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[Debs.]

This was what the family Entwood were doing on on Boxing Day last year .....

  Sun, sand and sun-tan lotion.........

....stop rubbing it in!

[05omegav6]

We've the Victorians to thank for that They used to have much more wintry January/February than December. They started to put wintry scenes on their cards just after they started to send them. Snowy Suffolk village much prettier than a drizzly picture of a Manchester mill 

They do kind of have a point...

[Me]

Are you old enough to remember loads of snow at Christmas? (last year aside)

Last year was just a slight dusting, its the only year I can remember with even a fraction of snow.

Hmmm, I seem to remember shovelling a foot of snow off the road to make some parking space

Slight dusting in London!

Thats what happens when you choose to live in such places.  We had several snowball fights (top end of close versus bottom end), made snowmen, and some of the kids made a proper igloo in the rugby field.  London, nah, not for me, give me the countryside any time

[tunnie]

Are you old enough to remember loads of snow at Christmas? (last year aside)

Last year was just a slight dusting, its the only year I can remember with even a fraction of snow.

Hmmm, I seem to remember shovelling a foot of snow off the road to make some parking space

Slight dusting in London!

Thats what happens when you choose to live in such places.  We had several snowball fights (top end of close versus bottom end), made snowmen, and some of the kids made a proper igloo in the rugby field.  London, nah, not for me, give me the countryside any time

Thats what I want to, but I cannot afford to upgrade to a house + a commute bill........ yet!

[Amigo]

We've seen the programmes, i've got the book... Grumpy old men! I admit i'm one of them. Everything pees me off & i know i'm not alone but now there's a new breed creeping in grudgingly  & resentfully lead by our own ex student Senny driving bum!

    Yeah, it had to happen sooner or later....
     
          GRUMPY YOUNG MEN!!!!!

[aaronjb]

Are you old enough to remember loads of snow at Christmas? (last year aside)

Last year was just a slight dusting, its the only year I can remember with even a fraction of snow.

Hmmm, I seem to remember shovelling a foot of snow off the road to make some parking space

Slight dusting in London!

Thats what happens when you choose to live in such places.  We had several snowball fights (top end of close versus bottom end), made snowmen, and some of the kids made a proper igloo in the rugby field.  London, nah, not for me, give me the countryside any time

Thats what I want to, but I cannot afford to upgrade to a house + a commute bill........ yet!

Bracknell is cheap .. of course it's cheap for a reason  (and on the slowest rail line in the world in to London)

[TheBoy]

Are you old enough to remember loads of snow at Christmas? (last year aside)

Last year was just a slight dusting, its the only year I can remember with even a fraction of snow.

Hmmm, I seem to remember shovelling a foot of snow off the road to make some parking space

Slight dusting in London!

Thats what happens when you choose to live in such places.  We had several snowball fights (top end of close versus bottom end), made snowmen, and some of the kids made a proper igloo in the rugby field.  London, nah, not for me, give me the countryside any time

Thats what I want to, but I cannot afford to upgrade to a house + a commute bill........ yet!

Bracknell is cheap .. of course it's cheap for a reason  (and on the slowest rail line in the world in to London)

The Chiltern Slug must be the world's slowest train.  Last time I used it, it was actually on time, scheduled to take 30m to do 10 miles (with 1 intermediate stop (which was a quick)), and it took 30m. I make that an average of 20mph...

[tunnie]

Are you old enough to remember loads of snow at Christmas? (last year aside)

Last year was just a slight dusting, its the only year I can remember with even a fraction of snow.

Hmmm, I seem to remember shovelling a foot of snow off the road to make some parking space

Slight dusting in London!

Thats what happens when you choose to live in such places.  We had several snowball fights (top end of close versus bottom end), made snowmen, and some of the kids made a proper igloo in the rugby field.  London, nah, not for me, give me the countryside any time

Thats what I want to, but I cannot afford to upgrade to a house + a commute bill........ yet!

Bracknell is cheap .. of course it's cheap for a reason  (and on the slowest rail line in the world in to London)

Yeah I did notice that area was cheap, next place has to have a garage or two!

[aaronjb]

The Chiltern Slug must be the world's slowest train.  Last time I used it, it was actually on time, scheduled to take 30m to do 10 miles (with 1 intermediate stop (which was a quick)), and it took 30m. I make that an average of 20mph...

You win It's about 30 miles, I reckon, and takes about an hour to get from Martins Heron to London Waterloo.. It's just so tedious, and in rush hour standing room only.

I was spoilt living in Slough before - 25 minutes to Paddington on the fast train. Then again I can walk to the station here rather than drive in Slough; swings & roundabouts, I suppose.

[TheBoy]

Yeah I did notice that area was cheap, next place has to have a garage or two!

While I was waiting for her to buy her jimjams from that posh nightware place going up the Gary Glitter in Banbury, I was looking in the Estate Agent's window...

...3 bed end terrace, useful sized garden, £139,950

[TheBoy]

The Chiltern Slug must be the world's slowest train.  Last time I used it, it was actually on time, scheduled to take 30m to do 10 miles (with 1 intermediate stop (which was a quick)), and it took 30m. I make that an average of 20mph...

You win It's about 30 miles, I reckon, and takes about an hour to get from Martins Heron to London Waterloo.. It's just so tedious, and in rush hour standing room only.

I was spoilt living in Slough before - 25 minutes to Paddington on the fast train. Then again I can walk to the station here rather than drive in Slough; swings & roundabouts, I suppose.

It was shockingly bad - the only place to buy the ticket is on arrival (neither Bicester or the hellhole stop on the way even had a permit to travel ticket machine!), so every sod is then queuing on the platform to buy a ticket from a poor sod who surrounded as soon as the train arrived

[tunnie]

Yeah I did notice that area was cheap, next place has to have a garage or two!

While I was waiting for her to buy her jimjams from that posh nightware place going up the Gary Glitter in Banbury, I was looking in the Estate Agent's window...

...3 bed end terrace, useful sized garden, £139,950

Yeah, but Banbury is a shithole, full of morons!

[TheBoy]

Yeah I did notice that area was cheap, next place has to have a garage or two!

While I was waiting for her to buy her jimjams from that posh nightware place going up the Gary Glitter in Banbury, I was looking in the Estate Agent's window...

...3 bed end terrace, useful sized garden, £139,950

Yeah, but Banbury is a shithole, full of morons!

It wasn't in Banbury - they were (slightly) more expensive.  It was that backend of nowhere, Woodford Halse

[TheBoy]

I'd rather live in Woodford Halse than Banbury though

[Kevin Wood]

London's like the milky way, though. It's in the centre and everywhere is getting further away. Must be. When I moved to Alton in 1997ish it was 48 minutes to get to Waterloo. Now it's 1h30.

Either that or the slam-door trains were actually faster than the Siemens cr@p they have now.