Ah yes, winter 62/63, Oakington, half the width and half the length of the main runway cleared with shovels, picks (it was frozen solid after the good idea of using chocked Vampires parked in echelon running at full chat turned out to be a very bad idea) and brooms. I was most definitely then among the frozen few of whom you speak. Wg Cdr Flying gets airborne, circuit and lands, through the cleared bit, into the uncleared bit, and then into the barrier. Plan B; get the Vampires and Varsities a/b and relocated to Wyton (which had some of those non-flying Goblin powered bedstead things, being V Force).
As you say, Danny, with a bunker full of coal and drawers full of candles one simply hunkered down until it was over. Water was, and still is, a worry and enough reason to have at least one bathroom equipped with a bath for storing the stuff in these days of walk in power showers. Our ever greater reliance these days on electricity for storing and cooking food, communication via mobile phones, TV, radio and the web, heating (even gas fired CH requires it), as well as lighting, means its loss is more keenly felt.
My 3 day week candles have finally run out (mainly from being used for greasing tongues and grooves and wood screws). Time perhaps to buy some more. You just never know...
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