Snow

However I was in S Wales in 1982

As a teenager in the 70s, living in Yorkshire, I remember having at least a day or two off school each winter because the school buses couldn't or wouldn't run because of the snow (the school was over 3 miles away, and the hilly route, along narrow winding roads, could become impassible very quickly). I also remember the buses coming to take us home early sometimes if it had started to snow. We children really loved those days off and would spend our days sledging etc.

When I started working in '78, I remember being allowed to leave work early to try to get home before the roads became blocked when snow started falling. It was too late, and I had to walk the 5 or 6 miles instead -I don't remember it being an issue at that age as I was used to walking long distances, but I also remember that the 'fashion' boots I was wearing were worse than useless in wet snow!

I was pregnant in 1982 and fell over on the ice and snow. I was in the SE then; we had long icicles hanging from the gutters which DH knocked down before they fell and spiked someone on the head.

about 3 ft in 2 days since we returned from UK - but this is in the Swiss mountains, so perhaps expected ;)

No-one bats an eyelid - kids love it, some moan- we all get on with it.

I remember 'proper snow' in the UK when living in Leics in the 70s and 80s - and how snow driving skills always got me across country lanes to my school up in north of County, on time

Thinking about it, i remember that snow was still a normal winter occurrence for me until the late 80s. I was still in the north for most of that time (mainly in Cheshire by then), but moved down to Northamptonshire in '86 and still had spells of icy/snowy winter weather for a year or two after that. Since then, snow has gradually become more and more infrequent, though my DGS, aged 6, has been on a sledge a couple of times, albeit on a very thin layer of snow, and I think has even made a snowman once!

It has snowed all day here in the north east, it is even lying on the beach which is unusual. I was going to go shopping today but decided to eat from the freezer tonight. Amazon still managed to make it up the hill and deliver one DVD

We used to keep an old blanket in the boot - very useful for putting under the wheels to get up hills on Dartmoor! However, the driver stays warm in the car whilst the passenger (muggins) is going round and round moving the blanket.
Not many 4x4 in those days, nor chains on the wheels.

I`m not sure if it was January `79 or `80, but we were living in a tiny Lincolnshire hamlet, 9 miles from town, and we got up one morning to horrendous weather. It wasn`t too bad on our lane, only about an inch deep, but our neighbour informed us that the 2 roads across the top and bottom of the lane were impassable. We were cut off for 2 days, couldn`t go to work, run out of money, the coalman was due so no coal, we were searching the house for anything we could burn. On the 2nd day in the afternoon, David walked down to the bottom road and said it wasn`t bad, not very deep, just sticking up across the road in ridges, so he said we`d be able to drive along there. The first ridge we came to we got stuck on it, the snow was frozen solid, so I sat there so embarrassed as a tractor was brought to tow us off! The following day we tried again and got to the main road a few miles away, to find snow about 20` high on both sides of the road, with little pockets cut out every so often to allow for passing. We arrived at the first garage just as the petrol ran out, we coasted in on fumes!

It's wild ( and very cold) here on the NE coast tonight . As Harri said there's snow lying on the beach ! I would hate to be out at sea tonight.

I remember in winter 2003 being told it would be best if I left work early as it was snowing hard, but advised not to go my usual way, but to loop round and get on the M11. I was stuck there for hours, there was black ice (took me ages to realise that was what it was) and lorries were sliding around. I think I eventually got home at about 10.30pm, on a journey that normally took about 45 minutes. I was so frightened as I’d never driven in those conditions before.

The winter of 62/63 I was in the WRAF stationed at Compton Bassett in Wiltshire.We had thick snow and it lay for weeks. We were perished. In those days we were in a dormitory with one coke stove in the middle of the billet!
Wellies were not part of our uniform issued so we all went into Calne to buy a pair. I came from Northumberland but I had never seen snow so deep as we had in Wiltshire.

Just remember those giant hanging icicles jalima we used to break them off and suck them !

gillybob I think I did that as a child.

However, I was 36 at the time and pregnant.
And they were hanging down from the dirty gutters

We used to make 'slides' in the playground, the slippier the better.

Today they would be gritting it and putting salt down.

I think everyone talked about the bad winter in 1947 when I was a very young child, however I cant remember that one but do remember one winter when we were about ten years old we could toboggan down a hill in a park by School, I think the snow lasted for one day, we were quite sheltered in Liverpool during the winter I remember.

You're right jalima we used to make
lethally dangerous fabulous slides right across the playground and waited in line to have a go. These days they sprinkle rock salt and grit as soon as the temperature drops. Kill joys .

I am told the springs snapped on my prom in 1947. ☃️

Pram not prom !n

And where did that n come from ? I give up.

Were you a particularly heavy baby NanKate ? I mean if the springs snapped on your pram

It was the intense cold Gillybob not my weight. My family name was 'the little one' which says it all.

Sadly if you put me in a pram now there would be a bit of buckling :-(

My DiL is hoping for snow this year. She has organised for 10adults, four children and two teenagers to travel from south east England to Dundee for a week over Christmas. I think she's laying down memories for her children and wants to give them a ‘white Christmas’ Can any of our Dundee grans know what’s the likelihood of that being the case. ☃️☃️

Last really bad snow was in 2010. Started the day my DD2 graduated as a nurse in Stirling. They had their ball in Dunblane Hydro and next day were snowed in. She had to walk through the drifts in her ballgown and wellies from the hotel and borrow clothes from the patients. Then the staff that made it in stayed for 3 days as no one else could get there. DS and myself drove up from Midlothian a week later with spades and dug her car out. It was over the roof! Hotel staff were so helpful. I remember my mother in a total panic as it was on BBC saying all roads to Dunblane were closed. Also remember all our neighbours out together digging out the street as only the main roads were clear. It was like years ago when people in the neighbourhood worked together to help each other. Very friendly and spoke to people I hardly ever saw because everyone so busy with work.

NanKate that nearly made me splutter my coffee!

DDs front garden in 2010. 10inch of snow.