Clive Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 So that is one reason we moved here! Minus 6 last night and we are only 1.5 miles from the coast. How hard is it to learn French? C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art338 Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 But you do have the sun. art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 here is sarth lonon I have never seen anything like it! just dug the car out and thought better of using it..... will wait till the weekend :-S I have whisky and champagne and bread/food in the freezer..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Been in Swindon all week very strange driving home, more snow the further I went into the South East. Only live 200yds from the beach frosts are even rare here. Wife & daughters car's still in the drive, I think they expect me to did em out, fat chance (lol): 4:20pm & minus 7 outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 PLEASE remember to feed the birds..... :-S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 We feed the chickens every or don't get any eggs (lol) (lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawki Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 well Clive, the old girl looks rather sad in the pics. roll on spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 JudgeMental - 2010-12-03 2:56 PM here is sarth lonon I have never seen anything like it! just dug the car out and thought better of using it..... will wait till the weekend :-S I have whisky and champagne and bread/food in the freezer..... Then take the whisky and the champers out of the freezer PDQ. Bottles liable to shatter, and you'll ruin the nose on the whisky, what! :-) Oh yes, and sarf is spelt sarf, not sarth. How effete! :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smifee Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Spent the last week pet sitting just outside New Milton. Woke up Thursday morning to 6" of snow 8-) Had to clear behind the automatic gates so they would open for the returning owner's Merc 12 tonne RS Motorhome. One of the rear axles steers but the other axles wheels were spinning. He tried clearing the stuff under them once but they still spun. I got out my flimsy yellow plastic grip strips which are useless on soft ground and they did the job. One of them ended up under the middle of the monster and I wasn't crawling under there to get it! Will pick it up when I go back next year when the BSB racing starts. It was freezing the whole week I was there. Went out walking the dogs dressed up like Nanouk of the north. One expects that sort of weather oop north but not on the Hampshire Riviera. Easy drive back home once I got my MH out of their lane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterandlinda Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Hi Clive, Learning French is no guarantee of freedom from snow - we've been snowed on twice in the south of France, once in Monaco, and last year they closed the motorways around Beziers. In the Peloponnese though it is 20 degrees at the moment at 10.38 pm. Keep warm P&L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted December 3, 2010 Author Share Posted December 3, 2010 Old Girl!! Cheek of it, she's only just over 4 and the heating is running inside her. The roof insulation must be brilliant cos the only time any snow melted was when the sun came out, then it ran down the front of the van until it found that bit in the shade and you can see the results. I thought it was quite impressive. Nearly came a cropper earlier when I went to get in and stood on the ally step, I went sidewards rather quickly. Happy Christmas folks C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Where's it all gone? Woke up this morning not a sign of snow even the South Downs are clear. Lets hope we get some more it's so pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eljay Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Clive, where did you get the idea that it doesn't snow in France. We live about 250 miles due south of Paris and have about 15 cm (say 6" in old money) in our garden. I have had to get two new tyres fitted to the M/home and took the relevant wheels in the trailer to the nearest (reasonable) tyre shop and then spent Friday afternoon swapping the wheels around so the new tyres were on the back. I was pleased that it was sunny, but it was still cold at -4 deg. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawki Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 Clive - 2010-12-03 9:16 PM Old Girl!! Cheek of it, she's only just over 4 and the heating is running inside her. The roof insulation must be brilliant cos the only time any snow melted was when the sun came out, then it ran down the front of the van until it found that bit in the shade and you can see the results. I thought it was quite impressive. Nearly came a cropper earlier when I went to get in and stood on the ally step, I went sidewards rather quickly. Happy Christmas folks Old girl was purely a term of endearment Old boy Cheers Dawki C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randonneur Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 eljay - 2010-12-04 10:29 PM Clive, where did you get the idea that it doesn't snow in France. We live about 250 miles due south of Paris and have about 15 cm (say 6" in old money) in our garden. I have had to get two new tyres fitted to the M/home and took the relevant wheels in the trailer to the nearest (reasonable) tyre shop and then spent Friday afternoon swapping the wheels around so the new tyres were on the back. I was pleased that it was sunny, but it was still cold at -4 deg. J We are about 500 miles south of Calais in the South Charente and we have had snow this week about 1". It is going now as it is raining but warmer, 7 deg at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted December 5, 2010 Author Share Posted December 5, 2010 Toungue in cheek , yes I know but I NEVER do things like that!!! France in the snow, I have photo,s I took with some mates with other 4X4,s in the Beaujolais Hills in November a few years back just before we rushed back with a few bottles of plonk from George duBeouf. Also remember with the MH going into a long tunnel leaving sunshine and emerging the other end in snowland. But generally its closer to the equator so has a better chance of being warm more often. I love the country and most of the people. We could learn a lot from them. Always found the French will bend over backwards to help when we have had problems. My language skills are krap but I do try, the Mrs is fluent. But I izz a brit and ohm izz ear. N.M is prety close to France though and we shall be in the Gulf de Morbihan for the boats next year with the camper. Snow now gone but its still a tad chilly. Feel like a kip, didn,t get back home last night until 0245 this morning having taken mother-in-law to see the Clasical Spectacular at the NIA in Brummieham. C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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