General Chat

I am trying to stay in because it is so dangerous walking outside. We did walk down to the market this morning and walking on the pavements is worrying. The snow has melted and refrozen so many times and the lumps of compacted ice are now covered with fresh snow. According to the weather icon on my computer screen it should be snowing at the moment. It isn't but the sky looks full of snow,so it won't be long.

I am pleased that you have some rain as you need it, even though it is spoiling your summer day

Linda
How do you manage to walk on the icy footpaths? do you have to wear spikes on the soles of your shoes?

This is maybe strange to you, we love our rain, here - cos its so dry this time of year, normally.
Yesterday, my son found a frog in our swimming pool - which he caught and put it in our fish pond - we don't see that many frogs around these parts as its too dry!!!

Carole x

lol, no we don't have spikes. I do have walking boots with rough soles which help. Ordinary shoes have smooth soles which are just too dangerous. The hospitals are full with people who have fallen on the ice. A friend of mine has just had to have an operation because she broke her hip when she fell on the ice. That is why i am so wary of going out in it.

Linda
I can only imagine how dangerous it would be.

I'm off to bed, I didn't realize how late it was :-))

Night, Linda -
Stay warm and inside:-))

Carole x

goodnight Carole, sleep well

Good morning/evening everyone. Hope you are all well.

Posh - nice to see you. Happy New Year to you and yours.

Linda - my OH asked me to ask you if the weather is as bad as in 1963. He said that was the worse winter he'd known. He came to Australia with his parents 2 years later.

Alison - we've been thinking of you and hoping you are ok.

Berona - hope you are getting some sleep and feeling better.

Sue xx

Hi Everyone,
I sort of missed yesterday. I wasn't very well and I think part of the problem was that I mixed my drinks on New Year's Eve! You wouldn't think that a couple of glasses wine a several Baileys could make me ill!
Happy New Year!
Pat x

Oh Pat, that was naughty of you.
I have just asked OH about 63 Sue, he thinks that it was worse, but I can't really remember

I just googled for this

With temperatures so cold the sea froze in places, 1963 is one of the coldest winters on record. Bringing blizzards, snow drifts, blocks of ice, and temperatures lower than -20 °C, it was colder than the winter of 1947, and the coldest since 1740.

Good Morning Evening Everyone,

Hi Sue,
Today it rained for a while, and the snow began to thaw. I ventured out in the car as we needed shopping. The main road was gritted (salt) so wasn't too bad, but the lanes were lethal with packed ice, so I crept along in trepidation, and made it there and back unscathed.

Spent the rest of the day playing with Ancestry, finding all sorts of facts about the ancestors - brilliant having access to all the Census.

Tec

Linda
I can just about remember the winter of 1963. My sister fell down and broke her arm.
One thing though I don't remember my school being closed because of the bad weather!

Good evening Tec, I am glad that you got back in one piece and that you have food so you won't starve

It is odd that I can't remember much about 63. We lived by the sea though,so maybe it wasn't that bad

Good Evening Pat,
Good Evening Linda,

Pat...........Hope you are recovered - never a good idea to mix drinks. I woke up with a hangover the other day, but had not even had a drink for several days, I felt really cheated, and thought of the fun I could have had, but didn't.

Linda..... I hope your cold is getting better - there wasn't one box of tissues left in the shop today - so I guessed you'd had them all.
You were very brave to go walking on the ice - I can't do that without doing a very good impression of Daffy Duck...........

Tec

Self inflicted pain, Pat:-))

Linda - OH says that he went to Whitby on a school trip and they walked across the harbour as it was frozen. He says he can remember quite a number of people died.

Hi, Tec. Isn't Ancestry great? You'll wonder how you did without it. The census returns are good but I've gone so far back with the parish records especially the London records and now with the births, marriages and deaths being transcribed it's like opening a gift everytime I go on.

Sue xx

Hi Sue,
Hi Tec,
Yes I know my pain was self inflicted!
I like looking at the Census returns. On one of my relations census return was a servant called Comfort Ball!

We bumped into our hosts from New years eve today when we went to the market. He had been suffering yesterday because he had been mixing drinks as well. I can't drink much these days without feeling the effects. I only had two glasses of wine and two glasses of Champers, but that was over about five hours,so I was fine. I had some soft drinks in-between. I knew we had to walk home, so I was careful

Linda,
I'm normally tee total (more or less). I'm quite happy to have a glass of coke but this was a Christmas present!

I'm usually happy with a couple of glasses of wine. If we're home and it's hot I find a gin and tonic with lemon refreshing. OH finds that the older he gets the less inclined he is to drink. He enjoys a glass of whiskey in the evening but he was spoiled awhile back when he indulged in a bottle of good whiskey so now he has expensive taste.

I think we may have got Carole's rain. It's pouring at the moment. The grass is growing so fast as are the plants in the garden.....and the weeds.

Sue xx

Break out the champers - we're nearing the 10,000th post:-))

Sue xx