Why are QVC showing repeats?

[Elise]

To be fair to people living in the south, it was pointed out on the news that most home counties councils don't invest in large amounts of heavy-duty snow clearing equipment because deep snow is relatively rare there. It would not be a good use of council tax payers funds. Hence it IS worse when 6 inches of snow falls in Surrey or Essex than it is in, say, Yorkshire or Scotland, because there aren't the facilities to deal with it.

Also, they made the point that the South East is so very densely populated that anything that slows vehicle movements, or forces everybody off rural roads, and concentrates them instead on A-roads and Motorways, is a really major traffic problem.

Thirdly, unlike some northern areas where the temperature often stays below zero, day and night, it can briefly get warm enough in the south to partially thaw the snow to slush, which then refreezes into ice - again much more dangerous than snow.

So people aren't being 'soft'. It is worse in many respects.

 

[rosey]

Why is it that the news programmes have hours and hours just about the snow - did nothing else happen today?? You would think that we have never had any snow in this country. We have had worse snow than this just before xmas but it did not even make the news.

Like most things when it is in London it is on the news - they seem to forget that the rest of the country exists. Rant over!

 

[Elise]

Given that getting on for 10 million people live or work in London (and I'm not one of them before anyone accuses me of being partisan) there probably is far more justification for extensive reporting of travel and weather issues for that area, than, say, the road to Farmer Giles sheep farm in Borrowdale!

 

[rosey]

There are more people who do not live in London!

 

[Sue]

There are more people who do not live in London!

There is also life outside London though you wouldn't think so the way Sky has been on and on about a few inches of snow down there !

 

[lesa60]

I do agree that as London doesn't get much snow, they are not as prepared as the North and it would be costly to make these preparations for something not required very often.

I live in central Scotland however and whilst we obviously get more than London, I don't think we get much more than more northern parts of England or we haven't, at least in recent years. I've been commenting to friends for the past few years that Scotland is always lumped as one area and often the news is showing more snow problems in England than we have here!

If only we could match the summer temperatures that you get...:1:

 

[Clare]

There is also life outside London though you wouldn't think so the way Sky has been on and on about a few inches of snow down there !

You could always switch channels if you get bored of it

 

[qvcAddict]

Thirdly, unlike some northern areas where the temperature often stays below zero, day and night, it can briefly get warm enough in the south to partially thaw the snow to slush, which then refreezes into ice - again much more dangerous than snow.

You are very right. Today if the roads had been cleared of snow it would not have been so impassable. You are even more right that tomorrow we are expecting more dangerous conditions when it refreezes

Not a single bus ran here today whereas usually the bus routes run clear enough.

Sounds strange but sometimes you cannot compare different regions to just the amount of snow because it varies in its type and the effect it therefore has.

Still this is a unusual occurence for us so I am not complaining and am happy to live in the happily warmer south mostly

 

[Down_2_The_Last_10%]

It'll be back to normal once they have finished having their little bit of fun. :32:

Earlier today I passed Jill Franks, who tried to explain to me that her car had dramatically skid off the road and she was trying her best to get into work.

Craig stopped to have a chat and explained that his investment had paid off, although he's only averaging 3 mph, with Charlie Brook sat on the back and he estimated that he might just make in for the TSV at 12am!

Simon Biagi was a tad wound up, in that Dale and Anthony Heywood had got slightly carried away with their snowman exploits and he went on to explain that he was only meant to be a guide for them to gauge how tall to build the snowman!

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[Nicky-j]

There are more people who do not live in London!

Yeah about 50 million of them! But fair enough.

 

[mrsm]

Given that getting on for 10 million people live or work in London (and I'm not one of them before anyone accuses me of being partisan) there probably is far more justification for extensive reporting of travel and weather issues for that area, than, say, the road to Farmer Giles sheep farm in Borrowdale!

I know him :22:

 

[Nicky-j]

there probably is far more justification for extensive reporting of travel and weather issues for that area, than, say, the road to Farmer Giles sheep farm in Borrowdale!

Actually there are cities up here - with cars and buses and industry (well, just about), even motorways, and people who have to go to work and schools.
Oh, but OF COURSE, you were just joking.

I DO have sympathy with those suffering with the worst of the weather - I, like others I think, am just having a bit of a go at the news media. Not everything that happens in London is more important than anything that happens 'up North' (a term which we seem to be applying to everything in the UK from Birmingham northwards) just because it is in London.

 

[Boris Bear]

I see there is a beauty workshop at ten o'clock, maybe Ali Young has ridden in on her horse!

 

[rosey]

I don't even live 'North' of London but the news rarely ventures outside the M25!!

 

[qvcAddict]

I see there is a beauty workshop at ten o'clock, maybe Ali Young has ridden in on her horse!

LOL and perhaps she had a I'm Twee Pie before leaving and rode there with Ojon treatment in her hair, Gale Hayman lip lift, OPI Nail Envy, a Denis Basso scarf and a touch of Bare Escentuals.

 

[Julie]

I see there is a beauty workshop at ten o'clock, maybe Ali Young has ridden in on her horse!

She lives very near me and I would be surprised if she makes it !

Unless the weather forecasters have got it wrong.

 

[Sazza]

Alison wasn't meant to be on for either of the Beauty Workshops.

 

[suzywoozy]

part of me thinks the reason why so much of the news was taken up with the snow in London is because they were so pleased to have something different to report where people weren't losing their jobs or going bankrupt and they could show some happy smiley faces.

 

[ERICS MUM]

I know him :22:

I think I do too, he has the farm next to that old git McDonald who raises cattle for burgers.:37:

Linda

 

[Moth]

Stayed in to watch but couldn't afford anything anyway!