On Dec 5, 6:46*pm, Tezza wrote:
On 05/12/2011 18:27, Dave Cornwell wrote:
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Worryingly, I'm finding this cold going right through me. I'm going to
have to start wearing old peoples clothes to combat this now I've turned
61. Also my eyes won't stop watering, even when I get indoors. This
could also be a "getting old" thing as the doctor says your tears don't
drain away so well and I might have to have the eye equivalent of a
stent in my tear duct. How long will my snow loving last? I've seen
others waver with age.
Dave

I wavered when I was 17. *That was in the dim and distant '70s.

T

Possibly a little later, say 21, when I'd left University and
had to get from A to B to get to a job or for a social life (i.e.
pulling birds, not that I was terribly good at it). These things are
actually more important than the weather. I'll say that again. These
things are actually more important than the weather. Ask a keen
cricketer what he thinks of rain even if he has measured it
meticulously for years. You don't have to like everything about the
weather to be keenly interested in it. To talk of "wavering" is the
language of religion and implies that only the truly devout are real
weather enthusiasts. This is nonsense - I first kept records when I
was 11, 58 years ago, and still do, as keenly as ever if not more so.
Snow is very interesting, spectacular even, but once the boyish
thrill has worn off (rather quickly) it's simply a pain. As Philip
Larkin might have said "They f*** you up, snow and ice."

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey