The winter of 1962�1963 (also known as The Big Freeze of 1963) was one of the coldest winters on record in Great Britain. Temperatures plummeted and lakes and rivers began to freeze over.
Childbirth is one of those things men will never experience, so we have no concept of the pain.
Likewise, women have no concept of the pain I experienced on a freezing cold Sunday morning on Hackney Marshes a number of years ago when I received a football, driven with some velocity, square in the spuds.
I would contend that that is significantly more painful than childbirth - but we will never know!
How did this thread deviate to the trial of Oscar Wilde?
Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
The most damaging witnesses were the brothers Charles and William Parker, admitted prostitutes who had apparently been brought into the trade by Alfred Taylor. Parker's testimony was particularly harmful.
CHARLES PARKER: Subsequently Wilde said to me. "This is the boy for me! Will you go to the Savoy Hotel with me?" I consented, and Wilde drove me in a cab to the hotel. Only he and I went, leaving my brother and Taylor behind. At the Savoy we went first to Wilde's sitting room on the second floor.
PROSECUTOR GILL: More drink was offered you there?
PARKER: Yes, we had liqueurs. Wilde then asked me to go into his bedroom with him.