h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

walks ? is that just YOUR pathway to the house ? or part of the pavement/sidewalk as well ?

Sidewalk in front of house. From your property to the neighbours'. Doing anything else - drive, walk to your front door - is optional, your decision. But we are doing the sidewalk and the walk, so nobody slips, including relatives and the postman.

Of course, one nice man down the street likes to do extra with his snowblower, when he can. We met him, too, at church.

totally different here, some might clear their path to gate etc or not, but as for the pavement, no chance.
me! I'll put salt down, from door to gate and maybe to the roadside

I'll never get used to your law of only letters ? in the mailbox/letterbox on the front door and kids chuck the daily paper anywhere

Actually, most people who still subscribe to a print newspaper have a special box for it.

Although my mom never had one. When I asked her why, she said, 'Your dad kept running over it with the car.'

You can't put newspapers in the mailbox because the mail is part of the federal government. Tampering with it is illegal. We take this seriously.

Towns here can make any laws they like about snow, not drinking beer on the front porch, etc. It's a legacy of what I've been writing about for the school lessons this week: the Progressive Era.

"the mail is part of the federal government" I gather that part, but our "letterboxes" have anything dumped through itletters of any kind (mainly junk mail)news papers - well anything really

one advantage about a small countryone rule type thing covers allwhereas your minor laws in counties can go a little overboard (please forgive the pun bit) like its against the law to sneeze on the 3rd Sunday of a month type thing

Most of those laws are exaggerated. If you check those idiot lists on websites out, you'll find out they made most of them up.

The others were probably passed for a joke, mostly, by some bored council.

Actually, the participatory local government idea is a good one - it means less power to the people on 'Top', for one thing. And it means people don't have to do things in Pennsylvania that would only make sense in Florida. So I disagree there.

Besides, having local laws you can change if they don't make sense - like zoning, whatever - is much better than 1000-year-old villages where everything is run by 'custom' and 'tradition', and outsiders aren't welcome.

I can't find at the moment what I need, it's a saying a Scottish friend of mine saysI'll seek it out later


I love lawsfollow some, forget many

Rules are made for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men

I knew it was somewhere in my P/S

Well, I think we'll go along with these - it's a small place, wouldn't want to stick out. Besides, we might need their help.

Anyway, I'm off downstairs to eat. So have a good night, and stay warm.

you both watch how you go if you go shopping etc, with the weather conditions

Will do!

still very cold out and strong winds, but warmer airflow expected by the weekend ?

We had more snow. Now we're having freezing rain, so it's an ice storm.

My brother-in-law is here, so I won't be. Gotta go see what he's doing to my car.

14 mil spanner and a sledgehammer will sort it out

I doubt that would charge a battery. He put a battery charger on it, said leave it alone until Thursday night.

Now he's off home - half an hour down the road in the freezing rain and ice - to feed his livestock and, he says, dig my sister's car out of the snow so she can drive it tomorrow.

It's sort of like WC Fields says in that Yukon movie, 'It ain't a fit night out for man nor beast.'

I've had to work in it years agowhen on the night shift at the chemical works, we could see the ice crystals forming in the airand the protective acid resistant rubber gloves we wore, we had to lay them on steam pipesotherwise they'd go rock solid

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31711446

nothing strange in nature is there

Yeah, Elektra saw that photo, too. Amazing.

I wonder if woodpeckers know how to say "oh sht"