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Thread: Keep Calm and Carry On - the British thread 2014
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Taliesin
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Afternoon all, I'm loving the thread title, too.
The weather seems to be giving us a day's respite, so I walked home from church, instead of catching a lift. Was quite a nice service, but I seem to be signed up for the junior church rota... ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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3 magi visited us this morning, complete with frankincense so much sneezing! Hope they moored their camels securely because water levels are rising rapidly
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Can't camels swim? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Elephants can
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Ariel
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Lots of animals can. However, according to the internet, the only camels that can swim are the swimming camels of Gujarat.
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So as ships of the desert go, more like SS Titanic?
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Ariel
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I'd have thought the Bactrian camel, having two humps, probably stood a better chance of floating to the surface than the Arabian, which only has one. However, the Bactrian has a shaggier coat, so their chances of sinking are probably about even.
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Originally posted by Boogie:
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Originally posted by Nenya:
Been to see Nenlet1 and the son in law. Their house is so cold!
Now you know what to buy them for next Christmas - onesies!
They've both got onesies! I'm the one who needs one, for when I visit. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
I'm of the opinion you can't start the New Year Diet until the house is clear of Christmas chocolates. I am working on this. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Nen - chocolate addict; nobody knows the truffles I've seen.
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Taliesin
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Perhaps camels don't swim because they never encounter a large enough body of water? It always makes me smile when I read statistics like'you're more likely to be attacked by a shark than win the lottery' well, probably that statistic will be influenced by how often you swim in the sea and how often you play the lottery. Or not.
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Stay dry. Statistics show that sharks are less likely to attack you if you are dry.
Talking of statistics, when I studied them back in the olden days, there was a story that the rise in the crime rate correlated with the sale of television sets. The press said it was a sign that crime on TV caused real life crime.
We found that the number od homes with washing machines correlated better with the crime rate. This (if the press were right) means that you are more likely to be a victim of crime if your clothes are clean. A fact I have known from college days. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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99% of statistics are made up
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I liked the finding that people who eat chocolate live longer; of course, the tabloids had to opine it as 'chocolate makes you live longer', stupidly, stupidly, inanely, asininely, thumpingly wrong. It's the effort in opening the chocolates that makes you live longer, cos of the xersize.
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Ariel
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I see Oxford's on sandbag alert. Anyone in the area able to say how things are going?
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Before we go any further will people please read How to Lie with Statistics
If you are going to use statistics this way you may as well do it as well as possible.
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Celtic Knotweed
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I see Oxford's on sandbag alert. Anyone in the area able to say how things are going?
So far, nothing more than the usual. Flood barriers up on Osney, the only roads closed that I know of are the ones which go underwater very fast (one of them is the bank of the Ray in Islip.
The Environment Agency has Flood Alerts (lowest level of warning) up for the Cherwell and Thames, but so far, so good. Where's the fingers crossed smiley when I need it? Especially since we live on a floodplain...
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Off to work today - crumbs!
I don't usually work on Monday's but the new headteacher has asked me to do a morning's staff training (behaviour management) on the recommendation of the outgoing headteacher.
Better manage my own behaviour while doing it!
So an early good morning dear Shippies ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by Nenya:
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Nen - chocolate addict; nobody knows the truffles I've seen.
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
love it!
We have nearly eaten our left-overs; down to the last bag of lebkuchen and box of Thornton's. They are actually too sweet for me, but hey, what can you do? We still have two monster-sized sacks of peanuts left from the afterparty for Miss S's wedding back in October, but I just daren't open those bags as peanuts are so addictive.
Anyway, the way the rain is coming down I may need them as sandbags...
Mrs. S, making heroic efforts in the interests of food decluttering.
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I'm back to work again but nothing too stressful, just catching up on my students and I need to write some advice for an assignment. My children are still home until tomorrow but they are too busy on the main computer to bother me unless they are hungry.
After I've done that I need to make a Tudor outfit for my younger son to wear tomorrow! I think he has a suitable shirt to wear as a shift and he'll probably be okay with trousers tucked in long socks but I've promised him a velvet jacket and hat (I have a stack of recycled velvet curtains in the sewing room). So that will take me all afternoon.
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Ariel
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January 6th, last day of Christmas - "Old Christmas Day". We took the decorations down at work; as always when decorations are gone, it looked so drab in this dreary weather that I suggested putting them back up.
Anyhow, I always mark Old Christmas Day with a plum pudding, and there are still some mince pies, and tomorrow I'll take the tree down and put it away again until December. I've loved the cheery glow of the lights amidst the green branches, and the gleam on the decorations; will miss that.
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Nenya
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
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Nen - chocolate addict; nobody knows the truffles I've seen.
love it!
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Back to work today and lots to catch up on. And we have a meeting tomorrow morning so no proper work will get done. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Does anyone else watch "Countryfile" on a Sunday evening and did you hear that from about Wednesday onwards our weather is going to turn "whimsical"? I'm looking forward to seeing what that's like.
In other news, I'm home alone this evening and making very good progress with the last of the Christmas chocolate.
Nen - loving the way she can rely on Mrs S to appreciate her attempts at humour.
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We have lots of chocolate left over, but Mr Bug has had food poisoning and can't eat any of it. I feel guilty eating it in front of him, so it's just sitting there, mocking us.
The house looks very empty without all the decorations. I collect teapots and all the Christmas ones (Santa, snowman and two Christmas puddings) have been washed, ready to put away. I still need to dust the fireplace surround and get out the non-Christmassy teapots, but that can wait for another day.
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My apologies for my recent enforced absence; Newfoundland Power is having a major brainfart at the moment and we had no electricity from 9 a.m. on Saturday until 1 a.m. on Sunday, and again for most of Sunday evening. This is less than helpful when your only source of heat is, um, electricity, and the temperature outside is -12°C.
No, Wodders, you are not allowed to snigger. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
The minor up-side of the said brainfart is that in order to conserve power, all the schools in the province and the University are closed on Monday and Tuesday*, so I'm getting a couple of unscheduled days' holiday. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Nenya - how can you possibly still have chocolate left from Christmas? It's Epiphany for heaven's sake ...
I'm off downstairs now to eat a nice healthy Greek salad that my Beloved has made for me.
* This is particularly fortuitous for my friend J., who was due to start a new teaching job on Monday, and is starting with a couple of days off.
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Stejjie
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Our two daughters have far more Christmas chocolate than us, as in they have a huge tub full each whereas Mrs Stejjie and I only have one small tub full between us (oh, and the box of Celebrations from Mrs Stejjie's work).
This is a sad and sorry state of affairs. Since most of these chocolates for the girls came from members of our church, I shall have to reprimand them in a future sermon. After all, that's what's preaching's for, right?
(BTW is it bad and wrong that I sometimes wonder if we should "help" the girls with their chocolates? After all, we don't want their teeth to go bad, or them to eat too much unhealthy food and they'll only get more at Easter... ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif) )
I saw a bit of Countryfile but didn't see the forecast, Nenya - I love the sound of whimsical weather, can't wait to see what it actually turns out like!
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Ariel
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I’d nearly finished my Christmas chocolate, then my mother sent me two more boxes. The tree has been undecorated now, but not yet put away.
Fun journey to work this morning with the train going at 2 mph over waterlogged tracks and the bus going through a puddle that managed to generate a 7’ wall of water up over the windows. More road closures today; it's all a bit soggy here.
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Rather than left-over Christmas chocolate, I have a left-over Christmas cold--started with my sister, our kind hostess on Christmas Day, and has been making the rounds. I thought I wasn't going to catch it from my husband, but am being paid for my smugness. Then I thought I wasn't going to get it very badly, and now I'm being paid for that smugness too!
Today, a day late, I must take down the decorations and put away the tree, which is a very tiny artificial one (allergies to real ones)--so shouldn't take long. Worse, have to finally sort and put away all sorts of clothes still in boxes from our move--the work was suspended for Christmas, offspring visits, etc.
Ah well. First, more tea with lemon and honey! While outside, more wind and rain.
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The course was very well received, the new boss seems like a decent bloke - keen to get to know us all.
I must admit to having a 'been there, done that' sort of feeling in the staff meeting. Being the oldest member of staff, there really is nothing new - it all comes round again if you wait long enough. Mustn't grumble 'tho - I only work a day and a half a week.
I'm just impatient now to hear from Guide Dogs so that the new adventure can begin! (fingers crossed!)
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by Stejjie:
Our two daughters have far more Christmas chocolate than us, as in they have a huge tub full each whereas Mrs Stejjie and I only have one small tub full between us (oh, and the box of Celebrations from Mrs Stejjie's work).
This is a sad and sorry state of affairs. Since most of these chocolates for the girls came from members of our church, I shall have to reprimand them in a future sermon. After all, that's what's preaching's for, right?
(BTW is it bad and wrong that I sometimes wonder if we should "help" the girls with their chocolates? After all, we don't want their teeth to go bad, or them to eat too much unhealthy food and they'll only get more at Easter... )...
Definitely a few sermons in Church between now and Easter AND homilies at home on the Importance of Sharing with those Less Fortunate and on the Vital Importance of the Fifth Commandment!
eta: If that doesn't work you may be required to break the Eighth Commandment; but in Christian Love, of course.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I've been sitting here very soggy since the school run (rain hammering it down) and now suddenly feel cold! Must get changed.
My youngest skipped off very pleased with his Tudor costume and I was relieved to see several others all dressed up too. I live in fear of sending him to school in fancy costume on the wrong day!
I plan to enjoy my day free from the noise of children. I hadn't planned to do any OU work but a student wants a phone call so I need to prep for our discussion and may as well plan Saturday's tutorial while I have the main computer on. But I'll leave that til this afternoon.
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Boogie
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We have a new sofa - very posh. It came second hand from ebay for £99. Only six months old and leather. I am very pleased as when (if) a pup comes to stay I will decamp to the kitchen for house training purposes.
No dogs allowed on the sofa!!
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Ariel
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They were about to close the railway line at lunchtime thanks to flooding, so my manager kindly let me work from home for the afternoon. At the time of writing it's touch and go whether the water will cover the active tracks; the sidelines are already submerged. Unfortunately, the Oxford stretch is part of one of the major cross-country railway lines that stretches from the south coast to Scotland.
Lots of local roads closed now so "rail replacement services" i.e. bus journeys would be a bit of a nightmare if this happens, as their usual routes aren't accessible at present.
Ho hum, we went through all this a few years ago, it's tedious having it back again.
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No dogs allowed on the sofa!!
And are you consistent about that? I ask because Nenlet1's in-laws got a dog. The progression went like this:
Dog has a basket and sleeps in it; is not allowed on the sofa; sleeps downstairs in basket every night.
Dog has a basket but is allowed on the sofa by invitation and sleeps upstairs in the basket as a treat once a week.
Dog is allowed on sofa. Dog sleeps in owners' bed every night.
She also pulls when on the lead. In fact, I don't know a dog that doesn't.
Nen - lover of Dogs Who Know Their Place.
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Originally posted by Boogie:
We have a new sofa - very posh. [*snips*]...
No dogs allowed on the sofa!!
[*Warning: Goo!]
Awww... What a sweet looking pooch! [/Goo!]
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Tatze doesn't pull at all - she has been taught to walk to heel since puppyhood. She comes to the whistle every time too, thanks to this book.
She is allowed to snuggle on my sofa in the front room with me, and the chair nearly in the photo is hers - she's not allowed on the others at all and is crated at night.
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Piglet - I hope the electricty stays on and the snow goes away. We felt miserable enough when our boiler broke last year, and it was plus 7 degrees centigrade outside.
Second day back at work today, and so far it's been an enjoyable term - long may it last.
Still some cake left if anyone wants to get in before my family fianlly demolish it, or are you all caked out?
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So far, so good; we haven't had any more power-cuts since Sunday night. The outside temperature shot up to +9°C today and it rained, which cleared a bit of the snow-heaps, but it's back to about 0° now, and plummeting merrily - it's due to be -9° tomorrow. Oh well, I'll be back at w*rk, so not really thinking about the weather, except for avoiding the Patches of Treachery™ on the pavements.
Regarding excess CAKE ( ) we got two little fruit-cakes from different people, and I finished the first of them this evening with some cheese (whoever thought of eating cheese with fruit-cake deserves a medal). I've still got the other one (the Dean's wife's speciality) to look forward to, and as I like it more than D. does, I get to eat most of it.
The next week-and-a-half is going to be completely mental, getting the orders of service printed for the Bishop's consecration; the Diocesan Office decided that we should print it after all, and it's going to be a mammoth task - 1000 copies*, each with 6 pages of folded legal-size paper.
* The Cathedral only seats 700, but that's a minor detail ... ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Husband's 40th today, I suppose I should go and make a cake...
I did get him whisky though, English, Swedish and some samples of Japanese single malts. Perhaps if he samples them he won't notice the lack of cake?
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
... I did get him whisky though, English, Swedish and some samples of Japanese single malts ...
Heretick! But happy birthday to Mr. Anarchist!
I am a piglet of very little brain; if I'd checked the news or the University web-site yesterday evening I'd have known that we were closed again and I didn't have to come in to w*rk. Oh well, this is a short day for me anyway, so I'll get a few things done before I leave at lunch-time ...
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If you were here in the UK*, piglet, you'd have a very good chance of being a more literally accurate 'piglet entirely surrounded by water'!
* Muchelney, perhaps, or that place in Wales we aren't allowed to mention
Mrs. S, ever the pedant
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Oh but I am almost entirely surrounded by water, Mrs. S., it's just that the water's frozen ...
Seriously though, ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for those of you who are being flooded, blown to b*ggery and generally messed about with by Bad Weather.
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Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go ...
I have put my swimming stuff in, just in case I'm motivated to pop to the swimming baths on the way home.
Unlike some down south, who could simply swim home for them.
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Living on a river delta we are completely surrounded by water as well but nobody ever seems to have any sympathy for me, not even when I have to put up with the heat, the dust, the flies and the constant drumming.
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Originally posted by Boogie:
Tatze doesn't pull at all - she has been taught to walk to heel since puppyhood. She comes to the whistle every time too, thanks to this book.
She is allowed to snuggle on my sofa in the front room with me, and the chair nearly in the photo is hers - she's not allowed on the others at all and is crated at night.
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If ever I get a dog I shall be coming to you for advice and book recommendations. Do you take Tatze to puppy training classes as well?
It's not raining here this morning and the sky's a strange colour... a kind of blue tinge... I am off on a day's retreat. Can't wait to get through that door having turned my phone off and being out of circulation till after 5pm.
Nen - wishing all shipmates an equally enjoyable day.
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Drizzly here, the sky is menacing on the horizon though and the wind is blowing.
I need to do some reading today for the tutorial I'm teaching on Saturday. I'm teaching a module I know well and have taught for a couple of years but it has just been re-written so the structure is no longer the same, various bits of research have gone in or out and some of the case studies are now completely different. Consequently I have to relearn it all from scratch.
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I might almost have been faster swimming home last night. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) Waited 15 min for the bus, and the one that showed up was the one which should have been there 15 min before I got there. Then once I'd collected my repaired bike I had to go back a mile to get home (the bike shop is further away from work than home is).
Now just hoping for some dry days so that the water goes down - we've had one drowning not too far away ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Piglet
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Not much fun this morning negotiating the Patches of Treachery™ between the house and the car* - I put down some salt, but it's probably too cold for it to work. Some friends have suggested that cat-litter works for traction-control ...
* It may be only the width of the pavement plus a bit of snow-bank, but it only takes one misplaced step on a patch of ice for complete loss of balance (and dignity).
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Welease Woderwick
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I lost my dignity so long ago now that I can barely remember having any!
We took Pete cloth shopping today and I was very good and didn't buy anything.
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...but then on Tuesday I ordered 2 shirts and a pair of trousers [the latter in a fab cotton/linen mix] and on Wednesday I bought two kurta tops. So my virtue is not unstained.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Nenya:
If ever I get a dog I shall be coming to you for advice and book recommendations. Do you take Tatze to puppy training classes as well?
Yes - once a week. They are really helpful.
I am a step closer to becoming a Guide Dog puppy walker. The trainer is coming to assess me on the 12th May. I'm very excited and keep telling Tatze all about it.
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The weather here in Western Finland is not good. We had a week and a bit of actual Finnish Winter at the beginning of December and that was it. Now it's so British that it's making my home sickness feel worse. If I have to put up with murky wet weather, I may as well be back in Blighty!
On the upside, there's a new shop in the local shopping centre that sells some British food. I can now get a jar of Branston without having to order it from Helsinki. It's 5 Euros a pop, so it's pricey, but it's around 2.50€ cheaper than ordering it online! Shame they sell the PG Tips at such a huge mark up - 14.95€ for 160!
That didn't turn out to be as much of an upside as I thought! Woops.
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Tree Bee
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Originally posted by piglet:
Not much fun this morning negotiating the Patches of Treachery™ between the house and the car* - I put down some salt, but it's probably too cold for it to work. Some friends have suggested that cat-litter works for traction-control ...
* It may be only the width of the pavement plus a bit of snow-bank, but it only takes one misplaced step on a patch of ice for complete loss of balance (and dignity).
We used cat litter for that purpose one year. It hung around for months, even as we swept it up we couldn't get rid of it all. Never again!
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... I ordered 2 shirts and a pair of trousers ... so my virtue is not unstained.
I don't think ordering trousers actually stains your virtue - it's not as if trousers are something you can do without.
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