Am I getting soft......or old?

[BrideXIII]

Always have the fingerless gloves to hand during the winter.

BTW did anyone else hear the weather forecaset on Radio 4 last night about 9pm? The announcer finished an otherwise perfectly serious broadcast with the words

"It will be cold, because it's winter"

LOL, as opposed to 'cold cos its summer but bucketing down'?


Bless em, what are they teaching them in weatherman school these days?

[bubblewrap]

Paxman does the weather
YouTube - Newsnight Weather Reports - Paxman resists

[FionaH]

Always have the fingerless gloves to hand during the winter.

BTW did anyone else hear the weather forecaset on Radio 4 last night about 9pm? The announcer finished an otherwise perfectly serious broadcast with the words

"It will be cold, because it's winter"

Love it.
Have to take bratz to and from work tonight, so glad its not as cold as last night. Car heater is broken !

[rustylady]

I used to get my clean clothes ready for morning, put them on a chair beside the bed, grab them under the covers to warm up and get dressed as far as I could under the covers. Oh happy days
It was a wonderful world.

Oh Alice I remember doing exactly the same thing. Little house on the edge of Dartmoor - we got ice on the inside of the windows.

[bubblewrap]

Is the Harold Steptoe look back in fashion again then?

Yes you would only have to look at me!

[Snadger]

Harold was the son it was Albert the father who wore the gloves.

I new Harold was the son but couldn't rermember his fathers name so thought I'd blag it and hope no one noticed! How wrong can you be!

[bubblewrap]

The horse was called Hercules.

[BrideXIII]

I new Harold was the son but couldn't rermember his fathers name so thought I'd blag it and hope no one noticed! How wrong can you be!

please note several of us fell into the same error and continued to pretend we hadn't

[Snadger]

The horse was called Hercules.

And Rosinante was Don Quijotes horse!

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Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's horse

[Hilary B]

And Rosinante was Don Quijotes horse!

It actually means "used to be horse", or something to that effect<g>

[Nicos]

I remember staying at my granny's overnight when I was a nipper and recall her having to break the ice off her false teeth when she took them out of the glass she kept them in next to her bed!

[maytreefrannie]

Ah the days of outside loos and the draught coming in under the doors. It was usual to see an old coat or blanket along the end of the doorway (in our house and our neighbours) to keep out the cold.

As someone said, one fire, one warm room - if you had to go out for anything, even to open the door, the cold would hit you in the hall.

And electricity was one light bulb in each room - no appliances or gadgets running up the bills.

One thing though, it seems to me everyone was more or less in the same boat - I don't remember feeing 'poor' as a child, people generally got along with what they had and some of those meals (to my memory) were warming when you came in from school.

[Nicos]

Ice with that ma'am????

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