I think the only parts that did not freeze were their bits, if I understand you right. Fingers, noses. toes, eyes,really! Jackie : you are right in this that a good skating season always brings a few fatal casualties.But so does the bathing season at the coast. The hunting season in Italy, where they sometimes take their fellow men for deer or poor little birds.
Helen: funny,I always thought that Lassie Come Home really happened. The first serious movie I ever saw.