| Tuesday, January 5, 2010 |
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 What a load of wimps this present generation are! We had a light dusting of snow last night and this morning which reached the impressive depth of 1.4 inches, I know because I have just measured it. I know a lot of you have had it really bad, but south Leicestershire always seems to get away with a light fall of snow.
The news on the local radio station said that there had been numerous accidents in the area and several roads are blocked by snow. How? The picture shows my road, which is a little used side road, as completely clear with no problems, so the main roads around here must be clear of snow.
A further announcement on the radio gave a list of local schools that are "closed for the duration because of the bad weather". So the ever enthusiastic teachers and staff are having yet another day off with pay and the children, for whom the authorities decided it was too dangerous and cold for them to trudge 500 yards through the snow to school, are now out playing in it! My neighbour said she wasn't going to work because her car is "buried under the snow" (see top pic) "but it doesn't matter because I get paid whether I am there or not" she said.
Here is my "When I was a lad. . . " bit. Stand up the person who just groaned!
 I remember the winter of 1947 when we had some real snow, several feet of it actually. If you want to see more pics then Google "Winter 1947".
I was 10 years old at the time and my school was just under 2 miles away, which is a long way for little legs to walk, even in good weather. School buses? They were a thing of the future. I do remember trudging through the snow with my friends because our school never closed. When we got there wet through and cold we had to dry out by the pot-bellied coke stove in the middle of the classroom. No central heating then. By late afternoon our clothes were dry enough to start the long trek homeward in the dark and cold. Amazingly we all survived. I think that winter hardened us for life.
If we got stuck in a snowdrift or had some sort of an accident there was no way we could alert anyone because; and this will amaze the younger generation, we did NOT have mobile phones!
Our parents never took us to school or picked us up after, we were left to work out our own salvation. Pædophiles and child molesters didn't seem to exist then, but if one did try anything we were all armed to the teeth, with pellet guns, catapults and our scout sheath knives. |
posted by Keith at 1:22 PM  |
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Damn! How on earth did you find it?
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This made me hoot: the children, for whom the authorities decided it was too dangerous and cold for them to trudge 500 yards through the snow to school, are now out playing in it!
Children know the truth, hahahaha...
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I was over in London just before Christmas and experienced how much people panicked the second it started to snow. I don't get it. I might not have been around in 1947 so I've not seen snow as bad as that but I have seen snow worse then this year in London.
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Found it!