<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=544032" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Winter of Discontent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember a winter a few decades ago.<br>Where our dear England was covered in snow.<br>It started on Boxing Day with a blizzard from hell<br>then in the course of a week the snow just fell.<br>This once green paradise was now a shroud of white<br>and everyone was suffering from chillblains and frostbite.<br>Outdoor life was like an indoor fridge<br>where everything had frozen like a mountain ridge.<br>Abandon lorries on the side of the road<br>men were freezing even their load.<br>Villages cut off all over the land<br>so in came the troops to lend a hand.<br>This was the winter of discontent that lasted from<br>Christmas, and way past Lent.<br>As one lot of snow cleared, it would return again<br>to bring freezing cold tempretures and a lot of pain.<br>Wind would blow both night and day, and still the snow<br>never went away.Drifts of snow standing six foot high<br>just being topped up with snow from a winter sky.<br>So what of this winter of ice and snow<br>one that happened a few decades ago.<br>I remember it as one that was cold and wild<br>because in the summer God presented me<br>with my first born child.<br>In this year, where snow fell in December<br>it was the coldest winter I will ever remember.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sylvia+Spencer">Sylvia Spencer</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=544032" data-title="A Winter of Discontent de Sylvia Spencer" data-description="I remember a winter a few decades ago. Where our dear England was covered in snow. It started on Boxing Day with a blizzard from hell then in the course of a week the snow just fell. This once green paradise was now a shroud of white and everyone ..."></div> </div> </div>

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