In message , Mike Tullett
writes
with all the cold weather. It was great in 62/63

I remember that! The snow came over my wellies, we had to walk down to
the Express Dairy depot and all the milk bottles had stalks of cream
sticking out of the top with the foil neatly balanced on top. It had
started snowing around New Year (we were driving home to Chorleywood
from Preston Road), and apparently it hung on where we lived. We also
had a black cat that was trying to hunt birds by jumping out of 10" of
white snow at them!

in my first year at Uni.
(courting at that time), but a re-run would go down like a lead balloon
with me.

A re-run of courting?

I'm fed up with having to watch I don't slip, or that the cars
don't, or having to leave the boiler on at night to stop freezing in one of
the feed pipes. 9 days of frost and snow on the ground is enough for me
now.


--
Surfer!

"Surfer!" wrote in message
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In message , Mike Tullett
writes
with all the cold weather. It was great in 62/63

I remember that! The snow came over my wellies,

Oh, you poor dear. It came (drifted) up to the top of the roof of our
bungalow in the middle of Hampshire. Generally, the roads were under about 8
feet, but open fields only had about a foot. Drifting covered houses, cars,
hedges, even buses. If you stood on the top of it, all you could see was
white, white, more white and even more white behind that white.

Look, I'm trying very, very hard not to get started. ..... :-)

jim, Northampton



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"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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with all the cold weather. It was great in 62/63 in my first year at Uni.
(courting at that time), but a re-run would go down like a lead balloon
with me. I'm fed up with having to watch I don't slip, or that the cars
don't, or having to leave the boiler on at night to stop freezing in one
of
the feed pipes. 9 days of frost and snow on the ground is enough for me
now.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 28/12/2009 16:37:34 GMT

My sentiments entirely, thank you. Don't get me started again.

jim, Northampton



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Mike Tullett wrote:

with all the cold weather. It was great in 62/63 in my first year at Uni.
(courting at that time), but a re-run would go down like a lead balloon
with me. I'm fed up with having to watch I don't slip, or that the cars
don't, or having to leave the boiler on at night to stop freezing in one
of
the feed pipes. 9 days of frost and snow on the ground is enough for me
now.


Sounds like we're more or less the same age Mike - I started work in July 62
instead of going to university. However, I still have a hankering for the
really cold weather, even after the clang I got on the back of my head
almost a fortnight ago - still feels a bit sore. Perhaps I ought to get a
crash helmet to wear when there's icy weather?

At least with the 62-3 winter it stayed freezing most of the time and so
wasn't so slippy as it is these days with all the thawing and refreezing.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

Mike Tullett wrote:
with all the cold weather. It was great in 62/63 in my first year at Uni.
(courting at that time), but a re-run would go down like a lead balloon
with me. I'm fed up with having to watch I don't slip, or that the cars
don't, or having to leave the boiler on at night to stop freezing


Even I find I couldn't agree more. Here it's Day 12 of the Big Freeze,
with a severe frost every night and snow (down to 8 cm this morning).
We've been carless and snowed in now since Friday 18th, and I'm now
thoroughly fed up.

What's more the forecast doesn't look too good, either. I'd never
thought I'd found myself really wanting a good new-fashioned winter
mild wet spell.

Trevor
Snowed in in the Sidlaws, NW of Dundee
Weather; http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/

In article ,
Graham P Davis writes:
snip
At least with the 62-3 winter it stayed freezing most of the time and so
wasn't so slippy as it is these days with all the thawing and refreezing.

Also the council were much better then at gritting or salting roads and
pavements. Most shops and householders also cleared away snow from the
pavement outside their premises.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

On Dec 29, 10:16*am, John Hall wrote:
In article ,
*Graham P Davis writes:
snip

At least with the 62-3 winter it stayed freezing most of the time and so
wasn't so slippy as it is these days with all the thawing and refreezing..

Also the council were much better then at gritting or salting roads and
pavements. Most shops and householders also cleared away snow from the
pavement outside their premises.
--
John Hall *"[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
* * * * * * like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
* * * * * * its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

It's looking like the "I'm fed up club" might be fed up for a fair bit
longer. Out to the end of the first third of January, the UK weather
looks very cold and the models are showing all sorts of possibilities
for snow and ice in different areas. It'll be a case of drawing on
mental reserves for many, relying on others and being ever so careful
venturing out. I echo Trevor's comments. Every time I look at a new
model run, I'm looking for a breakdown. There's some indications that
heights will begin to lower to our N and NW on the gfs, but that's at
T240+ and there are also hints of more warm air advection to our west,
as pressure may rise over the UK. Not a happy outlook for many, as the
Atlantic looks very blocked.

I must say I'm rather heartened by the veiw expressed by many on here
that a continuation of the cold will not be a fantastic, marvellous,
wonderful, life-affirming, ecstacy-inducing, period of our lives. It
makes a welcome change from previous Internet winters. Mind you, I'd
quite like a couple of days of heavy snow in Dawlish..........then it
can melt on a sou'westerly as quickly as it came, for me!! (Sadly, I
feel that if it does snow here, it may actaully stay for once. I'm
keeping my eyes on the weather for a New Year's day trip to Yorkshire.

John Hall wrote:

In article ,
Graham P Davis writes:
snip
At least with the 62-3 winter it stayed freezing most of the time and so
wasn't so slippy as it is these days with all the thawing and refreezing.

Also the council were much better then at gritting or salting roads and
pavements. Most shops and householders also cleared away snow from the
pavement outside their premises.

In the 50s and 60s, I don't recall pavements ever being salted and cleared
by councils. I found the salting of snow-covered pavements in sub-zero
temperatures in recent decades to be more of a hindrance than a help as it
made nice crunchy hard-packed snow into dangerously slippery icy slush.

The amount of salt used in the 50s was less than nowadays and meant roads
could stay ice-covered although they'd been gritted. In the 55-6 winter,
council workmen had to remove ice from roads using pickaxes.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
...

In the 50s and 60s, I don't recall pavements ever being salted and cleared
by councils. I found the salting of snow-covered pavements in sub-zero
temperatures in recent decades to be more of a hindrance than a help as it
made nice crunchy hard-packed snow into dangerously slippery icy slush.

The amount of salt used in the 50s was less than nowadays and meant roads
could stay ice-covered although they'd been gritted. In the 55-6 winter,
council workmen had to remove ice from roads using pickaxes.

--

In '63, it was well over a month before the local council got up to us. This
was mainly due to the number of cars that had been abandoned on the hill,
and had to be dug out by hand. When they finally did clear the road for
traffic, they came up fairly regularly and dumped piles of salt at strategic
points along the lane. It was up to us locals to spread it where it was
needed. including our own (steep) driveways. They were pretty good about it
once they got their act together.

jim, Northampton