"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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Harold Walker wrote:

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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Perhaps you've been in America so long that your irony-sensor has
rusted away completely.

'tis only 50 years

Hmm. Only marginally longer than I have been living in this
gloomy, cold and damp country.

Paterfamilias..........sounds a wee bit like my old school tie sort of
'lingo'

Perhaps gloomy etc. but what a super climate for so many things like mundane
spring cabbage and the likes...H