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Well, we are off to Cumbria tomorrow, where we are there is just a very small village shop, quite a way from the supermarkets so i hope it doesn't have too much snow up there.

Ann
Glos

Thanks for interesting replies all you old people with long memories..lol

I will not admit to remembering anything :-))

Let me know when it starts to snow and I'll avoid the area like the plague!

Sue x

I'm starting to panic now. We've booked to go to Edinburgh for a few days on Monday! Hope we get there ok (not bothered about getting home....LOL)

Can't begin to imagine the panic that the promise of a white Christmas would involve!

Looks at legs and moustache and sighs even louder than Sue.... me too, lol!!

CC

I do have fur :-((

*looks at legs and sighs*

Sue x

I was one of those that over-shopped at Christmas.......I still fill the freezers as if my 3 are still at home....... so we are still living out of the freezer....

.....I think we should all hibernate in the winter, if we were meant to be cold animals, we would have a load of fur......

We go shopping on a Monday and will be following our normal routine most probably . We are on the coast in Norfolk and are forcast hevey snow ( and possiable drifting ) I'll believe it when I see it as our area usually misses whatever is forecast.
It was amazing here in the winter of 1978/9. I'd never seen such snow nor have again since.A lot of the roads where thick sheet ice ( not fun when your a pillion rider on a motor bike..........lol )

The winter of 63 I nearly died.My parents found me blue and freezing in my cot . Dad put me in his p.js and cuddled me back to a good colour .
They bought a fan heater the next day.

Amanda

Errr East Wales *tuts* thats called England :-))

Sue x

Didnt know they had a west...do they have a east as well..:-))))

Dormouse.... it was true, lol... my dad was away... I was 8, my mum was pregnant (not sure which sibling, at the moment, lol) and also had half a dozen of us at home.. we didn't have a fridge, and not a lot of money... food was bought in on a day to day basis... I had to walk on snow banked up to the tops of the railings of the local school fence... about 6ft high.. to get to the shop each day to get the basics of bread and potatoes... the butchers wife used to take me out the back and warm me up before letting me go back out.... but... I always went back with some sausages, or a rack of lamb, or stewing steak, liver etc tucked into my bag.....

Meanwhile my dad was enjoying himself stuck in London at a *works do* in a posh hotel...still never quite forgiven him for it.... everything the shops gave me was *on tick* except the meat... which was slipped in by the butcher's wife.

I hate the cold to this day!! I had dreadful chilblains for a few years after.... and pneumonia.

Love

Daff xxxxx

Dormouse, the stories you have heard are TRUE! This was done by my OH that year, 8miles, to get our weekly shop. Snow was at the side of the rd until June, hereabouts. Since then, living down a long drive, had snow which made it impossible to get the car out for 6 weeks. Had to arrange to be picked up at the top of a mile long drive, to go to work.

Hayley Guatemala and Venezuela aren't in Wales....roflmao

Me........West Wales

Sue xx

Is that North or south wales Sue..

Well........I always do my weekly shop on a Friday anyhow........and I buy what I need for that week......in all seriousness this week was no different.....though I do have a well stocked freezer as I buy meat in bulk at the farmers market. Plus I make my own bread and always have tonnes of ingredients to hand for that.........if the chickens are laying too we could live perfectly well on that alone lol

As long as the children have plenty of milk....we get through gallons ....it's still their drink of choice and the dogs, cats, rabbit, guinea pigs and chickens have what they need......I don't really care.

I'd be miffed if the snow comes and snows me in on Weds though........as i'd be perilously close to running out of vino LOLOLOL xx

Hi Helen

Son lives in Guatemala, nephew in Venezuela.

Sue xx

Where doe's your son live Sue?.As long as I have loo rolls and some tinned things I'll be fine .Got food in the freezer,logs and coal for the fire in case of power cut.Have plenty of dog food too,so he will be ok!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Sue,

Bella Donna's post about winter of '63 made me smile. Like her I wasn't quite born (!) but tales of that winter have been passed down from parents and grandparents.
We live in the country and our lane was completely blocked, so my Dad(legend has it) had to walk along the tops of the hedges to get to the shop to buy food. I swear nobody's nose grew when they told this story so I'm assuming it was true!!!!!

I'm always amazed at the panic-buying of bread/milk etc when we get an inkling of poor weather on the way.

Edit: Though I'm sure I did read somewhere that stock-piling of chocolate is a very good thing to do........................ ;)

*ties Muffy's feet together*

Say after me:

"I will not stock pile"

Sue x

SNOW YOU SAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Hell I only have enough stuff to last a fortnight.........

I'm off to Asda to stock up lol xx