Come on....even an old guy like you remembers how romantic it is to walk hand in hand at night during the first snow fall of the year!!!

Uh .... no I know what it feels like to shovel the first snow fall of the year off the driveway.

Mrs G agrees ... we'd rather walk hand in hand along a beach ... want to swap locations?

Well there is the definite "nip" in the air. only a few trees have red leaves not really very many. It is cooler than normal but is suppose to warm up.

No.....you see you're not working the "kid system" properly. You buy both boys a shovel and show them how to shovel the snow.......with the incentive that you'll play hockey on driveway (if there's enough ice underneath).......worked every time with my brother and I.

Or......once they learn how to shovel properly (my dad always told me there was a knack to shovelling snow in Winnipeg....to me snow was snow)....you let them do it to show them responsibility, hard work and how proud they'll be of the job they did. (Man when I think back how stupid my brother, sister and I were at that line - worked every time).

I would never change places and have snow 8 months of the year - a little bit at xmas is enough for me.

The snow doesn't bug me as much as the rain .... I hate rain ... my old knees just can't take the damp anymore!

Here in sunny Hertfordshire the leaves are green, the larks are singing..................and Ken Livingstone just told Londoners their Tube and Bus fares are up by more than Inflation this Winter !!! :scared:

Hi steve of 5-0,
i just spent week in hertfordshire with parents, and the weather was lovely, my parents garden full of flowers tree's green, and got a good day in london with the weather as well, nearly got mixed up with the fox hunters! But can't wait too see fall in Nova Scotia, pictures seen before look brill.

I'm a Hertforshire boy, too. I was brought up in Hitchin, though I don't live there now.

My wife said that one has to walk like a penguin - with one's feet sticking out - to ensure not falling over in the snow and ice. Is that right, or is she trying to make me look silly...?

I think you may very silly like that Rhodes!! I lived in Welwyn Garden City from age of 10 to 16, parents were there 20 years now in Hatfield, have a sister still in WGC. And it thought you were a born and bred Londoner.

In Hertfordshire??

You could try walking that way, but you'll probably fall flat on your back ... over here in Calgary we solve the problem by attaching big chunky snowchains to our foorwear or by wearing by spiked wooden overclogs ....

I don't know.....Rhodes....how many years have you been married?.......

How dare you?


7 years on 1st November. And she's trying to make me look ridiculous already.


In London and thereabouts. We don't get much ice and snow, but the track to the station where we live now is pretty treacherous when it's icy. I found that the best way to stay upright, other than by staying indoors, was to be quite bold. Oh, and not to be where anyone else can see you.

That's why I go running at 5am in winter .. nobody else there to see my when I go skidding on the ice.

[QUOTE=Rhodes]How dare you?



7 years on 1st November. And she's trying to make me look ridiculous already.


But only in the sweetest, most loving possible way that a woman could!!!!!

[QUOTE=willmoreBut only in the sweetest, most loving possible way that a woman could!!!!![/QUOTE]
Absolutely. She's lovely.