Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain
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Suzie writes with a fine story to tell of a weekend visit to her Mum's place where, in a bout of attic-box-raking, she got her paws on a very old book with a long note in it from the author to her great great grandfather. The book -- how about this for a title? -- is called Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain, Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time; the author was Mr William Andrews.
Here is the truly wonderful tale from the page which Suzie screen-grabbed for me. Enjoy it...
The whole book is free to read online -- you can view it here -- though surely this is one you should track down during an afternoon of pleasurably relaxed trawling around some secondhand bookshops?
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Famous Frosts, with its incredible stories of frost fairs on the Thames, does call to mind Nasa's climate change vid ... just in case you were still in any doubt about the issue.
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Page 74 "Manchester's Ophelia" AKA Lavinia Robinson - a young lady "who possessed superior mental accomplishments", stumps off into the night in a bit of a tizz after a row with the boyfriend only to be found weeks later, glazed over, like.. like, well like a rook. It must have been PERISHING.
I forgot to mention a plastic bag in the attic containing approx 10 sticks of kindling. Would you like it?
Poor Lavinia.
Sticks? Yes please!
The kid seems to have been a pretty fast snow-ball maker...
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