Linda’s prompt for SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “fine.” Use it any way you’d like, bonus points if you use it as the last word of your post. Have fun!
Well, y’all know that we’ve been battling all these storms this week in lil ole’ UK…
Nothing fine about the way things were handled…
The Beast from the East came and disabled most of the South East, the East and Scottish at the beginning of the week.
“Yay!” Said the kids, “Snow days!”
A few centimetres of snow and shutdown occurred! All the schools were closed. Trains and buses cancelled. The roads were chaos. People were stuck on motorways overnight as they got stuck.
Then that cheeky storm, Emma, snuck in from the south and created more havoc in the South West and Wales too!
For the first time in history, (I think) there were red weather warnings raised in Scotland and the South West due to snow. If you don’t know, that means risk to life if you were to venture out! Eek! We were told some places could get up to 50 centimetres!!!!!
Us here in the South East were stuck with the remnants of the Tuesday and Wednesday falls, slowly turning to slush and ice.
Due to the warnings regarding the approaching storm, schools were closed again Thursday and Friday (snow day? More like Snow WEEK!) so the kids were in heaven!
Thursday saw no new substantial snow, but Friday afternoon brought another deluge, thanks to lovely Emma!
All this white stuff is lovely… but what’s the point when it’s that awful powdery stuff that is so fine, it doesn’t stick together, so you can’t make a decent snowball, let alone a snowman!
The kids have tried really hard to make them. The first lot of snow was great. Lil Princess made a three-tier one.
Yesterday, Hubby Dearest ventured out with Lil Man, hoping to make something bigger, but to no avail. They tried and tried but the dang snow just wouldn’t stay together. They ended up with a pile of snow, rather than a figure of any sort… a snow mountain!
On Friday we ventured out to my in-laws house, as we hadn’t been out.
There are no other kids here so the garden’s snow content was largely untouched, apart from the path my father-in-law had painstakingly cleared, from the house to the garage… (three times so far).
Lil Man was in heaven!
He went out, determined to make something, and make something, he did!
A snow penguin!
What do you reckon? I think he did just fine!
Catch ya later Peeps!
Happy Saturday Peeps!
But I Smile Anyway... 
Mar 04, 2018 @ 12:35:14
yup it was a disaster! Ireland got hit badlyoo! I’m glad its thawing out now. xo
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Mar 04, 2018 @ 12:43:05
Me too!!!
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Mar 04, 2018 @ 01:48:36
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 21:12:08
I love snow days! You can sleep in and the whole day is free. You get to choose whatever you want to do. It’s awesome!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 21:15:28
It is indeed Lisa… until you get to day 3 and boredom strikes!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 13:56:42
I think he did just fine too!! Wow it has been stormy for you! We just had a storm come thru yesterday, it was called a Bombogenesis, that’s when a cyclone rapidly intensifies. It was supposed to be the worst ever, remember the movie The Perfect Storm, that was a bombogenesis and the Northeast coast of America got hammered by it yesterday. I’m inland some, we had heavy rain and strong winds. Thank goodness it didn’t turn to snow!! Everything today here is fine. 😉 Have a wonderful weekend Ritu. xo
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 14:01:52
I’m glad all is fine with you too!!! Today we are a county full of sludge!!! Other areas are snowed in.. we are melting and bleurgh! The snow penguin is slowly dying!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 14:09:17
UGH! Ohhh poor snow penguin!! Look forward to when he can make a sand penguin!! 😉
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 14:30:26
Me too lol!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 13:36:13
I love the penguin!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 13:44:56
It’s so cute isn’t It! ☃🐧
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 15:04:13
Yes!!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 13:31:23
A snow penguin! How sweet! The kids must have enjoyed the snow-time very much though!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 13:44:41
They’ve loved it sis! ☃🐧
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 20:38:02
I bet, sis 😄
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 12:17:17
Do you make up your snow days in the summer? We’ve had years where they’ve had to cancel spring break to make up for s lit of snow days.
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 13:42:37
They’ve not done that before… but we have them so rarely!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 14:01:41
We have to complete 180 days in the classroom, but the year must end by June 30. It’s made for some creative scheduling in the past. We always schedule 183 days, in anticipation of some closings.
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 14:02:45
We have a specific number of sessions too but I think this kind of thing happens so rarely it won’t be made up… I hope!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 10:55:14
Very cute snowmen. Happy weekend!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 12:03:01
Happy weekend! 🐧☃
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 09:31:35
Local councils and government agencies Nil 🤔😵😵😵Little man 100%💜😀😀😀😀💜💜💜💜
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 10:09:52
Ha! He’d love that!!!!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 10:13:08
💜
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 05:36:10
Cute.
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 10:09:06
Thanks Janet!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 05:05:34
Love the snowman, hate the snow. We’re getting hit with nor’easter right now. The rain & snow has stopped but the winds!! Trees down everywhere. Be safe. Stay in!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 10:08:55
It’s stopped now but the roads are so icy!!!!
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 17:20:07
Oh boy, stay safe. Our storm passed, now it’s just cold 😦
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Mar 03, 2018 @ 18:01:02
It’s melting now in our area.. ..
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