Snow What a Pallavar

[weeal]

Why are all the schools shutting cos of some snow? No kids at school, some parents having to stay home, others dodging work, no public transport in some areas?
Come on, dont we remember WALKING to school??? or work or shops???

Its like a different planet these days, we've all gone soft.

[weeal]

aye Boab thats whit I mean, we are tougher up here

[Ethel]

Gormless - are you being deliberately provocative?

There are British people with foreign lineage as you are well aware. They have British passports and there are no wildcat strikes about employing them - and rightly so.

I never mentioned speech, by the way. A lot of foreigners speak and write better English than home grown Brits.

[Gourmander]

...do you mean the Scots Ethel...?

[Totterdown]

I too can remember walking in deep drifts to get to school years ago. That is when many more teachers lived closer to the schools. Now, as all teachers have their own transport and can live in a different city to where the school is, they cannot get to the school in dangerous road conditions. As most of the children live in a catchment area (unlike the teachers), most (if not all) children would be able to get to school, but there cannot be a situation where there are hudreds of children to only a handful of teachers that could make it.

[Gormless]

Oh dear, I was hoping that the Scottish wouldn't be mentioned, but since they have, all I can say is they got the trains, courtesy of the English, some even ran as far north as Glasgow at great personal risk, and they still can't speak properly.

[Caribeing]

I visited family in Canada a few years ago in the Month of January! Sub zero temperatures, never experience cold like it and yet everything functioned and life went on as normal, got up in the morning the roads were clear, traffic running, even managed a trip to the Niagara falls! This snow business has taken over our lives at the moment what about all the other major chaos in the world, same thing will happen when the floods flow!!

[weeal]

lol

yeah but we know how to handle some snow!

[Gourmander]

Didn't Sir Wallace Gibson promise trains for the Highlands?

[poohshunny]

Hi weeal. What snow?????? We had a little bit here yesterday. We had a snowball fight with the kids in the street last night. By 10pm it had started to rain and by this morning there was no snow left. It has been a beautiful cold but sunny winters day today.
My son is 11 and I remember when he was 5 or 6 taking him to school on a sledge because the snow was so deep! I have to admit though, i really miss the snow now that I live in England :-(

[weeal]

Hi poohshunny, I hate the snow so Im glad ours has disappeared today too but its frozen over already - sheet of ice

[shaneystar2]

There is not one flake of the white stuff here in Norfolk .Not a single little snowflake .It has snowed but it didn't lay .
I remember the big freeze way back in my youth when they had icebreakers on the River Medway and it went on for ages from about December to March if I remember correctly . We still had to slog to school in it and people still got to work somehow .

[LoftyLottie2]

Oooh Shaney, we had an inch or two yesterday and very pretty it was too (looking out from inside). By this morning most had gone, but there are still pockets of it laying around. And 89 schools were closed in the county, most of them in Mid and West Norfolk. I despair!!

How comes you didn't get any over in the East of the County!!


Was that the big freeze of 1962 you talk of? I remember our first winter in Norfolk - snow drifts completely cut us off and the snow was still quite high in the dykes in early April.
I walked to work - 3 miles - because the drifts had cut us off!!

[weeal]

Would be nice to have several inches in the morning (wink)

[LoftyLottie2]

Yes, I have nowhere to go (except to replenish bird feeders). It can snow all it likes.

I was born in 1947 - just been looking at these pictures.

http://www.topfoto.co.uk/gallery/1947Winter/de fault.htm

[shaneystar2]

Yoohoo Lofty .The big freeze of 63
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2 008/09/04/bigfreeze63_feature.shtml
We lived in Kent then .
I think it's too bloomin' damp over here for it to lay !
Mind you we did have loads a couple of years ago .We still had Shaney and I remember going on the beach with him in the snow ....and last year on Easter monday we had this
http://i43.tinypic.com/142fz9x.jpg