"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
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Martin Rowley wrote:

" LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Early snow blanketed much of Britain
Tuesday, closing schools in northwest England and southeast Scotland
and turning roads icy.

Schools closed? I was talking to a neighbour a few days who was at school
in
Wales during the '47 winter. Snow was up to the first-floor windows but
no-one missed a day at school.


That was before elf and safety had been in invented, and the slow decline
into this risk averse culture.