🙂 Oh so much better than 0° Fahrenheit … I do remember mornings when I lived in the Libyan Desert, just next door, when the thermometer his 0° C … a lovely haiku just the same and very imaginative!
Yeah, 0 Fahrenheit would be darn cold! I think the U.S. is the only country in the world that still uses the Fahrenheit scale, so in deference to everyone else I used Celsius in this haiku. Thanks, Bastet!
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Mark M. Redfearn wrote:
Glad you used Celsius 🙂 … Actually: the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Palau, and the United States ( I looked it up just to find out – thought the crazy British still used it too!) If you want to hear something crazy Brits did too – they supposedly went metric a few years back, but when you buy cloth from Britain, you buy it by the meter, but the widths are still in inches … so you’d by 5 meters of a cloth but the width is measured in inches … if you buy online they sometimes use both cm and inches … drives you mad when you’re trying to figure how much fabric you need for a pattern though.
I know that miles are still used in England and (maybe) Ireland, although you drive at km/h, which seems to me to be absolutely ridiculous. I can’t imagine having to buy cloth the way you describe. What a nightmare!
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Mark M. Redfearn wrote:
Ah … I thought they probably still used miles … and the cloth problem is really bad when it comes to having to follow a pattern … you have to get a conversion table to figure how much cloth you need. Oh well … England Swings!
I can understand this very well … I am not a fan of cold weather too.
Nicely done!
and in summer we dream of the Arctic, right? 😉
Yeah, we’re never satisfied!
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Mark M. Redfearn wrote:
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🙂 Oh so much better than 0° Fahrenheit … I do remember mornings when I lived in the Libyan Desert, just next door, when the thermometer his 0° C … a lovely haiku just the same and very imaginative!
Yeah, 0 Fahrenheit would be darn cold! I think the U.S. is the only country in the world that still uses the Fahrenheit scale, so in deference to everyone else I used Celsius in this haiku. Thanks, Bastet!
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Mark M. Redfearn wrote:
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Glad you used Celsius 🙂 … Actually: the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Palau, and the United States ( I looked it up just to find out – thought the crazy British still used it too!) If you want to hear something crazy Brits did too – they supposedly went metric a few years back, but when you buy cloth from Britain, you buy it by the meter, but the widths are still in inches … so you’d by 5 meters of a cloth but the width is measured in inches … if you buy online they sometimes use both cm and inches … drives you mad when you’re trying to figure how much fabric you need for a pattern though.
I know that miles are still used in England and (maybe) Ireland, although you drive at km/h, which seems to me to be absolutely ridiculous. I can’t imagine having to buy cloth the way you describe. What a nightmare!
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Mark M. Redfearn wrote:
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Ah … I thought they probably still used miles … and the cloth problem is really bad when it comes to having to follow a pattern … you have to get a conversion table to figure how much cloth you need. Oh well … England Swings!
True enough! I admire how often your haiku “turns” so smoothly, Mark.
Dream on my friend 🙂