>>>>>>OK. Same here. Aristocracy and 'landed-gentry' also tend to favour dinner/supper. I think the common denominator is that 'dinner' is always the biggest meal of the day.
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>>>>>>BTW, what else would 'roof' ryhme with except 'woof' ?
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>>>>>Tooth in some places
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>>>>Where they miss many front teef?
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>>>Once again Dragan you are a master of English. :-)
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>>Nobody is the master of english. It won't obey anyone's commands.
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>>>Hows the homebrew coming on. As the days grow colder thats vital work.
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>>No brew, moonshine... and meager crop this year. Awful drought all summer, almost no rain between june and september. Picked maybe 30-50 kg of plums and sour cherries altogether. Passed the plums to dad to make brandy on his small still (a toy, 25 liter capacity), and didn't even assemble mine - wasn't worth the trouble.
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>>Which doesn't mean we don't have any :). Presently have 8 bottles from various sources, about half of them presents or souvenirs, in various degrees between optimism and pessimism (half full or empty?), plus several that we haven't even opened yet. But the winter promises to be long. I see yours has started with a bang - an airport closed somewhere. Isn't it a bit early for the chaos to begin?
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>Doesn't take much snow to freeze our airports out.In their defence spending huge amounts on prevention for relatively rare weather events would be bad business.
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>I remember a possibly apocryphal story of a UK council spending a lot on snow ploughs which only functioned in a level of snow that had not been experienced for about 50 years.

Back in the 1980s I worked on a project at CWS, a.k.a. the Co-Op, in Manchester. The team consisted of some Americans and some Brits. (Plus a Welshman). One of my American teammates was the quintessential ugly American abroad. As far as he was concerned anything that was different from what he was used to back home was WRONG. For example, one time a group of us were hanging out at Don's apartment -- sorry, his flat -- when there was a report on the TV news about someone being "in hospital." "In THE hospital," Don said emphatically. One thing that wound him up was how little snow there was and how much panic it seemed to inspire. (Ironically, back home he lived out in the desert in California where there was no snow at all). One morning at work about a quarter inch came down. "I wonder how many of the Brits will be late because of the BLIZZARD?"

Most of us worked Saturday mornings. Don's standard goodbye was, "I better get out to the shops before they close until MONDAY!" Again, I'm not sure how prevalent 24 / 7 shopping was back in the desert in California.

His nemesis was one of the team members who was from London and the life of the project. Sometimes all she could muster in protest was "Don!" It said it all.