"Pete B" wrote in message
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"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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I wasn't around in '47 but I was a kid during '63 and after a short
while snow and hard cold becomes very tedious and you really wish for
it
to relent..

Give me "mild, mild, mild" any day.

I'm with you on this. Water runs away of its own accord, I have to shift
the
snow in person or we cannot get to the main road
Cold is just so much more extra work
Jim Webster

I suspect the same would apply to many if not all the cold weather lovers
in
this group if one of these type of winters did occur again. Although I
much
prefer some cold, frost & snow to the present weather, it did get very
trying during the 1995/96 winter in Scotland (near East Kilbride). I don't
know whether temperatures of -20C or so (between Christmas 1995 and New
Year) are any more or less pleasant than +35C or above in summer. The
repeated heavy (to a level almost certainly unknown in the populated parts
of the SE away from the Downs or Chilterns) snowfalls of that winter
through
Jan/Feb 1996 also lost their novelty when the drive had to be cleared each
time, sometimes 3 times in a day!

Reading George Booths excellent summary reports of 1947 in England, it
looks
that in the South of England, that may, on the whole have been less severe
than the above winter in the aforementioned part of Scotland.


even in this part of south cumbria, two miles from the sea in three
directions, my parents remember 47 because the roads were closed to traffic
for several weeks

63 I remember myself. My father nearly killing himself working all hours to
carry water from a stand pipe to cattle, for (from memory) six weeks.

no, real life just gets too difficult when it gets cold like that, you have
to do everything you normally do, plus all the extra work that comes your
way to cope with the weather

The usual couple of wet weeks followed by couple of sort of dry weeks with
perhaps even the occassional day below freezing is fine by me

Jim Webster