Weather emergency reports that Tesco at Drumbrae roundabout is OUT OF BREAD. Happily friends are suffiently middle class that they have a bread machine. Meanwhile my local Caffé Nero ran out of milk this PM - apparently they have been really busy all day. (Sort of gives the lie to the idea that business all comes in cars?)
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I made bread this evening. I think the yeast was out of date, because I actually made a brick.
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I made bread too, yeast was old but wee loaf soft enough
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I bought the last carton of soya milk in the Sainsbury's on St John's Road earlier.
#endofdays
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I think the yeast was out of date, because I actually made a brick.
When I do this, I just pretend it's continental style.
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The Leith Walk Scotmid had only coconut, almond and goats' milk left just before it shut. Giving the lie to the oft-repeated adage that it's the dogs' milk that lasts longer than any other milk.
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so after we all miss nine consecutive meals, that's when the undead rise again, amirite?
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Rode across town on the 29er MTB to help run an errand parents who are somewhat trapped looking after my nieces. WOL was lovely and ridable as was the towpath although seconded that if you didn't concentrated things got quite fluffy fast.
Roads were ok apart from where cars had mushed up ridges at various corners. Saw a few ploughs and gritters out and more than a few stuck cars.
Sad also to see police and ambulance attending someone under the ped bridge across the lanark road A70 from the canal past slateford towards currie etc. Hope that whomever it was got attention and the incident wasn't too serious. I wonder if they slipped on ice that had formed under the footbridge? No vehicles to be seen that would have been involved.
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Neighbours out in force clearing pavements. felt I shoud join in. So there was a nice clear path between number 33 and number 43 until it snowed again.
The giant snow mounds we created between the cars aren't really making it any easier for them to get out.
The Council had a go as well and cleared the pavement from the town centre out towards the racecourse. Pavements where people actually walk, like to and from Tesco have not been cleared.
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@cyclingmollie we did a neighbourhood path clear too - I started and Margaret next door took the shovel and went off down the street with gusto. Of course it's all covered over again this morning.
Lots of kids wandering the streets with sledges. Saw about 4 cars all day - more bikes though.Posted 7 years ago # -
was harder for me to get the car out this morning then yesterdays "red" - mainly because in the car park a few people had come and gone and compacted the snow yesterday and now it was just ice with fresh snow on top,
and someone had attempted to dig a path for their own car from the car park, but just made big piles off snow all the way up for everyone else.
so, had to dig two 100m channel with me heal up the car park rise onto the main road.main roads seem a lot better today, still the side roads look undrivable.
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They added: “Please bear with us, we are doing everything we can. Stay safe, stay informed and check our social feeds for the most up to date information.”
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Scotland is bracing itself for further transport disruption Friday after the biggest snowfall for 20 years brought the Central Belt to a near standstill.
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Well was some ‘pretty bad’ weather about 8 years ago ‘we’ cycled ON the canal. Then the real problem was the temperature, with the M8 (etc.) freezing solid.
20 years ago think it was just ‘normal winter weather’.
The difference this time is the degree of wind/chill. Don’t know why it seems to be making it harder to clear/grit the roads.
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Don’t know why it seems to be making it harder to clear/grit the roads.
<disgruntled of tumbridge wells>
On our snow-day ramble yesterday we came through Blackford Glen Road where the Ed South gritters live. That road had been impeccably cleared and then coated in diesel. All the gritter/ploughs were parked up with engines idling. All the staff seemed to have driven there.
No real evidence of their activity elsewhere.
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“then coated in diesel“
Really?
Deliberately?
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@chdot
Nothing untrue ever knowingly typed into CCE.
Can't imagine it was deliberate, but it was slick with oil from end to end and side to side.
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The NEPN today Friday 2nd March 8:40am. @edintravel @SustransScot @SpokesLothian @CyclingEdin @POPScotland #cycling #walking ok for mountain bikes slushy in places
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ScotRail website NOW -
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Final train times for ALL services today (Thursday, 1 March 2018)
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@iwrats/@chdot - I've seen ploughs going up and down St John's Road several times over the last few days.
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Gritter rumbled up my side street yesterday but with no plow putting salt down is sigularly ineffective.
Walked to Corstorphine to get essentials (nappies, wine, biscuits) the pavements on the main road where harder going than the side streets, just enough salt must have been mixed in turning the snow in to a sandy consistency and very tough to walk on. Side streets the snow compressed under you and it was fine, though one side street hadn't seen much (any foot traffic) and I ended up with snow in my boots after I misjudged how deep the drift was.
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Is it saying clear or is more snow just blowing in?
Certainly it seems to be more powdery than usual and easier to blow into drifts.
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Snow of up more than a foot deep will bring roads in major cities across the country to a standstill this morning. In Glasgow, 44cm of snow is covering the roads.
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Many of the problems have been simply around people travelling when they shouldn't have.
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Snow Chaos: More than 50cm of snow has fallen in Somerset and Devon overnight.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/gmb/status/969470065182572544
(Complete with shocking video.)
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Air temperatures should be creeping up over the next few days. Tuesday's forecast has a max of 4 (too hot)
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