Off Topic The Christmas Thread

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Watched a repeat of the programme on the freeze of '47 on Ch 5 Saturday night after I got back from City. Properly put this weekend's storm in perspective. Power cuts, near starvation and floods. 'a bit wet and windy' just doesn't compare.

Watch the 2002 animated film, Ice Age. It puts the freeze of '47 in perspective. A sabre toothed tiger and a wooly mammoth traversing frozen seas, dangerous falling icicles and bottomless ice gorges returning a human baby to its tribe.
 
-20c and 7 weeks of snow

It doesn't normally snow that much when it's -20. Tends to be very still and little wind.

Actually far easier when it's -20 and 'dry' than around 0 to -3 degrees, wind and heavy snow. Just have to clean the roads once and salt and you're good with winter tyres. ****er to dig the ground, if you have to though. When it's 'warmer' and snowing, it's constant work clearing it up and re-salting, plus the wind and wet feels much colder.
 
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I was out for a pint with some 'young 'uns' (well, mid 30s) last week and we was chatting about what we used to get for Christmas as kids.

They wouldn't believe that I got a children's smoking set every year. <laugh>
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