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  • #1

    Snowed in today!

    No good moaning about it I suppose, I'll just have to do what we did in the past....live with it!

    I remember being snowed in at my Uncle's smallholding when we were kids, used to love it as it meant up to a month off school!

    My Dad lived in a small village in the sticks and everyone used to bring all the coal they had and all live in the village hall. They heated one big room and had a cauldron over the fire for cooking on. They all brought whatever bread they had and made a masive cauldron of bread pudding, andcaldrons of hot soup were always on the go.
    When they got really desperate for food, two or three of the most able bodied men used to set out in the snow with a sledge and rucksacks and treck to the nearest store umpteen miles away and bring back supplies for the village.

    We don't know we're born methinks!
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    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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    I'm old enough to remember the winter of 1962 / 63 when I lived in a little village on the edge of Dartmoor. We were cut off for 2 weeks. They re-opened the old bakery and we had helicopter drops of flour etc. Me and my Dad delivered milk in churns by horse and cart round the village.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by rustylady View Post
      I'm old enough to remember the winter of 1962 / 63 when I lived in a little village on the edge of Dartmoor. We were cut off for 2 weeks. They re-opened the old bakery and we had helicopter drops of flour etc. Me and my Dad delivered milk in churns by horse and cart round the village.
      I was born that winter. My Mum helped push my Dad's car out of a snow drift, and went into labour early!

      Ner sner here. Yet.
      All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
      Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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      • #4
        loved reading your memories.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by rustylady View Post
          I'm old enough to remember the winter of 1962 / 63 when I lived in a little village on the edge of Dartmoor. We were cut off for 2 weeks. They re-opened the old bakery and we had helicopter drops of flour etc. Me and my Dad delivered milk in churns by horse and cart round the village.
          I remember that year too, it was the first winter after we had lost dad, my middle sister had jaundice and was in hospital, when she came home me and a friend made a huge snowman for her outside the window and she chucked stuff at it to break it cos she was jealous she couldnt come out to play. I kept annoying my big sister by sledging and getting wet till I had run out of clothes.
          Now I love going up on the moors to sledge with the big kids.

          Cant remember another winter as bad as that.
          Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
          and ends with backache

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          • #6
            Originally posted by jackie j View Post
            I remember that year too, Cant remember another winter as bad as that.
            Or as good, probably depending on what age you were at the time. I certainly have never again seen as much snow as we had. It started on Boxing Day, and when we woke in the morning and went downstairs it was dark in the living room - a huge snow drift completely covering the front window.

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            • #7
              I remember being snowed in in Devon (or maybe it was just very snowy?) in the 70s.

              I'm snowed in today, by which I mean it is too nasty to venture outside. Mr TS has just walked to get me a paper, then caught the bus to the pub to watch the rugger, but I am cold IN the house: I certainly don't want to be out there in the gales & sleet.

              Thank heavens for the breadmaker, and a stockpile of flour
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                We are expected to get snow tonight - south coast and the IOW. However I know its nothing compared to some people's. But if it means a day off Mon/Tues - I am prepared to suffer

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Glutton4... View Post
                  I was born that winter. (
                  me too & dad had to walk miles in the snow to visit mum (& me!!!)only to be turned away as he had missed visiting hours
                  Last edited by Hans Mum; 28-11-2010, 08:56 AM.
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                  • #10
                    I love hearing your tales of long ago. Can you imagine everyone gathering in the local community centre now and having a cauldron of soup going for everyone? Or maybe it does happen in some places, just not here.

                    We haven't got snow yet, just really cold. The thermometer on the shed said minus 10 this morning, bbrrrrrr.
                    We don't usually get a sprinkling of snow until the rest of the country is neck deep, so I am not expecting any here at the moment.

                    “If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

                    "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by northepaul View Post
                      We are expected to get snow tonight - south coast and the IOW. However I know its nothing compared to some people's. But if it means a day off Mon/Tues - I am prepared to suffer
                      Oh heck my sister and her family are on the IOW visiting their grandson for his birthday yesterday, driving back today or maybe not.
                      Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
                      and ends with backache

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                      • #12
                        I'm old enough to remember the winter of 1962 / 63 when I lived in a little village on the edge of Dartmoor. We were cut off for 2 weeks. They re-opened the old bakery and we had helicopter drops of flour etc. Me and my Dad delivered milk in churns by horse and cart round the village
                        Me too! We lived on a farm, I was seven and my little brother was 2. The snow was so deep that my Dad dug paths between the farm house and the buildings and when little bro' was toddling about you could only just see the tip of his duffle coat hood or the bobble on his woolly hat. Milk was collected every day by a lorry carrying churns. My dad had to tip milk down the drain for 2 days as the lorry couldn't get through .... just pouring away our income. Then arrangements were made so that we could take our milk to the nearest village on a main road, where the lorry would collect them. So tractor and trailer, our milk and all our neighbours - 4 miles to the main road. Mind you it was so cold that the diesel went all thick and the tractor was a b*gger to start! I don't miss it at all!! It must have been an absolute nightmare for my folks, but when you're 7 it doesn't really register (or it didn't with me anyway)!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by rustylady View Post
                          Or as good, probably depending on what age you were at the time. I certainly have never again seen as much snow as we had. It started on Boxing Day, and when we woke in the morning and went downstairs it was dark in the living room - a huge snow drift completely covering the front window.
                          A bit longer ago, but I remember my granddad telling me about when he came home from the war, so it must have been in 46 or 47 ish, a really bad winter and snowfall.
                          He had to dig a tunnel from the front door of his house, down to the bottom of the garden where the outside loo was.
                          that must have been a very cold toilet seat. It was cold at the best of times if I remember it right.

                          -9.4 here lowest overnight, that's flippin cold!
                          Last edited by womble; 28-11-2010, 10:54 AM.
                          "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

                          Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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                          • #14
                            Wasn't born for the early 60's stories

                            But I do remember growing up on the West Coast of Scotland in the 70s, and frequently in winter doing my homework by candlelight as the bad weather had caused a power cut.

                            Do we have better weather or just more robust power supplies these days?

                            It might be put to the test today though, as the snow just keeps on coming. yesterday was a fun challenge, I made all sorts from the store cupboard and freezer and called it survival rations (we had a minute inch of snow). It's dawning on me just now though that I really could do with more milk, eggs and flour and I'm not sure we will get out!
                            Caro

                            Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day

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                            • #15
                              Can you imagine health and safety allowing a soup pot in the village hall these days, that is if you are lucky enough to have a village hall
                              Updated my blog on 13 January

                              http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra.../blogs/stella/

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