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« on: February 07, 2007, 17:35:24 »
Its 6.35pm (ish), there is not a cloud in the sky or flake of snow on the ground and ALL Dudley schools will be closed tomorrow  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

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« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2007, 17:38:50 »
Has someone moved the Greenwich Meridian then?  :lol:

Apparently one firm we deal with has told their employee's that if they don't turn up to work tomorrow they'll be docked a days holiday  :roll:
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« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2007, 17:42:51 »
All the warwickshire schools have closed as well i think! Well my school has  :D  :D  :D
The authorities told them to close school so i miss double french and parents evening haha!
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« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2007, 17:47:32 »
Streuth this is a real 'when I were a lad' stuff isn't it? I can remember the winter of 64 when we were frozen for weeks on end and I walked across the Thames at Windsor and I don't recall teh schools closing at all. We had to wrap up warm mind.

For goodness sake we might get 5cm of snow - in real money 2 inches and the country comes to a standstill.

OK if I don't have to travel I won't but surely we can cope with a piddly snowfall.

Makes me see red.

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« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2007, 17:48:18 »
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Its 6.35pm (ish), there is not a cloud in the sky or flake of snow on the ground and ALL Dudley schools will be closed tomorrow  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

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(wish I worked in a dudley school)

yep, got 3 kids here tomorrow
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« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2007, 17:51:44 »
apparently its been predicted blizzards?
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« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2007, 17:53:52 »
I think I'm getting old.

I remember a winter of 198(something) when we were living in a caravan at the time (parents were renovating an old bard).  One nights worth of snow was enough to mean we couldn't get out of the caravan to go to the outside bog.

We still made it to school, walking home after the snow plough had been through leaving 10' high walls of snow on the side of the road.

Definately "when I were 'lad"  :D
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« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2007, 18:00:09 »
Lucky [!Expletive Deleted!] those children are.  I never got a day off from poor weather at school... even if the place was at freezing temperatures we still had to go in and wore coats and warm clothing and the day went on as normal.  :lol:
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« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2007, 18:05:01 »
we used to have to lick the road dry before school and lived in a box ..the lucky lucky wotsits :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2007, 18:08:35 »
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Lucky !Expletive Deleted! those children are.  I never got a day off from poor weather at school... even if the place was at freezing temperatures we still had to go in and wore coats and warm clothing and the day went on as normal.  :lol:


what, YEARS ago when you were at school? :P
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« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2007, 18:19:29 »
my kids are at school tomorrow....if it snows tonjght, i'll be up and out at 3am on me way in to work....snow ain't stopping me....apart from that the boss knows i've got  a LANDY so i've no excuse for not turning in..
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« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2007, 18:25:15 »
I can remember the winter in the eighties. I was about 12 and had to dig a tunnel from the back door to the coal bunker to get coal in for my mother before I went to school, then walked to the bus stop through drifts high enough for us to walk on the roof of at least one car!
  Then waited for the bus that was on time and it took us to school where 90% of the teachers made it too. I think the only reason we had a day off in bad weather was if the school boiler broke down.
  Wouldn't happen today!
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« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2007, 18:52:14 »
if we get enough snow sod work i'm going sledging or offroading  :lol:
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« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2007, 18:52:18 »
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Lucky !Expletive Deleted! those children are.  I never got a day off from poor weather at school... even if the place was at freezing temperatures we still had to go in and wore coats and warm clothing and the day went on as normal.  :lol:


what, YEARS ago when you were at school? :P

Over a year ago now was my last day there.  But what I said is still true.
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« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2007, 19:13:25 »
got a photo somewere taken out of a bedroom window in a house after a snow storm when i used to live in north wales and all you can see up the street is car ariels sticking out of the snow it was about 6 foot deep. oh the good old days. They dont have winters like they used to. Kids just dont now they are born these days. Think i am getting old and shinakal? or is it just old darn this alsimeries Or something like that :roll:  SO were am i and who are you. and stop calling me sherly :wink:
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« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2007, 19:20:32 »
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we used to have to lick the road dry before school and lived in a box ..the lucky lucky wotsits :lol:  :lol:


Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

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« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2007, 21:21:15 »
can people shut up about the whole "when i was a lad we had it harder malarky??"

im tellin yer, us lads still in education doing our a levels/ degrees dont have it easy either.

 :evil: i dont get a day off as you can probably tell  :evil:
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« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2007, 21:36:58 »
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And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.


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« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2007, 21:57:37 »
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can people shut up about the whole "when i was a lad we had it harder malarky??"

im tellin yer, us lads still in education doing our a levels/ degrees dont have it easy either.

 :evil: i dont get a day off as you can probably tell  :evil:


Life don't get any easier and you only get four weeks holiday a year after you've finished school  :P  :wink:  :cry:
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« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2007, 22:00:59 »
I dont get a day off school tomorrow either. And apparently our school has only ever closed once due to snow! :P
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« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2007, 22:11:42 »
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Life don't get any easier and you only get four weeks holiday a year after you've finished school Razz Wink Crying or Very sad


I get 13 weeks holidays so there :lol:
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« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2007, 22:13:37 »
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For goodness sake we might get 5cm of snow - in real money 2 inches and the country comes to a standstill.

2 inches??? 2 MICRONS is more like it!!!

People don't know how to drive these days :rant:
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« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2007, 22:14:50 »
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Life don't get any easier and you only get four weeks holiday a year after you've finished school Razz Wink Crying or Very sad


I get 13 weeks holidays so there :lol:


Forgot to say "unless you become a teacher"  :P  (I'm jealous  :twisted: )
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« Reply #23 on: February 08, 2007, 10:58:01 »
They're not closed up here.
'Small-Child' has gone on a school-trip to a museum/exhibition at Sheffield today & the class is off to 'Xscape' tomorrow as well
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« Reply #24 on: February 08, 2007, 17:34:49 »
well i nearly didnt get to work today....the drizzle we had was quite bad i had to put my intermittent wipers on as well :lol:  Snow!! pah i should like some we got none at all where i live :roll:
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