20-11-2015, 12:33 PM
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Re: Snow Chaos
Originally Posted by Meg
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It does seem ridiculous that everything grinds to a halt at the first flake of snow.Having grown up in the peak district where snow was the norm every winter I can't remember the world around me stopping . We children still walked to school, snow or not it never closed.
I think one reason things kept going better then was most people worked locally and few had cars, it was legs and public transport.
I can remember gangs of council workers who built houses in the good weather teaming up with the quarrymen to keep the main roads open and the buses running with the help of shovels.
There were also grit bunkers strategically placed along small as well as main roads and all the local folk in the villages pitched in to keep the village roads passable.
Most people shopped locally/daily/on foot so were able to keep supplied with food and the milk still arrived by horse and cart
I think the term your looking for is
'We just got on with it'
20-11-2015, 01:09 PM
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Re: Snow Chaos
Originally Posted by Alien
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Omg how dare you mention conkers or other pastimes from our barbaric past, I remember the days of my childhood , children dying in their hundreds if not thousands in the playground as they didn't have the protection of hi viz jackets, the casualty ward full of kids suffering from conker shrapnel still haunts my dreams today... I remember kids had a skipping rope too so who knows how many children died partaking in this dangerous sport .. Like the big killer 'hopscotch' it involved jumping ( an activity were both feet leave the earths surface) ... I remember receiving my medal for surviving school and still wear it with pride
Excellent post gave me my first laugh of the day.
20-11-2015, 01:40 PM
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Re: Snow Chaos
Yes i agree longfellow!On a serious note though, I have just been posting on a thread about bullying. In my childhood a bully was kid who hit or kicked another kid he didn't like, but these days people are Bullies if they call you a nasty name. Are we just becoming too soft and behaving like wimps, instead of dealing with problems? Many people went through the horrors of WW2 and complained less than we do about trivial things today, they just got on with it ( as Meg and Alien said)!
20-11-2015, 03:02 PM
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Re: Snow Chaos
Originally Posted by Dobra
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We went to school every day in the winter of 1947. No wimp teachers then.....
1947 was different , today we have the wrong kind of leaves on the line or snow that could kill a child .. You don't realise just how easy you had it back then !
20-11-2015, 03:20 PM
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Re: Snow Chaos
Originally Posted by Alien
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Omg how dare you mention conkers or other pastimes from our barbaric past, I remember the days of my childhood , children dying in their hundreds if not thousands in the playground as they didn't have the protection of hi viz jackets, the casualty ward full of kids suffering from conker shrapnel still haunts my dreams today... I remember kids had a skipping rope too so who knows how many children died partaking in this dangerous sport .. Like the big killer 'hopscotch' it involved jumping ( an activity were both feet leave the earths surface) ... I remember receiving my medal for surviving school and still wear it with pride
That is so true. We should all give ourselves a pat on the back for coming through it relatively unscathed.
20-11-2015, 03:57 PM
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Re: Snow Chaos
how true u are to say this - makes u think any little excuse and lets shut for the day ...ime from canada we have had mountains of the stuff in one hr -not to bad now coz the cimate change -i live here now and it surprises me with mountains of grit all ready to go -but left untill it starts .. never known trains to stop coz of leaves .....why schools should close is beyond me ' if it was -5 blow i would understand .....
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