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We have had a sprinkling here in North Nottinghamshire and I see elsewhere there has been a little more.
I couldn't believe it today when the journalists were talking about the railways and airports grinding to a halt and showing a light covering of snow with grass peeping through.
In the "Olden Days", we could not wait for the snow each year. I never knew our school to be closed and my dad travelled on the train to Sheffield every day during the massive snow falls of 19?? He used to wear his pin stripe suit and bowler hat (going back a bit
) but this particular day the drifts were 5ft up our back door so you can imagine that it was quite deep. However, he wore his galoshes and then rolled brown paper around his trousers and tied string around his legs at suitable intervals,picked up his Financial Times and went to catch the 8.29 am train - on time of course! My mother was horrified at him going to the office dressed like a tramp. My brothers and I thought it hilarious.
We could not wait to get home from school each night to get our sledges out and meet the other kids in the avenue so that we could sledge down the road. Obviously, there was less traffic then.
Lower down the avenue a Mr Cauldwell had a Rolls Royce Taxi and used to clear all the snow from his drive and right across the road. We hated him, but to be truthful it stopped our sledges before they got to the main road.
You couldn't buy sledges. People made their own. My dad made mine and had some Sheffield steel runners bent to fit the wood. It went like the very devil. It was fantastic.
What has happened to all the services and our children today. They don't appear to have so much fun and seem to expect to be transported everywhere. We didn't have a car, so we walked to school or caught a bus. I am beginning to think we are a nation of wimps.
And, what about chilblains? Does anyone know what they are?
And ... ... jack frost on your windows in the morning and digging your finger nails into it to cut the ice to form a picture or your name.
And ... ... putting your clothes in bed at night so that they would be warm when you got dressed in the morning.
I feel better for that.
It's raw here today 0 degrees and damp. It is the coldest I have felt this winter, because we have had wall to wall sunshine almost since last October. I like Global Warming, if that is what it is.
I couldn't believe it today when the journalists were talking about the railways and airports grinding to a halt and showing a light covering of snow with grass peeping through.
In the "Olden Days", we could not wait for the snow each year. I never knew our school to be closed and my dad travelled on the train to Sheffield every day during the massive snow falls of 19?? He used to wear his pin stripe suit and bowler hat (going back a bit
) but this particular day the drifts were 5ft up our back door so you can imagine that it was quite deep. However, he wore his galoshes and then rolled brown paper around his trousers and tied string around his legs at suitable intervals,picked up his Financial Times and went to catch the 8.29 am train - on time of course! My mother was horrified at him going to the office dressed like a tramp. My brothers and I thought it hilarious.We could not wait to get home from school each night to get our sledges out and meet the other kids in the avenue so that we could sledge down the road. Obviously, there was less traffic then.
Lower down the avenue a Mr Cauldwell had a Rolls Royce Taxi and used to clear all the snow from his drive and right across the road. We hated him, but to be truthful it stopped our sledges before they got to the main road.
You couldn't buy sledges. People made their own. My dad made mine and had some Sheffield steel runners bent to fit the wood. It went like the very devil. It was fantastic.
What has happened to all the services and our children today. They don't appear to have so much fun and seem to expect to be transported everywhere. We didn't have a car, so we walked to school or caught a bus. I am beginning to think we are a nation of wimps.
And, what about chilblains? Does anyone know what they are?
And ... ... jack frost on your windows in the morning and digging your finger nails into it to cut the ice to form a picture or your name.
And ... ... putting your clothes in bed at night so that they would be warm when you got dressed in the morning.
I feel better for that.It's raw here today 0 degrees and damp. It is the coldest I have felt this winter, because we have had wall to wall sunshine almost since last October. I like Global Warming, if that is what it is.
God knows what this country is coming to. We, the great leaders in industry, could not organise a P** up in a brewery. Like you say we are now the worlds No1 wimps. What must the people here from Canada and similar countries think of us. All down to Health & Safety laws and the ease at which anyone can bring another to court for monetary gain. I fear you and I and all in our age group have had THE BEST OF BRITAIN.
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