Now it's Siberia

 

 fascinating BBC Archive dig up of a program made in 1963 looking back just a few weeks to the early wintry months of 1963 and the Great Freeze . The UK was brought repeatedly to a standstill, rivers froze over, even the sea froze up a bit in certain coastal places, people got trapped in remote villages and having to huddle in the school hall for shared warmth, helicopter rescues of people whose cars had been snowdrifted....  beautiful images of frozen waterfalls and brooks in mid-babble cryogenized crystalline

I was safe and warm in my mum’s tum for the duration  (born June 19). I asked her about it and she said she did remember it being challenging getting to the shops sometimes but had forgotten about all the rescues and frozen rivers (people skated to work along canals, the roads being impassable, train tracks smothered… also skied and sledded through the streets)