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My son lives in Falmouth and they have had snow there.
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Dunno about amusing - it's cold as a very cold thing: -5C when I took herself to work.
So cold, that the batteries in the key fob lost power and refused to lock the car. And when I fitted new batteries (two CR2025's, measured at 6.6V instead of the 5.2V for the old ones) the fob stopped working in shock ... It's now working fine on the old batteries, go figure.
Still I learned something new today: you can see the infrared LED on the keyfob light up if you use your mobile phone camera!
We're predicted for loads of white nasty stuff around midday.
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's cold as a very cold thing: -5C
That's not cold. That's mild spring weather. At night we currently have below -15C and even now we have blue skies and -9C. After lunch I might try to catch a few sunrays. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake
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OriginalGriff wrote: we 'ad to go and live in a lake
The sightings of Griffie the lake monster will pile up again...
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You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
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That sounds more like Gulliver's travels to me 
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Guess again, slightly more modern.
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Mind boggling question, Pippi Longstocking maybe ?
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Nah, I just saw that Griff posted it here[^].
Kind of ruined the fun a bit. 
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Cardboard box?
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You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt
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Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
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And that trashing you totally deserved ! 
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Ni!
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We want ... A SHRUBBERY!
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Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... with... a herring!
[dramatic chord]
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Are you trying to say, in so many words, that Whales is entering the modern age?
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We're hoping to get this new-fangled gas lighting soon!
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New Fangled ?
I thought that was a major form of recreation up your way.
You know - eat beans for a few days. Maybe some cabbage. A pack of matches.
Then everyone gathers and does some community-oriented gas-lighting.
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The flyboys call that an afterburner...
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You had a shoe box?!?!
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Last night, the lowest temeperature I read was -21.2°C (roughly -6°F), which is pretty cold here by the coast, considering the humid air and the wind.
I grew up in the inland, in a district with very dry air in winter, and "wind" was something we read about in books. Then, it wasn't real winter unless it was at least twenty below. Also, a snowfall less than 25-30 cm wasn't worth mentioning. Every wither we had at least a meter and half of snow on flat land, in snowy winters it could be up three meters. But note: When it is twenty below, a meter of snow isn't very much - it is fluffy and light, very far from wet sludge. Actually, we couldn't have snow ball wars or making snowmen, because the snow would just fall apart.
But those were the 1960-70s. Climate has changed now. From the viewpoint of a 12 year old boy, it is certainly not to the better.
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