Loved your post, love your sentiments, I too remember, harsh winters and going to school .....in shorts, as long trousers were not permitted in my grammar school until you entered the second year. Not a thought was given to closing the schools and stopping the world from turning.

We had proper winters then, deep snow that sat for weeks, not this "dusting" we had this year.

The Uk has turned into a "nanny state", the kids are growing up risk averse, it is a joke this country. The mainstream popular press doesn't help they continue the "scare the sheeple" narrative that went full on during the covey scamdemic.

Still it keeps the doomscrollers orgasmic in their sad little lives.