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4/4/2013

 
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In the UK, the temperatures in March were the second coldest ever recorded. The last blow from similar weather came one hundred years ago.

This went on to increase heating bills at a time when prices for fuel, electricity and gas are rising. The cold really affects those people who are immobile, putting elderly people who still live at home at risk. The poor are always the most vulnerable because heating costs money. They can sit under a blanket dressed in their warmest clothing, but they still have to breathe cold air. I remember my Australian grandmother, sitting in a chair, wearing her fur coat during the day. The low temperatures in Adelaide never compared to the big freeze here in England.


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I read that the world is experiencing an ice age at the moment. It began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch. Experts concluded this because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.

Perhaps the ice is about to spread and encroach more of the Earth. Or is this just my imagination working out a new plot for a science fiction book?

I can't wait for the warmer weather. Spring, where are you?


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Janice Ayers link
4/3/2013 10:47:21 pm

I am waiting for the warmth, not only for the desperately needed reduction in fuel costs but also to get out planting in my allotment:)
Sunshine this year please :)

Francene Stanley link
4/3/2013 11:54:35 pm

Same for me, Janice. The bills are extroadinary. We need sun.

Sophie Bowns link
4/3/2013 11:47:16 pm

I really hope the ice age isn't upon us! I'm desperate for some sunshine!

Francene Stanley link
4/3/2013 11:55:30 pm

We are in an ice age. As long as the ice is retreating, we'll be all right. If not--brrr!

Anita-Clare Field link
4/4/2013 01:24:15 am

I have just returned from oncology with my very weak Mama in a Blizzard. It's my late fathers birthday today and my sister and I were remarking on the fact that we'd never seen snow in April. We are collecting the keys to our house tomorrow and moving in next week. Still at least the champagne will be cold. I have an elderly neighbour now and so I'll be looking out for her and if needs be helping her to keep warm.

Francene Stanley link
4/4/2013 06:04:48 pm

You show great spirit. It's so important that we look out for one another.

Linda Ann - Practically at Home link
4/4/2013 02:02:31 am

Brrr! Write the Ice Age book. ;-)

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Francene Stanley link
4/4/2013 06:05:53 pm

I've written a first draft of something like that. haha.

Rebecca Mugridge link
4/4/2013 08:11:58 am

Wow.
I have never seen snow, live in qld Australia.
It certainly does feel like the weather all over is changing, we have had quite dramatic weather and weather changes here.
Thos photo's are incredible!

Francene Stanley link
4/4/2013 06:11:29 pm

Great to find out where you live. I lived on the Gold Coast in the 80's. Great place--but HOT. Boy, I felt the cold when I arrived in England.

Rebecca Mugridge link
4/4/2013 08:13:58 am

Wow those photo's are incredible!
I have never seen snow (live in qld Australia) but we are having very weird weather here too XX

Amy link
4/4/2013 08:26:48 am

I can't help think of how ironic it is that you are having such a long, cold winter, when so many "experts" say that the world is warming up! When I was in grade school (lo, many years ago!) the big threat, supposedly, was that we were headed into another ice age, since we had many years of exceptionally cold temps and snow during the winters. Perhaps we just don't know that much about the earth and its cycles as we think? In any case, Francene, I do hope that spring comes soon for you! We are just beginning to get a pleasant day here now and then, in the middle US.

Francene Stanley link
4/4/2013 06:17:36 pm

The thing about experts is that their opinions differ. Hehe. On the one hand, we're experiencing an ice aga, on the other, there is a threat that the ozone layer could be compromised to heat us up. Shish!


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