Central Heating

[AlanG]

I'll be going outside first to clear the new snow (it's still snowing) then i'll have some bench time

[Ian M]

I thought it had snowed in the night, turned out that it was 'just' frost! five below and not a cloud in the sky and a blazing full moon. !

[Tim Marlow]

I thought it had snowed in the night, turned out that it was 'just' frost! five below and not a cloud in the sky and a blazing full moon. !

Very similar here, minus several and lots of frost in the moonlight…..not got back above freezing yet either. The frost has only melted in the sun. Shadow areas are still frozen.

[spanner570]

I started work in late '62. The big freeze started Christmas Day and lasted until April '63. Bad timing, what?

The ground remained frozen solid to a depth of a couple of feet or more for most of that time.

I well remember being driven along the ice on the River Dee in Chester as a back seat passenger in a Mini and being overtaken by a motor bike!

I wonder how the 'gadgets' mentioned in previous posts would have coped with a real winter....

Ivor Chyllblain

[Tim Marlow]

I started work in late '62. The big freeze started Christmas Day and lasted until April '63. Bad timing, what?

The ground remained frozen solid to a depth of a couple of feet or more for most of that time.

I well remember being driven along the ice on the River Dee in Chester as a back seat passenger in a Mini and being overtaken by a motor bike!

I wonder how the stuff mentioned in previous posts would have coped with a real winter....

Ivor Chyllblain

I bet those that were around in 1947 said something very similar in 1962 Ron :tongue-out3: . Can’t remember 1962, but then, I was only two……I remember walking three miles to school in 1979 though, and school was still open :cold-sweat:20 foot snowdrifts were reported on some roads around Salisbury. The main roads were closed for about five days, and the railways for three. A well reported incident from the drift clearance was a digger picking up some poor sods abandoned mini and dropping it on a hedge…..

[boatman]

WELL i remember 62 to 63 an my brother an me built a igloo on our front lawn on chritmas morn if i remember correctly as a lady came along an said wow can i go inside it an she loved it an i was 10 yrs old at that time an if i knew what this world was comin to how it is today id have had more fun
chrisb

[PaulinKendal]

First dollop of snow here in the Lake District overnight - the view from my bedroom window this morning.

I'm home with a stinker of a cold. Quite by chance the Cave is right in the centre of the house, so it's our warmest room - lovely!

[AlanG]

Wish we had heating for the farm. Was a lovely minus 13 this morning lol

[PaulinKendal]

A top tip circulating at the moment is to heat the person, not the home, e.g. Money Saving Expert:

I was watching a (rather good) film, 'Belle' recently. In it, the actor Tom Wilkinson plays a gent who comes to breakfast each morning wearing a hat:

I thought, I've got a hat like that - I should wear it at home! So I do - and it makes a massive difference.

Well worth a try. If you haven't got something suitable, search for 'smoking cap' and you'll find something snazzy. .