Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

It's been a while.....


I was just having a quick look at our Blog to see when it was that a post was last put up. Would you believe that it was way back in October?! Since then, we've had Christmas, New Year, a ton of snow, a big freeze and now a monsoon!

At least we know that from now on the days get longer, the nights shorter and with a bit of luck, we'll have a great Spring and Summer!

Well, next stop is Valentine's Day which, can you believe it, is only about a month away?!

Anyway, I hope your year has got off to a good start and that this year will be better than last year...

Cheers

Fred


Wednesday, 4 February 2009

We are back to normal...


The snow appears to have finally cleared and our backlog of orders have now left us for delivery around the country in the morning. Sorry to anyone who was affected by the short delay and thank you for your patience.


All we have to do now is sit back and wait for sunny Spring and the warm BBQ weather that's heading our way.

Glad that's all over!


Well, I spent a horrible weekend having a very love/hate relationship with the snow.


Having decided to go to Birmingham at the weekend, I then found myself stranded at the airport overnight as Birmingham airport decided to close its runway (yep, they only have the one!). This left me with the lovely task of trying to get re-booked (along with 154 other stranded Aer Lingus travellers) on to a flight for the next day. This was followed by trying to find a hotel in a city which was already burtsing to capacity with snowbound commuters and then having to face the propect of getting only a few hours sleep before trecking back to the airport again....


Having got through that and eventually returned to work here at Pressieport, I found the weather had been getting steadily worse while I had been clearing my mailbox. So at about 4pm-ish, I decided to abandon ship and make my way home (I'm nearly finished ranting.....).


It took me almost 3 hours to get home (it normally takes about 20 minutes) and I can dafely say that I have never seen anything like it before. It was complete mayhem out there on the roads.
I don't blame anyone for the chaos though.... I mean, no one had any idea it was going to snow or that there might be a cold snap, so why would we have expected any salt-gritters out beforehand!
Ah well, happy Wednesday!!