Ice Age

simon · 14-01-2006, 00:42

Well its January the 14th and we were warned/promised the coldest winter in living memory, coldest in 50 years, 3 day week etc..

I have had 1hr sledging and had to go to whittaker park to find snow deep enough, next morning it had gone

other than that evening it has been MILD and boring

I feel very let down as I am a big kid and have been really excited that this was gonna be the one....

Have you notice that all the talk earlier on when we had a bit of frost has stopped....

I hope it comes...but I doubt it......I have bought extra sledges,snow shovel, grit

That was probably the whole idea and muggins here was sucker No1

garinda · 14-01-2006, 01:04

You jinxed it.

Sell your sledge on E-bay, and let the rest of us enjoy the coldset snap for forty years.

Less · 14-01-2006, 01:11

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Originally Posted by simon

I hope it comes...but I doubt it......I have bought extra sledges,snow shovel, grit

That was probably the whole idea and muggins here was sucker No1

None of it will go to waste if you start keeping Ostriches, you can put the grit at the bottom of their cage, use the snow shovel for clearing up the extra large amounts of bird sh*t and the sledges for dragging them to the funeral pire when they die of bird 'flu!

mani · 14-01-2006, 02:58

*L* u know i was talkin about my work ppl about this today

i was sayin how much of a let down this winter has been!!
the one time i was hopin it wud really snow = it had melted by the morning...

is nothing going to be the same again?! damn u tony blair damn u!

garinda · 14-01-2006, 03:17

I blame Margaret Thatcher.

Doug · 14-01-2006, 03:24

Actually it’s George Bush’s fault. Burning half of the middle east and all that oil.

Bazf · 14-01-2006, 03:25

Today outside it was a bit chilly, about 65degrees and a little wind, a hell of a winter.

Margaret Pilkington · 14-01-2006, 12:55

I am glad we haven't had the cold weather as predicted......but I still think it is a bit early to do any crowing......there is quite a good lump of winter left for it all to hit us.

garinda · 14-01-2006, 12:59

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I am glad we haven't had the cold weather as predicted......but I still think it is a bit early to do any crowing......there is quite a good lump of winter left for it all to hit us.

Exactly.

Don't we traditionally get more snow in Febuary?

In the really cold winter [1963?], didn't the whole country freeze up from the end of January until Easter, with snow on the ground the whole time?

Not time to get the shorts out just yet.

Margaret Pilkington · 14-01-2006, 13:44

In 1947 the winter went on until May......my mother tells me that my Gandma went down Acc for some meat from what was then known as the Argenta......and it was so icy she couldn't walk with her clogs on.....she had to take them off and walk in her stockinged feet. I don't remember this personally as I was only a bump in my mothers waistband.

garinda · 14-01-2006, 13:47

Also 1962 or 63 was a really bad winter. My parents were going to a wedding in Manchester and got caught in a snow drift, and this was at Easter.

Margaret Pilkington · 14-01-2006, 13:50

Yes......I think it was 1962 Garinda.......we made ice lollies on the INSIDE of the bedroom window ledge that year.......it was so cold that we went to bed with as many clothes on as we went out in. I think Muti even lit a fire in the bedroom.....frightened that we might all freeze to death.

Doug · 14-01-2006, 14:16

We think we had a few bad winter in Accy in the sixty’s and 67 seems to stick in my mind for some reason. I can remember having to walk up Green Haworth between the drifts always fun on the first day, but getting horrendous as time went on.

I can remember losing a lens out of my glasses one day after mucking about, the drifts where at least three foot deep. What you don’t really appreciate until you live away for a time is how bitterly cold it gets over there, with or without snow.

West Ender · 14-01-2006, 23:20

I remember 1947 and 1962/3. Both were hard winters. I was a small child in '47 so it was fun; snowball fights, sledging, building snowmen and walking along the frozen canal with my dad. I was a young working wife in 62/3 so it was a pain and the trains used to stop for hours, between Accrington and Bury (where I worked), due to frozen points. I think it was '65 when I was visiting my parents, who still lived in West End at the time, at Easter. Over 6" of snow fell and the weight of it brought the iron guttering from their house roof crashing down to where my daughter and I had been standing minutes before.

There's a lot more Winter to go (ugh) so we might get it yet.

mez · 15-01-2006, 12:40

good to have a bad winter .....i remember building an igloo in my front garden when i was young...in the 1940's-----1950's strewth were they bad but what great summers we had.