Cold innit?

We got about a foot last night. No trains or buses and work looks doubtful.

In Glasgow all state schools have been closed for a few days now whilst all independent schools have remained open with very few absences amongst the pupils and none amongst the staff. All the more baffling when kids at state schools live relatively close to their schools.

I'm just about to don the wellies and clear another 30cm off the stairs through the garden

Nope - thought not.

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Well you must be happy Oggy - all that snow and cold. You may even have to put long trousers on for a change - or was it you I saw on the BBC news yesterday scraping the snow and ice of your car in a t-shirt and shorts?

the UK really, really does have to learn how to deal with snow....

Shorts replaced three weeks ago Gwyn. Fortunately I am ahead of the game at work so I can afford the time off.

BK - I know what you are saying, but these events are so rare (or have been in the last 20 years) that it would not be a good investment.

I probably could get to work if I was desperate, but I am not so it is not worth chancing it. In times past I have ridden a Ducati 900 12 miles each way on compacted snow, so I feel I have got the snow tick.

Oggy,

I looked at the picture you posted, and in Canada, we'd call that a minor annoyance.

Yes, but how many "minor annoyances" do you get in 50 years. They reckon that this is the worst we have had since 1963.

Ah 1963. I remember it well. Well sort of, anyway (I was 6).
I do remember we went to school regardless, as did my kids in 1982 when we had a heap of snow. We lived on a hill outside Wantage and couldn't get into town the first two days, but a neighbour with his Landrover did the shopping for half the estate. Three teachers lived nearby and walked to school to open it for the kids. They may not have learned much those couple of days, but it stopped them and us going stir crazy.

We've had a few cold winters here since we moved here, and I don't mind cold - just get rid of the snow.

Apparently the last time it was so cold so early was in 18something, when it turned into a really long cold winter.
Let's hope the Gulf stream returns to it's normal route quickly and does away with that prospect.

I am just a bit younger and it is on the edge of my memory. We lived out on Dartmoor at the time and the snow drifted up one side of the house (about 25 ft). I remember Dad leaning out of the bedroom window with a bamboo cane trying to find the car. The water mains froze and we had to have water delivered in milk churns by the local farmer. We used to have a small tin bath and this was used to pour the water into (not with us in it). I remember playing with the chunk of ice in it.

Yep, no central heating in those days. As much ice on the inside of the windows as outside.

My second son was born in February 1979. He was due to be born in the Netherlands, but work was finished earlier than planned so we returned to the UK in mid December. Just as well. We lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere in the Netherlands and they has snow up to the top of the cow sheds. There was no way the midwife could have got to me, or me to her. Our landlord, the farmer said he could have delivered our son though, as he had delivered so many calves.

It is still snowing here, and still -7. Thaw due at the weekend thank goodness, though it comes with rain, which will be nasty on frozen ground.

Oggy's tale of the car and the stick reminds me of when the main water supply pipe supplying this city burst and flooded a suburb badly. Bungalows were submerged up to their eaves.

The BBC sent out a news crew in a boat to get pictures and they found a family huddling in the attic of their home. The reporter shouted up to them asking how they were and the reply from the attic window was 'Watch what you're doing with those oars, my car's under there'

I'll go back to age 6 in 1947 when we were in Yorkshire and my father carried me to School - the snow was above his wellies so I would have sunk almost without trace

Since then - well in January I seemed to have 2 ins of ice everywhere .

Today I've managed to keep things a bit better - and there's even some sun today so with all the granular salt I'm putting down on the wet ground , I'm keeping the ice at bay.

About to garb up and go and attack some of the stuff I couldn't clear yesterday

Oh I remember 79 very well too Gwyn, my son was born in the January

1979 & The M62, the road across the Pennines that they said would never close, err.....It was closed when traffic came to a halt because the majority of English drivers cant cope with a bit of snow (actually there was quite a lot:shock

We had a "dusting" of snow on Monday...that's it. None left, just ice.