06-10-2019, 12:25 PM
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Re: O Dear
Originally Posted by cuphalffull
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It was worse in 1947 ....
06-10-2019, 12:33 PM
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Re: O Dear
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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We've fueled up for winter. We always do by the end of September. Might get a bit of bird food though. Suet and mealworms are an important source of calories for them along with the usual bird mixes.I do hope there's not much snow though. For some reason it depresses me most awfully and I do mean depresses me.
At school we had to write a "composition" about snow having read about "the little bulbs snoozing under the blanket" and all that guff.
I wrote how I felt about the desolation and feeling of hopelessness that I got seeing the land laid out like a corpse - and more on the same lines.
I was only nine but got two strokes of the cane because I didn't write what was expected yet it was and still is how I feel with snow on the ground.l
I grew up in an area where snowbound winters were the accepted thing ,probably enjoying it but these days I'm fearful of snow arriving . I don't drive so worrying about if I'm not going to be able to get out and if I do hoping I' m not going to fall is my concern these days .
06-10-2019, 11:51 PM
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For various reasons, I remember the winter of 1963 more than any other. Being young I suppose such things stand out.Parafin heaters , burst water tanks, neighbours banded together to clear the roads of snow whilst being fed hot toddies , wellington boots and 3 pairs of socks (still bloody freezing feet), school macs of gabardine that weren't warm at all .
How cold is cold though ? Reading historical accounts of various periods , I was surprised to know the River Mersey froze over in the 1600's and the people could walk from one side to the other.. 3 miles appox.
Do you think they suffered with cold more ? They did wear fur and other natural fibres, which would have helped, but I bet their homes were dripping with damp and condensation, smoke from the fires and goodness knows what else.
Loads of berries on the holly this year, and I've got a few berries on my forsythia. That is very confusing and something I have never heard of or seen before. They look like rowan berries but definitely attached to the forsythia.
The world's going mad !
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