Madhatter wrote:
I agree loefric,it is pathetic and winds me up how this country manages to NOT cope with less and less snow and ice. Frost seems to cause major problems nowdays.
I've just got off the phone from the ex and she says the schools are going to be closed in Lutterworth. This is after I went round my mates and she said Atherstone schools are going to be closed and I thought what are you going on about it's a few flakes of snow.
When we were at school this was a normal amount of snow and we'd only get sent home if the heating couldn't cope. It lay on the ground for days, sometimes weeks, not hours like now.
When our parents were at school they had to dig there way out and I've been told stories by lancs people that they had icicles and frost INSIDE the windows.
Where abouts were you up in lancs leofric and have you got a lancs accent?
We once had snow so deep you could dig it out and make "dens" inside it! And we once had snow and frost that froze all the waterpipes in the village and we ended up without water for a month...!
I was just outside Burnley, a place called Nelson. No, I don't have a strong Lancs accent as my parents moved up there when I was 5 (From London). When I'm up North people say I'm a cockney, and when I'm down south people say I'm Northern!