Exactly!

Don't forget the ice rink.

my bloody back yard looks like and ice rink right now in S.C. and my car went off into a ditch the other day and the closest shop is 12 miles away... wish i could just nip up the corner shop.. no such luck.. lol

Brrrr
Made me feel quite gulity for moaning it was nippy outside this morning taking Dd to school. I came home and watched the Today show and saw all the weather int he East It's looks awful, no way I'd want to dig the weather. Hope it doesn't last too long.

me too, i dont mind the cold or even a bit of snow but the ice is scary, i spun out and did a 180, now my car is on the side of a country road in a ditch i should be able to drive it out but have to wait for the ice to clear and for my neighbor to give me a ride to it later... as my mom just happens to be away in england for 2 weeks lucky bugger... calls me to tell me she is having a pot noodle a bag of pork scratchings and a fruit corner yogurt.. hahaha

been living in florida the past 20 years so this was a new experience.. lol

Blimey, I can't imagine a more nauseous combination.

Your Mum is in my Heaven... Pork scratchings... I hope she gets through a few dripping cobs before she leaves, I love them too hahaaaaaaaa...
I love your Down to earth comments.

i know i told her she is gonna be well sick later.. ecspecially since she is a body builder and usually eats really clean, shall be a shock to her system this little indulgence...

hahaha thanks, whenever we are there we go into the city centre in birmigham and track down the man that makes the hot pork baps with apple sauce, they are bloody lovely....

Ha!
Yes I was, the only boarding school in Reigate isn't it?

It was like prison there when I was there, more freedom now I believe, but a good school all the same as far as sports goes etc.

Many found me on facebook and are now friends (from mine and other years) - though many of them were not when we were at school, I just knew faces mostly and names.

I love pork baps minus the apple sauce, but throw on some stuffing.

who said anything about hanging around places where 16 yr olds are? Who says you had to. Gangs are everywhere, are they? I don't think so. Some countries and places are certainly worse than others, someone on this forum posted stats on crimes globally, maybe some more insight into that may help broaden the mind to it and see how bad some countries are compared to others. Africa for one has a high level of violence but you don't have to hang around any 16 yr olds to find it.
In fact, it tends to find you, how many innocent people got attacked for minding their own business and not being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Some do get attacked in their own homes too you know.

wow calm down.... just saying its everywhere you make it sound like you get off the plane n the UK and are surrounded by gangs... no where is perfect...