Weekly chat Monday 6th - Sunday 12th January 2025

[Fan of Big Tone 𝕏 @mainstandpie]

Good morning, a new week, I hope everyone is well.

Its a cold morning at 1.7 degrees outside, our snow is still lingering a bit on the garden and roofs but hopefully the roads are now clear, we’ve got a bit of sleet at the moment but it should be dry later. I hope we can get out for a walk if it’s dry.

How’s everyone else coping with the weather? Keeping warm I hope. Have a great day everyone.

[super_ram]

I only gat a heavy dusting of snow yesterday and it's all, thankfully,gone now.Another cold,wet ,miserable day.I've a Tesco delivery due 11- 12 so  @william1984 and  @Harrys_Mummy will be round to collect there part of the delivery minus grand daughter Luna ,who is back at school today.

[Robbie 𝕏 @Robbie_NCFC]

Good Morning All.

We had some snow this morning but most of it has now melted, so at least around here we have not had the amount of snowfall that was predicted.

We do have a flood alert in the Town though.

I was a little annoyed last night after visiting the local hospital with a relative. We were only there for an hour but was charged £8 for parking..

You have to pay at a machine inside the hospital when you leave and the car park has cameras fitted that take your reg number, but the receipt said that my car had been there since 6am rather than the 5pm when we arrived.

I was given an email address to appeal the charge, but I'm told it could be up to thirty days before a decision is made.

Apparently, there has been lots of complaints of overcharging. Sorry for the rant but Hospital Car parks are certainly a money making industry nowadays.

Anyone else had problems with hospital charging too much?

[Fan of Big Tone 𝕏 @mainstandpie]

Good morning, it’s another cold one, the temperature dropped to 1.3 overnight, thankfully the snow has all gone now.

@Robbie I hope you get your parking fee refunded that’s scandalous, I thought those camera things were foolproof, how can it register you arriving at 6am when you didn’t arrive until 5pm? It must be a fault in which case others will have been stung too. Hopefully if they get a lot of similar complaints they’ll realise the equipment is faulty.

[Robbie 𝕏 @Robbie_NCFC]

@Fan of Big Tone Good news. I've had an email from the Car Park Company to say that I will receive a refund within 3 to 5 days. It doesn't say how much, but it's a positive development.

[Fan of Big Tone 𝕏 @mainstandpie]

4 minutes ago, Robbie said:

@Fan of Big Tone Good news. I've had an email from the Car Park Company to say that I will receive a refund within 3 to 5 days. It doesn't say how much, but it's a positive development.

Well that’s better than 30 days, they must be aware of the issue.

[super_ram]

Today was lovely and sunny with blue sky earlier but turned gloomy late morning.It's brightened up now and the sun is back  but half the sky is cloudy..Very cold.No snow!

[Fan of Big Tone 𝕏 @mainstandpie]

15 minutes ago, super_ram said:

Today was lovely and sunny with blue sky earlier but turned gloomy late morning.It's brightened up now and the sun is back  but half the sky is cloudy..Very cold.No snow!

We’ve just had a brief snow shower, then it turned sunny now it’s going cloudy again, good job Mrs. T didn’t put the washing on the line, the air would be blue now. 

What’s it like in the frozen north of Mansfield @Robbie have you had any snow today.

[super_ram]

Had a short flurry about 1ish.Very light ,quickly changing to quite heavy and then was stopped just as quick.Cloud cover can't make its mind up,very changeable .I've got my washing drying in front of the fire @Fan of Big Tone.

[Fan of Big Tone 𝕏 @mainstandpie]

8 minutes ago, super_ram said:

Had a short flurry about 1ish.Very light ,quickly changing to quite heavy and then was stopped just as quick.Cloud cover can't make its mind up,very changeable .I've got my washing drying in front of the fire @Fan of Big Tone.

Well we went for a walk and with perfect timing just we got half way round and it was too late to turn back we were engulfed in blizzard like conditions, I looked like a snowman, we’ve just got back and had to change all our clothes we were wet through.

And guess what? As soon as we were back in the house it stopped and the sun came out. Rassin Frassin weather. 

[Robbie 𝕏 @Robbie_NCFC]

6 hours ago, Fan of Big Tone said:

Well that’s better than 30 days, they must be aware of the issue.

Apparently they have been getting a lot of correspondence so there must be a problem where car park customers are being overcharged. 

I noticed that in some areas of the car park the lighting wasn't very good, so I'm wondering if the cameras have a problem reading the reg plate of cars, & if it cannot be read it defaults to 6 am, instead of the time a car actually arrived.