"TudorHgh" wrote in message
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Just looked at January and February 1947. Shame I wasn't alive then,
although I'd be older now :-0

I was alive then, aged 4, so I don't remember it and from what my
parents
told me subsequently I'm glad I didn't. They said I was a miserable and
frozen
little thing, as was my brother, then aged 16 months. There was no such
thing
as central heating and the lights kept going out. If Feb 2004 is like Feb
1947
I will be a miserable and frozen old bugger and I don't want it.
Interesting
it may well be (yes!) but there's a time in one's life for everything and
now
isn't it.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

my parents told me about it, roads blocked for six weeks and having to
travel over fields by horse and cart.
I can live without it as well
Jim Webster