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  • Mahlerei

    Stormy Weather

    Welcome to our new base camp. While the chill winds blow through the Beeb and the snow piles up outside grab some coffee and/or a duvet and get posting.
  • Chris Newman
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 2100

    #2
    Bless you, Mahlerei, for reviving this old favourite from the Beeb days. As I wrote on their dying embers a few moments ago, we have no snow here but, in the street, I saw a couple of brass monkeys commiserating with each other. :p

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8833

      #3
      lots of snow here but nice to have a new home - we await salymap and then all will be perfect - hope your son gets well soon mahlerei.

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      • johnb
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 2903

        #4
        I've just unearthed, at the back of a drawer, the Yaktrax Walker thingies that you slip on over your shoes so that you can walk on ice, etc with total security. They are one of the most useful things I have ever bought - last year I could walk on the ice, etc with total security as people were slithering hither and thither on the Bristol hills.

        Highly recommended

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        • Mary Chambers
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 1963

          #5
          I've got the compact ice grippers from here:

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30470

            #6
            Originally posted by johnb View Post
            I've just unearthed, at the back of a drawer, the Yaktrax Walker thingies that you slip on over your shoes so that you can walk on ice, etc with total security. They are one of the most useful things I have ever bought - last year I could walk on the ice, etc with total security as people were slithering hither and thither on the Bristol hills.

            Highly recommended
            That's a coincidence - I thought a few days ago of contacting you to remind me what the beasts were called, after you expressed satisfaction with them last year.

            And a choice of two styles, with Mary's Ice Grips!

            Sorry, it's Glorious Weather here at the moment :)
            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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            • johnb
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 2903

              #7
              ff, if you are intending to buy either of those I would advise you to do so now.

              Last year, I had the devil of a job to find an online supplier with any stock as I had left it too late into the winter.

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              • salymap
                Late member
                • Nov 2010
                • 5969

                #8
                Stormy weather

                This is all very strange toan old'un butI hope I've found the good old once beheaded place I love. Thanks mahlerei for getting it going. I don't want to run it,just post when I can.

                Is there a list ofwho is on it and who hasn't madeit yet. Love to all salymap

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                • Chris Newman
                  Late Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 2100

                  #9
                  Hi salymap,
                  Well, I've made it.

                  Mind you I haven't had much success getting the ice-shoes recommended by our friends on this thread: my size 9 feet just happen to be common as muck. :(

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                  • Mahlerei

                    #10
                    Hi Sal

                    Glad to see you've landed safely. I think most of the old gang had made it to the dark side but may not be posting yet.

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                    • Bryn
                      Banned
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 24688

                      #11
                      Originally posted by salymap View Post

                      Is there a list ofwho is on it and who hasn't madeit yet. Love to all salymap
                      Towards the top left of the page, click on "Forum", then "Community", then "Member List".
                      Last edited by Bryn; 25-11-10, 14:35. Reason: correction of typo

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                      • Mahlerei

                        #12
                        BTW, what's the best way to download images on this board?

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                        • antongould
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8833

                          #13
                          Wonderful that you are here salymap - it just would not have been the same without you - I shall go for a walk in the snow with Dvorak to celebrate

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                          • johnb
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 2903

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Mahlerei View Post
                            BTW, what's the best way to download images on this board?
                            When you are writing your post you will see a 'toolbar' above the text.

                            You click on the seventh icon along (the one that looks like a square with blobs at each corner).

                            It seems that the file needs to be on your PC.

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                            • Russ

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Mahlerei View Post
                              BTW, what's the best way to download images on this board?
                              Assuming you meant uploading images to this board, Mahlerei, I'll attempt to do a post in the Announcements section, because your question is likely to be a regular one here.

                              Russ
                              (edit: have just seen johnb's post, which covers one method)
                              Last edited by Guest; 25-11-10, 14:53.

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