Hi you two,
           I can´t resist stepping into this little conversation to mention just how cold it can be in good old famous Finland. The coldest I´ve experienced here was - 36c. At that temperature the water from your eyes freezes instantly on your eyelashes. Blink carelessly and your eyes freeze shut which is what happened to me in the high street. I felt such a fool. Finns, of course, know the right way to blink in cold weather which must be one of the least known skills.


Keep warm,   Mike


 
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Yes, indeedy, Arthur, there's no doubt about it - we're a feeble lot down
here.  Mercifully, I've still got the thermals from Finland.  Now that was
what I'd call cold... brrrrrr... enough to freeze the hair on a Yorkshire
chest:-)
bw
c


> I don't know!  These Southerners! A bit of snow and they rush into verse as
> though they discovered it and have to complain to the rest of the world of
> their hardship. Same with rain, if it rains in London it rains everywhere!!
> The secret is wear a thicker vest, Christina! Or stay in and watch from the
> window sighing like a poet in love. Up here the thin scattering we have had
> still lies where it fell ten days ago and picks out in the fields patterns
> of earlier land settlement. From my window, in fields where grass will grow
> and sheep will graze, I can see the furrows ploughed hundreds of years ago
>