Crisp indeed, Doug, and presumably you all cope.
The tv news from China shows a country not coping with their big freeze.
Countless thousands waiting for delayed trains, etc.
On 31/1/08 9:33 AM, "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Crisp picture there, Doug. I can only understand that cold by remembering my
> chilliest times in China. Here, it is running around the 35 Celsius mark
> daily and the poor gardens etc are looking browned off.
>
> Andrew
>
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> On 31/01/2008, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> a haze hangs
>> across the city
>>
>> a snow fall
>> s low pall
>>
>> bells would crack
>> tolled in such cold
>>
>> breath short
>> white in the air
>>
>> the city's exhaust
>> ion
>>
>> 30 I 08
>> Edmonton (windchill minus 38C)
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>
>> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>>
>> & luckily people don't love us
>> for our virtue or
>> we'd be in a bad way.
>>
>> Graham Greene
>>
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