Adventures with Tesco.

[panik]

As I suspected would happen - the reason we stayed in Yorkshire yesterday during the only weather-window since Christmas - Tesco couldn't get the van up our hill. We've had another five inches over night and it's still coming down hard.

So Mark and I trundled down to the bottom of the hill with rucksacks, loaded up as best we could then we and Tesco-Boy (they're like policemen, you know?) brought the rest (and there was a lot, we really were scraping the bottoms of our collective barrels at Dad's house, gentle reader, we were out of whisky, we were almost out of tea!) on his trolley and we got it all here. Tesco-Boy wouldn't even come in for a cup of  coffee anxious to get back and finish his shift. He really did go beyond the bounds for us today bless him and his little woolly hat.

There's a splendid Dunkirk Spirit out there with grinning, snow-crusted people walking icicled dogs. We were offered a sledge to help with the shopping (alas it was no use at all, the shopping kept falling off ). It's all rather jolly and thoroughly splendid

Anyway, we're all warm and cosy by the fire now, mugs of well-laced tea, watching The Professionals, giggling at bad daytime ads on ITV3.

Would you like some more pictures? Just taken around and about the house, I wasn't about to venture too far afield in this. Like Rik the People's Poet says, a man could lose his bearings in weather like this.

       

      

  
 
    

Comments

[fingers.livejournal.com]

I can see that green thing outside is it called grass??

Sorry to hear you're still being hit by this...

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

What green thing can you see? There's none around here!

It's been fairly incessant hasn't it? Any change up your end?

[fingers.livejournal.com]

Its melting here ! :D that's why I can see green grass... Its melted quite rapidly over the last day or so...

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Holy frijoles! It ain't melting here, still coming down in fact.

[fingers.livejournal.com]

Our forecast huge dump of snow (the forecast had me flailing!) turned into rain... ;)

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

Whoa! Even the sheeple look cold! Lovely photos but it can't be that lovely to deal with

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I'm fine with a bit of snow myself but the shopping's been a bit tricky to say the least. :o)

Are you OK? Did you get your promised snow?

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

We got about an inch (too embarrassed to post that after seeing your photos!). It's still brutally cold.

I'm a little under the weather today - recurring dizzy spells which i *hope* are not the precursor to flu. I'm chalking the chills off to the weather.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Definitely not getting bored of that kind of pictures! Thanks for sharing *g*

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Happy to oblige! There's not much else to be done in weather like this except to take pictures. :o)

[bennys-mum.livejournal.com]

Yes, they're very pretty! You might even have more of the white stuff than we do! Though it might just be because our roads are clear...

Enjoy the photo taking!!

[mab-browne.livejournal.com]

The Dunkirk Spirit is a wonderful thing, but less snow would be even more so. Good luck. :-)

Thanks for the good wishes!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I loves me a bit of snow, I'm happy now the shopping's here, supplies were getting low.

[luicat.livejournal.com]

What! Running out of tea?!!!!!
Never. Airlift time I say!
:o)

Glad you finally have supplies and Tesco-Boy - what a sweetie for helping.
There have been some grumps round here, but mostly folk are being very cheery and helping each other out. It's been rather nice!

Keep warm and toasty!
♥

Keep warm and toasty!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

You too! ::raises hot toddy to you for yea! we has teh demon grink!::

[mrs-tilford.livejournal.com]

Sheep! Brilliant!!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

LOL. Sheep are not brilliant as a rule, unless you mean that most dangerous of animals...?

[mrs-tilford.livejournal.com]

You! Brilliant!!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously!

;o)

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Poor sheep, even with their woolly coats they'd have to be cold. I'm shivering just looking at them.
Nearly out of tea? That's a worry.
Nearly out of whisky? That's an emergency.

they'd have to be cold.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Heh. I kinda doubt that. ave you ever put your hand in a sheep's fleece? I get down to my armpit before I touch skin. They look pretty comfortable to me, and they're gettin sugar cake and mangolds. It's the birds and smaller wildlife I feel most sorry for, we feed them hugely but I'm sure they're dying at a terrible rate. We found our wee weasel curled up dead in the snow just after Christmas, that broke everyone's hearts.

Re: they'd have to be cold.

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Their fleece is that thick hey? I guess it's climate-related. I've not got up close and personal with a sheep since about 1972 but I don't recall our sheep having fleeces that thick.
Poor little weasel :( . Like the bushfires here, it's always so hard on the wildlife.

Re: they'd have to be cold.

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

ps what were you doing watching Pros? I thought you didn't like the show? Or are you that stir-crazy? *g*

Re: they'd have to be cold.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I don't dislike it, not a huge-big fan but I used to watch it back in the day, when it was new. It's daytime TV, you know? I watched The Champions and Randall and Hopkirk too. :o)

[tehomet.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the photos. It's sooo bad over with you... gosh. I hope it improves soon.

we were almost out of tea!

Say it isn't so! :) I'm actually suppressing a shudder at the very thought!

Things are slowly improving here. Sleety rain is washing most of the snow away, and the gales are seeing it off. The water cut (caused by people leaving their taps running to stop the pipes freezing *rolls eyes*) was mercifully brief. I'm actually starting to look forward to the new year, now.

Speaking of which, I wish you a very happy birthday. ♥