"Jim Green" "nospam !!!" wrote in message
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I have been a lurker here for a couple of years and I am truly
astonished about some of the participants obsession with cold spells.
The excitement and anticipation seems very strange to me, who the hell
wants a cold spell? Otherwise I can see no advantages only problems for:
drivers, homeless people, the elderly who are too afraid to turn their
heating up.



Please include in your replies some advantages of a cold spell. I can
think of none.

With the advent of Christmas there is one very obvious advantage
of cold and snow. How will Santa manage to bring the toys to the
children if there is no ice for his sledge? The cost in replacement
runners needed because of wear on the tarmac, which seem to
be spreading at an alarming rate over the surface of this once green
and pleasant land, must surely outweigh the hospital bills of those
grannies whose tea trays hit obstacles and eject their occupants!

Besides, as Mike has pointed out, it brings back a touch of nostalgia
for those days in the sixties when snow was snow, and girls wore
stockingsgrin

Cheers, Alastair.



Jim