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reasons

Reasons winter is good

1) Porridge
2) Snow and frost making things pretty
3) Foggy days in Melbourne
4) Skiing
5) Getting warm by fires
6) Long nights
7) Blankets (snuggling in)

Reasons winter is bad

1) People cooking porridge in the microwave and letting it overflow then not cleaning up afterwards
2) Getting hypothermic in the snow
3) Having to have showers when you’re freezing cold
4) Cold nose, cold ears, cold hands, cold feet
5) Too cold to climb
6) Not enough sunlight
7) Having to wear several thousand layers
8) Rainy weekends
9) Continual lack of snow despite cold and rainy weather

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got unicycles? (or ‘reasons you shouldn’t leave us alone in the house over a long wet weekend’)

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it were always rainin

And the worst part about the constant precipitation, is that it’s not actually quite cold enough for it to be falling as proper snow at any of the resorts. Can’t ski, can’t climb, can’t unicycle. AND WHY DID IT NOT SAVE ALL OF THE RAIN FOR DURING THE WEEK, HEY?

 
Note – Temporarily acquired unicycle has been thieved back by the person I borrowed it from. Just like when you were kids and neither of you were interested in playing with the pogo stick, until you decided one day that you felt like having a play on it and suddenly your brother decides he too wants to play on the pogo stick, and then you end up fighting and his front teeth get knocked loose and there is blood, and then neither of you gets to play on the pogo stick. Except in this case I don’t have a higher authority to whine to.

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ghoti spells fish

And ghoughphtheightteeau spells potato.

The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the longest real word in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as ‘the act of estimating (something) as worthless’, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. Antidisestablishmentarianism (a 19th century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is one of English’s longest words.

I’m beginning to see why people trying to learn English would complain though. There are over ten ways to pronounce ‘ough’ (cough enough bough though thought through borough hiccough sough jough hough lough – those last few are a bit of a stretch, they’re not exactly in common usage).

Note – Have temporarily acquired a unicycle. Am attempting to master phase one – sitting on the unicycle.

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inexplicable


Have been filled with the sudden desire to purchase a unicycle. I’m not sure if this is linked to the increasing amount on time I have been spending on my bicycles. Most of the weekend was spent cycling (when it wasn’t spent meandering around hippy markets, watching movies with pirates, lying collapsed on the loungeroom floor, or loitering in bars with art display type things happening, and willing the introduction of the no-smoking law). The single track around Lysterfield is most awesomely fun – including the Commonwealth Games track. I’d be a fan of less jumps/obstacles built by tree branches (nasty and slippery in the wet), and more with mounded dirt though.