In 1978 I was called by the Langhaugh shepherd to help drag 150 Blackface sheep down to shelter. They were not able to move because they were weighed down by huge ice balls on their fleeces. We cut the ice off with a Swiss Army knife and dragged them down to a stell to shelter from the VERY deep snow.
The temperature went down to -23 degrees Celsius and our house water tank and pipe froze over Christmas and New Year.
I was the Megget Tunnel works watchman and was paid £90 to visit the tunnel daily, opposite our house. I could not get to it because of 2 metres of snow.
I bought a mandolin with the cash.
Images:
Manor Water runs into the River Tweed (Photo © Richard Webb (cc-by-sa/2.0))
The Megget to Manor Tunnel is part of the aqueduct that carries water north from Megget Reservoir (Photo © Jim Barton (cc-by-sa/2.0))
