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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Cold.
It's always cold.
Why can't we get just a little bit of "unseasonably warm" or "freakishly hot, who knew that the Icebox could even get to 90 F in January?"
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Wisconsin: proof ghod not only dislikes Pshrynk and has a sense of humour....
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Originally Posted by HarryT
The estate I live on is just like a skating rink at present; the roads are sheet ice. There's a T-junction onto the main road at one end, which is on a slight slope. If you have to stop at that junction, you're sunk; it's impossible to move again.
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Ditto here: we have two right angle turns and two T junctions; and three of these combined four are on gradients which gradually get steeper...
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Originally Posted by Patricia
In Swansea the old people have taken to buying very cheap hardback books from the local charity shops and burning them. Apparently, it's cheaper than coal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010...ng-books-wales
You can't do that with ebooks. On the other hand, it's a good use of Dan Brown's oeuvre. |
And several political and celebrity "biographies" and "memoirs"....