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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.
All Cardiff Bus services stopped at 6pm. And there are no night buses.
So stay in and have a few beers. The long weekend starts now
We were a little more fortunate :
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Few flurries in Merthyr but nothing too bad. Windy and cold but not the red alert that was predicted. Only live a mile from the office so I’ll be in tomorrow wether I can drive or not but i don’t mind driving in the snow. It’s the idiots who decide to drive in the snow and drive at a snails pace that are the problem. If you’re going to drive then you’ve got to commit.
Be careful out there people.
M4 Junc 32 (Coryton) and A48 Heath area seeing vehicles abandoned.
Other routes in Cardiff (link rd) at a standstill as the weather makes it almost impossible to move around.
About a foot high so far in Ebbw Vale
Wondering what it'll be look come the morning!
I live up a big hill, side streets have got a foot of snow here, main roads are walkable mind, **** walking downhill early tomorrow or late at night as that compact snow will be ****ing murder.
Went to the shop earlier seen cars coming up the hill in zig zags then sliding back down. Idiots. Hill is pretty steep and goes a while
Few years ago I left work early and got off the train went straight to the pub with about 50 others.. left the pub at night after a good 10 hours there and cars were basically abandoned from the train station and well up passed my house further up..
I'm committed to a few days in the house now.
Knee deep this morning here in St Mellons...
...and it's snowing again.
not knee deep in rumney but nothing getting through the roads here but snowing again
was far worse in 1982
i could work from home all the time !
if you could work from home would you lot have the discipline to do ?
If i could fit what I needed to here yes.
I'd do more if I was able to switch off and flick between work and having a mini break around the house, I find it hard to concentrate for 8-12 hours in an environment where I need to always look busy, even if sometimes I'm sat at a computer, being able to wander off and distract myself and come back would help my productivity.
Yes, I worked from home for nine years before I took redundancy and surprised myself by how disciplined I was - I was given a slightly bigger annual target to achieve and was consistently able to hit, or better, it. Working from home isn't for everyone, but, based on my experience, quite a few who think they are not cut out for it wouldn't find it that much of a problem.