The "worst snow in a decade" apparently.

What is it about this country that has a fascination for snow. A few flakes and the place is in meltdown (excuse the pun). I remember snow used to last for weeks when I was young. People just got on with their lives. I think this country has become a snowflake nation! (pun intended)

I think you are in/from Scotland? 

You get real snow there.

I am a southern snowflake.

I actually love it but then I have never been inconvenienced for more than a few days.

It is very beautiful and I particularly love the silence after.

You are correct about Scotland. Even here it has now become panic mode when any snow is forecast or starts. I can remember camping in a campervan at the edge of a loch when the temperature was below minus 12 and you could here the ice cracking on the loch. It was blissful but as long as the heating was on.

That name, again, is Mr Plow!

I was a baby in 1963, so I don't remember that winter, I know my Mum and me stayed with my grandparents, I think my parents sort of got stuck their after xmas or something.

I think snow is probably a lot more fun when you're a child and don't have to worry about the practicalities?

TheCatWoman said:

When I was a child I remember going to school in snow and ice

i remember doing that during the 1963 snow storms. I lived miles further away than other pupils who did not go in. I loved walking thigh deep in the snow through the cemetery - perhaps that was an early manifestation of autism as others were complaining!

TheCatWoman said:

When I was a child I remember going to school in snow and ice

i remember doing that during the 1963 snow storms. I lived miles further away than other pupils who did not go in. I loved walking thigh deep in the snow through the cemetery - perhaps that was an early manifestation of autism as others were complaining!

I was a baby in 1963, so I don't remember that winter, I know my Mum and me stayed with my grandparents, I think my parents sort of got stuck their after xmas or something.

I think snow is probably a lot more fun when you're a child and don't have to worry about the practicalities?