Winter sun.

nice pictures there hal, looks cold though...........

Yes. Cold not so bad wind is the killer. Few days of minus 20 to 30 some but with the wind minus 40 below. So will not wean until weekend. Forecast for about freezing only. As metioned previously, no more winter breeding for me. To hard to fight the elements now a days. But did note the two young bird races I flew last year were later breds first home. Always a learning curve. But must also point out not a typical winter. We all adjust.

halcanada wrote:

Yes. Cold not so bad wind is the killer. Few days of minus 20 to 30 some but with the wind minus 40 below. So will not wean until weekend. Forecast for about freezing only. As metioned previously, no more winter breeding for me. To hard to fight the elements now a days. But did note the two young bird races I flew last year were later breds first home. Always a learning curve. But must also point out not a typical winter. We all adjust.

Always is Hal I suggest the wind & the wind chill factor as such. Still I see Yanky land is taking a real belting like you there it appears so that should give you that feel good moment, moment thing maybe.

We have had some very sunny days recently, as is the case today.

Very nice, but driving is a dicey business, the sun shields do not cope with the brightness which is far worse than in the summer.

Turn a corner and at times impossible to see at all.

Far better weather here though than in many cases, elsewhere.

Suppose you cannot have everything.


Regards.

I drive with my sun visors down 365 days a year, summer, winter, they are down.....why im not sure, but it doesn't seem right with them up.

maybe its because I can concentrate more on the road, without seeing distractions up in the skies etc.

when I went for my driving test it was the first time I had drove in day light, maybe this has something to do with it..........

Have glasses that change, or supposed to do relative to the weather, they work just like the Council workmen on the road, on the odd occasion.

Regards.

MISTY wrote:

Have glasses that change, or supposed to do relative to the weather, they work just like the Council workmen on the road, on the odd occasion.

Regards.

Wish to try my bi-focals here Misty etc. Work just fine with my sun issue as such here. Thou council workers it appears are the same all over this little world of ours apparently . Now council workers passed a team of local road workers just the other day here, the flag man/woman, had nails a mile long "coloured" eye lashes the same lip stick that would drive a young bloke crazy with desire & a figure to boot etc & dressed as if she was heading to the local fashion parade when she knocked of work type of thing Good thing thou she gave a certain old fella as here passed by, one huge big, big grin as such which in a strange type way affected him some what to some degree .  

Would like to know what goes on in the deep holes they keep digging, Knackered, if your councils are the same as ours and you have ladies of the nature you indicate involved, often wondered why they put up those tent like things over the same place for months.

It is easier to count the odd day all the roads in our area are free from some form of control due to inferior workmanship having to be put right.


But the Government are not daft, the petrol revinue from crawling and stopped vehicles must be a real bonus along with new clutches necessary because of over use, etc;

Regards.

Minus 35 C right now. Living room is at 10 C. Furnace running and electir fires on. 70 F in the kitchen and bedroom. 40 gallon fish tank with big heater down to 16 C. 4 minutes outside frost bite on exposed skin. Wind factor. One more day. Then should warm up. In the meantime....adapt...

halcanada wrote:

Minus 35 C right now. Living room is at 10 C. Furnace running and electir fires on. 70 F in the kitchen and bedroom. 40 gallon fish tank with big heater down to 16 C. 4 minutes outside frost bite on exposed skin. Wind factor. One more day. Then should warm up. In the meantime....adapt...

sounds a bit nippy there hal, jeeeez, imagine how we in the uk would cope will temperatures like that eh.......plus the country comes to a stand still with a couple of centimeters of snow.

Snows here and trains stop. So we ask 'How and why didn't it stop the old steam locomotives ?
Places like Sweden etc. don't often have trouble.

Because, they SAY 'Its the wrong kind of snow.


Have photos of 1947 when the men folks dug out and clear the roads from village to village etc.

Lorry drivers in the 50's never had the motor way to help them in snowy times... EEH hang on a minute … They drove around most days non stop delivering... Buses - where I lived, and my dad was a conductor and we lived in a small Market Town surrounded by villages.... Never ever had a day off... Hey up, for that matter the buses from surrounding villages ALWAY brought the kids into school. Never ever thought that school wouldn't be open! Indeed we used to take our top clothing off and stack on the radiator lol... never made a lot of difference though … mind depended where it was placed in the stack I guess...

never see any snow ploughs here now, why ? because of all the speed bumps in the road.........

We have speed bumps also. Well froze last night. Fish tank water to flush the toilet. Bottled water for usual stuff. Cannot unthaw the well. Wait and hope situation.

halcanada wrote:

We have speed bumps also. Well froze last night.  Fish tank water to flush the toilet. Bottled water for usual stuff. Cannot unthaw the well. Wait and hope situation.

Please don't talk about speed humps etc Hal Like bees here on our roads in parts another one of thought bubble moments for those with the power down here on average. Smart thinking lot here put speed humps at every corner & in between & then they had another thought bubble moment & brought the speed limit down to 30/50 KM/ph to go over them as such . One local one, was that badly designed cars were even ripping there sumps out underneath here, at low speed. Council for ages refused to do anything about it, until there was an uproar & people gave them their car repair bills to pay etc.  

The original idea of speed bumps was to slow the traffic down and reduce the accidents.


Result, more accidents, more dints in cars, more cars needing repairs, more aggravated motorists, and a real useless original idea.


May I just make a suggestion, remove the bumps and use the material to fill in all the pot holes.


Regards.

MISTY wrote:

The original idea of speed bumps was to slow the traffic down and reduce the accidents.


Result, more accidents, more dints in cars, more cars needing repairs, more aggravated motorists, and a real useless original idea.


May I just make a suggestion, remove the bumps and use the material to fill in all the pot holes.


Regards.

Absolutely true what you say Misty I suspect But here speed humps are a minor issue etc to the fiasco we have now with round about's in our local streets. For years here we had local small buses running the streets "20 people odd" The bean counter types then thou, decided we can have a thought bubble moment & improve the situation  for the peasants by putting the biggest buses we have to do the same job. Unfortunately the buses now cannot even get around the round about's they are that big & the buses are now that big without doing major damage there every where every day of the week as such. Bean counters types, then had another thought bubble moment & put large steel bollards on every one to save the day . Sadly it hasn't helped much, as the local bus drivers continue to knock them down every day faster than they can repair them so to speak . Also smart lot these bean counter types as these buses we have now carn't even get round the roads at times if there are 2 cars parked opposite one another on the roads. Then we have the emergency brigade types "fire ambulance" who complain the roads are that small, they carn't even get to where they want to go at times for a emergency & if they do they only way out is backing up the road they come down . Bean counters amazing how they can find ways to save money at times I suggest . Final note     these monster type buses, on a good day     would have 10/15 people on board at the best, & that includes the driver also.  

Parking, Knackered, is a menace in nearly every town and some villages.


Some areas were built when the horse and cart was the in thing, and as you say if the road is double parked and not a one way street there are problems in particular with buses and the large vehicles from the EU.

We have a Park and Ride but buses run so often that most are empty but cause more problems in town.

Another problem, many houses do not have a drive or gaurage and park on the road.

The councils are making a fortune from parking fees and fines, talk about a Cash Cow.


If I offerd £1,000 for anyone who can name a street that does not have a problem of some kind relative to cars and vehicles I could safey say I would never be in danger of havingto pay it.

The sooner petrol runs out the better.

Go back to basics, horse and cart.


Regards.

Not sure what you folks speed bumps are? Here they are small bumps that rattle the front slightly Then a few more times before getting to a stop sign. Or getting on before a major highway. Not high enough to damage anything.

Ours, Hal, are small mountains intended to slow the traffic down, every hundred yards or so apart.

Used by the moped brigade as good bits of fun.

Supposed to reduce accidents, more accidents since introduction.

Have them in areas with a 20 mile an hour limit, and also 30 mile an hour limit, in both cases many take no notice of either the limits nor the bumps.


But they do a lot of damage to vehicles even sticking to the speed limits on top of which there are not many areas of highway that has not deep potholes that are causing damage even in the vehicles of the most responsible drivers.


But Hey, the Government even benefit from that, VAT on all repairs etc;


If all the vehicles were taken off the road the Government would be bankrupt.


Regards.

speed bumps do absolutely nothing as far as speeding cars go, those who speed still speed, its only the thoughtful , careful drivers who slow down for them........ they are a complete waste of money .

also ive noticed the traffic lights, normally there are queues / tailbacks in all directions, but on the odd occasion the lights are broken, the traffic runs smoothly and no tailbacks.....so this is another way the government and councils try to control our lives, waiting for lights to tell us if we can go or not.

its all down to controlling us.

Never realy thought of it in those terms, David, but on reflection you may have a point.


Control by stealth.


Regards.