On Tuesday, 24 December 2013 19:27:12 UTC, John Hall wrote:
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Lawrence Jenkins writes:

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/archive/ra/1978/Rrea00119781229.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.



Lovely post, Lawrence. I remember the three snowfalls that you mention

very well. Others that I would have in my personal hall of fame include

several in 1981-2, January 1987 and February 1991. There have also been

some notable snowfalls within the last five years, of course, but one of

the things I find about growing older is that I can't remember

comparatively recent events as well as those of twenty or more years

ago.

--

John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat

The subjects of the King,

And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:

Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

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Looking at the ensemble charts, this isn't an outlier @ T+384

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