THIS COULD HAPPEN AGAIN......after Christmas

[FUJI]

Ah Yes!

I remember all too well the exceptionally hard winter of 1947.....then this one, said to be even worse in 1963......working on the building sites as a joiner was no joke......we chippies had a workshop in which to make joinery....the plumbers were kept busy with frozen pipes....but the poor brickies and painters were reduced to stick-chopping or being laid off with no wages.

 

I guess another winter like them is due again sometime......

 

 

wrap up warm.....folks

FUJI

[Korky]

Cheered me up no end that one has.

Time to grease-up my high-performance toboggan perhaps. The Chorley Pensioner Daredevils will be out if force if there's so much as a flurry of the white stuff. Last year, we had a few hours of heavy snosh and we took to the hills en masse. I can't quite remember how many of us there were, but our combined age was fourteen thousand and twenty six.

Send it down, we fear it not!

Korky

Edited December 3, 2017 by Korky

[Ryewolf]

Alas, I was a bit young to remember this. One thing I noticed from the credits was Ridley Scott as Designer... But FUJI is probably right in that we're overdue a really bad winter....

[Clicker]

Ooooh just found this ... Gosh I remember 1963... I was living in Westcliff on sea, and home fromBoarding school for Xmas. I remember the  sea actually froze at Shoeburyness... I think the temperature hardly got above freezing point from Xmas eve, for seven weeks till the first week in March..

[WereBo]

I've got vague memories of that freeze, the best one being my primary-school (convent) teacher phoning my mum to come and take me home for not wearing the proper school uniform!  Mum had decided it was too cold to send any kid to school in shorts, so she brutally and horribly forced me to wear my jeans instead.  When the school phoned her, she went to see the nuns and tore them a new one for being so ridiculous to exclude a pupil for not wearing short trousers, in snow almost up to my knee-knobs.

Happy memories.....

[Leon]

All many years before I was thought of.... I do have some pictures somewhere of me in deep snow around 1980? ( I was 4-5 years old)  then again probably 5 years later I remember having enough snow to be able to roll snowballs taller than I was.....