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Piglet
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I'll be honest, I think I've only once bought/used a fresh chilli - I'm generally content with the powdered or crushed sort - although there's a bag of whole, dried chillies in the back of the larder that we used in an (unsuccessful) attempt at making our own chilli oil.
Wod's right though - my chilli tolerance probably wouldn't even register on the Scoville scale. I don't mind things having a slight kick, but with the emphasis on "slight". ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Ariel
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I've used fresh chillis, mainly back in the day when I was working through Madhur Jaffrey's recipes. Stupidly, while chopping it, I absentmindedly rubbed one of my eyes and the resulting 20 minutes were interesting.
I read somewhere that birds can apparently eat chilli peppers without any problems, as the heat doesn't affect them.
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Curiosity killed ...
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My best attempt yet was chopping chillies putting together something for supper in the slow cooker, then finishing getting ready for work by putting in my contact lenses. Just don't. Really not worth it. Just washing doesn't remove chilli from fingers.
There was also the time I wore contact lenses when roller painting a ceiling. I spent the next few days washing them (these ones were probably hard) in washing liquid trying to remove the little spots of paints I'd evenly spattered them with.
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Welease Woderwick
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To remove chilli heat you really need to wash in some sort of vegetable oil first and then wash normally - what that would do to contact lenses probably doesn't bear thinking about. I use a local variant of Deep Heat™ and always wash my hands with a little coconut oil before the soap and water and it works a treat.
[edited to remove horrendous grammatical error ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) ]
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Boogie
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Just back from a very pleasant, lazy holiday in Tuscany. What a super place, especially Lucca. We didn't visit Florence but saw it on so many signs and I thought of 'our' Firenze every time!
Looking forward to walking the pooches in the morning! Both have been very well behaved in their respective holiday homes ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Piglet
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Glad you had a good holiday, Boogie.
Just back from our last choir practice for a while; we'll be here for the services on Sunday, and then off for the best part of three weeks.
We'll probably go to St. Magnus when we're in Orkney - D. usually plays the organ and I sing in the choir when we're there, so I'll get my singing fix ...
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Welease Woderwick
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It's lovely to go away and see friends, and meet some new ones, but it is also just as lovely to come home - and there is a lot of truth in the saying that there is nothing like your own bed!
Lovely trip away and lovely to see friends and eat in a favourite restaurant and a favourite ice cream parlour - and lovelier still to be remembered by the manager who also remembered my favourite dish that I order there. But the travelling is tiring, travelling on each of three days for between 2 and 6 hours train ride per day. I contemplated [very briefly] it possibly being due to my increasing age then dismissed the idea out of hand. Being born in the first half [just] of the previous century just means that I'm a hardy soul!
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Lothlorien
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I'll back you up on the age not being a factor in your tiredness, WW. Who could think like that. It was just missing your own bed.
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Don't want to depress anyone, but my aunt always used to say "Old people are better off in their own beds".
Never had any trouble myself! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Damn. I must be old *already*. I never sleep as well when I’m not in my own bed, for the first night at least. I don’t like not knowing where I am.
On account of it being my birthday tomorrow we are going to Prague for a long weekend. We are going to the Opera and I can’t quite believe how cheap it is. We have the most expensive seats in the house and they came to the equivalent of 40 euros each. This is rather less than one pays in Paris…
I believe that food is going to be eaten.
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Welease Woderwick
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Have a fab time - what are you going to see?
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Welease Woderwick
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How did a man who spent pretty much his whole working life churning out death and despair end up with writing Falstaff? A bit like Wagner and Maestersinger I suppose.
Anyway, enjoy it, I love it.
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Piglet
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Merry birthday, La Vie - have a great time!
There is something to be said for the comfort of one's own bed*, but when we go over the Pond, I suspect that my mother-in-law's spare bed, although not the most comfortable in the world, won't stop me from flaking out some time on Monday afternoon.
* apart from its having the correct number of bears in it
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Roseofsharon
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Some of you might remember me posting bits & pieces of news about my two adopted cats, Pepsi & Tango on an old Pets thread.
Tango died about 20 months ago, and Pepsi made the most of her position as Only Cat, having been kept in her place by her bossy brother since they were tiny.
She has been unwell for some time, and today we had to make the sad decision that, although she wasn't obviously in pain, she was now so frail that we needed to take her on that last visit to the vet.
It seemed strange tonight, going up to bed without having to settle her down first.
We will miss her.
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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I'm just back from seeing Thomas Tallis at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre, which was amazing, all by candlelight, a lute appeared and much of Tallis' music sung a capella.
Although, sadly, I knew more about the dissolution of Waltham Abbey than the playwright did. (I've handled the last abbot's notebooks in the British Library - a character named Robert Fuller who managed to negotiate a sinecure at one of the Smithfield churches following the dissolution, Great Smithfield iirc. A big part of the negotiations was a building we were researching at the time.)
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Piglet
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Sorry to hear about your cat, RoS. RIP, Pepsi. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
CK, that sounds like an interesting play - I love the music of Tallis and The Sixteen are excellent.
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Piglet, I thought you'd be impressed. It's my second attempt to see Thomas Tallis. I had tickets for it last year with my daughter for one of the dates on the link, summer 2014. We managed to arrive slightly late as there were big problems on the tube, still within 5 minutes. While we were waiting for a moment to go in there was someone who'd spent real money for tickets getting quite desperate. She had a ticket in the pit, rather than our standing tickets at the back in the gods, and wasn't going to be allowed in until the interval. As I had pneumonia and my daughter had just arrived back from a month of inter-railing round Europe that day or the day before, we thought we'd struggle to stay awake, so we gave up our tickets for this lady to go in instead.
RoS - so sorry about your cat.
lver - have a brilliant birthday
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Firenze
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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
On account of it being my birthday tomorrow we are going to Prague for a long weekend. We are going to the Opera and I can’t quite believe how cheap it is. We have the most expensive seats in the house and they came to the equivalent of 40 euros each. This is rather less than one pays in Paris…
I believe that food is going to be eaten.
If I know my Prague, that will be a Lot.
I am not about to forget the Conference Dinner plateful consisting of one slab of ham and two of pork topped with a duck leg on a mound of red cabbage surrounded by bread dumplings. And potato dumplings. And that was just one of four courses.
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Sipech
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Thanks to my company's corporate box, I've managed to nab a free ticket to see U2 at the millenium dome tonight. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Downside is, I'm behind in my work and so will have to work all weekend. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Pigwidgeon
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It will be worth a weekend of overtime, Sipech! Have a great time!
I saw them when the were in Phoenix several years ago.
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Ariel
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Fun day at the office enjoying some Halloween charity events. We had a themed breakfast on a cheerily decorated table, people were invited to dress up in costume for charity, and there was a pumpkin-painting session at lunchtime. People came back from that with grins almost the size of the pumpkins they were carrying.
It's been a lovely day full of laughter and colour, and lots of cakes and biscuits. I had some little pumpkin-shaped lights around my screen to brighten things up.
I've also now been shopping so have got the requisite things in for tomorrow. If I get my act together there'll be pork, apples and possibly colcannon for dinner, mulled cider to wash it down with, and brack to nibble on. And as it's a Saturday I'm not setting foot across the threshold once darkness falls. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Piglet
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I'm probably going to have a relatively busy day for a Saturday - colouring my hair in the morning in preparation for getting it cut in the afternoon, followed by a spot of pre-holiday shopping, another load of laundry and ...
**[fanfare]**
... packing. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
D. has just brought me a Timmy's™ hot chocolate. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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It's a lovely bright autumn day here - we've got three pooches as my friend's Lab is staying, hoping to get some good photos in the park.
Twiglet has GROWN! I had her weighed yesterday and she weighs 20.3Kg at 23 weeks! If you look at her blog you will see two videos of her hoolying while Tatze watches on.
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Sipech
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Well, the U2 gig was OK. Very gimmicky and I'm not sure any of the first 4 or 5 songs had any consonants in them, but it got good with a rendition of Sunday, Bloody Sunday done back to back with Raised by Wolves.
Ears were ringing a bit so am listening to Mogwai at the moment.
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I looked at a video of U2 with Noel Gallagher earleir in the week. It was OK, but why do they have to morph from one song into another? I think I'd have liked to see them in about 1984 before they got really big.
We went to see Nosferatu with an acompanying music from a Wurlitzer last night. Great evening out.
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Welease Woderwick
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Despite being in the mid to high 20s Celsius this morning there was a distinct chill in the atmosphere in this house at breakfast - Herself was barely speaking to Himself. I keep well out of it and although I know the probable cause I never make a comment if it can be avoided and they both know that I will never take sides. I'm never quite sure if there is such a thing as the innocent party.
Tonight, after their return from campaigning for the election, life is all smiles again and everything seems to be forgiven, for the moment at least. Campaigning finishes Tuesday night - roll on!
It's chucking it down with rain so no walk tonight but I may just venture on to the roof if it is coming down hard enough.
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Uncle Pete
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Himself is campaigning for that party? That's it. He's out of my will!!
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LeRoc
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LOL I just gave candy to children for Halloween.
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We're giving them fruit, seems to be going down quite well so far (we forgot to buy any sweeties but we have fruit)
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ArachnidinElmet
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We've had no one at the door thus far. There's a group of tweens outside loitering loudly, but no Trick or Treaters. I put on my grinning skull T-shirt in anticipation of scaring some sprogs, but all the littlies must be at nice warm indoor parties.
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Ariel
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It always used to be apples and nuts but tastes have changed. Apparently now if you want to discourage trick'n'treaters, just offer them fruit when they call, word gets round.
It was a really beautiful afternoon today once the sun came out. The trees are lovely just now, a perfect mix of green and autumn colours. I went for a walk down a long lane of beech trees, at all different stages of autumn colouring. Several of the cottages had some very pleasing pumpkins outside - the village was having a competition later that evening.
The cows never shut up the whole time I was there though. I couldn't see them as they were in a field bordered by tall thick trees and vegetation, but they were groaning and bellowing continuously like anything for at least half an hour. No idea what could have prompted that.
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Earlier this evening I was entertained by a steady flow of spooks and Spider-Men who were very happy with the wrapped chocs and the chocolate biscuits that I'd topped with an edible "God loves you" sticker - one child even said "ooh digestives!". Their grown ups were also very happy with the mulled cider to take away with them.
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Piglet
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We only had two lots of guisers, all quite little, but nicely dressed up. It wasn't a bad day for it here - cold but dry.
Hair has been coloured (by me) and cut (by a different stylist as my usual one's on holiday). Unfortunately I forgot to tell the bloke who did it that I hate having gunk on my hair and now it feels all sticky and disgusting. Roll on the morning when I can wash it.
Pre-holiday shopping was a fiasco - everything I tried on either didn't fit or was exorbitantly expensive (or sometimes both). Stuff that for a lark - I'll just have to go shopping when I get over there ... ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
No matter - laundry's mostly done, packing has commenced (sort of), and now I'm off to get that extra hour of kip I've been waiting for the last six months for.
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Spent a lovely morning volunteering on a farm leased to a wildlife trust. It is set up as an educational centre, and monthly work parties are organised to help maintain it.
It was one of those foggy but peaceful and still autumn mornings that can be so refreshing.
Our work was to look for any evidence of harvest mice, which meant spending a long time close to the ground searching for any nests in the grasses and reeds along the field margins. Between us we found a grand total of ..... one nest! But at least it shows that they are around.
One of those mornings where you return wet and slightly aching, but very happy.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Urfshyne:
Spent a lovely morning volunteering on a farm leased to a wildlife trust. It is set up as an educational centre, and monthly work parties are organised to help maintain it.
It was one of those foggy but peaceful and still autumn mornings that can be so refreshing.
That sounds brilliant and I can quite understand the pleasure of it. I'm glad you found a nest.
It was a beautiful warm day. I went out to some of the villages: the first of November, and roses are still blooming in cottage gardens, still fragrant. There are boxes of apples here and there in gateways for people to help themselves, so I came back with a few cooking apples and used one for lunch (pork and apples in cider with parsnips). There are still some pumpkins sitting on doorsteps, grinning cheerily at passersby.
The promised fog never materialized, just a gentle mist adding a touch of loveliness to the valleys and distant hills. That will have to do me for the week: with the change of clocks it's now dark by the time I get home, so no more after-work excursions until the spring.
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It's been a cool, pleasant day here; it was no hardship to process through the car-park and in at the great West doors for All Saints' Day. We made a not-at-all-bad fist of Fauré's Requiem, causing much Decanal Grinning™.
A spot of Radcliffe, Gibbons and Harris for Evensnog, finish up the packing (nearly all done now), a quick shower and we'll be off.
I'll be around off and on while we're away, although while we're in Orkney it may be rather more off than on.
Be good ... ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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We had fog pretty much all day. A brief window of clarity in middle of the day, when I was still bogged down in work. By the time I was ready to go out walking it was back to thick fog.
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Today in Suffolk started misty but the sun soon came out. By noon it was the most glorious autumn day. We went out to a farm shop after lunch just to experience the beautiful colours (east your heart out, New England). By evening church time the mist was back and it was a bit hairy driving home (although we did take a detour to buy yummy fish and chips).
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Travelled up to London on the train for the American Football at Wembley. Went the pretty way via Gloucester and it was foggy until we were into the Cotswolds but it turned really nice later, T-shirt order until about four pm which is good for October, let alone November.
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by Piglet:
...Be good ...
I have checked and have to say that this requirement has never previously appeared in my contract - in fact in my last paid employment I was expected to be outrageous!
I managed that okay and outraged many people
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Boogie
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Phew, we just had an incident in town - more embarrassing than worrying, I think. We were walking past a bull-type terrier when it started going wild, snarling, snapping, barking and baring its teeth. Twiglet was brilliant and I was concentrating on walking her calmly past - when I fell! I managed to have the presence of mind to keep hold of her lead but soon had a crowd round me *blush* they were very kind and helped me up and Twiglet then looked at the dog (which was still going mental) and woofed, but was soon re-focussed - good girl! I have two bruised knees and a lot of wounded pride. She didn't look back and we finished our walk and bus ride home.
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la vie en rouge
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Firenze is right. Czech food is hefty. Yesterday lunchtime we had a plate similar to the one she described with sweet dumplings to follow, and then we didn’t eat anything else all day. I got a cup of hot chocolate on the plane home, mainly to pass the time, but apart from that didn’t want anything else until this morning.
Prague is a very nice place. Mucho picturesque and lots of trees and the sun mostly shone. The Opera was very pleasant although I found the Duke a bit shouty.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Blimey, Boogie. Hope both your knees and your pride heal quickly.
Re: Czech food. I have happy memories of a restaurant specialising in pancakes. A gentleman at the next table had 2 different slices of cake and was sat with his coffee and newspaper alternating forkfuls. Seems an eminently sensible way to spend the afternoon.
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Ariel
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I have a friend who recently spent 2 weeks on holiday in Prague with husband and small children, and by the time she got back she was desperate for a salad. It sounds like you had a great time, though.
How are people getting on with The Fog? There were some great pictures coming out of London this morning - here are three excellent photos: Westminster; the London Eye; a passing bird. (Courtesy of Sky News live updates.)
Can't say The Fog made that much of an impact in this part of the world, but who knows what tonight may bring.
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LeRoc
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I rather like cycling through the fog in the morning.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by Ariel:
How are people getting on with The Fog? There were some great pictures coming out of London this morning - here are three excellent photos: Westminster; the London Eye; a passing bird. (Courtesy of Sky News live updates.)
When I was in London in the 1950s, the fog was yellow and had a metallic taste.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Moo:
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Originally posted by Ariel:
How are people getting on with The Fog? There were some great pictures coming out of London this morning - here are three excellent photos: Westminster; the London Eye; a passing bird. (Courtesy of Sky News live updates.)
When I was in London in the 1950s, the fog was yellow and had a metallic taste.
Moo
The last great London Smog (smoke + fog) was in December 1952. That was something else in that surface transport ceased and in larger building the smog was apparent leading to cancellation of concerts and cinema showings.
It caused thousands of premature deaths and left maybe a hundred thousand permanently ill. It did however lead to the 1956 Clean Air Act. London does still get foggy but nothing like as bad as that.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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I was 3, nearly 4, back when that smog hit and we were living in the Essex Docklands and I was asthmatic - and I can still remember that smog - they are not happy memories! There were lesser ones over the next few years and then we moved to Cheshire where the air is far cleaner.
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