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[Mark]

Andy wrote: "Update on Snow Storms :D

Schools closing..... buses cancelled.... still no slow seen..... pmsl"

⛄️🌨 we have it up here. 😉😉

[Andy]

Mark wrote: "Andy wrote: "Update on Snow Storms :D

Schools closing..... buses cancelled.... still no slow seen..... pmsl"

⛄️🌨 we have it up here. 😉😉"

BAHHHHHHH! :)

We're due tomorrow in all honesty like the rest of the South Coast & Sou'West but everywhere is like panic buying tonight.... supermarket shelves cleared lols

Mind I walked along the sea front this afternoon & it was biting some, talk of about -10 Deg adding on the wind chill

[Andy]

Adrian wrote: "Terri wrote: "sorry, prob shouldn't say 'inside the box', I was a hockey player. :)"

I coach my wife's team and a couple of years ago before their grand final, the girls were getting changed and v..."

Hahhahahhahaha Jus reading back throu & caught this... made me chuckle

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

haha. Yeah, lots of puns to be had around the box in hockey.

Honestly, when I played, which was all through from little kid to 30, I actually never even thought about it. No puns, it was just 'the box'. Now that I no longer play, I suddenly notice it and realise how references to the box must have sounded to non-hockey players or people that hadn't known hockey from very young. :)

[Mark]

Andy wrote: "Mark wrote: "Andy wrote: "Update on Snow Storms :D

Schools closing..... buses cancelled.... still no slow seen..... pmsl"

⛄️🌨 we have it up here. 😉😉"




We're due tomorrow in all ho..."
I know I went to pickup some cat food and a loaf of bread and a couple of stotties for bacon sandwiches and everyone else was panic buying.

[Ace]

I had to look up stotties. Yum.
The only thing better than bacon sandwiches is bacon sandwiches with butter!

[happy]

Since you look it up Ace, what exactly is stotties?

[Ace]

happy wrote: "Since you look it up Ace, what exactly is stotties?"

They look like American flat hamburger rolls. But they call it a cake for some reason.

[Andy]

Its cause he's from Ooop Norfff & they do funny things up there.... sure its there Pictish ancestry!

[Ace]

Andy wrote: "Its cause he's from Ooop Norfff & they do funny things up there.... sure its there Pictish ancestry!"
Yes, I'm sure everything is perfectly normal where you're from 😂😂😂

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

We've never taken our dog (furkid) to the vet to have his teeth cleaned before. He is 11 years old now. He suffers anxiety at the vet so we only take him for emergencies and vaccinations.

We decided now he's getting on (over 70 in dog years you know) that it couldn't be avoided. They took his x-ray, rang us and he needs 10 teeth taken out! What a shock.

The vet said this is the norm for a dog his age. Any dog people out there? Is this the norm?

We've spent a small fortune over the last decade, buying him chews and toys to clean his teeth and it hasn't bloody helped at all. Feeling ripped off.

Stuff his anxiety. He's going to be getting his teeth cleaned every year from now on.

[Allison]

I’ve never had dogs but I did a lot of rescue work and I know that periodontal disease is very common in older dogs. It’s rather high, some 90% of dogs suffer from gum disease after age 4, I believe. Taking the teeth out is preventive so the poor fella doesn’t get infections later. And will cut down on some of that yucky dog breath!! :P

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I think I have to accept that my little Smudge is getting old. :[ He doesn't act like it, but that comes with the territory because he's a Jack Russell.
He had some of that yucky dog breath. The worst rotten prawn breath. haha. We call his mouth his 'stink pit'.

Spending all this money on those chews couldn't fix it. Told the vet last year when he was in for vaccinations and they said that is normal for small breeds due to the small teeth.

Looks like maybe he had bad teeth! Maybe they shouldn't have missed it last year. :/

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

or the year before that!

[happy]

Terri wrote: "We've never taken our dog (furkid) to the vet to have his teeth cleaned before. He is 11 years old now. He suffers anxiety at the vet so we only take him for emergencies and vaccinations.

We decid..."

Otisthedog (mini schnauzer) has had 12 teeth removed about 4 yrs ago or so - he's between 11 and 12 now.

Mrs Happy still feels guilty about that :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

haha. Because the poor fellow had to have the extractions? Or because you didn't get his teeth cleaned regularly?

I feel guilty as Hell that we weren't getting his teeth cleaned regularly.

Did Otis have any infections under the teeth. Vet rang and said there was a couple infections, but now the teeth are out antibiotics will clean any residual infection.

[happy]

Terri wrote: "haha. Because the poor fellow had to have the extractions? Or because you didn't get his teeth cleaned regularly?

I feel guilty as Hell that we weren't getting his teeth cleaned regularly.

Did Ot..."

Both :)

luckily he didn't have any infections. When we take him again for his check up - I think there might be some dental work due - his breath has really gotten "aromatic" lately :)

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Terri wrote: "Huh. Nah. The Goal box. Inside the box. Inside the square. Hockey terms and similar to Soccer terms."

I refused to play sport at school.

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Andy wrote: "Its cause he's from Ooop Norfff & they do funny things up there.... sure its there Pictish ancestry!"

Oy! My family is norf! Chester-le-Street and Barnsley. Can't get much more norf than that!

Though I suppose you worked that out from my attitude. ;D

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Oh dear. Verbal cock-up of the day goes to Australian MP Michelle Landry. The Anals of History.

The word is annals, love, annals.

[Mark]

Margaret wrote: "Andy wrote: "Its cause he's from Ooop Norfff & they do funny things up there.... sure its there Pictish ancestry!"

Oy! My family is norf! Chester-le-Street and Barnsley. Can't get much more norf t..."

Lols, I grew up near Barnsley, well till I was 12 anyway.

[Adrian]

Margaret wrote: "Oh dear. Verbal cock-up of the day goes to Australian MP Michelle Landry. The Anals of History.

The word is annals, love, annals."

Usually...

[Sherry]

Margaret wrote: "Oh dear. Verbal cock-up of the day goes to Australian MP Michelle Landry. The Anals of History.

The word is annals, love, annals."

I came across a doozy yesterday in a local newspaper: a certain new book had "won alkaloids" from a number of well-known reviewers.

Get thee behind me, spellcheck!

[Jane]

Sherry wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Oh dear. Verbal cock-up of the day goes to Australian MP Michelle Landry. The Anals of History.

The word is annals, love, annals."

I came across a doozy yesterday in a local news..."

Huh???

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

Jane wrote: "Sherry wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Oh dear. Verbal cock-up of the day goes to Australian MP Michelle Landry. The Anals of History.

The word is annals, love, annals."

I came across a doozy yesterday ..."

The word should have been accolades.

[Jane]

oh good grief!

[Margaret, Sherlockian Sheila]

I admit it's a doozy. Took me a moment to work out what the word should have been.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Margaret wrote: "Terri wrote: "Huh. Nah. The Goal box. Inside the box. Inside the square. Hockey terms and similar to Soccer terms."

I refused to play sport at school."

I didn't play sport at school either. Only their annual athletics competitions against other schools.

I played Hockey in the local Hockey Club comp.

[Mark]

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/r...

About royal fashions.

[Andy]

So..... the snow finally arrived yesterday along with a gale force wind which left us with snowdrifts / mounds in some parts of the street & then barren patches in others...... AND then overnight those of us living next to the sea have woken upto a sheet of ice over any exposed area, even the snow that had fallen is a marbled effect & now solid..... the side of my flat exposed to the wind is a wall of ice, be it brick/glass/pvc door or guttering...... first time ive ever seen that up close. Even all the cars are encased in ice :O

[Mark]

Andy wrote: "So..... the snow finally arrived yesterday along with a gale force wind which left us with snowdrifts / mounds in some parts of the street & then barren patches in others...... AND then overnight t..."

It’s eased off up here for the moment, so I will be going to work tomorrow morning.

[Andy]

More Freezing rain here is due next for us, further inland they've got about 8 inches of deep & even, next to the coast its very different, never seen anything like the ice, wont be going anywhere til it thaws

[Mark]

Andy wrote: "More Freezing rain here is due next for us, further inland they've got about 8 inches of deep & even, next to the coast its very different, never seen anything like the ice, wont be going anywhere ..."

Don’t blame you mate.

[Jane]

Upstate NY: we're more than 5 " already and still coming down. Advisory, so I'm staying put.

[Bobby]

I refuse to tell everyone about the 70 F degree weather we have here. I'm just not going to do it!
There, i feel better already!

[Mark]

Bobby wrote: "I refuse to tell everyone about the 70 F degree weather we have here. I'm just not going to do it!
There, i feel better already!"

Hiss and boo.. 😎⛄️⛄️⛄️⛄️

[Allison]

Bobby wrote: "I refuse to tell everyone about the 70 F degree weather we have here. I'm just not going to do it!
There, i feel better already!"

😂😂

[Adrian]

Sorry I was just rinsing off my surfboard.

Did I miss something?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Well Adrian can boast down his way, but up here in Queensland the State is flooding and about to be drenched by 'apparently' the worst storm ever to hit western Queensland. Yeah righto, I'll see it when I believe it, but the torrential rain is falling in some drought affected parts which is AWESOME!

Not raining here yet. We're supposed to miss the biggest rainfalls.
Heavy rain still forecast though, so we're out putting pasture seed in paddocks that suffered badly from drought that ended here a couple weeks ago.

[May]

Sounds like a bit of rain would be a good thing! Hope you get just enough to seed the paddocks!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Thanks May! cross everything for us. :)

[Adrian]

Western Queensland? Where are you Terri?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Not Western. Closer to the coast. Wide Bay Burnett. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The rain forecast maps have our area in a bit of a dome. Maybe get 50-100mm of rain, but West they're talking 300mm.

[happy]

We are supposed to get 8" in the valleys tonight and tomorrow with another 2+ feet in the mountains. The weather guys say it would take 8 storms like this in March to get to get snow pack caught up. They don't think it is going to happen.

The wind up at the ski resorts was 90+ mph coming over the highest ridges. Avalanche danger is way high in the back country!

There were several semis blown over this morning out in the west desert on I-80 between SLC and the Nevada border.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Once those storms go through, I guess the ski fields will be great for skiers?
I know nothing about these things. :/

[Adrian]

The most poisonous ones tend to hide in people's houses when it floods.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

They also float around (they are good swimmers) and go up trees. Not uncommon in a flood to see a Koala, a Goanna and a deadly Brown Snake up the same tree in a flood! :)

[happy]

Terri wrote: "Once those storms go through, I guess the ski fields will be great for skiers?
I know nothing about these things. :/"

Ahhhh, yep :)

One of the best thing for a skier is to be "trapped" in the canyon overnight, You can be the first person on the slopes the next morning with all that untracked powder :)

[Ace]

Robert wrote: "I would not live long down under then. Snakes are my achilles heel for sure. Encountered a 6 foot Pacific Coast rattlesnake ten years ago in the worst of circumstances, but according to the hollywo..."

That's so scary Robert and my Mum had a close call once crossing an open irrigation channel where the big Brown snake was halfway through a frog. She nearly stepped on it's head and he was slow to move away. The following year after a massive hail storm we found a snake in the house. It's dead now thanks to the regions tradtional and popular whacking with a shovel treatment. Those days are long gone now as those channels are closed over and this has significantly reduced mosquito and snake populations.

For the record, most aussies in the cities have never seen a snake... come visit Melbourne. You will love it.