Brixton chitter chatter, part 2

[gabi]

Marvellous, they run out for the weekend when people want to get places, not during the week so we can't get to work.

Only in Lambeth could they cock up that badly.

It's not gonna snow this weekend

 

[brix]

I think I'm gonna put something down on my estate, 'cos I can't walk out at all and I'm getting fed up, it's utterly black ice. Should I buy a big bag of salt? Someone mentioned something about cat litter? What's best?

dishwasher salt I think.

 

[gaijingirl]

dishwasher salt I think.

Really? I'll check that out - thanks. I'm obviously looking for the cheapest option...

 

[brix]

It's not gonna snow this weekend

Really? This is from the Guardian just now:

Today the Met Office issued an early warning of severe or extreme weather affecting London and the south-east from tomorrow evening until Sunday morning.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/08/uk-coldest-weather-transport-delays-snow

and the Met Office (yeah, not always reliable, I know ) says:

Further heavy snow showers will feed in from the North Sea this afternoon with further accumulations of 2 to 5 cm generally with locally up to 10 cm. The snow will start drifting in a freshening northeasterly wind.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/se_forecast_warnings.html

 

[brix]

Really? I'll check that out - thanks. I'm obviously looking for the cheapest option...

That would be it, I think. You won't be able to buy grit and cat litter isn't that cheap. Not all types of cat litter would work either. Salt's your best option and dishwasher salt's the cheapest way of buying it.

 

[gaijingirl]

We were just up in Streatham for a couple of hours and it snowed quite heavily there for an hour or so - very pretty is was. It didn't settle on the main road/streets there though.

 

[gabi]

Really? This is from the Guardian just now:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/08/uk-coldest-weather-transport-delays-snow

and the Met Office (yeah, not always reliable, I know ) says:


http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/se_forecast_warnings.html

Our weather geek here at work claims it won't snow but more than happy to be proven wrong... loving this...

 

[snowy_again]

Ash or sawdust works too. I know the latter, as some 'handyman' who fitted my back gate didn't sweep it away, resulting in one clear patch in our garden.

 

[quimcunx]

My dad used to use cinders from the fire. Not too many open fires in Brixton though.

 

[brix]

Our weather geek here at work claims it won't snow but more than happy to be proven wrong... loving this...

I don't want it to snow tbh. Hope your geek's right.

 

[Badgers]

More snow means more marauding oiks

(((Brixton)))

 

[pboi]

SNOW ME UP MR SNOW

fingers xxd

 

[teuchter]

My dad used to use ash from the fire. Not too many open fires in Brixton though.

Plenty of discarded christmas trees to burn, though.

 

[ajdown]

Ash or sawdust works too. I know the latter, as some 'handyman' who fitted my back gate didn't sweep it away, resulting in one clear patch in our garden.

I still have a small bale of sawdust I didn't use from my deceased ex-hamster, that's an interesting thought. Wonder how that works?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I don't want it to snow tbh. Hope your geek's right.

Same as. b/f's niece is shpposed to be returning to Ireland tomorrow.

 

[el-ahrairah]

More snow means more marauding oiks

(((Brixton)))

Last night on the way back from the quiz we had a snowball fight. I can't remember the last time I got to be a marauding oik. It was aces.

 

[ajdown]

Iceland shut till Monday apparently due to a power cut.

 

[Badgers]

Iceland shut till Monday apparently due to a power cut.

Wonder what will happen to all the frozen crap?

 

[ajdown]

In this weather, probably very little ... or they've shipped it all over to the Camberwell store and put it in the cold room there, or they have a small generator "out back" running the freezer section.

 

[gaijingirl]

Iceland shut till Monday apparently due to a power cut.

I wonder if they'll be selling rather cheap food on Monday....

 

[kittyP]

Last night on the way back from the quiz we had a snowball fight. I can't remember the last time I got to be a marauding oik. It was aces.

Hello.
Is it you we met briefly in the Albert before some went to the pub quiz?

 

[kittyP]

I wonder if they'll be selling rather cheap food on Monday....

Did you hear/find out any more about the Yoga on BWL?

 

[Jonti]

Just saw a guy getting ticked off, and apparently being booked by a plain-clothes cop, for spitting onto the pavement just outside the Abbey Bank.

Hope they start nicking the closing-time street pissers and vomiters soon!

 

[Badgers]

Just saw a guy getting ticked off, and apparently being booked by a plain-clothes cop, for spitting onto the pavement just outside the Abbey Bank.

Spitting is grim isn't it?
See so much of it about though.

 

[gaijingirl]

Did you hear/find out any more about the Yoga on BWL?

Nope - I went past there again the other day but the windows are still papered over with newspaper. I'll keep an eye out though. I've been doing pregnancy yoga with Sitaram at the lido and I'd like to do post-natal with them too - but it's quite pricey and things are getting a bit tight - I'd be interested to see how much it costs and what kind of yoga they do at this place.

 

[ajdown]

I wonder if they'll be selling rather cheap food on Monday....

They're open again, and a fair amount of stuff on cheap - but by the looks of it, short date stuff rather than "defrosted and refrozen".

It is, however, complete chaos in there because everyone's on a mad panic buy due to it being shut for a day and a half.

 

[teuchter]

Well the traffic in the town centre is pretty screwed up at the moment.

 

[snowy_again]

There was a bus broken down outside Argos, but I'm not sure whether that caused it. Lots of uniformed police about too for some reason.

Oh and the Telegraph is being sold to housing developers.

 

[teuchter]

Oh and the Telegraph is being sold to housing developers.

The local NIMBYs win out, then.

 

[ajdown]

Oh and the Telegraph is being sold to housing developers.

Interesting, haven't seen any planning application stuff through the door about it yet.