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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2005Purrs for Nathan please?
Greetings all. We have snow. Several inches of it - which is a lot for this part of the world. For once, and surprisingly, the schools have not closed. Nathan cycles the 13 miles to college each day. This morning he set off early and on my recumbent trike. Much more stable on snow & ice than a bicycle, as three wheels and a low centre of gravity. It took him an hour-and-a-half to cycle to college this morning - twice as long as his normal commute. He rang to say he got there okay, which calmed my frayed nerves :-) He has the return journey to make later today, and we are getting continued snow falls all morning, and it's not melting, so the depth of snow is getting gradually deeper. May I please have some purrs that Nathan has an uneventful cycle ride home from college, please? It'll help calm my frayed nerves again :-) Cheers, Helen s Purrs and purr-ayers for a safe commute are forthcoming! Donna, Captain, and Stanley > Purrs and purr-ayers for a safe commute are forthcoming! > > Donna, Captain, and Stanley Thanks - the weather is easing now, so he should be fine. > Greetings all. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Cheers, Helen s As soon as my eight have fisnished their breakfast & morning zoomies, I will set them to purring for a safe homecoming, not only for Nathan, but for anyone there who needs it, and for your nevers to become unfrazzled and to be calmed. --? The ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)? email me at nalee1964 (at) insightbb (dot) com http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep > As soon as my eight have fisnished their breakfast & morning zoomies, I > will set them to purring for a safe homecoming, not only for Nathan, but > for anyone there who needs it, and for your nevers to become unfrazzled > and to be calmed. I thank you :-) Purrs that Nathan makes it home safely. Do you guys have a truck that you could pick both him and the trike up with? If it gets too bad that might be a better option. Hugs, CatNipped > Greetings all. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Cheers, Helen s > Purrs that Nathan makes it home safely. Do you guys have a truck that you > could pick both him and the trike up with? If it gets too bad that might [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > CatNipped Truck owning is not normal for the UK :-) The wether has broken, so he should be fine :-) > We have snow. Several inches of it - which is a lot for this part of the > world. For once, and surprisingly, the schools have not closed. Nathan [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > deeper. May I please have some purrs that Nathan has an uneventful cycle > ride home from college, please? It'll help calm my frayed nerves again :-) What a trooper! Here's hoping for an uneventful ride home.  Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > Greetings all. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Cheers, Helen s Purrs on the way for Nathan to make it home safely tonight. Does he have friends he could stay with near campus if travel home becomes too dangerous? Julie, Hobbes, Selena, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus > Purrs on the way for Nathan to make it home safely tonight. Does he have > friends he could stay with near campus if travel home becomes too > dangerous? > > Julie, Hobbes, Selena, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus Thanks! He's made it home safe & well, so my nerves can unfrazzle :-) All part of the adventure that is growing up, learning to be sensible, gaining independence and being a competent, confident adult. Cheers, helen s >> Purrs on the way for Nathan to make it home safely tonight. Does he have >> friends he could stay with near campus if travel home becomes too [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Cheers, helen s I'm glad he made it safely each way. You are in Norfolk ISTR? I am in Leics, yesterday woke up to about an inch of snow, got into work a bit late but it gradually thawed during the day. At the moment for a few more weeks, I'm still on therapeutic hours so I don't work Wednesdays. Woke up this morning, looked out of the bedroom window. Eeeek. 2 inches at least, so I got back under the duvet for a bit longer ;-) It has cleared away during the day, and by 3 pm there was hardly any left, but the forecast for tonight is poor. Up to 10 cm is expected overnight (nearly 4 inches.) If you get as much as that Nathan might need to stay home for the day. Kudos to him for trying so hard getting there and back. I am a mile or more from where the council grit and salt the roads. If it looks too dangerous to drive tomorrow I shall stay home and get it taken off my annual leave. I once struggled into work (11 miles) through some very bad snow, and you know how bad we are at snow here in England. It took me 3 hours to get there, and I nearly had several accidents on the way. At one stage I braked gently, lost control of my car and nearly hit a wall. I'm not doing that again .I would rather lose a day's leave, or a day's pay than my life. I don't suppose this weather will last too long. Maybe a week. Generally we don't get a great deal of snow in Britain, but when we do..we are useless at managing it. When N?le was staying with me, and it snowed, she laughed because it was on the BBC news. They seem to have much more snow in Germany, and I was very impressed while I was there to see that there were posts sticking up every few yards at the side of the roads on both sides. One side of the road had fluorescent spots, and the other side fluorescent stripes. I asked what they were for and she said "It's for when we have so much snow that you can't tell what side of the road you are on." Wow. They also have enough winter there to change their car tyres summer/winter so are much better equipped to cope. Another thing for you other Brits - they don't have gutters and downpipes on their houses because they freeze up so much. Amazing. Tweed > I'm glad he made it safely each way. You are in Norfolk ISTR? I am in > Leics, yesterday woke up to about an inch of snow, got into work a bit > late but it gradually thawed during the day. At the moment for a few more > weeks, I'm still on therapeutic hours so I don't work Wednesdays. Woke up > this morning, looked out of the bedroom window. Eeeek. 2 inches at > least, so I got back under the duvet for a bit longer ;-) Yes, he made it okay :-) We are indeed in deepest rural Norfolk. Main roads are okay, but the back roads - and there's an awful lot of them don't get touched by gritters or ploughs when needed. > It has cleared away during the day, and by 3 pm there was hardly any left, > but the forecast for tonight is poor. Up to 10 cm is expected overnight [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > looks too dangerous to drive tomorrow I shall stay home and get it taken > off my annual leave. Over on a weather group there is much talk about media hype of the situation. Tomorrow may not be as bad as we are being led to believe. I hope this is the case. > I once struggled into work (11 miles) through some very bad snow, and you > know how bad we are at snow here in England. It took me 3 hours to get [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Generally we don't get a great deal of snow in Britain, but when we do..we > are useless at managing it. When I was a kid, the schools didn't close due to snow. I used to have to walk well over a mile through snow to get to school. We got wrapped up warm & got on with it. One of the reasons I let Nathan cycle today. The 'bent is very stable, having such a low centre of gravity and three wheels, so he wasn't going to be falling off it. The motherhood gene still makes me be a worrywart though ;-) One of the problems we have is, I think, that drivers go too fast for the conditions - on Monday I drove Nathan to college and many of the roads were snow & ice covered, so I just took it slowly, using gears to slow, rather than brakes. I was amazed by the number of numpties who think that it's okay to do 60mph on a winding, narrow country lane with a covering of snow & ice on it for the full width of the road. One can but hope that such candidates for the Darwin Award only remove themselves from the human gene pool and don't take an innocent third party with them :-( > When Nüle was staying with me, and it snowed, she laughed because it was > on the BBC news. They seem to have much more snow in Germany, and I was [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > that you can't tell what side of the road you are on." > Wow. Yup - we haven't got that which is why the media hype over the amount we have got makes me shake my head. I remember when we lived in a nearby village, one winter taking Nathan to school (he would be about 7 or 8 I think) across the lanes where the snow was in drifts of several feet high. Now that was bad compared to what we have now. What we have now just requires *care & attention* when on the road. Cheers, helen s > They also have enough winter there to change their car tyres summer/winter > so are much better equipped to cope. > Another thing for you other Brits - they don't have gutters and downpipes > on their houses because they freeze up so much. Amazing. > > Tweed I'm so glad to hear he's made it home ok! Best wishes, SignaturePolonca & Soncek > Thanks! > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Cheers, helen s > Greetings all. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Cheers, Helen s Purrs that by now Nathan is home and safe. We've had surprisingly little snow here on the North Yorkshire coast, and what we have had so far has mostly melted. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. > Greetings all. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Cheers, Helen s Purrs for Nathan!!!May he enjoy the trip. MLB > Purrs for Nathan!!!May he enjoy the trip. MLB Thanks - he's back safe & well, so I can put the worry beads away :-) Cheers, helen s > Greetings all. > We have snow. Several inches of it - which is a lot for this part of the > world. For once, and surprisingly, the schools have not closed. Nathan [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > purrs that Nathan has an uneventful cycle ride home from college, > please? It'll help calm my frayed nerves again :-) > Cheers, Helen s I hope Nathan got home OK. Judith SignatureJudith Latham Stourbridge, West Midlands. UK. > Greetings all. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Cheers, Helen s Purrs for an uneventful ride home for Nathan (and for his worried Mom) Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe |
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