They showed the old Panorama special on it late last year, there was quite a lot I didn't know about it, including the reasons why the SE was hit so hard. Very interesting.
@Ergates - those lamp shades and the dinky console table and mirror etc went with the previous owners. The paper was amusing at first but is now starting to curl at the edges and is becoming annoying. It has to go. No idea what colour yet but something light and bright but not gaudy and that goes with a Turkish rug we have there now.
I was just 10 when the big freeze started at the end of December 62. It went on into March so is called the BF of 1963. I remember there being lots of snow and the daily milk at school being frozen but not much else.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We were taken to see "something" on ice at Olympia, Boxing day 1962 and when we came out it was snowing really hard. It seemed to last for months but my grandmother kept telling me it was nowhere as bad as 1947. What is the opposite of rose tinted glasses?
Evening all. Damn and blast Russia! Because of the extended news an item on our local news programme (Look East @Dovefromabove) on the brilliant Warm Rooms project here was bumped. Hopefully it will be on tomorrow. This is a scheme run by our local volunteer group (of which I am not part but totally support) whereby folk can sit for a few hours with others to play games, drink tea or just chat in a warm room in either the library, the little local theatre or the church room, depending on the day. Just brilliant! We on the other hand sat in a cold room (the other large redundant church in town) with my eldest granddaughter (16) to listen to a local young singer who, mark my words, will be going places. She is only 17 and writes all her own songs. The show was opened by her younger step-brother who sang two of his own songs and accompanied himself on guitar. Aged 12. These are the true young - the yobs who set fire to bins and rip off car wing mirrors get the most publicity but they are very much the minority. I have faith in the young folk of this country. But my thoughts are very much with another country at the moment.
We ran out of coal in the freeze so myself and a friend were dispatched down to the coal yard with our sledge to get a sack of coal and drag it up hills back home.
Yes it started in 62, but didn't end till well into 63. I was 10 in January 63, I recall several mini thaws, but it kept re-freezing. As many of you know I volunteer at Capel Manor college and Gardens. They have suffered quite a lot of damage, mostly to fences round individual gardens. Interesting the deputy head gardener said that more damage was done Monday in the supposedly less severe wind, he thinks that things had been weakened. A large section of fence has gone from the Japanese garden, also a big branch from one of the large cedars came down. We have been trying to get these trees removed for some time, they will have to act now.
Glad to hear that the water is now retreating from your garden @punkdoc but sorry to hear that your hopes for getting on the mission have been dashed. Really hope your builder can find some of those huge tiles for you. @Obelixx that's certainly a fun type of wallpaper you have there, but if it is getting past its best I can well understand your needing to replace it. Will wait with interest to see your new choice of colour scheme. Just watched the Big Freeze, many memories as my birthday is on the 27th and I was 20 that year. The unmade road to our then smallholding froze solid within days and remained so until the second week in March 63. Horses were all exercised round a circular ring track made up from all the daily straw mucking out, but water buckets for them had to be carted from our kitchen sink - mum was not pleased! Hope everyone has a peaceful night. Morning @PatE hope your day stays dry.
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I thought the big freeze was in 1963. I skated on the local lake and tobogganed down the hill from the church. I was 11.
I'm taking OH out to birthday lunch tomorrow.
I was just 10 when the big freeze started at the end of December 62. It went on into March so is called the BF of 1963. I remember there being lots of snow and the daily milk at school being frozen but not much else.
What is the opposite of rose tinted glasses?
We on the other hand sat in a cold room (the other large redundant church in town) with my eldest granddaughter (16) to listen to a local young singer who, mark my words, will be going places. She is only 17 and writes all her own songs. The show was opened by her younger step-brother who sang two of his own songs and accompanied himself on guitar. Aged 12.
These are the true young - the yobs who set fire to bins and rip off car wing mirrors get the most publicity but they are very much the minority. I have faith in the young folk of this country. But my thoughts are very much with another country at the moment.
As many of you know I volunteer at Capel Manor college and Gardens. They have suffered quite a lot of damage, mostly to fences round individual gardens. Interesting the deputy head gardener said that more damage was done Monday in the supposedly less severe wind, he thinks that things had been weakened. A large section of fence has gone from the Japanese garden, also a big branch from one of the large cedars came down. We have been trying to get these trees removed for some time, they will have to act now.
Just watched the Big Freeze, many memories as my birthday is on the 27th and I was 20 that year. The unmade road to our then smallholding froze solid within days and remained so until the second week in March 63. Horses were all exercised round a circular ring track made up from all the daily straw mucking out, but water buckets for them had to be carted from our kitchen sink - mum was not pleased!
Hope everyone has a peaceful night.
Morning @PatE hope your day stays dry.