An Age of Magic

How is the UK handling this mini-ice age…?

January 6, 2010 on 8:02 pm | In Culture | No Comments

Not too well by all accounts. While we have not been too badly affected by heavy snowfalls where we live other parts of the UK are well and truly ’snowed under’ if you’ll pardon the pun…

You wonder how on earth the Finnish, the Canadians and the Swede’s cope when they get the snow – a couple of weeks of snow and Britain grinds to a halt! it has been colder and far more snowy than it has been recently. Back in 1947, just after the war, levels of snow fell that has been unprecedented. Kids went to school though, no closures, people walked to places rather than stupidly drive their cars and get stranded, Mums washed their kids in their copper kitchen sinks in the isolated farming communities when they ran short of fuel for fire. Life went on as usual.

The British people earned their great reputation during times of severe hardship and deprivation during two world wars – I wonder how the current generation would have coped back then given how loud the moaning is today over something as simple as the weather!

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