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01 February 2009

These foreign measurements, coming over here, stealing our heights and depths...

It's all bollards when people say that they deeply mourn the passing of such and such talented figure, when they didn't even know the individual personally and will have forgotten them by tomorrow.

On the other hand. Heard on the news that half a foot of snow is expected in some parts of England tonight. And couldn't help thinking of the late Humphrey Lyttleton discussing the weather with the lovely Samantha, who declares that the last time she had six inches in her front garden was...

Well, Humph would have recounted it so much better.

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