On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:29:55 -0000, Peter J Richardson <pjrich.ntl@googlemail.com> wrote: > I would imagine it would be the former. December 1981 was my first month > at work, and also happened to be only time I recall my home village > being "cut off". Peter, thank you for pinning down the date as December 1981 when snowy weather brought chaos to Bristol and the West. Working on that, I've just found an interesting article in the Evening Post about The Week that Was - December 1981: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/City-freezes-temperatures-plummet/article-529754-detail/article.html -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com