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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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I cycled in the snow today... odd experience!
We saw it snowing last night and everyone was going mad running around in it at 1am I hope the reminants don't turn (as I fear they will) to ice tomorrow
Re: salt
put over all the walkways, pavements where I stay - they forgot the bike shed... how nice of them... trying to push a bike of ice steps aint fun |
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iknewdavidjacobsmum
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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Snow in the South again! We are all doomed.
Buffaloes dying in the frozen rain and of course no trains running.
It got up to 40deg C in Cape Town on Monday. |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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More snow forecast for tonight - I wouldn't mind some more before the weekend but clear roads and skies on Monday since I'll be out photographing the jets again and on Tuesday. Snow makes for interesting backdrops, different to the usual green fields. More exercise for me trying to climb snowy hillsides as well! _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Schools never closed because of snow when I went to school! |
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iknewdavidjacobsmum
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject: Snow |
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Did once Lord E
At school in London, may have been 1970 or 71, got sent home and had tremendous fun on the way helping to dig cars out from drifts.
We weren't allowed to wear anything but regulation shoes, so I had near frostbite. |
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JanewayDar
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 60 Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: |
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Well its fairly warm here .....4f (it was -2) and only 16 inches of snow. But the roads are clear. The schools have been shut for the last couple of days because of the cold. The edges of Lake Erie are frozen over, but life goes on, and I have to go to work
Hope you all get to work!
JD _________________ Many Thanks to Krystle @ Belanna's for the avatar. |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:47 am Post subject: |
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1978 was the only time my school ever shut because of the snow - and that was only because half of the teachers couldn't turn up - probably 90% of the kids managed it.
I remember passing the time in the morning engaged in a huge pupils v teachers snowball fight in the playground, until the office staff managed to contact all of the parents etc. to let them know the school couldn't function that day. Anyone who could prove their parents were at home to receive them, could leave - some of my friends and I ended up sledging on what was the dry-ski slope on Newcastle Town Moor using a Gas board sign as a sled - best sledge I ever used! _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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marietta honeybun
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:28 am Post subject: |
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Snow has arrived in Holland this morning where we are. It looks like a blizzard at the moment but I doubt it will settle for long as the ground is very damp from all the fog we had recently. However, it looks very pretty and I'm glad I'm inside in the warm looking out!! _________________ Friends may come and friends may go, but enemies tend to accumulate. |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: |
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JanewayDar wrote: | Well its fairly warm here .....4f (it was -2) and only 16 inches of snow. But the roads are clear. The schools have been shut for the last couple of days because of the cold. The edges of Lake Erie are frozen over, but life goes on, and I have to go to work
Hope you all get to work!
JD |
Sarah Kennedy was on ½ hour's overtime today because Terry Wogan had problems getting in. |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: |
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Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | JanewayDar wrote: | Well its fairly warm here .....4f (it was -2) and only 16 inches of snow. But the roads are clear. The schools have been shut for the last couple of days because of the cold. The edges of Lake Erie are frozen over, but life goes on, and I have to go to work
Hope you all get to work!
JD |
Sarah Kennedy was on ½ hour's overtime today because Terry Wogan had problems getting in. |
A cat astrophy. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: |
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It wasn't supposed to come this far North _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: |
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Here in leafy warwickshsire we have 5cms of fluffy snow. In 15 years I've only seen this scene (out our window) about 5 times:
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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5 cms?! That's nearly enough to cover your shoes.... Has all transportation ceased in Warwickshire and all points south? _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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It wasn't supposed to come this far North
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The snow near to the east coasts appears to come from a different weather system from that further west and south.
We had a few heavy showers earlier on, which deposited about two inches of lying snow, but it's starting to thaw.
Did you hear Sir Terry read out an email from somebody at Haltwhistle about the snow there? That's only about 40 minutes in the car from here.
Ian. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Snowing on my shed again! _________________ -
John W |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Apparently they use a white salt now to grit the roads instead of the old red stuff. The Railways in the southeast and proberly across the country send out ghost trains to clear the tracks, as they have a specially designed pipes which pour out deicer onto the tracks, and they use another form of deicer to kill off meldrew when the leafs fall.
It's all going now in the Southeast and turning into slush. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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mark occomore wrote: | and they use another form of deicer to kill off meldrew when the leafs fall.
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Poor old Victor eh? Two feet in the grave now _________________ -
John W |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Hopefully Des is not out in the snow today. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Still not a great deal of snow, though, even on the pictures submitted to R2's website (JV page). Hard to believe in this day and age, two inches of snow brings central and southern England to a virtual halt.... _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:39 am Post subject: |
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Apparently ITV news had their 'Disaster Correspondent' stood in a snow drift of 4 Inches. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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Someone told me at work today that BBC had a 'special programme' yesterday morning about the problems the snow was causing.... with all of the Chelsea Tractors southerners seem to drive(!), you'd think they'd cope better with what almost amounts to a severe frost.... four inches wouldn't hardly reach the alloy wheel rims!
ITV News *is* a disaster, mind you.
I wonder whether there's been a run on tyre chains in Motor World's shops 'darn sarf'! _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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Behind Geddon's Wall wrote: | Apparently ITV news had their 'Disaster Correspondent' stood in a snow drift of 4 Inches. |
GMTV had some reporter prancing around in slush this morning, along with a reporter outside a turkey shed in Norfolk.
Isn't there any real news happening any more or is covering that too expensive or not telegenic enough? _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: | Behind Geddon's Wall wrote: | Apparently ITV news had their 'Disaster Correspondent' stood in a snow drift of 4 Inches. |
Isn't there any real news happening any more or is covering that too expensive or not telegenic enough? |
Shurely shome mishtake - "or is covering that not expensive or telegenic enough? _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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Those of us that have read Tom Holt's 'Nothing but blue skies' will recognise the theme. The demise of the British Empire is down to central heating - the same can be said of our ability to deal with any weather that is not mild, sunny and very little wind. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Ella Sailyour
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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mark occomore wrote: | The Railways in the southeast and proberly across the country |
"Proberly"??? Which language is that?
Ella _________________ This week's $64,000 question: Why am I so gorgeous, possums? |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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Behind Geddon's Wall wrote: | The demise of the British Empire is down to central heating. |
Gandhi was really a plumber?? _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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We didn't get any snow here on the Costa Blanca.
But sadly I wasn't here. With unerring accuracy, (and despite consulting the long range forecast) I chose the last 3 days to go back to UK and ended up holed up in a hotel room 'cos Stansted was closed and it looked like my flight would be cancelled. But..... true Brits that they are..... the evening flight left only 20 minutes late and arrived five minutes earlier than the scheduled time. Good on yer Ryanair!
And today folks......20 degrees! Freeze on! |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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Radio 5 News @ 2230 said that police had stated that driving in the West Midlands tonight was "virtually impossible" due to heavy snowfalls.
Is it six feet deep or something? Have temperatures plummetted so much that the oil is freezing in the engines?
Heaven help us if we ever actually got sustained snowfalls in this country.... all life would seemingly cease south of a line from Liverpool to Hull. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Julia
Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 556 Location: a hillside desolate
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad we don't have that much snow in the Toon but this weather is dreich! please, someone, make it go away!
It's so bloomin cold and I'm fed up of cycling in snow and hail! |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Cherskiy wrote: | Radio 5 News @ 2230 said that police had stated that driving in the West Midlands tonight was "virtually impossible" due to heavy snowfalls.
Is it six feet deep or something? Have temperatures plummetted so much that the oil is freezing in the engines?
Heaven help us if we ever actually got sustained snowfalls in this country.... all life would seemingly cease south of a line from Liverpool to Hull. |
What happened here in North Nottm was that the rain which had been falling all afternoon turned to wet snow when darkness fell and settled, making thick slush, which was worse than if it had been proper snow!! Havoc and accidents aplenty in the early evening. _________________ Ron |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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We've been pretty lucky--it was threatening to snow hard yesterday evening and then all turned to rain, which is still falling as I type.
Ian. |
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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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"all life would seemingly cease south of a line from Liverpool to Hull."
You call that life ? |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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nod wrote: | "all life would seemingly cease south of a line from Liverpool to Hull."
You call that life ? |
I was feeling particularly charitable when I typed that.... _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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I remember 1964.........now that was snow! |
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