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Keep your arctic chill
Where your breath hangs in the air
And snow slips within your boots
Teeth chattering
Was never my cup of tea
Keep your melting heat
Where sweat drips from every pore
And the sun bakes the world
In a hazy landscape
I prefer to hide inside
Give me pleasant weather
Even with a gentle rain
No pit stains or red noses
Just soothing climate
That holds no promise of misery
Now to be cast into the summer heat for the next 4 days. So if you get a barely coherent comment from me it means one of four things:
- Dehydration
- Exhaustion
- Sunstroke
- Tried to comment by iPhone while blinded by sweat
Legends of Windemere 
I can sympathise! Why don’t you come to the UK??!! OK so it’s often wet, sometimes very, but although it can be hot and/or humid at times, generally the weather’s mild. And I very much hope you avoid those four afflictions you listed!! Stay cool… if you can. 🙂
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Trying my best. Currently sitting outside while the toddler watches a fountain. How’s the food in the UK?
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Varied. We eat a lot of food from different nations – Chinese or Indian, Italian or Moroccan etc. True British food is things like fish and chips – battered cod with chips (fries to you, but thick and chunky) covered in salt and vinegar. We also like the all day English breakfast – a cup of tea (or coffee) with a fried egg, sausage, bacon, baked beans and possibly fried mushrooms and tomatoes – but it varies.
Personally if I have a cooked English breakfast, I go for the veggie version, not because I’m Jewish (only 1/16th Jewish to be precise!!) but because I like pigs, I think they’re sweet so I don’t eat any pig products or anything with pig in! We like our roast dinners as well – roast chicken or beef with roast potatoes and vegetables.
Phew! Hope that answers your question. 🙂
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That’s really thorough. I’ll need to visit and try the pizza for a final decision. No problem eating pigs here. They bite if you turn your back on them. 😉
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We go to a lovely pizza restaurant in the centre of my home city of Bristol (UK). It’s called Pizza Provencale and it’s fab! Pigs bite? Never encountered a biting pig… 😉
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Oh yeah. Pigs can get mean, which is why you don’t find them at petting zoos that often.
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OK well I’ll remember that next time I meet one lol!! 🙂
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Watch the movie ‘Snatch’ for a better (though more profanity-laced) explanation. 😛
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Maybe I’ll check it out someday. So do you eat pig then??
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Not very often. Mostly because I’m not a fan of ham and my doctor told me to limit bacon.
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Very nice..”no pit stains or red noses” is just classic. I hope you survive the heat and humidity my friend.
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Me too. Going to be a long weekend from the look of things.
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Great weather to lay in a pool with the cold beverage of choice. 🙂
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Or stay in the shade while the toddler runs around a playground. That seems to be more likely.
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Or that…although I have to say that I like my idea better, but I’m sure your son would beg to differ. 🙂
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I prefer your idea too. 🙂
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Nice to hear a poem that’s not about the extremes. I could use some merry weather myself.
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Florida must be gross right now.
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It’s raining every day. Thunderstorms. Scary ones. Humidity is at 100% and heat is at 100 degrees. Breathing is almost impossible.
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Ouch. Hope you have air conditioning and can use it.
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I’m with you of the sweat and chills. Good luck out there. (What was that noise?)
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Think the noise is the call of a cold shower and frozen margaritas. Though probably just a cold beer.
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Wilderness always gives me the willies. You know like ice for cold and woods for potty chair.
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Kind of glad I’ve never gone camping now. 😀
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smart
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I’m going to assume #4. Been a while since I’ve enjoyed one of your poems. (And seems like forever since I’ve tried my foot at poetry…) 🙂
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My poetry muse has been lacking for a while. Though I have the coming week being all poetry posts. Not sure how they came out because I wrote them during my dead laptop period.
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