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Occasionally my missus goes that way to work rather than the usual Rochdale way and it can often take her an hour to do a 16 mile journey. a bloody stage coach could have done that journey in less time.

Aye from here it’s downhill all the way, even the stream at the bottom of my garden ends up in Manchester. Just a shame I can’t go by canoe as the M66 is a nightmare most of the time.

Being only 20 miles from Manchester and up in the hills, most around here were bought by the “a place in the country” set long before the programme ever started although in fairness, some have been turned into beautiful looking homes.

Sounds nice and a decent part of the world. i always fancied getting hold of an old farm property and doing it up but but most have been snapped up around these parts and what’s left go for an absolute fortune now.

It must be a decent place mate. We’re not in that league by a long way but the house we bought 23 years ago for 40k is now paid off so whatever it’s worth is now all ours. also it’s hopefully got the added retirement bonus of a back garden big enough to stick a decent size property on.

Our first one was £13500, only a 2 bed terrace and it was in 1985 but for about 4K more we could have had a 3 bed semi. how times have changed although we did sell it less than 4 years later for almost 30k so looking back we must have bought just at the right time.

Oh she’s done the uni bit, graduated and is well into her career now but I don’t blame her for not rushing into her own place. i wouldn’t like to start on the property ladder with prices like they are now

Thought I could have worded that a bit better. Ones enough for me as well, the other one keeps threatening to get a place of her own but knows that there’s a big difference between paying a bit of board and a lot of mortgage.

I and you’ve had nearly 13000 more things to say for me, living with two women it’s understandable I struggle to get a word in.

Nowt much to say about the weather other than it’s crap but just realised that it’s 10 years today since I joined Netweather. any excuse to open a bottle of red I suppose.

Horrible couple of days. i can’t wait until I can see the back garden in the daylight and whether the annual expense in new panels has started early

Aye full blizzard conditions here. sorry wrong thread, that one was waiting for when the Daily Express worst winter for a gazillion years headline finally comes true. damp, breezy and pretty mild is the one I should have used.

Just seen a gritter but as per usual around these parts it had plenty of flashing lights on the front but nothing coming out of the rear. it is a bit on the coolish side though so I suppose it’s the thought that counts.

Sorry but the best on offer is another 4 months of members trying to pick out the model with even the slightest indication of something white and selling it like the next 1963 is on its way. its winter but the only sure thing is that the dark nights are longer, the light days shorter and the rain is just as wet but colder. We’ll just have to grin and bare it.

Some sleet on the windscreen going to work first thing this morning but nowt but cold rain since. a thoroughly miserable day unless you like that sort of thing.

Yeah we can save the kiddies school chair for Mocki. it’ll be just rain down there

Just made it 7. Carry on like this and we’ll need to be getting the emergency chairs dusted off.

Shame it didn’t stop the local idiots having a week too late firework display.

Not ideal weather for shed roof repairing but it’s done now and what bit of snow I had has now pretty much disappeared but as others have said, not bad for October and certainly a complete opposite for the warm conditions of last year. anyway we’re off to Liverpool for a long weekend shortly so hopefully tomorrow’s North Eastely can bring some cold sunny conditions to be out and about in.

Snowing lightly here and settling on the decking so it must be due on your side of the valley. I don’t keep records but it’s the earliest first snow I can remember for quite a few years and after yesterday’s sunshine certainly a surprise. Just typical though as I wanted a bit of dry and warmth to sort my shed roof out but it still needs going.

It’s going a lovely colour of black far too early now. light evenings, great while they lasted but a long dark slog is on its way now.

Thanks mate, feeling a lot better now. I must have felt crap, not a drop of alcohol throughout the weekend although after the ale trail the weekend before and with a couple of days in Liverpool coming up maybe a rest from it was a blessing.

There should have been a warning in our house over the weekend although I felt like crying at times for the wrong reasons. It’s a long while since I felt so much stomach pain but on the mend again now. meanwhile back to the weather, today’s wind has stripped most of the leaves up here along with a sizeable chunk of the roofing felt off our summer house so that’s another job to add to the increasing list. at least this weekends colder spell should mean that my last grass cut of the season has already happened, unlike last year when for the first time ever, I cut it in November.

It’s on its way now thanks but a nasty little sod while it lasted.

After a misty coolish start it’s turned into a decent days weather up here and certainly better than the BBC forecast which showed plenty of cloud over the region. its just a shame that i’ve come down with a bout of something dodgy otherwise a few hours out walking on the tops would have been worth the effort.