- Sep 24, 2008
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You younger ones will proberly say oh not another one, but you see i have been around a fair while now and seen lots weather expireances which at the time seem normal. In my younger day's i lived in Walthamstow London . One of the things you got used to was the rushing of snow off the roofs where they did not have a metal bar accross the gutters, it would come down like a avalanche with this great thud, often breaking structures underneath.My Father had to travel by bike to Fairlop which is about 10/15 miles which had several steep hills to encounter and still he went even though snow was deep and often with steel helmet on being war time.School time, sitting with balaclavers on and wellies or soaking wet boots just waiting to get outside again for the provebal snow fights. The igloo we built,Sledges etc , nothing was bought it all came out of scrap.My children today are 51 and 46 and i sometimes feel sorry for them that their children cannot pursue some of the things we use to do. It seems that they spend more time in the home on all the gadgets they have rather than being outside