WINTER WATCH: Latest school closures and bin collections

“JO, you really are a pompous, arrogant individual. My post was answering a comment made by Josephine which inferred that no-one's life is put in danger by a bit of snow. People's lives are put in danger, people have died (you are right that, thanksfully, these are not in large numbers but this does not make each and every one a tragic result of the snow and ice). Many more have been injured by falling. The A & E units at most hospitals are reporting large numbers of people with fall injuries, breaks etc. These are facts - so please don't use my comments as a method of furthering your self-opinionated rants and anti-EU drivel. Thank goodness I don't know you in real life, if I did I think I'd have been driven to throw myself under the nearest gritting-lorry.”

“Oh dear, "An error has occurred". Wot's up GT, diddernt U like it?

Jo -- You know that I'm an Elder. I'm merely one of those who number nearly the population of Cleethorpes in this Grimland. My total pension income is well below the statutory minimum wage. I don't blame Europe for any of my ills. Indeed, I'd be worse off without our membership of the EU! I've just paid my gas bill, without a problem, but thanks again chaps for the £25 'cold-weather payment'. See. Back on the thread!

And on this thread, I seek no sympathy nor charity. I've been out only twice in this WEATHER: on Dec 20th and Jan 2nd. Apart from then, I've seen no-one. I don't have central heating. No problem: day-clothes over jamas; dressing gown over day clothes. Isn't it odd that a woman can wear what's called a 'housecoat' over her nightie all day, yet if I wear a dressing gown, I'm a slob. Yet Sherlock Holmes did it, as did any well-presented Victorian gentleman. Nightcaps are gopod, too. Imagine what the neighbours think when I wear my djellaba on special occasions ¿ like 0degReal and below!!

Oh, I should add that because of polio contracted in hospital at the end of The War, I use a stick. If I have to go out in snow or ice, I use my studded boots ...and an alpenstock is sensible. Equally sensible is the ability to survive without going out at all. I can manage until the Spring without going out. I lived through the war, the '47 Winter the '53 and '63 Winters and subsequent little cold spells. A great education, but nothing special for us Elders!

If anything untoward happens, in these temperatures I'll be reasonably well preserved for those who find me.

"Always look on the
"Bright Side
"Of life..."

De-Dum, de-dum...
:-) ;-)”

“L O , Jo & RV, Clps --

Spot of semantics:
First. Snow doesn't cause accidents, any more than speed does. It's the brain-deads behind the wheel that cause accidents. Trouble is, nowadays, all we have on the roads are motorists and car-owners; NO DRIVERS! You've only got to look at television coverage of the eedjits 'coping' with a few inches of snow, and the speeding of the similar eedjits on the roads of Grimland.

Thing is, in snow/ice, satellite navigation, iPods, mobphones and automatic gearboxes are of absolutely no value in driving. Control of road-wheel rotation and self-sufficiency in the grit-and-shovel department are what count. Back to skool, you 'motorists' and learn to drive.

Note also, that your car is UNROADWORTHY if it has ANY snow on it, at all.

Seen on Scartho-rd, start of Yuletide: a four-wheeled snowball travelling far too fast with limited visibility through spit-holes in the snow on the windscreen -- car behind... too close. Great clod of snow detaches from blind car, splats on to windscreen of following car... Wipers frozen to the screen, overnight. Now ¿ TWO blind cars driving two fast.

Sorry, WRONG. It's two blind brain-dead motorists driving two fast. Now. Would it have been the snow that caused any accident that they mighyt have had?

Oh, Jo. Pensioners. I prefer the term 'Elder'. It gives the right sense of proportion, and, who knows, one day the yoof might start listening to us, again.

I'll refer to your comments about 'us Elders' in another 'post'.
Grim smile: :-(”

“Grimlander

Yes the cap does fit these education chiefs. I'm just sorry i posted it on the wrong page as i explained in my next post.
I just hope people will look on this page and see some of the idiotic decisions made by these high earning council workers”

“I would like to apologise to the Telegraph, and say thankyou to Michelle Hurst for responding by e-mail when I asked why the schools closure list was out of date. I didn`t realise I had clicked on the wrong story as I just clicked on your headline WINTER WATCH”

“Paul --

Our posts were almost simultaneous. Needless to say, I hope, the cap of the gritless fits Humberston and Cambridge Parks' brains.

Any staff of any public service would be on-site and serving 24-hours a day in inclement circumstances -- ANYBODY today who undertands what SERVICE means should be explaining it to ALL those who find themselves incompetent enough to be unable to get to their workplace and work at their chosen job.

I think the areas of 'gritlessness' show up very well in this 'thread' -- don't you?

Look back to my 'post' of 07-Jan-2010 16:50, starting "Wot snow!?"”

“RV Cleethorpes wrote:
"Josephine, you want to know how a bit of snow puts people's lives in danger - perhaps you should ask the relatives of the people who have died in road and other accidents throughout the country"

Here we go again .. uninformed scare-mongering which has no basis in fact.

I think that if you check, RV, you will find that the death toll on the roads during this cold snap has, thank God, been very small.

The real scandal is the number of old-age pensioners who will die, alone and forgotten in their homes because they can't afford to pay their exhorbitant energy bills.

You can thank the 'Global warming' fanatics for that. Not to mention the EU and damn their 'carbon' taxes!”

“Trouble with you lot is, YOU'VE GOT NO GRIT!

;-)”

“Well done education chiefs I can see a method in your stupidity.
We have just had a call from our daughters bus driver, as she attends Humberston Park Special School.
They have now decided that we the parents should make their decisions for them. We can send our daughter to school, but if the driver cannot get down the roads that we live in to wait on the nearest main treated road and get us to bring them to you.
I dont think these incompetent idiots have ever tried to push a wheelchair through the snow, or on ice.
This suggestion of theirs is totally and utterly disgraceful they supposedly know that all roads except the main roads are unsafe.
If its not safe for their heavy buses to drive down the road in these conditions, how can it be any safer for me to drag her in her wheelchair to the nearest main road (I say drag because the snow is so thick I can not physically push her through it) because they cant make the decision to close the school.
Cambridge Park is declared closed and they sit on a main road, Humberston Park does not so the decision should of been easy for them.”

“Grimsby Telegraph.

Why is your list of latest schools closures 24 hours out of date?
This is of no use for today what so ever”