🗣 'As the snow falls here and there, my thoughts are with all those who do not know where to turn just to survive.'
She would run us a hot bath where our legs turned purple from the contrast in temperature. With no central heating we wrote our names in the frost on the inside of our windows. And in a morning getting ready for school we would leap out of bed and rush down to the open fire where mum had our uniforms warming on the huge mesh fireguard for us to get dressed in.
The whole neighbourhood joined together to clear steps, pavements and pathways, to ensure the elderly could at least walk safely to the shops. If they couldn’t we went for them.I can still see my gran’s spidery handwriting on the note she gave us wrapped up in two pounds and a list for the local butcher, who would serve her half a pound of mince, a pound of sausages and two pork chops wrapped firstly in grease proof then in brown paper with the calculations added in up in pencil on one corner.
For an Aussie she behaves much more like a Brit. She loves the cold and the rain and hates the sun. More importantly she loves the excitement snow brings when you are a child.But this year the sudden cold snap will have very different connotations for many. It’s arrival will be greeted with dread by those who fear it will bring with it nothing but misery.
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