Soop is cut off!

The temp here is zero. It's windy with a NE wind that goes through rather than round you!we had a few flakes of snow but it didn't settle!

Bright sunshine - what a treat!

Saw the snow in Kintyre on the news poor soop & Mrsoop I hope they are keeping warm.
Its nithering here and has been for weeks now, but we dont have the snow this time.

Does anyone know what kind of heating Soop has? I hope it`s not electric. I don`t enjoy power cuts, but at least we`d have heating and cooking facilities.

glass What's "nithering" please, never heard that one before?

I think it means b---dy cold!

According to the BBC news page for Scotland, it could be weeks, rather than days, before all the power is reconnected in Kintyre and on Arran. I do so hope that Soop, Mr.Soop and Rory are all warm and OK.

number thanks

I was rather hoping that soop had a wood burner that pumped out lots of heat because that would be cosy.

I'm sure Soop has a coal fire, one of her neighbours dropped off a bag of coal the other day.

DH was listening to Jeremy Vine at lunchtime and an elderly lady came on from Clachan, a village nearby to Soop. The lady's husband had managed to make it to the shop where he was able to buy some provisions....I don't think it was Mr soop, because the lady was listing all of the vegetables that her DH had been able to buy and I can't see soop blethering away like that - not about carrots and turnips etc! Anyway, she'd be more interested in whether he'd been able to lay his hands on some tuna for Rory!
One man down in Carradale, on the other side of the Kintyre peninsula has burned the contents of his garden shed that he didn't need. He's now starting on the shed itself.

The amount of snow dump shown on the telly looks horrendous. We've no snow here in Norfolk - just a very strong bitterly cold lazy wind with teeth straight from Siberia.

Poor things. One bag of coal - or one small shed, does not last long. Must be horrible.

This weather is ridiculous.
If we grannies told it to behave very sternly, do you think it would behave?
Granny power you know!

All roads on Kintyre now open, and at least one of the affected schools reconnected to power supply. Progress.

Just seen a tweet from the Argyle and Bute council to say all roads in Kintyre are now open.

Its a good start bags

Yep. Hopefully, soop won't have to wear all her clothes to bed and pile it up with extra covers for too much longer!

BTW, it's Argyll. Sorry to be picky but it is where I live

Sorry but I have spent the whole day looking back on my posts and have slapped myself a few times as I obviously cant spell or use the correct grammer

We used to live in a hamlet about 9 miles out of town, and in February 1980 we were cut off by snow for 2 days. Our coal had just about run out because it was time for the coalman to deliver, so we searched the house and backyard for things to burn. We got rid of a lot of old shoes, and cleared an awful lot of twigs and other bits from the yard. When we finally got out, we got to the main road into town, and it was single lane traffic with passing places cut into the snow walls, which must have been 15 to 20 feet high. Never seen snow like it before or since.
I`m glad the roads at least are open in Kintyre, hopefully they`ll have power back on soon. Glad Soop`s not reliant upon electricity for heating.

Well, her underfloor heating relies on electricity. I don't know if it runs on oil, but it will need an electric pump even so. If she didn't have a fireplace, she'd be really stuck for warmth. A fireplace (we've installed a stove) was my first requirement when DH was looking for a house for us up here (I was still in Oxon). Second requirement: a primary school within walking distance.

We had our first power cut when we'd only been here three months and I've lost count of how many since. A fireplace is essential back'o'beyond.

soop has power! YAY!

Good news!