On Tuesday, 24 December 2013 16:49:21 UTC, Keith (Southend)G wrote:
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Keith (Southend)

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"Weather Home & Abroad"

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Not in any Christmas mood at all just watched part of ITV's version of the best 20 Christmas songs-BBC did the same, slightly different results the other day. Have to say it made me even more miserable being reminded how all those years have gone by in the time it takes to play a song or two. Even looking at the artiste and how they've aged. So in sad nostalgic mood and seeing the News years day synoptic cheered me up -but why, why is cold weather part of the package for at least. Oh fu*& it; not many Christmases left or winters.

Maybe that's it, we time our lives with memorable weather events I can still as clear as day remember the snow starting to fall on Boxing Day 1962, the fist real blizzard a week later. The trip to South Kirby with a beautiful partner as the winter of 78/79 started in earnest. We left in the afternoon from Victoria coach station on the 29th December 78 in these conditions as the low sank south with a screaming bitter easterly as the High followed http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/ar...0119781229.gif.

As we got past the infamous Watford gap the snow started and ponte was such a pretty picture when we arrived-of course I missed the snow storm in London which was on the 30th I believe.

Anyhow I'm going on, which is very unlike me; however the point is do we count down the clock with weather memories and therefore always feel a nostalgic pang for those past events. Don't know about you but I would live them all over again if it were possible.

The snows in mid