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So Cambridgeshire is badly hit?
Trains running to a Winter Timetable in winter (what else would they be doing I ask myself this time of the year?). All very strange to me living in Cambridgeshire where our village roads have been gritted including the estates, enough snow to see the road through and the garden ponds not yet frozen over. Even drove over the fen yesterday where it was a typical white covering with black water and roads. I wonder how the modern folk would have got by as in 1963 and even better 1947 what with gas lights, no coal and a Miner's strike, of course central heating was the fire in the living room more or less the centre of the house or in the coal fired range in the kitchen dribbling 'treacle' as my popld mum called from the flue joints since no coal meant we scoured the hedgerows for bits of wood to burn. Happy days indeed.
Off topic more or less although there is a pub called The Railway involved. Is anyone into Morris etc? If so and at the Whittlesea Straw Bear on 16th and 17th look out for the Pig Dyke Molly dressed as befits Fen Folk in Winter in black and white. If you are there search out the one with the long white beard who no doubt will be handing badges to children and extorting money from adults and say hello.
John (G)
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