I remember the winter of 1963, i had to walk to school a
couple of miles
through the snow and we played football on the school playing
fields.No
schools where shut then, perhaps its where there is a blame
culture and
the prospect of being sued has made shutting schools the norm
these
day.Also on the way home from school i did slip over and break
my
arm,now that was a long wait to get patched up. But i stil
went back to
school the following day.

I remember that winter too.There was so much snow that we
couldn't use the playing fields for whatever the current method
of torture was - probably hockey that term, but it might have
been lacrosse - and instead had to go and play in the snow!
Almost a whole term free of silly team ball games. Bliss!

Anne
Fochabers