"Gopher" wrote in message
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In message , Christina Websell
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woke up to an inch in Leicestershire this morning.
Not mega but enough ;-)
I don't live where the roads are gritted. I'm too far from a bus route to
make it worth their while.

We have a similar situation here.. Yet are expected to pay the same
council taxes as those who have roads gritted. The council refuses to grit
to our community stating the population base is too low. As is often the
case in very rural areas much of the population is older rather than
younger than average. They have removed any bus service; our village is
situated in a dip in the rolling hills hence any movement has to be by car
and they don't grit the roads which currently are like ice rinks. Parish
Council, which has protested vehemently at no grit (nor grit bins made
available) is considering either reducing the precept for the village or
recommending a boycott of the council tax. Should be interesting.... I bet
we get our roads gritted!

I bet you don't! I worked for the council for 21 years until the end of
Oct 2010 - I took voluntary redundancy as I saw the cuts coming and their
proposals and didn't fancy it (not in the gritting dept, btw, I was in a
child protection team)
So I know what they're like..

It's even worse of an ice rink outside my house now. According to my
max/min thermometer outside it was -10C last night. You should see my poor
parsley (just to keep a little bit on topic) it's so flopped, both
varieties, I can't see that it can recover.
The chicken drinkers were solid ice 2 inches thick.
My kitchen was 5C this morning. I have a woodburner in my lounge only and
after 10 hours burning yesterday & today it was only up to 15C in my room.
Brrr.