Quote Originally Posted by bobh View Post
Pah!
I was living in Garnlydan , just above Ebbw Vale, next to Llangynidr moors, through the 1963 winter.
We had a snow drift up the side of the house that went over onto the roof.
We tunnelled through it after it froze so that we could use the side gate.
We also had to dig a trench in the lying snow inside our garden fence to stop the mountain ponies from walking up to our doors looking for food. We had "ice ferns" on the inside of our windows, it was so cold.

(cue someone posting a link to Monty Python's 4 Yorkshiremen sketch)
Went through Garnlydan and up over the moors to Crickhowell heading for Brecon in a lorry earlier. To say I was clenched was an understatement. I came back on the 470 past Storey Arms which wasn't much better.