and saw streams of young "ladies" scantily dressed,
I've actually driven up Silver Street in Lincoln in a snow storm and seen the same queueing to get into a nightclub. Yet if you gave them all the right kit and asked them to go on a refreshing five mile walk on a frosty morning they would look at you like you had two heads.
Off to take the grandson to the Space Centre in Leicester now, no doubt there will be stuff there which will give me the opportunity to regale him with 'I remember that' moments.