Let It Snow

Discussion in 'The Lounge Bar' started by Gage, Mar 23, 2008.

  1. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    Snow Clearance. Lancaster.Air Historical 001.jpg No snow in the Trent Valley and in the parts of Lindsey so far and very little ice about.

    Contrast that with the wartime operations of the Allied air forces operating out of British airfields into the heart of Germany where fog,ice and snow were a regular feature during the winter months.The Lincolnshire Wolds airfields expected this weather every winter but kept the airfields operational.

    Experienced a similar snowfall in February 1954 when Hemswell with three squadrons of Lincoln B2s and two squadrons of Canberras kept the main runway clear and kept on flying.Everybody who was in a "volunteering" occupation got involved.Personal issue of Wellington boots came in handy for groundcrew jobs in the winter.
     
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  2. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    Just a light dusting this morning but welcome nevertheless
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  3. Ramiles

    Ramiles Researching 9th Lancers, 24th L and SRY

    THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45

    Object description
    The King inspects officers of the Seaforth Highlanders during a snow storm at Gorhambury Park in Hertfordshire, 29 February 1944.

    Snow.jpg

    OBJECT DETAILS
    Category
    Photographs
    Related period
    Second World War (production), Second World War (content)
    Creator
    Cook (Lt)
    War Office official photographer
    Production date
    29/02/1944
    Materials
    whole: Nitrate

    Catalogue number
    H 36241
    Part of
    WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION
     
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  4. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    I never knew Basil Fawlty served in the Seaforths :smug:
     
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  5. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    He's about to teach them how to defend themselves from a banana
     
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  6. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    2nd day of repeat snow/melt/freeze/thaw
    Wish it’d lie for a while
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  7. stolpi

    stolpi Well-Known Member

    No snow (yet) in Holland ... only a lot of wind:
    Ciara storm.jpg
     
  8. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    Let it blow!
    A lot of wind - too much high fibre vegan food?
     
  9. ozzy16

    ozzy16 Well-Known Member

    Talking of wind,
    We had a tree come down in our garden last Saturday ( 8th Feb) luckily when it fell it missed the house and everything else without any damage, a friend of mine who's a tree surgeon has since cleared it.

    Graham.

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  10. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    Now waiting for Denis the Menace - and what follows? If it's Desperate Dan I'm going to need some of Aunt Aggie's cow pie
     
  11. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Nice hardwood. Hope you have a fireplace or stove to burn it in. Glad it missed everything.
     
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  12. ozzy16

    ozzy16 Well-Known Member

    We were both in the kitchen when it came down with an almighty crash.
    It's a modern house (8 years old) and we have a ground source heat pump with underfloor heating both upstairs and downstairs.
    The tree pictured is a Lime tree which is a soft wood variety, and although we have a log burner I only burn hard wood. (Oak mainly)
    which burns more cleanly,gives out more heat, and less smoke.( we haven't used our log burner this winter sofar.)


    regards..........Graham.
     
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  13. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    Odd
    Lime wood (linden) is usually defined as a hardwood. Good for carving rather than burning though
     
  14. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Good for bees though they like the nectar - makes lovely honey
    Yes Ia am a qualified apiarist (Plumpton College)

    Tilia - Wikipedia
    Linden trees produce soft and easily worked timber,

    TD
     
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  15. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    Hardwoods can be quite soft Balsa is defined as a hardwood - its all to do with the grain etc

    "Lime wood is one of the easiest woods to work with when carving. Despite being a hardwood, it easily takes in details as it is soft and crisp to carve. With straight grain and even texture, lime wood very rarely warps. This makes it suitable for both small and large pieces, for either carving or whittling."
     
  16. ozzy16

    ozzy16 Well-Known Member

    I was referring to it's burning properties in my post #1392.
    Yes it is a hard wood but it's soft and classed as low grade for use in stoves and log burners.

    Graham.
     
  17. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    Also used to be used by bodgers for making rustic chair and table legs and also for turning bowls and the like. I'd have thought there would still be someone who would find it useful
     
  18. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    No snow but the town has had a red flood warning and some properties have already flooded. Looking back at the local history there has been one bad flood in each century but there have been three in the 21st alone so far. Fortunately for me I live about 500 ft higher than the town so the river is not a danger for me. My front drive is somewhat lake like however - the cat has decided that she definitely does not want to go out
     
  19. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Maybe start a thread 'Let it Rain' with pics

    TD
     
  20. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    A mild winter so far but if it turns ugly, we're ready.

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