"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
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Don't blink you might miss it.
I'll tell you how mild it's been, there's been reports from around the
country, that squirrels have been seen selling their surplus nuts at car
boot sales. Hibernating animals are concerned that they'll be knackered
come spring/summer due to lack of sleep.

Anyhow over on TWO someone kindly posted this link to a fascinating
British Transport film clip over on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlC4Z4OOc-0

It's called "Snow Drift at Bleath Gill which is up in what used to be
called Westmoreland, filmed 1955. Blimey that looks cold in fact although
only 52 years ago it could be another world, how things have changed.

I was just reading a book on the 1947 winter, and apparently some of the
snow drifts in railway cuttings were so deep and set so fast that they could
not even be cleared with a specially-designed jet engine blower, and had to
be blasted with dynamite!

Different world indeed.. don't think anyone who has lived through a really
severe winter like that would be an internet cold weather fan. In fact I
think many of those fans would soon tire of it after a few weeks of chaos,
especially if gas and electricity were cut off.