dirty dump at the side of the lane, which then had to be negotiated cautiously.

The trouble with his charity, however, was that which he'd inadvertently left behind where vehicles would dare to tread. We could drive round his dumps with ease - but when it came to any form of acceleration, or heaven forbid, deceleration, it became a whole different er - ballpark? He'd merely compressed the snow and rendered it into sheet ice, - and having traversed various corners and begun the start of what ends up as a 1-in-6 hill downwards, I touched the middle pedal - and glided about 30 yards, only regaining control by gently steering to starboard into the virgin snow.

At that point prudence, bless 'er, took control. And we reversed about half a mile by mirrors until we were able to turn and drive properly back up the relatively slight incline. The off-road button did its job as ever and I heard what the hand-book describes as "a noise" as the Haldex system of guardian angelstry sorted out any slippage, getting us back home - and ready for another bacon non-butty.

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Nearly ready for a very quick slip-slide adventure!

The roads BEFORE the latest fall of snow, and the charitable refurbishment into a skating rink

Edited 18 December, 201015 yr by Freshacre

George,

I'm sorry but even after promises of free bacon butties 4x4 Response Wales cannot treat your breadlessness as an emergency.

Ah well, there's always the Vicar, except I don't like fish!

Probably no bread in the shops anyway, 2 days supply went in a morning in our local shop.

Trouble is - I forgot the bread! And what IS a bacon butty with no bread? (And that's a rhetorical question, Llanigraham and Terfyn, before we start a pedantry war!!)

it's probably just a bacon ??

and your shirt has now got brown sauce all down it

and graham.. the full scottish would surely consist of all your ingredients plus haggis.

i'm so glad i spent nearly 4 hours driving 10 miles to do that last bit of shopping.

oh, freshacre. just for you chap....

Its a "full English" without the fried bread and the fried egg. (and the black pud, the saute potatoes, baked beans, etc. etc.) Does anyone remember the British Rail breakfasts when they came round with trays of all the above - one of the highlights of my trips to London for BGNW. (it usually went downhill from there.)

British Rail breakfasts weren't the same after they took Kippers off the Brighton Belle menu!

Fred

Edited 18 December, 201015 yr by g6zru

Nearly ready for a very quick slip-slide adventure!

The roads BEFORE the latest fall of snow, and the charitable refurbishment into a skating rink

Hi George,

think you need some of these, probably delivered by air drop

Nokian Hakkapeliitta

Regards,

TP

Think of my dad. He is coeliac. He used to love bacon butties - nice fresh baked bread with butter on them and tomato sauce.

Now he can have a bacon buttie but it is on bread made with rice flour. It is stodgy horrible bread. You can't do anything with it - it is like eating cardboard.

Even if you try and toast it to get rid of the stodginess you end up with bread which as soon as you try and cut splinters and breaks glass cause it is so hard and travelling at high speed.

So please, whilst you are temporarily out of bread, spare a though for my dad who can never ever again have a decent bacon buttie.......

Tom

Poo Hope it thaws bloody quick, I have to drive down to Haverfordwest in the octy in a few days.

So please, whilst you are temporarily out of bread, spare a though for my dad who can never ever again have a decent bacon buttie.......

Tom

Aye Tom, Ah kin hear ye!

Yer auld Mannie could hae his bacon on an oatcake steeped in dripping, ye ken?

But of course you are absolutely correct - and what would be worse would be to EAT a bacon buttie within nose-shot of your old man, because the smell of cooking bacon would drive him demented.

ANyway - I will let you all into a wee secret. Merthyr Cynog may only have a total of 6 houses, but one of the dwellings contains one of the families who starred in the recent BBC One series "How We Were" where they took over Shepton Mallet High Street in Somerset, and installed a Butcher, a Baker and a Candlestick Maker and recreated times gone by.

My next door neighbour is the BAKER!! Caroline's Real Bread Company is based 25 yards from my front door.

I feel a crusty loaf coming on

And YetiClive, you sadist (!!), are those your false teeth in that photo??

oh, freshacre. just for you chap....

Are those your false teeth just visible?? Its what you get from eating stale crusty bread (or trying to score cheap points on here!!!!!)

Edited 18 December, 201015 yr by Freshacre

:giggle:

they are my false teeth...

don't turn the loaf over, i've been nibbling the bottom.

you're a lucky man having that baker on your doorstep.

i just hope the chap at no 5 keeps pigs.

seriously, it's not funny being snowed in. i hope you're all coping OK?

Aye Tom, Ah kin hear ye!

Yer auld Mannie could hae his bacon on an oatcake steeped in dripping, ye ken?

But of course you are absolutely correct - and what would be worse would be to EAT a bacon buttie within nose-shot of your old man, because the smell of cooking bacon would drive him demented.

ANyway - I will let you all into a wee secret. Merthyr Cynog may only have a total of 6 houses, but one of the dwellings contains one of the families who starred in the recent BBC One series "How We Were" where they took over Shepton Mallet High Street in Somerset, and installed a Butcher, a Baker and a Candlestick Maker and recreated times gone by.

My next door neighbour is the BAKER!! Caroline's Real Bread Company is based 25 yards from my front door.

I feel a crusty loaf coming on

And YetiClive, you sadist (!!), are those your false teeth in that photo??

George, we saw that series and really enjoyed it. Next time we come and visit we will have to visit the bakery too......

Oh and BTW dad cannot even have oatcakes or even porridge oats for that matter. The reason why - the field that the oats are grown in may have some wheat growing as a weed which could get into the oats and make him ill..........

Still hopefully by now you've got your bread and also had your bacon buttie too.

postmanpat - have you got snow tyres - if not seriously think about investing in some. My Octy has Avon ice and snow touring on and each year we get the snow I think that we should think about a 4x4 for the next, then I go out in the Octy with the snow tyres and think nah, no need. In fact they were so good at gripping that I now need a new drainpipe......

Tom

postmanpat - have you got snow tyres - if not seriously think about investing in some. My Octy has Avon ice and snow touring on and each year we get the snow I think that we should think about a 4x4 for the next, then I go out in the Octy with the snow tyres and think nah, no need. In fact they were so good at gripping that I now need a new drainpipe......

Tom

New set of rainsports on the front, 4 snow socks in the boot. If the worst comes to the worst I will fit skis and get the dogs to pull it

postmanpat - have you got snow tyres - if not seriously think about investing in some. My Octy has Avon ice and snow touring on and each year we get the snow I think that we should think about a 4x4 for the next, then I go out in the Octy with the snow tyres and think nah, no need. In fact they were so good at gripping that I now need a new drainpipe......

Tom

Good job twas only the drain pipe! And not the boot or the kitchen, I wondered what the he'll happened when I heard the revs and then the bang!!!