I've been out it, well north on the m1 from junc 1 before it got bad about 7ish
thx, so forgot a few bits and nipped over to the tesco in jarman park..
seen 2 cars getting towed up up the hill where the magic roundabout is , the hill. dunno if you know it going towards m1 (you pass me if you do) anyway.. I just seen someone with a really expensive merc getting towed.. skidding and hitting the kerb.. I don't think the alloys or wheels will be in good nick after that.
I spun the car 2 times, first time I've driven this car in snow , that and the fact it's a front wheel drive
I've been out it, well north on the m1 from junc 1 before it got bad about 7ish
thx, so forgot a few bits and nipped over to the tesco in jarman park..
seen 2 cars getting towed up up the hill where the magic roundabout is , the hill. dunno if you know it going towards m1 (you pass me if you do) anyway.. I just seen someone with a really expensive merc getting towed.. skidding and hitting the kerb.. I don't think the alloys or wheels will be in good nick after that.
I spun the car 2 times, first time I've driven this car in snow , that and the fact it's a front wheel drive
I just cleared the snow from the path outside my house and the neighbours houses either side. I'm puzzled as to why more people don't do this.
What really suprises me though is that non of the local shop keepers do, a lot of them are open today. My dad ran a shop when we grew up, and you'd clear your patch, and if they were closed that day the shop next to you as well, everyone did.
we only had about 1 hour or less briefly yesterday, good job seeing as I was outside ripping up a patio the whole day and I didnt get too cold. quite like snow though, wouldn't mind some now.
What really suprises me though is that non of the local shop keepers do, a lot of them are open today. My dad ran a shop when we grew up, and you'd clear your patch, and if they were closed that day the shop next to you as well, everyone did.
My guess is a cost/personnel issue - to clear the sidewalk in front of your shop you'd have to pay your personnel to do it. With businesses keeping the # of their work-force to an absolute minimum, those people have only time to deal with customers in the shop, not clean up trash / clear snow from sidewalks. Sign 'o the times... :-(
A man who fell while drunk, bled to death days after refusing hospital treatment an inquest heard on Tuesday.
Joseph Dunn, 49, of Pembroke Street, Bedford, died of internal bleeding on September 30 after suffering damage to his spleen only days before.
Mr Dunn was admitted to Bedford Hospital after he fell over while drinking on September 25.
However, before hospital staff could run tests on him, he walked out, unaware of the damage that had been caused by his fall. On September 29, Mr Dunn and a housemate were drinking cans of beer, his housemate then left for the evening and when he returned in the early hours of the morning he found Mr Dunn lying in bed on his side in a mess and immediately called an ambulance.
Paramedics confirmed his death at the scene at 3.19am.
Coroner David Morris said: ?When he fell he damaged his spleen which was bleeding over a period of time.
?I am recording that he died of accidental death as a result of the fall.? At the time of his death, Mr Dunn had 286mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood, three and a half times the driving limit.
It's been empty for some time now.
I have to say the local authorities were useless. I co-ordinated the complaints, I got involved, partly, as I don't believe in writing people off as scum, and hate lynch mob mentalities, and a lot of the neighbours were getting fed up with the house, and I couldn't stand by and watch a bitter feud devlop. Though we did send the landlord to coventry during the height of the aggro.
All sorts of people day and night, drunken shouting, abuse at all hours, throwing up in the street, climbing over the gate to get round the back, knocking neighbours up to get in it was really very bad. One time the dead guys girlfriend shoved past my wife and came into our house, as she was locked out and we'd told her to leave us alone as she ws drunk. That pushed the limit of my patience.
The complaints procedure was an absolute joke, the police seem to pick and choose their statistics to please themselves, and told the council they had no record of anti social behaviour in the street. I lost count of the number of police cars and ambulances that attended that property.
The final bit of correspondence was from the council, informing me that the landlord had reduced the number of tenants to one, and there was no more issue. Ironically that letter arrived the day this poor soul died, so it was technically correct, there was just one lost and troubled person living there then, I think he is in rehab now. But there were two tenants, and all their cronies coming and going at all hours still when they posted it.
Problem was the landlord, stubborn old bugger, who just wants rent, he lives across the road and lets rooms out there too, he is very, very stubborn, but also completely incapabale. If a lorry load of chimpanzees turned up and offered to re-roof his hous for a fiver, he'd hire them, and he's just as bad with his tenants.
He has finally conceded that he can't manage, and has involved a letting agency. I think that previous occupants had caused more damage than they've paid rent....
Arrgh! Fell over on the way to work today. Luckily just a bit of a twisted wrist and a bash to the shin. It was more of a shock than anything else as I was half-asleep at 7am this morning.
Luckily I don't think anyone saw. Spent the rest of the journey shuffling like a penguin.
Arrgh! Fell over on the way to work today. Luckily just a bit of a twisted wrist and a bash to the shin. It was more of a shock than anything else as I was half-asleep at 7am this morning.
Luckily I don't think anyone saw. Spent the rest of the journey shuffling like a penguin.
york is still pretty bad snow wise. it seems to have all all melted in halifax when i got here this morning. ;)
Well my neck of the woods had some Freezing Fog and some Ground Frost today for about an hour until the sun came out. There's still a little bit of frost left where the sun hasn't shone yet.
Well despite the frost earlier on it's now warm enough to wear a T-Shirt outside which I did when me and the missus went out to eat lunch.
I found my beard got shaved shorter, also subconsciously (Well actually no I'd left it for about a week and I'd started to look like a bit of a tramp so I trimmed up good).
I'm quite smart these days, I wear shoes , trousers and a shirt to work, cleaned and shave
though if I have a few days off, I default to high mileage unwashed greaseball, specially in the winter
that's your evil twin,who attacks dogs with big treks ? :)
there was some wierd fog in york last night, it was all clear on the roads, but when we got to the race track it was all covered in low lying fog. looked pretty eerie
there was some wierd fog in york last night, it was all clear on the roads, but when we got to the race track it was all covered in low lying fog. looked pretty eerie
there was some wierd fog in york last night, it was all clear on the roads, but when we got to the race track it was all covered in low lying fog. looked pretty eerie
Your lucky that these dead sailors didn't come out of it looking for their gold.............:lol:
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I've been out it, well north on the m1 from junc 1 before it got bad about 7ish
thx, so forgot a few bits and nipped over to the tesco in jarman park..
seen 2 cars getting towed up up the hill where the magic roundabout is , the hill. dunno if you know it going towards m1 (you pass me if you do) anyway.. I just seen someone with a really expensive merc getting towed.. skidding and hitting the kerb.. I don't think the alloys or wheels will be in good nick after that.
I spun the car 2 times, first time I've driven this car in snow , that and the fact it's a front wheel drive
The Magic Roundabout?:smile:
I'm sure its the 'famous' roundabout in Swindon, heard it called that before, just tons of the buggers all together
What really suprises me though is that non of the local shop keepers do, a lot of them are open today. My dad ran a shop when we grew up, and you'd clear your patch, and if they were closed that day the shop next to you as well, everyone did.
we only had about 1 hour or less briefly yesterday, good job seeing as I was outside ripping up a patio the whole day and I didnt get too cold. quite like snow though, wouldn't mind some now.
That reminds me, how is the neighbour situation? Has everything quietned down now?
http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Delayed-death-was-caused-by-drunken-fall-19012012.htm
It's been empty for some time now.
I have to say the local authorities were useless. I co-ordinated the complaints, I got involved, partly, as I don't believe in writing people off as scum, and hate lynch mob mentalities, and a lot of the neighbours were getting fed up with the house, and I couldn't stand by and watch a bitter feud devlop. Though we did send the landlord to coventry during the height of the aggro.
All sorts of people day and night, drunken shouting, abuse at all hours, throwing up in the street, climbing over the gate to get round the back, knocking neighbours up to get in it was really very bad. One time the dead guys girlfriend shoved past my wife and came into our house, as she was locked out and we'd told her to leave us alone as she ws drunk. That pushed the limit of my patience.
The complaints procedure was an absolute joke, the police seem to pick and choose their statistics to please themselves, and told the council they had no record of anti social behaviour in the street. I lost count of the number of police cars and ambulances that attended that property.
The final bit of correspondence was from the council, informing me that the landlord had reduced the number of tenants to one, and there was no more issue. Ironically that letter arrived the day this poor soul died, so it was technically correct, there was just one lost and troubled person living there then, I think he is in rehab now. But there were two tenants, and all their cronies coming and going at all hours still when they posted it.
Problem was the landlord, stubborn old bugger, who just wants rent, he lives across the road and lets rooms out there too, he is very, very stubborn, but also completely incapabale. If a lorry load of chimpanzees turned up and offered to re-roof his hous for a fiver, he'd hire them, and he's just as bad with his tenants.
He has finally conceded that he can't manage, and has involved a letting agency. I think that previous occupants had caused more damage than they've paid rent....
well thats what folk around here know it as.. the EU said it was illegal hehe
there is another one there perhaps, swindon is famous for round abouts :) this is M1 Junc 8.. 24 ish miles North on London.
when you first drive it you think WTF.. and I'd been driving years.. BUT if you know it you get used to it.. it keeps traffic flowing though :)
and say you want to get off at the last junction , you can go around the round about either way to get to it .. it's easier when you drive it.
Luckily I don't think anyone saw. Spent the rest of the journey shuffling like a penguin.
york is still pretty bad snow wise. it seems to have all all melted in halifax when i got here this morning. ;)
boozy too. :p
I found my beard got shaved shorter, also subconsciously (Well actually no I'd left it for about a week and I'd started to look like a bit of a tramp so I trimmed up good).
though if I have a few days off, I default to high mileage unwashed greaseball, specially in the winter
that's your evil twin,who attacks dogs with big treks ? :)
boozy hates me AS WELL ?:-o :cry: NOoooooooooooooo
for revenge I will appear on the weather forecast for 1/2 or 3/4 of the year *evil laugh*
it's ok.. I'll just have to find someone else on the "adopt a northerner" scheme :)
he was probably drunk again
yer it was dense fog out alright.. (cue thicko jokes)
I wasn't drunk, only 2 tins of stella.. but I did have to make sure I had supplies in just in case I couldn't go out .. ( a few bottles of JD :D )
snow is as good as gone now, but it's supposed to kick off again at some point.
Yup you had to get something to put yer' glue in :p
Your lucky that these dead sailors didn't come out of it looking for their gold.............:lol: