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Post by jonren on Feb 4, 2009 7:36:29 GMT
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Post by sushimo on Feb 4, 2009 9:16:18 GMT
In '63 I had just got my first job. I was living in Taunton in the West Country, and I vividly recall trying to plough through waist deep snow for a mile and more through the town centre to get to work - along with loads of others. There wasn't a single car on the roads, no ploughs had been through, but everyone tramped down the snow making it passable. The abiding memory was everyone pulling each other along, the laughter and even the house that offered us tea. I was over an hour late, and all through the morning people turned up, glowing. One girl in the office didn't make it but she lived over 5 miles away, she was still docked a days pay though!
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Post by policecar on Feb 4, 2009 9:29:22 GMT
when I were a lad we were forced to crawl to work through the very fires of hell itself - and that was after we had our legs amputated.
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Post by sushimo on Feb 4, 2009 9:54:13 GMT
when I were a lad we were forced to crawl to work through the very fires of hell itself - and that was after we had our legs amputated. aka - Monty Python!  |
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Post by ricklinc on Feb 4, 2009 10:35:12 GMT
Nothing like a bracing hillwalk in a blizzard. Last time in Derbyshire even the sheep had decided to fcuk off and find a hotel.
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Post by anotherlevel on Feb 4, 2009 12:41:37 GMT
In '63 I had just got my first job. I was living in Taunton in the West Country.
Hey Sushi i had my first job in Taunton in 63 i was at Norton Manor Camp.
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Post by sushimo on Feb 4, 2009 12:45:16 GMT
Know that place well, used to go out with a couple of the lads from there. They did some good social gatherings now and then I went to a few of them. Hey, you don't happen to be...........................  ??  |
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Post by minge tightly on Feb 4, 2009 12:46:02 GMT
I was speaking to someone in Germany this morning and apparently they're pishing themselves at the hopeless English.
Quite right too. I managed to get across two snow-bound counties on public transport this week without any problem
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Post by peakman on Feb 4, 2009 13:15:51 GMT
1947 snow up to my shoulders (I was 4ft 6inches at the time) Central heating? At home! ;D School closed? Not a chance.  |
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Post by peakman on Feb 4, 2009 13:18:10 GMT
Plus rationing, don't forget the rationing
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 4, 2009 15:28:34 GMT
Started snowing here about an hour ago, I am praying for traffic madness so that my flight is cancelled and I can come over to London tomorrow instead. Some hope.
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Post by dwad on Feb 4, 2009 15:43:24 GMT
There were all these idiots on the news this morning demanding we invest billions in snow proof pavement gloss and such crap today in case we had another day like this in the next 20 years....
All I could think was "enjoy your day off you sour faced bastards"
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Post by flatandy on Feb 4, 2009 15:47:15 GMT
I was thinking the same, Dwad. Walked up to Wandsworth Common on Monday and there were hundreds of kids, with their families, out, playing, enjoying themselves, having fun, no doubt going back to work on Tuesday feeling much happier and more contented. Why not allow ourselves just to have a fun day off?
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Post by dwad on Feb 4, 2009 15:49:36 GMT
I was thinking the same, Dwad. Walked up to Wandsworth Common on Monday and there were hundreds of kids, with their families, out, playing, enjoying themselves, having fun, no doubt going back to work on Tuesday feeling much happier and more contented. Why not allow ourselves just to have a fun day off? I was one of said kids. Were you that Fat one? Called Andy? |
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Post by oldmanofthesea on Feb 4, 2009 15:52:44 GMT
I wish that the media would cover other areas beside London. I mean London is not Britain and the whole of the country does not close down. If you work in many industries you dont have the luxury of staying in bed because it snows. Farming for example, stock must be fed and cared for.
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Post by omnipleasant on Feb 4, 2009 15:54:07 GMT
Wot Andy and Dwad sed.
Skive the day off, build a snow-evertonian, have a snowball fight, go sledging into fences on a land rover roof, go to the pub, and Stop. Bloody. MOANING.
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Post by flatandy on Feb 4, 2009 15:58:21 GMT
Yeah. I was the fat bloke called Andy, Dwad. What were you doing on my common? Don't you have one of your own to go to?
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Feb 4, 2009 16:01:47 GMT
I wish that the media would cover other areas beside London. News bulletins would be a mite long if they had to cover the non-events not going on in every two-bit nowhere the length and breadth of the UK. My snow has stopped, ah nuggets I am going to have to tonight. |
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Post by dwad on Feb 4, 2009 16:10:17 GMT
Yeah. I was the fat bloke called Andy, Dwad. What were you doing on my common? Don't you have one of your own to go to? Whilst George's park has superior swings sometimes you just need the space. |
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