I can remember that, we went skating on the rivers for weeks and there was a swan stuck in the ice: we fed it bread but I can't remember what happened to it, other than men tried to keep the water de-iced around it as much as possible. Somewhere I have 'photos. The school field was flooded and my Dad and another School Master made skates for the kids to tie onto their boots ....... and the milk, anyone remember it in 8th of a pint bottles, stood inside by the fire so that the ice stuck up then melted, YUK! That was the year that blue tits learned to take the foil off the bottles to drink the cream.
Then there was the Winter when "Wales was cut off" - around 1981. We walked the 5 miles to and from work, which meant dressing in full hiking gear, taking a shovel each, biscuits; up and down two large hills, at times walking over vehicles but we didn't know at the time
. Fortunately after the initial storm the sun shone but as soon as the sky darkened in the afternoon, we headed home again. I can't remember how long the walk took, I do know that I wouldn't even consider it these days!
We had 4" in early December here ..........
