Unless you’ve not looked out of a window for the past two weeks, you can’t have failed to notice that the UK is in the midst of the worst snow and ice to hit the island for almost 30 years.

(You could of course also be from another country, so welcome to our little corner of digital Britain).

I remember the winter of 1981 extremely-well because that December in the middle of the peak of the worst weather, my family and I moved house, into a nice new home at the top of a rather steep hill.
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