" LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Early snow blanketed much of Britain
Tuesday, closing schools in northwest England and southeast Scotland
and turning roads icy.
snip
So many people have bet on a white Christmas in London that
the bookmaker, Ladbrokes, cut the odds from 3-1 to 11-4.
"We're frozen with fear at the prospect of a white
Christmas," Ladbrokes spokesman Nick Weinberg told The Scotsman.
"Interest in the traditional festive wager has gone into overdrive
this year."
The odds on Christmas snow in Glasgow have shortened from
8-1 to 2-1, while Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester are at 4-1. "

.... ever seen a poor bookie? I think not Nick.

Martin.



--
Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

On Dec 3, 9:37*am, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:
" LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Early snow blanketed much of Britain
Tuesday, closing schools in northwest England and southeast Scotland
and turning roads icy.
*snip
*So many people have bet on a white Christmas in London that
the bookmaker, Ladbrokes, cut the odds from 3-1 to 11-4.
*"We're frozen with fear at the prospect of a white
Christmas," Ladbrokes spokesman Nick Weinberg told The Scotsman.
"Interest in the traditional festive wager has gone into overdrive
this year."
*The odds on Christmas snow in Glasgow have shortened from
8-1 to 2-1, while Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester are at 4-1. "

... ever seen a poor bookie? *I think not Nick.

I am not a gambler but this female's genital was walking in the middle
of the road this morning.

I weigh over 15 stones and my bones are those of a capable manual
labourer's.

I don't gamble and I don't bounce. Nor am I afraid to make traffic go
around me.

However, I do bear in mind the the majority of Britain's worst drivers
are not old enough to have experience of winter. Some of them have
little memory of pavements.

Whilst on the subject of genitalia, can someone tell me which BBC
director employs weather presenters who don't know enough to come in
out of the rain?

Is it still the same person who's name I may not mention?

http://my.opera.com/Weatherlawyer/bl...ather-models-3

Martin Rowley wrote:

" LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Early snow blanketed much of Britain
Tuesday, closing schools in northwest England and southeast Scotland
and turning roads icy.

Schools closed? I was talking to a neighbour a few days who was at school in
Wales during the '47 winter. Snow was up to the first-floor windows but
no-one missed a day at school.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
Martin Rowley wrote:

" LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Early snow blanketed much of Britain
Tuesday, closing schools in northwest England and southeast Scotland
and turning roads icy.

Schools closed? I was talking to a neighbour a few days who was at school
in
Wales during the '47 winter. Snow was up to the first-floor windows but
no-one missed a day at school.

Times today
snow closes schools in North East after ONE inch of snow fell


give me strength
Grumpy of Dorridge

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...
Martin Rowley wrote:

" LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Early snow blanketed much of Britain
Tuesday, closing schools in northwest England and southeast Scotland
and turning roads icy.

Schools closed? I was talking to a neighbour a few days who was at school
in
Wales during the '47 winter. Snow was up to the first-floor windows but
no-one missed a day at school.


That was before elf and safety had been in invented, and the slow decline
into this risk averse culture.

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:05:32 -0000, JT wrote:

Times today snow closes schools in North East after ONE inch of snow
fell

The three schools up here are closed tomorrow already. Not a flake since
early this morning and the wind is non existant. Mind you the blodge of
precipitation currently over NI might change that when it arrives about
midnight.

They didn't close yesterday when 6cm (2 1/2") of powder snow fell about
0500 and the gritters/ploughs hadn't got round all the roads come 0845
school run time.

--
Cheers
Dave.

In article ,
Graham P Davis writes:
Martin Rowley wrote:

" LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Early snow blanketed much of Britain
Tuesday, closing schools in northwest England and southeast Scotland
and turning roads icy.

Schools closed? I was talking to a neighbour a few days who was at school in
Wales during the '47 winter. Snow was up to the first-floor windows but
no-one missed a day at school.


The story in my paper this morning reckoned some schools were closed
because the teachers couldn't get to work. I suppose nowadays teachers
tend not to live as locally as they used to. Even so, I can't help
wondering whether all of them made all that great an effort to get in.
--
John Hall
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless
information."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

On Dec 3, 3:05*pm, "JT" wrote:
"Graham P Davis" wrote in ...

Martin Rowley wrote:

" LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Early snow blanketed much of Britain
Tuesday, closing schools in northwest England and southeast Scotland
and turning roads icy.

Schools closed? I was talking to a neighbour a few days who was at school
in
Wales during the '47 winter. Snow was up to the first-floor windows but
no-one missed a day at school.

Times today
snow closes schools in North East after ONE inch of snow fell

In 1947 the schools would have been safer places for the children than
they are today and coupled with the lack of likely home care for most
in the straights of those times, it is no wonder that such weather was
braved.

Unfortunately it bred a kind of martyrdom to one's employer and the
work ethic. The price of earning a crust in those days was a
subservience that has become history.

Unfortunately it has been replaced by spoiled brats and vandals. To
send children out unattended when public transport is iffy and roads
filled with criminally stupid drivers, is asking a lot whatever
generation is being considered.

In 1947 you could walk in the road in some degree of safety.

Grow up fool.

"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
...

In 1947 the schools would have been safer places for the children than
they are today and coupled with the lack of likely home care for most
in the straights of those times, it is no wonder that such weather was
braved.

Unfortunately it has been replaced by spoiled brats and vandals.

You wanna see "frozen with fear" you'll see it after a thorough very severe
caning on the bare buttocks with doctors present, I say, and can I join in
the administration of such please? 3/4 rotan for over 21 year olds
permanently soaking in a tub of rapeseed oil. 1/2 rotan for lesser mortals
at school for instance. That would sort 'em out, overnight. In the morning
Britain has suddenly become a vandal & mugging free paradise and teachers
can actually teach once more - miraculous isn't it.
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/200...08_228x236.jpg
Dave R

Times today
snow closes schools in North East after ONE inch of snow fell

Which North East would that be?

Anne