Walk you walked?
The snow was so bad at times when I was a lad we had to crawl on our knees
through t'snow as the wind was so strong you couldn't stand up. And that
was after a breakfast of lard and coal :-)

I should have said tried to walk



Graham

On 21/01/2013 12:36, Eskimo Will wrote:

"Graham" wrote in message
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1 inch of snow here in East Yorkshire and the schools are closed. I
went 7 years in the 60's without a closure once. Hey I'm sounding
like an old fart - yeah!

I know what you mean Trevor, I walked to school in some bad blizzards
in the 60s but today they only have to see a snowflake


Walk you walked?
The snow was so bad at times when I was a lad we had to crawl on our
knees through t'snow as the wind was so strong you couldn't stand up.
And that was after a breakfast of lard and coal :-)

Will
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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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You had lard AND coal, we just had coal (lard was a luxury!)

On Monday, January 21, 2013 12:36:23 PM UTC, wrote:
"Graham" wrote in message

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1 inch of snow here in East Yorkshire and the schools are closed. I went 7

years in the 60's without a closure once. Hey I'm sounding like an old

fart - yeah!



I know what you mean Trevor, I walked to school in some bad blizzards in

the 60s but today they only have to see a snowflake





Walk you walked?

The snow was so bad at times when I was a lad we had to crawl on our knees

through t'snow as the wind was so strong you couldn't stand up. And that

was after a breakfast of lard and coal :-)


Yes we have all seen that sketch from many decades ago, thankyou.

"Metman2012" wrote in message
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On 21/01/2013 12:36, Eskimo Will wrote:

"Graham" wrote in message
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1 inch of snow here in East Yorkshire and the schools are closed. I
went 7 years in the 60's without a closure once. Hey I'm sounding
like an old fart - yeah!

I know what you mean Trevor, I walked to school in some bad blizzards
in the 60s but today they only have to see a snowflake


Walk you walked?
The snow was so bad at times when I was a lad we had to crawl on our
knees through t'snow as the wind was so strong you couldn't stand up.
And that was after a breakfast of lard and coal :-)

You had lard AND coal, we just had coal (lard was a luxury!)

Yeah OK, so we were upper working class - we had a house as well.
Probably looked down on you, like I do today :-)

Will
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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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"willie eckerslike" wrote in message
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On Monday, January 21, 2013 12:36:23 PM UTC,
wrote:

was after a breakfast of lard and coal :-)


Yes we have all seen that sketch from many decades ago, thankyou.

You had a TV?
Luxury!
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

I too walked about 1.5 miles to school in snow and worse, slush !, in the 1970's.

On Monday, January 21, 2013 5:23:21 PM UTC, wrote:
"Metman2012" wrote in message

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On 21/01/2013 12:36, Eskimo Will wrote:



"Graham" wrote in message

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1 inch of snow here in East Yorkshire and the schools are closed. I

went 7 years in the 60's without a closure once. Hey I'm sounding

like an old fart - yeah!



I know what you mean Trevor, I walked to school in some bad blizzards

in the 60s but today they only have to see a snowflake





Walk you walked?

The snow was so bad at times when I was a lad we had to crawl on our

knees through t'snow as the wind was so strong you couldn't stand up.

And that was after a breakfast of lard and coal :-)



You had lard AND coal, we just had coal (lard was a luxury!)



Yeah OK, so we were upper working class - we had a house as well.

Probably looked down on you, like I do today :-)




Oh well, dont say that you were not warned.

http://youtu.be/DAtSw3daGoo

Trevor Appleton wrote:

1 inch of snow here in East Yorkshire and the schools are closed. I went 7
years in the 60's without a closure once. Hey I'm sounding like an old
fart - yeah!

No you're not! I recall not missing one day's school in the winter of
62-63 in South Lincolnshire.

On Monday, January 21, 2013 6:20:35 PM UTC, Lindisfarne Poacher wrote:
Trevor Appleton wrote:



1 inch of snow here in East Yorkshire and the schools are closed. I went 7

years in the 60's without a closure once. Hey I'm sounding like an old

fart - yeah!



No you're not! I recall not missing one day's school in the winter of

62-63 in South Lincolnshire.

No, I don't think we did either.

I know the Secondary Modern kids did miss a day, but that was only because their school bus slid off the road and ended up in a ditch, but apart from one broken leg I think there were no serious casualties.

On 21/01/13 11:36, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:49:19 -0000, Anne Burgess wrote:

I can see the point about needing to have enough staff to
supervise the children, but the rest of it is hot air.

I agree. As kids we used to have a great time making the playground a slippy
as possible with slides...


Same here, and that was only about 30 years ago.



Of course these days nonbody walks further than their front door to the car.
There are kids driven to school from homes less than 400yds away from the
school...


The reason often given being it is too dangerous to walk/cycle due to
all the cars. Their answer to this is to compound the problem by using
their cars to transport their children. In other words, it is perfectly
acceptable to externalise the dangers onto others.