Comments on: Little Drip http://www.rereviewed.com/thedeepnorth/?p=897 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:46:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: jill http://www.rereviewed.com/thedeepnorth/?p=897#comment-216104 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:42:08 +0000 http://www.rereviewed.com/thedeepnorth/?p=897#comment-216104 Here neighborly collaboration is an important survival strategy."Dugnads", or work sessions are organized and people arrive prepared to tackle various tasks. This collective burst of energy is always followed by cups of coffee and slabs of cake and lots of chatter-with high spirits all around for jobs well done. There is the knowledge of course that what goes around comes around. I understand that the severe weather you have been experiencing would stretch already generous spirits in your area. But if it is any help to you, please know that the concerns and collective good will of your readership must count for something. Here neighborly collaboration is an important survival strategy.”Dugnads”, or work sessions are organized and people arrive prepared to tackle various tasks. This collective burst of energy is always followed by cups of coffee and slabs of cake and lots of chatter-with high spirits all around for jobs well done. There is the knowledge of course that what goes around comes around. I understand that the severe weather you have been experiencing would stretch already generous spirits in your area. But if it is any help to you, please know that the concerns and collective good will of your readership must count for something.

]]> by: Jane http://www.rereviewed.com/thedeepnorth/?p=897#comment-216096 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:44:09 +0000 http://www.rereviewed.com/thedeepnorth/?p=897#comment-216096 No oil as yet. Nor has the track been ploughed. If only it were possible to get men to clear the roof. As things are, we have been trying to get men to work on the roof -- both the main roof and the flat roof -- for three months, with total lack of success, and people who won't fix the odd slate in reasonably clement weather certainly won't come out in present conditions. Even leaving aside the fact that we couldn't get a weighty machine like a cherrypicker to the house. No oil as yet. Nor has the track been ploughed. If only it were possible to get men to clear the roof. As things are, we have been trying to get men to work on the roof — both the main roof and the flat roof — for three months, with total lack of success, and people who won’t fix the odd slate in reasonably clement weather certainly won’t come out in present conditions. Even leaving aside the fact that we couldn’t get a weighty machine like a cherrypicker to the house.

]]> by: canadian professor http://www.rereviewed.com/thedeepnorth/?p=897#comment-216093 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:38:54 +0000 http://www.rereviewed.com/thedeepnorth/?p=897#comment-216093 A Canadian voice ought to be able to bring help. Alas. Is it too late to deploy people to clear the roof of now? This seems to be what they do in Quebec. The problem with ice is that it expands. Here we have had, so far, only flurries, with the exception of a day when the flurries tried to be snow. If your pipes freeze, try a hair dryer. I hope that the oil arrived? A Canadian voice ought to be able to bring help. Alas. Is it too late to deploy people to clear the roof of now? This seems to be what they do in Quebec. The problem with ice is that it expands. Here we have had, so far, only flurries, with the exception of a day when the flurries tried to be snow. If your pipes freeze, try a hair dryer.

I hope that the oil arrived?

]]> by: the tropical godfather http://www.rereviewed.com/thedeepnorth/?p=897#comment-216082 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:26:19 +0000 http://www.rereviewed.com/thedeepnorth/?p=897#comment-216082 Golly, what a nightmare! Fingers crossed that the melt wont turn into a meltdown, so to speak. Golly, what a nightmare! Fingers crossed that the melt wont turn into a meltdown, so to speak.

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