Woodford, Manchester is reporting -15C at 22.00 it and Ringway have
been cold all evening. Probably the wind direction across the snow
fields??

"Andy M." wrote in message
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Woodford, Manchester is reporting -15C at 22.00 it and Ringway have
been cold all evening. Probably the wind direction across the snow
fields??
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Phew - I thought that was Woodford, Essex for a minute. I thought I was
going to have to run the blankets round to Ron ;-)
Dave

On 6 Jan, 23:23, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
"Andy M." wrote in message

... Woodford, Manchester is reporting -15C at 22.00 it and Ringway have
been cold all evening. *Probably the wind direction across the snow
fields??

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Phew - I thought that was Woodford, Essex for a minute. I thought I was
going to have to run the blankets round to Ron ;-)
Dave

I was wondering earlier today how many people in this widspread cold
snap are going to end up with burst pipes on exposed plumbing (!),
bearing in mind v few of us have had to worry about that sort of thing
for many a year and we've all grown rather complacent?

Attitudes have changed markedly: My aunt (who died in 2008 aged 99)
would never leave her house in suburban Manchester, unoccupied
overnight from Nov - March, "in case the frost got in and the back-
boiler burst". I always thought that was being a bit over-anxious but
I'm not sure it didn't have some basis in fact - possibly harking back
to her winters of the 1940s or, more probably, being instilled with
her parents' worries in the harsh winters of the late 1800s - both
exacerbated by the meagre domestic heating provision that most people
suffered until the 1960s, if not later.

- Tom.

"Tom Bennett" wrote in message
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On 6 Jan, 23:23, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
"Andy M." wrote in message

...
Woodford, Manchester is reporting -15C at 22.00 it and Ringway have
been cold all evening. Probably the wind direction across the snow
fields??

----------------------
Phew - I thought that was Woodford, Essex for a minute. I thought I was
going to have to run the blankets round to Ron ;-)
Dave

I was wondering earlier today how many people in this widspread cold
snap are going to end up with burst pipes on exposed plumbing (!),
bearing in mind v few of us have had to worry about that sort of thing
for many a year and we've all grown rather complacent?

Attitudes have changed markedly: My aunt (who died in 2008 aged 99)
would never leave her house in suburban Manchester, unoccupied
overnight from Nov - March, "in case the frost got in and the back-
boiler burst". I always thought that was being a bit over-anxious but
I'm not sure it didn't have some basis in fact - possibly harking back
to her winters of the 1940s or, more probably, being instilled with
her parents' worries in the harsh winters of the late 1800s - both
exacerbated by the meagre domestic heating provision that most people
suffered until the 1960s, if not later.

- Tom.

Yes, I thought the same when I saw Woodford, then I remembered the
Manchester airfield of that name - think Vulcan bomber. Back on topic I
remember in the 1950's it was considered fine to leave the tap running
slightly overnight to avoid the pipes freezing - at least that's what they
did in Co Durham.
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk
COL 36055

In article ,
George Booth writes:
Yes, I thought the same when I saw Woodford, then I remembered the
Manchester airfield of that name - think Vulcan bomber. Back on topic I
remember in the 1950's it was considered fine to leave the tap running
slightly overnight to avoid the pipes freezing - at least that's what they
did in Co Durham.

Leaving the plug in? Otherwise there's the risk of the waste pipe
freezing up. (As happened to my bath waste pipe on Monday, when I'd
inadvertently left a tap dribbling. It's especially liable to that as
it's not far off horizontal for a while. Fortunately when it got a bit
milder on Tuesday it thawed with now harm done.)
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)