I saw this rather striking photo and had to post it and ask how are my fellow IORRians holding up in snow bound Britain?

Yeah amazing shot ...... Already in the winter thread Chris



ROCKMAN

I'll swap some hot stuff for your ice. 43^oC here today.

Where's the green?

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I saw this rather striking photo and had to post it and ask how are my fellow IORRians holding up in snow bound Britain?

It's f f f f f f f f ***ing cold, that's what !! Usual s**t, country running out of salt to put on the roads, not enough ploughs, people trapped in their homes, transport chaos, schools closed, old folks dying, the news full of "this is costing the economy zillions and trillions per nanosecond in lost business" type bulletins ......... and Gordon Brown smiling throughout. What else is new ? This is Brittania people, we had an empire once. Is it any f***ing wonder we ain't got one any more ? The words piss up and brewery spring to mind !!



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Yeah amazing shot ...... Already in the winter thread Chris

Ah thanks Terry. I thought the thread was about the song and not the weather so hadn't read it. The "OT" in front of it should have been a clue!



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It's like this over much of the Northern Hemisphere right now.

CBII

I don't think that this winter is (yet) anything so hard as the '62-63 one, when Mick, Keith and Brian were sharing the Edith Grove flat together ........

any photos of that winter?

anyways - hard winters weren't so unusual then and people could cope and life went on - regardless of road grit - because people had real grit!

Snows melting here. So not all bad. My gas bill is gonna be thru the roof though.

NickB

You can't always get what you want.....

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anyways - hard winters weren't so unusual then and people could cope and life went on - regardless of road grit - because people had real grit!

That's right!

When I was a young boy, I walked six miles through ten feet of snow to get to school.....

People are panic buying!

Last night at around 9.00, I popped out to two leading supermarkets (Tesco and Sainsburys), only to find that each of them were completely sold out of milk and bread!

Worse than that, Liverpool's home game with Spurs was called off!

All the here-comes-the-Ice-Age in the media is rubbish - we just haven't had anything like a real winter in the UK for a while.

I'll now start sounding like the Oldest Inhabitant and say that I remember the 1962/63 winter - before Christmas not much snow but endless freezing fog: then after Christmas it snowed and snowed and snowed and didn't really thaw for weeks. The snow got in under our tiles into the loft - I remember having to go up there and fill buckets with the stuff before it had a chance to melt and drip through the ceiling. Frost on the inside of the bedroom windows most mornings - we had no heating upstairs at all and only open fires downstairs, and we kept the gas oven lit to provide a bit of extra heat. We weren't a particularly poor household - houses in London weren't designed for that sort of weather.

The west of England had it particularly bad: my uncle and aunt in Dorset had to cope with lanes filled with snow up to the tops of the hedges (6 - 8 feet?). Villages were cut off and food dropped by helicopter: I also remember food being dropped to ponies and livestock on Dartmoor. The sea froze in some places (practically unknown in the UK).

The interesting thing is that I don't remember my school ever being closed (which they do these days at the first sight of a snowflake) - it was just assumed that you'd make every effort to get there. Boys made long ice-slides in the playground, which Health and Safety would ban these days, and I remember one snowball battle that went on all day up and down our road, involving all the local kids.

The trouble is that the UK doesn't have a severe winter quite often enough for it to be financially worthwhile to spend money preparing for it - so it catches us on the hop every damn time! Lots of those 1963 pictures could have been taken this week: only the fashions and the makes of the cars have changed.

Thanks Green Lady .... you describe it well



ROCKMAN

I agree with Lady Green. I don't think this winter has been worse than the ones we had in 1978/79, 81/82 and 91/92. We get them once a decade.

snow melting - getting back to some sort of normality

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Snows melting here. So not all bad. My gas bill is gonna be thru the roof though.

No melting here. And my electricity bill.. whaddaya think ..
After three weeks of -30 C degrees...
Tropical-ish -6 now. Only one meter snow sofar,
we are prepare to meet next snow attack. Use to be one hefty such in mid-Januari..

Edited: Sorry, perhaps should made my contribution in the general Winter-thread..
Just findin it interestin' with the English winter.
Read an interesting article in my mornin' paper about the oscillation:
it is the fact that warm weather is rulin' the present East Siberian climate right now
which make the chill area movin' more westwards than it use to.
Here another text on the oscillation. [ncwatch.typepad.com]
(the author believes it is the sun that rules the climate.
Still, somewhere - read: the Pacific - it ought to be warmer that "normal" )



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A good friend of mine is living near Oxford .She told me yesterday they have had snow for the last 5 days and the schools have been closed since Wednesday. The roads were quite snowy and icy as only the main roads have been cleared so they had mainly been walking around the village...



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

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I'll swap some hot stuff for your ice. 43^oC here today.

Where's the green?

I was just reading this :

[www.heraldsun.com.au]

Rockman,forgot to ask you if you had air cooled/condiioned ? Yes I guess you have.



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

Yeah 44c here today ....... Nope goin' bare-back not using any air-con ....

Same with slippers ... stubbie holders and beer pots with
handles when ya need them things you ain't far from the rest-home ....



ROCKMAN

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Yeah 44c here today ....... Nope goin' bare-back not using any air-con ....

Same with slippers ... stubbie holders and beer pots with
handles when ya need them things you ain't far from the rest-home ....

Mmmm nice cold stubbie of that fine Vic

NickB

You can't always get what you want.....

www.myspace.com/thesonkings

Ahh, I missed yesterdays snowball fight at the local park.
the flash mob made the appointment via Facebook.
the neighboring district Neukölln challenged Kreuzberg - nobody was seriously hurt ( except some frozen a$$ and fingers) and all of them won.











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A good friend of mine is living near Oxford .She told me yesterday they have had snow for the last 5 days and the schools have been closed since Wednesday. The roads were quite snowy and icy as only the main roads have been cleared so they had mainly been walking around the village...

Reckon ya Brits have to create routines for snowier winters.
I have never ever experienced a closed school due to snow or chill.

Now that the pavements are safe to walk on again, they've given heavy snow for S. Wales tonight & tomorrow! My son's just hoping for more time off school

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SwayStones
A good friend of mine is living near Oxford .She told me yesterday they have had snow for the last 5 days and the schools have been closed since Wednesday. The roads were quite snowy and icy as only the main roads have been cleared so they had mainly been walking around the village...

Reckon ya Brits have to create routines for snowier winters.
I have never ever experienced a closed school due to snow or chill.

I ain't Brit ....but I got nasty habits ,I drink tea at 8 a.m



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

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Ahh, I missed yesterdays snowball fight at the local park.
the flash mob made the appointment via Facebook.
the neighboring district Neukölln challenged Kreuzberg - nobody was seriously hurt ( except some frozen a$$ and fingers) and all of them won.

oh i love the görlitzer park. had a flat at "ohlauerstrasse" for a while...great neighbourhood. where do you live open-g? hang around at "wild at heart" sometimes?...

SwayStones, sorry.. Oxford was mentioned, and I thought..
Reckon there are many Oxfors's.. ?

I hope y'all can live OK when the Gulf Stream shuts down and stops flowing that way. You think it's cold now...

By that day neither we nor our kids will live.
The chill now is due to the sun (lack of solar storm acticity) or global heating.

I think it's the tail of El Nino

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WHAT'S ICE AND SNOW???? - No Comprendo.....

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HARD LIFE JUST GOT EASY