[lit-ideas] Re: Turning the tables...
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 00:16:13 +0000 (GMT)
--- Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Judy Evans wrote:
>
> > It has been bitterly cold here (by Cardiff
> standards)
> > all week, -2C yesterday; today was a little warmer
> but
> > only a very little!
>
> February 3, 2006
>
> (Barely) Winter '06: Buttercups Are in Bloom
>
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
> 'Let's put it this way: People played golf this
> winter in Maine. In shorts.
>
> 'Buttercups have been blooming in Montana. In Ohio,
> an ice-free Lake
> Erie allowed an early start to seasonal ferry
> service. And the sap
> started running early in Vermont.
Fighting words, Robert! The central heating in this
house was OK for Ye Olde Winters but is not adequate
now, I shiver... Of course we've been lucky, in
Berlin the polar bears refused to go swimming and
penguins had to be shut indoors (these effete
Euro-penguins...)
> [But, as Ursula says, there's a storm coming.]
I'll do my best to feel no Schadenfreude!
Judy
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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