On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:29:43 -0000, "Tom Bennett"
wrote:

"sarah" wrote It was 1982. We'd recently arrived from western Canada
and were living
in a bedsit in Surrey (large Victorian room with bay window, heated only
by a small 3-bar gas fire; shared bathroom and kitchen were unheated). I
have never been so cold in my life before or since!

Dec 81/Jan 82 was the classic cold spell for me living as I was in Durham
and we've had fond and detailed discussions about it on this ng before,
with diesel freezing, ice floes on the river Wear, frozen water pipes and
frost heave under my porch.

My memory of December 1981 was taking the car into one of those
new-fangled car washes and coming out with a one inch coating of ice
over the whole car.


--
Paul