The All New Megathread

[Luckypants]

Yes, our road slopes gently upwards so once a few cars polish to snow / ice its hard to get moving. I just think no one thinks to help themselves and others so much these days. The roads magically clear themselves

[garynortheast]

Yup, folks seem to have the idea that there will always be someone else to do this stuff for them. Translate that to a global scale and it's not hard to see why we are so deeply in the crap.

I like the expression, "If not me, then who? If not now, then when?"

[garynortheast]

A very happy 11th birthday to this girlie for yesterday!

[Luckypants]

Happy birthday Mabel! Our Jack was also eleven last week.

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Happy birthday Mabel! Our Jack was also eleven last week.

Yay! A belated happy birthday to Jack as well then.

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Our estate road had turned icey yesterday, so I spent some time after work gritting it from the council grit bin. Its made a difference as despite more snow overnight there are clear tracks for cars to get out. No bugger else thought to do it nor did they come out to help when I was at it.

The council grit bins are a cause for argument round here. People take buckets full for their own driveways of course (gits) but the over-keen morons from a close just off my road come out in force at the first sight of snow and spread barrow loads of the grit on their road, even saying how wonderful their spirit is in the local paper once. Trouble is their road is level and does not need it but my road resembles a ski slope, and there's never any grit left for the 1:5 bit of the road that needs it 'cos the dipsticks from the close have used it all...

[Sir Trev]

Happy birthday to both Mabel and Jack.