It is reported in many parts of the media that temperaturesare set to ‘plummet’ to -10C. I would have used the word ‘drop’ as it is less dramatic, lesslikely to cause panic. What is actuallyforecast to happen is that we are moving away from higher than normaltemperatures for this time of year, to nearer the seasonal average. After all we are in the middle of a British winter.
I worked outside for over forty-years and just got on with it like many others. Apart fromthe odd moan or comment about the weather that was it. I cannot remember as much turmoil as we have today. Old people seemed to keep warm and they did not have central heating etc. Some had only one or two coal fires to heat the whole house and they coped, many coping with carrying buckets of coal from an outside coal bunker.
So why all the problems today? The media instilling fear into the minds ofthe elderly? We the human race are becoming too soft?