Wansworth
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If I recall correctly it was the winter of the mini moke......and my dad took his new Morris 1100 from London to Devon and Back
A foreboding winter pic, from 1963?
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BoyBlue49
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Supposedly intelligent but absolutely no common sense.I lived 30 mls north of London, my driving test was postponed 3 times. kids walked to school without complaining, in short trousers mostly too AND the teachers turned up. Later when living in Wiltshire, 6 inches of white stuff fell overnight,my kids went to school but came home because it was closed, main roads were cleared but teachers would not drive on the uncleared school car park, nor offer to help clear it, school closed 3 days more until parents got their shovels out, except for my next door neighbour, who was one of the teachers....
Tomahawk
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Tendring council hav helped everyone by closing the public toilets. .... without notice.
Very considerate not.
Very considerate not.
Robin
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Follow the yellow 'brick' road job then ? ?
Lucy52
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No doubt you were scarred for life by the experience.
Aye, and did I tell you about walking to school alone in a 1950's smog?
Utterly distraught, the PTSD will require years of counseling, not.?
Gwylan
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I was born in August 1947. Got a lot to answer for that winter weather and coal shortages
LONG_KEELER
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Tomahawk
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I've been carrying a bucket in the car boot for quite a while now.
How does your Mrs feel about using it in the open?
Robin
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Many 'moons' ago my first wife was caught short whilst we were stuck in snowbound traffick going north on the A1 and two lorries had jacknifed. We had been there over 2 hrs without moving but as soon as soon as she dropped her bits in between us and a van in front the trafic moved off. She was not amused. ?
Tomahawk
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True enough.. But i suggest it is one thing to be caught out by an accident and something totally different when a council worker takes it n themselves to shut the public toilets as a personal drive to force people to stay at home.
ex-Gladys
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Tendring public toilets have been open up to and including Friday. They have been well cleaned and feel "Covid safe"... I would suggest that the staff who do that cleaning may have been deployed to do other duties such as salting/clearing pavements?
Leighb
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We got stuck on the M4 in a long unmoving jam, madam just “had to have a wee” I pulled onto the hard shoulder and she opened the front and back doors as a screen did what was needed and got back in. I thought we might have a problem rejoining the traffic which had just started to move, but the kind lady in the car behind, who clearly realised the situation, waited and waved me out with a big smile on her face!
tillergirl
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Best I don't tell you about the dangers of using a toilet in a restuarant in remote Kyrgyzstan! ?
johnalison
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I'm willing to bet that it was better than one in an Ethiopian 'hotel', which itself was better than one on a ferry across the Dardanelles.
tillergirl
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Tempted to wager you a nice bottle of wine....... but have decided I like the wine too much.
johnalison
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Returning to the subject, this was Maldon in '97. On the last occasion I showed this there was some discussion about the smack.
johnalison
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I will concede honourably and send you a virtual bottle of white Burgundy.
LONG_KEELER
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I think I may have wintered at Downs Rd that year.
Some wooden hulls suffered with floating ice pushed along with help from the Chelmer.
jimi
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We lived in Cumnock, Ayrshire but were over at my grandparents in Edinburgh for the 1963 New Year, my dad had a Morris Minor. We rang the AA to see if the LAng Whang (A70) was open and were told a snowplough had just gone through. So off we set quite late , Mum, dad , big sister (8) and me (6), I still remember the walls of snow each side of the car and the snow falling in the car headlights. The inevitable happened and the car ended up in a ditch after about 10 miles. Blankets, car mats etc were deployed to add friction whist dad shoved to no avail and mum had command of the driving position. After several minutes dad realised that mum still had the handbrake on. I recall words were exchanged. My dad was a religious man but I recall some words I had never heard before, I think he'd learnt them down the pit. Anway, the car was restored to the road and the decision was made to return from whence we had come. There was a slight problem, though. The road between the ditches and snow banks was too narrow to turn around in. My dad reversed 5 miles in the blizzard and darkness before he found a place to turn round in. As we left the A70 the police were closing the road to all traffic and we were told we were the last vehicle out. The Lang Whang remained closed for the next 3 months.
