SNOW WATCH

[BlueWales]

1963 - no running water on our estate in Tredegar for a month.

Every drop had to be carried from a stand pipe in the street. Like a remake of the Sorcerer's
Apprentice day after day. No buses , walking to school and back - 2 miles each way. School milk frozen solid
and one bath a week up my Nan's which was lower down so not frozen.

However we built real igloos and went sledging down steep paths which were like the Cresta run.

No central heating , just one coal fire. Ice on the inside of the bedroom windows.

Off to bed with a hot water bottle and pressed down by several blankets and an eiderdown.

Happy days.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

1963 - no running water on our estate in Tredegar for a month.

Every drop had to be carried from a stand pipe in the street. Like a remake of the Sorcerer's
Apprentice day after day. No buses , walking to school and back - 2 miles each way. School milk frozen solid
and one bath a week up my Nan's which was lower down so not frozen.

However we built real igloos and went sledging down steep paths which were like the Cresta run.

No central heating , just one coal fire. Ice on the inside of the bedroom windows.

Off to bed with a hot water bottle and pressed down by several blankets and an eiderdown.

Happy days.

We were a little more fortunate :

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[Joe Gillis]

We were a little more fortunate :

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/lRAAA...w~-/s-l300.jpg

What a huge fuss about nothing, hardly any snow in Cardiff, just windy