On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:31:05 +0000
John Hall wrote:

In message ,
Graham Easterling writes


Actually John I too hate to see snow retreat like a defeated army.
It must be something to do with our age group both being born
51/52. I do realise that at
that point Will will be eager to dismiss intensely any other
similarities.

There seem to have been a lot of USWers born at that time, in my
case 1951.
snip musical memories

1948 for me.

June 1944. Makes me just able to remember an event from the
1947 winter.

A survey done nearly fifty years ago - for Weather? - found that the
number of applications to join the Met Office was higher amongst people
who'd experienced notably severe winters during their early childhood.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. [Retd meteorologist/programmer]
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up and does not stop until you get into the office. – ROBERT FROST
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