Sacha writes
On 12/3/06 17:46, in article ,
"Dave Poole" wrote:
Sacha wrote:
David just took a proper measurement.
We have 7.5 inches of snow
It was the worst winter since 1963 when 4/5 days of near constant
snowfall gave 3 foot in depth with drifts to 15 feet in places. We
lived in Dudley on the side of a hill in a cul-de-sac and it took the
residents several days to dig the road clear. Watching cars trying to
climb up the hill was a wonderful pastime and school was cancelled for
a couple of weeks.
Of course, in 1963 schools weren't closed, even if not everyone could
get there. Schools seem to close ever so easily nowadays.
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How could I forget that winter - my only excuse is that I must have blotted
it from memory. I was at school in West Malvern and it was a bitterly cold
and dreadful time.
Whereas younger than you and not living at my school, I remember it as a
wonderful time - every day my mother would pick me and my friend up from
school bringing the sledges with her, and we'd have an hour or so
sledging on the common, down all the bumps and over the frozen pond at
the bottom.
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Kay