Christmas 1981. I was at boarding school. The carol concert went ahead with no parents as we were snowed in. Afterwards we had a massive staff vs pupil snowball fight...we slaughtered the staff as we had been out earlier and made a stash of snowballs... and we built a long ice slide across the school yard which we kept making bigger and better each day with more snow. When term finished mum collected us in her mini, weighed down with a bag of sand to try to keep us on the road. The inside of the car was as frozen solid as the outside. We Had to keep stopping to clear the ice off the inside of the front screen. Christmas was quiet. We lived in a village and no one could get over to see us, but we had a blast playing on the ice and snow