Friends and neighbours

It had to happen sometime and today it did.

Offers of help and indeed actions were given.
Recent snow has made our area a no go out area.
Except for 4 by 4 or large jeeps. Tractors are even being used to ensure farm roads are kept open.
So phone calls are gifts from younger people.
Yesterday Mr M. collected the newspaper and bird nuts. phoned from town and the message relayed by Mrs M..”ANYTHING AT ALL NEEDED?” Soon afterwards a courteous call and headlines read and bird feeder refilled….Thanks Mr M.

So to today when a darling girl phoned with her offer of help she was given the task of “TWO LOAVES AND TODAY’S NEWSPAPER” forgot to ask for a cream cookie!!! Ah well.

Doorbell rung the sound of scraping. A near neighbour clearing the doorstep with the biggest red shovel I have seen.” GOING OUT WHAT DO YOU NEED?” Assured her that already someone had offered and thank her profusely. She said she will call again….

You see what goes round comes round…yesteryear it was us who did the asking….today when the radio station said to call on the elderly and check…someone else was listening. And it was good.

What fun to hear of such helpful friends and neighbors.

Thanks for sharing such good news!

Anne

Neighbourly help. It’s like a big cuddly security blanket. Something for you to count on. Enjoy being on the taking end for a change. Hope your streets are free soon. It snowed all day here today.

We only have one street...drives into property are feet deep..my car is like an igloo..hope there is a car in the heap of snow..school still closed .essential travel only

As long as you have enough heat, food and books...aaah to be snowed in can be like on a stranded island with all the comforts. No?

Knowing that you have caring and helpful neighbors is a blessing. You may be cut off from the road, but you're not cut off from the community.

Many people in the central part of Scotland spent up to 12 hours some even more stranded on the motorway yesterday and all last night
The army are ferrying medical staff to pregnant and fragile in the cars.
..This weather has been exreme with schools closed and public transport stopping in some areas.It continues..that is since a week past Sunday
Lots of blame from the public listening to the radio...people blaming council road gritters not clearing..councils blaming weather reports..the public were told the snow was coming again..its lying on ice..people are not prepared ..its awful to see the miles of stranded vehicles on the TV knowing people are inside them.
We are taking each day as it comes

Stranded 12 hours in a car! Brrrrrr...I can't even imagine how awful that must be. Is this an unusaul winter for you MA?

Its reported worse since 40 years ago..
1963 was bad we had fun then (we were young)the roads were like lovely ice rinks for weeks.
I was always told about the 1947 winter..its a legend here..then snow kept people isolated and of course no big gritters
so now and then Scotland is shown who is big boss...the weather or man.

snows ack too

whats nice is people helping, and its some comphort fron it....

i even relaxed a bit knowing aireports shut so i could't do what i being naggeed and harrised into so i may as well relaz xed so i didn lol

the snow we had mountaine i think has made its way to the states, snow in alabama seems the most bizzareest of ideas eh

This snow Celtic...it has hit so many people here as it did you in Northern Ireland.Many old people have not been out and about for three weeks but worse has been the oil shortage and heating breakdowns I read and hear about.And burst pipes for so many.
Roll on Spring.

Celtic.
I didn't ask how the weather has hit you and wee man.

I honestly believe 2010 had the strangest weather ever seen by us before. Snow where there usually is none, none where it usually is, a lot of rain in dry states like here in Nevada, plus NO SUNSHINBE for weeks at a time, and then tornado's touching down where they never have before. Plus whats with all the dead birds being found in many countries including ours, and dead fish and NO bees what-so-ever???? Strange!!!

It was below 0 degrees this morning when I got up; it's only
3 degrees above 0 right now, and it's almost 9:00 a.m. But get this: It's suppose to be almost 40 degrees tomorrow. Go figure!

Yesterday it was like 46 degrees, today an icy-mix is falling
from the sky and the temps are dipping. According to long-range
forecast, it'll be colder than Sarah Palin's Alaska this weekend.