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Does anyone here remember...

Daddydoink — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:52:20 GMT

When it was still daylight at 7PM 😞 Or 7AM?! 😞

Yours, fed up of the dark and cold,

D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-doink.

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Cleoriff — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:04:11 GMT

I remember it well. I suffer with S.A.Ds during the winter months. (In fact I think I invented the condition) .....So I am rather pleased I am off back to Spain next Weds. Where it was 18c yesterday...

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jonsie — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 02:25:00 GMT

Yes I well remember those days. Here it's light at 5.30am and dark at 6.30pm which with the sun streaming through the windows at 5.30 means I'm up and about at 6am most mornings.

Re: Does anyone here remember...

gmarkj — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 07:54:45 GMT

Not really.
As I was up at stupid o'clock (and have been at work for just under 2 hours already) it was pretty dark this morning.
And it will be dark before I leave tonight as well!

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Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:05:21 GMT

I remember those days..... Hope they return soon as I do not like coming to work & going home in darkness, then spending most of the day in windowless offices and factories..... Now I am depressed

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jonsie — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:13:41 GMT

I was lucky enough to spend most of my working life in a garage so at least I was able to see and work outside in the winter months. Then I started working nights in a call centre and driving home in the dark and sleeping during the day so I know what you mean about being depressed

And whilst we are on the All Our Yesterdays theme, who can remember those heady days of the 3 day week and the power cuts and football having to be played midweek in the afternoon as there were no floodlights?

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:26:21 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
I was lucky enough to spend most of my working life in a garage so at least I was able to see and work outside in the winter months. Then I started working nights in a call centre and driving home in the dark and sleeping during the day so I know what you mean about being depressed
And whilst we are on the All Our Yesterdays theme, who can remember those heady days of the 3 day week and the power cuts and football having to be played midweek in the afternoon as there were no floodlights?

Ohhhh yes the Ted Heath era..... Dinner by candlelight, Dad home through the week and not working, stocking up on coal....... horrid days

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Cleoriff — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:38:46 GMT

I never experienced the 3 day week (nurses didn't) Weirdly my husband worked in a power station as an electrical fitter and he was rarely off work. They had to keep everything in good running order even though the country was conserving power.

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jonsie — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:32:44 GMT

Yes hospitals thankfully had no power cuts and presumably power stations had jobs for the boys status. Working in a garage at the time, we just used to make a frame, bolt spotlights to it and wire them up to the many batteries that were charged in advance....sometimes I miss those days believe it or not. Nostalgic and happy family times where everyone pulled together and helped each other.

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Cleoriff — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 10:00:56 GMT

I also remember two bad winters....The worse for us as a family was 1978-79.

Other half (still working for EMEB) couldn't even attempt to drive so he donned warm gear and walked for 3 hours to get to the power station 4 miles away. I didn't see him for 5 days...as they were working non stop to get power lines up and running and electricity back on.

Luckily, I worked at the hospital a mile away so could walk there. Some staff couldnt get home so slept in one of the empty wards. ..

Great camaraderie though. Everyone looking out for each other

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Marjo — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:20:26 GMT

Does this help? If you stare at it for a while....

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Cleoriff — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:42:34 GMT

Hopefully @Marjo I will see it for real next week...(and feel the heat)

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Marjo — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:22:21 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:

Hopefully @Marjo I will see it for real next week...(and feel the heat)

Send some our way to the UK too?

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Cleoriff — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 12:55:12 GMT

@Marjo wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
Hopefully @Marjo I will see it for real next week...(and feel the heat)
Send some our way to the UK too?

It probably will work out that way...and get cold in Spain...

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:42:29 GMT

What is that yellow round thing in the sky then?

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Cleoriff — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:54:55 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
What is that yellow round thing in the sky then?

At this time of night....probably the moon @Anonymous

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:59:13 GMT

Thanks @Cleoriff was hoping it was warmer than the moon. I am sure I remember seeing something yellow and warm when I was on holiday a couple of months ago. Since back in England not seen it again

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Cleoriff — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:20:06 GMT

Same here. In Spain till Oct 26th... It was 22c when I left and came back to this lot..

Re: Does anyone here remember...

Cleoriff — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 08:14:45 GMT

As we were talking about the cold weather I thought this meme was quite funny.

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Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 08:34:19 GMT

@Cleoriff I cannot see the ripped up Daily Mirror in sqares on a string