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It's late getting started, then. We've not had any frost yet and it's
only a week or so to my birthday. November 1947 was arctic.

ITYF that the winter of '1947' began in earnest in February 1948 -

But I was oop north

that's how I remember it. Indeed, it snowed on my birthday, 30th April.

Well then, that exceptionally cold winter was even later getting started
than I can remember from my crib:-) I probably didn't get to grips with
calendars until they propped me up in the highchair.

I unforget looking out of my bedroom window and seeing the almond tree
(you'll be able to gauge the severity of the spring when you remember
that this is the day before May begins...) which was fresh in bloom, now
with all its branches and twigs capped with snow. It was like a Chinese
painting: astoundingly beautiful, even to my (precisely) eight-year-old
eyes.

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Rusty
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