Icy pavements.
The roads around our town centre are like a skating rink and lethal for the elderly ( all right,ME).
I want to hibernate.

If you love Sunderlands,take a look at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIcltyMwJRg

That must have been the swearing that followed my daughter shouting that she’d have got £250 from You’ve Been Framed if I’d had the decency to warn her first.

I’m fine,but you might have thought there’d been a small earthquake this morning if you live near Gatwick.

If it’s getting so damn warm,how come I went out of my front door this morning and fell flat on my back on ice for the first time in twenty years ?

Cloud 9 If you can tell me which generation in the past,has been happy with everything, that they have lived through, then it will be easier to answer your question.

Well I reckon people my age have done all right – born just after the war,grew up with the NHS,free university education,full employment,got on the property ladder easily enough and so on.
In many ways the 1960s were a bit of a golden age when there really was a spirit of optimism that seems totally impossible these days.

Bit more complex than that Steve.
OK babies aren’t really me.
Something about seeing the nativity performed same as it is every year,with carols I’ve known since childhood ( and God knows that’s a very long time ),with another generation of innocent little kids just starting to make their way in the world.
And even more emotional because just before it I’d learnt of someone who’d just left the world.

Hey,I thought it was only we women who were supposed to remember everything a person ever said ?