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Location: Aberdeen
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Diary of an Englishman living in The Highlands...
"Our First Winter"
DEC 20th
It's starting to snow.
The first of the season and the first we've seen for years.
The wife and I took out our hot toddies and sat on the porch watching the fluffy soft flakes drift gently down clinging to the trees and covering the ground.
It's so beautiful and peaceful.
DEC 24th
We awoke to a lovely blanket of crystal white glistening snow covering as far as the eye could see.
What a fantastic sight, every tree and bush covered with a beautiful white mantle.
I shovelled snow for the first time ever and loved it. I did both our driveway and the pavement.
Later that day a snowplough came along and accidentally covered up our driveway with compacted snow from the street. The driver smiled and waved. I waved back and shovelled it away again.
The children next door built a snowman with coal for eyes and a carrot for a nose, and had a snowball fight, a couple just missed me and hit the car so I threw a couple back and joined in their fun.
DEC 26th
It snowed an additional 5 inches last night and the temperature dropped to around minus 8 degrees.
Several branches on our trees and bushes snapped due to the weight of the snow. I shovelled the driveway again.
Shortly afterwards the snowplough came by and did his trick again.
Much of the snow is now a brownish - grey.
JAN 1st
Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush which soon became ice when the temperature dropped again.
Bought snow tyres for both our cars.
Fell on my in the driveway.
Went to a physio but nothing was broken.
JAN 5th
Still cold. Sold the wife's car and bought her a 4x4 to get her to work.
She slid into a wall and did considerable damage to the right wing.
Had another 8 inches of white sh*te last night.
Both vehicles are covered in salt and iced up slush.
That b d snowplough came by twice today.
Where's that bloody shovel?
JAN 9th
More f*****g snow. Not a tree or bush on our property that hasn't been damaged. Power was off most of the night.
Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a paraffin heater which tipped over and nearly torched the house.
I managed to put the flames out but suffered 2nd degree burns on my hands. Lost all my eyebrows and eyelashes.
Car hit a f*****g deer on the way to casualty and car was written off.
JAN 13th
F*****g b*****d white sh*te just keeps on coming down. Have to put on every article of clothing just to go to the post box. The little b ds next door ambushed me with snowballs on the way back - I'll shove that carrot so far up the little b*****d's it'll take a good surgeon hours to find it.
If I ever catch the a***hole that drives the snowplough I'll chew open his chest and rip out his heart with my teeth.
I think the b*****d hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shovelling and then he accelerates down the street like Michael SchuF*****gmacher and buries the f*****g driveway again.
JAN 17th
Sixteen more f*****g inches of f*****g snow and f*****g ice and f*****g sleet and god knows what other white sh*te fell last night.
I am in court in 3 months time for assaulting the snowplough driver with an ice-pick.
Can't move my f*****g toes.
Haven't seen the sun for 5 weeks.
Minus 20 and more f*****g snow forecast.
JAN 18th
F*** THIS, I'M MOVING BACK TO LONDONIts not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
12th Feb 2021 12:05 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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I can empathise with much of that!
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Ceekay
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Richard
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Disappointing that that's photoshopped. Have DVLA no sense of humour?.
Dean
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2011 D4 XS - OBD port protection, RLD spare wheel protector, All LED interiors lights, Timed Climate enabled, iiD tool paired.
2011 D4 Landmark - Stolen from same dealer before I paid for it
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2015 Volvo V40
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14th Feb 2021 5:35 pm
Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
Location: Dundee, Scotland
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DSL wrote:
I’m also a tad sceptical, if that car had been driven then it would show some grooving in the snow on the bonnet.
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Plus the snow over the doors would be disturbed if the driver’s door had been opened. I know that snow is magnetic and if not cleared above the door to be opened it will all end up on the seat. The lack of snow on the RHS of the car could easily be as it’s been sitting in the sun.
Irony overload. Wish I'd seen this a few days ago
Obvs, not worse, or even as bad as the Pug, but still
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in the driveway.
... All LED interiors lights, DRLs, Spare Wheel protector.
The lack of snow on the RHS of the car could easily be as it’s been sitting in the sun.
