tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post6192853108691354029..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: CHRISTMAS? BAH! HUMBUG(S)...!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-6267565635557530082015-01-06T21:17:13.053+00:002015-01-06T21:17:13.053+00:00I'll see if I can dig it out when I get a spar...I'll see if I can dig it out when I get a spare moment, Karl. Won't be right away 'though.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-16571261807495849932015-01-06T19:42:16.489+00:002015-01-06T19:42:16.489+00:00Aw Kid PLEASE PLEASE try and find that strip where...Aw Kid PLEASE PLEASE try and find that strip where Wham! apes the FF that you mentioned, id love to see this!karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07814365568280298681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-85579629891053844452015-01-06T18:00:43.953+00:002015-01-06T18:00:43.953+00:00Funny that, eh, CJ? (Not in a 'Ha Ha' way,...Funny that, eh, CJ? (Not in a 'Ha Ha' way, obviously.) A journey that probably seemed like an ordeal at the time has now become a fond reminiscence. That's probably why schooldays can sometimes seem rosy-hued years after the fact. Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-21054108760124886912015-01-06T15:03:38.636+00:002015-01-06T15:03:38.636+00:00Actually Kid, it's snow in January and Februar...Actually Kid, it's snow in January and February I remember best. In February 1978 I had a day off school on my 12th birthday after it snowed during the night and the school bus never arrived. It was a really bad winter in early 1979 (the infamous 'Winter of Discontent' of Tory mythology) and our village was totally cut off so we had to walk 5 miles through the snow to the nearest town just to buy food. And in January 1982 ice and snow delayed the start of the new school term - we were supposed to return to school around January 10th but we actually returned on the 25th - it was the longest school Xmas holiday ever !! More recently, in February 2009 I had to walk miles through heavy snow to make sure my 76 year-old mother was okay. She died later that year and I remember that long trudge through the snow rather fondly now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-60163524732957936502015-01-06T13:51:49.827+00:002015-01-06T13:51:49.827+00:00I think that this year, there has been snow in som...I think that this year, there has been snow in some parts of the country (heard it on the news), but not yet in mine. When it comes to the past, sometimes it would snow in February or March, but because we associate snow with Christmas, we tend to remember it as happening at that time. Funny ol' thing, memory, eh, CJ?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-38970151445193593932015-01-06T13:30:56.895+00:002015-01-06T13:30:56.895+00:00It didn't snow at all last Winter, not even a ...It didn't snow at all last Winter, not even a single flake - just all that endless wet and windy weather. I remember in school how it always seemed to snow at the time of the Xmas exams which was really annoying as it meant they would be delayed as so many of us couldn't get to school and I really wanted them out of the way so it could start to feel like Christmas. My father claimed that when he was a boy in Glasgow in the '30s it snowed heavily every year with icicles "like bars in front of the window" - in my opinion he was remembering just one particularly bad winter but he insisted it was every year and he wasn't the kind you argued with !! Back in December 2010 it was a really cold and Arctic-like month all over the UK and there were icicles hanging from my roof like bars just like my dad had described from his childhood - I'd never seen icicles like that before !!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com