cold

Mancie · 03-02-2009, 01:17

well it's cold.. been in London since early 80's and never been like this.. no buses nowt..cars running slow..snow was down for along time last night

Benipete · 03-02-2009, 04:34

Yes we know,we have TV up here now and some of us even have cupboards and carpets.

Mancie · 03-02-2009, 04:46

crikey Pete..you'll be getting rid of the outside bog soon.. and maybe get colour TV..good luck

garinda · 03-02-2009, 08:49

Feed a cold, starve a fever.

Ernie · 03-02-2009, 09:13

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Originally Posted by garinda

Feed a cold, starve a fever.

Cor blimey Rindy, aint heard that one in a month o' Sundays!

flashy · 03-02-2009, 10:34

i always wondered where the phrase 'southern pansies' came from

(no offence Mancie)

jambutty · 03-02-2009, 11:16

If anyone was around during the winter of 1947, now that was cold and it lasted for well over a month.

Even the sea at Blackpool froze. Not enough to walk on but nonetheless the surface was ice. 6 feet snowdrifts was the norm with the general snow fall at around 12 inches.

Schools didn’t close though, we just didn’t take off our hats and coats when we got there. And of course we walked to school.

Any transport that did manage to venture out (not that there was much anyway) had to have chains on its wheels otherwise it got nowhere.

Thick ice on the INSIDE of bedroom windows. We got very adept at getting undressed and into bed to curl up around the hot water bottle in a few seconds flat.

Come the morning it was high speed getting dressed and downstairs to wait for mum or dad to clean out the fire and light it again. Once lit we huddled close to it to try and get warm.

Yet life went on more or less as normal.

garinda · 03-02-2009, 11:56

I was in London the last time it snowed in 1991. It is unusual, as most winters we never even had a frost, and my non-hardy plants such as geraniums, stayed happily out in the garden year after year.

In 1991 I'd gone for a drink after work with my friend Sara. When we'd gone in Harry's Bar at sixish it was fine. When we left at about eleven the whole of Piccadilly was covered by about six inches of snow. It was magical, and everone was in a playful mood. There wasn't much traffic, but the buses and tubes were running as normal, as they were the next day also.

It was unusual, but the city coped, and carried on as usual.

Eighteen years later it seems sad that even though buses ran whilst the city was being Blitzed, this is no longer possible, and our capital city ground to a halt. A halt that will have cost the country many millions of pounds.

Some progress.

grannyclaret · 03-02-2009, 12:02

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Originally Posted by jambutty

If anyone was around during the winter of 1947, now that was cold and it lasted for well over a month.

Even the sea at Blackpool froze. Not enough to walk on but nonetheless the surface was ice. 6 feet snowdrifts was the norm with the general snow fall at around 12 inches.

Schools didn’t close though, we just didn’t take off our hats and coats when we got there. And of course we walked to school.

Any transport that did manage to venture out (not that there was much anyway) had to have chains on its wheels otherwise it got nowhere.

Thick ice on the INSIDE of bedroom windows. We got very adept at getting undressed and into bed to curl up around the hot water bottle in a few seconds flat.

Come the morning it was high speed getting dressed and downstairs to wait for mum or dad to clean out the fire and light it again. Once lit we huddled close to it to try and get warm.

Yet life went on more or less as normal.

i remember..i was only 6 but we still had to walk to school even though the snow reached the top of our wellies,,no namby pamby excuses in those days

ossylass · 03-02-2009, 14:09

We had picture postcards of double-decker buses taken at Whitebirk in 1947, with only the top few inches of them showing above the snowdrifts. I remember my mother sending the photos to her brother in Australia.

accyman · 03-02-2009, 14:47

i cant believe a little bit of snow brought londons bus service to a halt especialy since busses ran in a lot deeper snow when we used to get REAL amounts of snow in the 70's and 80's

terrorists dont need bombs to stop and distrupt london all they have to do is pray for a few inches of snow

Tealeaf · 03-02-2009, 16:44

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Originally Posted by garinda

I was in London the last time it snowed in 1991...
I'd gone for a drink after work with my friend Sara. When we'd gone in Harry's Bar at sixish it was fine. When we left at about eleven the whole of Piccadilly was covered by about six inches of snow. It was magical, and everone was in a playful mood. There wasn't much traffic, but the buses and tubes were running as normal, as they were the next day also.

It was unusual, but the city coped, and carried on as usual.

If you recall, the snow started about lunchtime on the day the Provo's (originally thought to be Iraqi's, for this was the time of the first gulf war) let loose a mortar attack on Downing St and continued throughout the day. However, your memory and the BBC are playing you tricks.The snow fall was no more than 2 or 3 inches in the capital. The BBC yesterday referred to the 'heaviest snowfall since 1991', but they were in fact referring to the country as a whole.

At 9am yesterday morning, the snowlayer was about 10'' here in the East End; I have been here since 1978 and as such is far worse than anything I can recall. Still, that is no excuse for the total failure of the authorities - who had plenty of advance warning - to keep things moving.

lancsdave · 03-02-2009, 17:16

They had to close part of the Undergound, must have been really deep snow

andrewb · 03-02-2009, 17:30

It snowed, and cleared up by 12 yesterday, then rained a lot in Hull. It's now dry outside.

garinda · 03-02-2009, 17:38

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

If you recall, the snow started about lunchtime on the day the Provo's (originally thought to be Iraqi's, for this was the time of the first gulf war) let loose a mortar attack on Downing St and continued throughout the day. However, your memory and the BBC are playing you tricks.The snow fall was no more than 2 or 3 inches in the capital. The BBC yesterday referred to the 'heaviest snowfall since 1991', but they were in fact referring to the country as a whole.

At 9am yesterday morning, the snowlayer was about 10'' here in the East End; I have been here since 1978 and as such is far worse than anything I can recall. Still, that is no excuse for the total failure of the authorities - who had plenty of advance warning - to keep things moving.

Maybe you're right. I just presumed it was '91, when they said eighteen years ago. It was definitely early '90's, as I met Sara outside Cartier's offices, and she only worked there 90-92.

This snow started in the evening, and the pavement on Knightbridge was still covered in frozen slush three days later.

Perhaps you'd hibernated, and missed this particular evening snowfall of more than two inches.