Not quite like the winter of 1963

There are some people comparing the big freeze that started before Christmas with the winter of 1963. They cannot have been there. It started snowing on Boxing Day, and London ended up with two feet of snow. Temperatures stayed below freezing until March! I had just turned eighteen and can remeber the roads and pavements being snowbound through January and February.

I did a paper round in those days, every day from Monday to Saturday, and I bore everybody to death with my story that I never missed a delivery. How I managed to get around on my bike on the icy roads, I have no idea, but I never came off once. At that age you must never feel the cold .