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.

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

On 28 Dec, 16:37, 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.

Hi, Mike,

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour -
William Cowper

Gets to be a bit boring and tedious after a while, doesn't it!

Best wishes,
Ken,
Copley, Teesdale

On 28 Dec, 16:47, Ken Cook wrote:
On 28 Dec, 16:37, 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.

Hi, Mike,

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour -
William Cowper

Gets to be a bit boring and tedious after a while, doesn't it!

Best wishes,
Ken,
Copley, Teesdale

May I suggest you have a break in the mild & sunny far SW.

Last few days:-
www.cornwallcam.co.uk/earlier.htm
www.cornwallcam.co.uk/recently.htm
www.cornwallcam.co.uk/

Graham
Penzance (bit blowy at the moment mind you!)

On Dec 28, 4:37*pm, 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.

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

I took the dog out at around 7 am in St Andrews and the place was like
a skating rink with the park i went into almost un-walkable. People's
driveways were just 2 inches of bumpy shiny ice. Rain on Sunday on top
of snow and then quickly frozen was the cause. No one can like that
situation.

On 28 Dec, 16:54, Graham Easterling
wrote:
On 28 Dec, 16:47, Ken Cook wrote:





On 28 Dec, 16:37, 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.

Hi, Mike,

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour -
William Cowper

Gets to be a bit boring and tedious after a while, doesn't it!

Best wishes,
Ken,
Copley, Teesdale

May I suggest you have a break in the mild & sunny far SW.

Last few days:-www.cornwallcam.co.uk/earlier.htmwww.cornwallcam.co.uk/recently.htmwww.cornwallcam.co.uk/

Graham
Penzance (bit blowy at the moment mind you!)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Ah - found just the place! www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/

Graham

On Dec 28, 4:55*pm, Brian in Aberfeldy
wrote:
On Dec 28, 4:37*pm, 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.

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


No one can like that situation.

I understand exactly what you're saying Brian, but you would be amazed
at what the Internet coldies dream of all the way through Spring,
Summer and Autumn. They have cozy cold dreams about such things as
trying to walk on 2" of bumpy, shiny ice in the winter!! "Don't wish
too hard, your dreams are china in your hand", I say. *))

"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
...
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.

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

Yes Mike so true, in my head I'm some twenty years younger back at 27
...........I wish.
If a severe consistent cold spell comes off to add to our December
experience then the novelty and desire for cold snow conditions would soon
wear of thin.

Its been a case of the last couple of decades of absence makes the heart
grow fonder.

S couple of years of this and there would be a bring on Global warming
campaign.

There's no fuel like an old fuel

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:54:53 -0800 (PST), Graham Easterling wrote in


Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour -
William Cowper

Gets to be a bit boring and tedious after a while, doesn't it!

May I suggest you have a break in the mild & sunny far SW.

And when the blizzards hit Devon and Cornwall? :-) I'm safer up here where
snow is now less likely - just a continuation of the cold.

--
Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 28/12/2009 17:11:07 GMT

"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
...

"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
...
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.

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

Yes Mike so true, in my head I'm some twenty years younger back at 27
..........I wish.
If a severe consistent cold spell comes off to add to our December
experience then the novelty and desire for cold snow conditions would
soon wear of thin.

Its been a case of the last couple of decades of absence makes the heart
grow fonder.

S couple of years of this and there would be a bring on Global warming
campaign.

There's no fuel like an old fuel
-----------------------
Seems like a lot of us are in the same boat. 1962-63 pre-programmed me but
with my dodgy knees I'm waiting for someone to be the first to say "Dave's
had a fall" as opposed to "Dave's fallen over" - which will be a sure sign
that I am officially old. :-(
Dave

In article ,
Mike Tullett writes:
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.


My sympathy. Though I'm 61, and slipped over not once but twice on the
Saturday before Christmas, I still haven't lost my own childish - if
irrational - desire for snow.

As for the boiler, I leave it on - and the central heating at about 19C
overnight - not to prevent freezing of the pipes but the freezing of me!
I like it not to be too perishing when I get up. I suppose I really
ought to invest in a time-clock that I could use to switch it on an hour
or so before I get up.
--
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"