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yes, happy belated birthday ailsa! x

Thanks you guys! Are we doing drinking over Christmas at all?

Another we burst just there as I cycled home from work too - in shorts & all!

Are they bothering to grit or look after the road here at all? I was (foolishly) out in Coatbridge this evening and it was a total joke. The main roads were sheets of ice, even with heavy traffic. Terrifying.

I saw a huge lorry end up stuck half-way up a hill in a slow moving two-lane traffic queue because he didn't have enough traction to continue.

THIS IS WHAT I WAS SAYING

they spent the salt money on the commonwealth games

Was snowing in Hamilton the other day - apparently if it snows it never lies. It's lying.

Same in Muirkirk (wilds of Ayrshire) - lots of snow etc. Happily, if it keeps going, I won't get to work in Hamilton tomorrow.

It's true, it rarely lies here. Last year was the first proper snowfall in 18 years since we moved here. But that was nothing on this years.

Hah Muirkirk, in P7 my school St Ninian's (Prestwick) sent my class to some sort of outward bound centre. Kaimes or Kames or something like that. Plenty of snow there.

they spent the salt money on the commonwealth games

I had two taxi drivers tell me this today. Pavements are lethal here.

I live round the corner from the local gritter depot, and the difference in road/ice interface from their turnoff to my driveway compared to the bit from their turnoff to the rest of the world is staggering. I skidded round two corners before getting to the bit of the road the gritters go up and down, and then it was all OK. My driveway and especially back patio are very much akin to an icerink though.

My icy wee fall has cost me a possibly fractured elbow and most likely several weeks off work (selling CDs one-(wrong)-handed isn't much good). I'm pretty angry at the council or whoever was responsible for not gritting that road or whatever was approriate. I didn't realise until I fell that it wasn't just wet, but one huge sheet of ice. It was a main road, totally full of traffic and didn't seem to have been treated at all, which is madness and dangerous.

do the council have a legal responsibility to grit I wonder

That was what I wondered as I walked home. I was militantly and frustratedly musing on whether one would have any recourse for accidents like this because of the council failing to look after the roads sufficiently.

"A highway authority are under a duty to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that safe passage along a highway is not endangered by snow or ice."

any thing good happening on the south side for hogmanay?

I've heard that you can claim compensation for tripping over un-maintained paving stones and the like, so maybe this would be similar?

What should I do if I were to pursue this idea? I'm certainly going to be bored enough for the next few weeks.

In seriousness, because things are so diificult in the record shop, I'm almost certainly going to suffer financially because of being off work for an extended period.

IANApersonalinjuryL, best first step is to talk informally w/someone at a firm like irwin mitchell?

^ Yeh, I think that's best. Approach the council yourself without any legal backup and you'll get nowhere. I don't think you'll be the only one, either ...

"It’s absolutely terrible. It has taken us 10 minutes to walk less than 200 yards. The dog has already taken a tumble."

:D

aye this has been fucking murder walking to work. Almost fell on my cunt too many times to count.

Sorry to hear about the arm, Alex.

I have just bought a pair of these. They'll arrive too late, but I really should have been arsed to buy them after skidding to work in last year's freeze.
http://www.yaktrax.co.uk/

yup srsly considering those for running

Ow, krakow, the partner of a girl at my work also fell over and fractured his elbow.

Those yaktrax things look ace.

ouch, krakow

the roads round central station are lethal, this morning

worried that my train down south tomorrow won't be running :-(

My sister & I are going to drive down to Liverpool on Xmas Eve, leaving about 11am. Where are you heading?

(She'd probably have a hissy fit at me offering lifts to internet peeps, but screw it, I'm serious if it did happen to fit.)

thank you v. much for yr very kind offer, k - my train journey goes glasgow>birmingham, birmingham>banbury, am due to catch the first train out of central station at 5.50am! my email add = my internet name (no spaces) at gmail.com, if you have a mobe i can ring on you on, should i need to head down south by other means (i could prob get picked up in Liverpool by my sister, if needs be)

Hey Krakow sorry to hear about your accident. Hope it gets better soon. Have a safe journey tomorrow, and ward fowler and anyone else travelling.

No worries, just sent you a wee email Ward.

Thanks for the kind thoughts too Pfunk, ailsa, Ward, Jim et al. I got a much better sleep last night after dosing on pain killers just before bed and strategically placing a spare pillow as arm rest, so that's helped the mood a lot.

Not looking forward to having to drop into work now to collect some presents that I'd left there unfortunately. Sure to be awkward and guilt inducing.

thanks krakow, i can't check my email until this evening - meant to say that obv i will pay for petrol, should the need arise (I'm hoping for a snow free day today, so that there is a train service tomorrow...fingers crossed)

and thanks for yr gd wishes, pfunk - a safe and happy xmas to all glasgow ilxors

Nurse with Wound all-day event at the Tramway:

http://www.tramway.org/performance/177/a_midsummer_days_dream_evening_live_performance/

I know it's a bit far off, but it looks like I'll be through in Glasgow to see Wilco in september.
I'll bump the thread nearer the time but it would be nice to meet up.

Yes, do bump nearer time, would be good to finally meet up.

ok hailstones here. huh?

short lived but pretty hailly

glad i missed that; i'm not long in from a wee walk down Glasgow's wanky west-end.

It's just hitting Dennistoun now.

P.S. SLAYER tonight!

Nina Nastasia tonight

lol d.tr\/mp is a total fan-dan; really wish I'd saved those e-mails from his legal team I saw (at DundW) that explicitly said their aim ws to marginalise and force out the maverick landowners on the estate

SSSLLLAAAYYYEEERRR!!!

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v15/p831095172-3.jpg

rangda on monday see you all there

Indeed; I'll be there. We should actually say hello for once...

anyone for some potted hough?

What were the flying ants all about?

it was a thing today

oh man yesterday i was at the forge and these fuckin things were everywhere, flying into people's hair and clothes, it really was like the first plague of the apocalypse...bring back the midges

I was in Edinburgh yesterday, and they were a thing over there as well.

Flying ant day. Pavements were crawling, too

I'm on t'other side of the country but lately we've had a plague of aphids the likes of which ye've never seen (or I've never seen, at least). A real fog of them. I'd get indoors and have to brush literally twenty off of myself. Calmed down a bit now, though.