Re: Anyone got blown away?
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:55 pm
Don't like the sound of minus twelve Gardener - we've had enough of that kind of temperature over the last three winters!!
Hope your husband gets home soon, Grangers. And that Jonathon keeps warm with his Dr Who scarf!
Doesn't seem to have been too bad here, although we've still got strong winds, and even stronger gusts. It should be over by tomorrow morning - hopefully. There's flooding further east due to all the water pushed into the Baltic - places close to Copenhagen are flooded, including a museum with an important Viking ship.
Took me two and a half hours to get home tonight! Usually takes about an hour door to door when I use the train and 20-30mins in the car depending on traffic.
Not that all was wasted on hanging around - I got down to the station and was just about to "check in" with my travel card when they announced that trains to where I live were cancelled, and they expected them to be running by four o'clock (this was 2.45 ish). So I decided to get my shopping done there, rather than where I live. When I got to the station it looked as though the next train was running on time. Then I noticed that the board said that it was to be replaced by a bus, but no comment on where the bus went from. I went in to the ticket office (run by the national railway), as my train is run by Arriva they didn't know anything, and rang "someone" to find out. They said the bus went from the bus station down the road. After waiting half an hour no train replacement had turned up - I knew there was a scheduled bus not long after, they don't run very often only about once every two hours or so.
I finally got home just after five pm, to a house in darkness - luckily it was only RCB that had tripped, so that was short lived! Good job too, as I'm making triffle for a Christmas party tomorrow night.
As it was dark when I got in, I haven't been able to check for fallen trees in the garden yet (it's quite big, and we probably have about 200 trees).
Hope your husband gets home soon, Grangers. And that Jonathon keeps warm with his Dr Who scarf!
Doesn't seem to have been too bad here, although we've still got strong winds, and even stronger gusts. It should be over by tomorrow morning - hopefully. There's flooding further east due to all the water pushed into the Baltic - places close to Copenhagen are flooded, including a museum with an important Viking ship.
Took me two and a half hours to get home tonight! Usually takes about an hour door to door when I use the train and 20-30mins in the car depending on traffic.
Not that all was wasted on hanging around - I got down to the station and was just about to "check in" with my travel card when they announced that trains to where I live were cancelled, and they expected them to be running by four o'clock (this was 2.45 ish). So I decided to get my shopping done there, rather than where I live. When I got to the station it looked as though the next train was running on time. Then I noticed that the board said that it was to be replaced by a bus, but no comment on where the bus went from. I went in to the ticket office (run by the national railway), as my train is run by Arriva they didn't know anything, and rang "someone" to find out. They said the bus went from the bus station down the road. After waiting half an hour no train replacement had turned up - I knew there was a scheduled bus not long after, they don't run very often only about once every two hours or so.
I finally got home just after five pm, to a house in darkness - luckily it was only RCB that had tripped, so that was short lived! Good job too, as I'm making triffle for a Christmas party tomorrow night.
As it was dark when I got in, I haven't been able to check for fallen trees in the garden yet (it's quite big, and we probably have about 200 trees).
Flippin'Eck Loopy Lou 200 trees!!
