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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2009 22:51:23 GMT
I was expecting it, but I received my electric bill for the past two months yesterday. It's about 4 times more than the previous one. I was expecting it, but still! About 380€. (My place is all electric, no gas.)
Tonight it should snow yet again -- they are saying between 1 cm and 5 cm before dawn in Paris.
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 13, 2009 6:32:02 GMT
OUCH ! That hurts !
It snowed here yesterday. The compressed little leftover snow has turned into ice, then it snowed over again.
Bloody slippery !
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2009 7:38:59 GMT
It was snowing when I got up, but now it's just raining. Yuck.
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Post by repertoire on Feb 13, 2009 8:32:17 GMT
Here it is dark and raining for days. Last evening the air was clear, no clouds and I was hoping a sunshine today.
A Sunshine Hope.
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Post by repertoire on Feb 13, 2009 8:32:34 GMT
hopes were broken.
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 13, 2009 8:37:37 GMT
The sun is out here right now but it will only last a few minutes. The next clouds are already coming up again.
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Post by repertoire on Feb 13, 2009 8:46:52 GMT
World is fine, but is boring sometimes without the sun.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 13, 2009 10:22:44 GMT
I haven't seen the sun for months. Here it is dark grey and very cold. I am reduced to wearing thermals  under my jeans... I am longing for warmer weather and then I'll buy some springlike clothes to cheer myself up. |
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 13, 2009 10:32:29 GMT
I've already bought some summer clothes... a skirt and a bikini. It didn't help the mood for more than 5 minutes though.
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Post by palesa on Feb 13, 2009 10:35:47 GMT
And I have just put on my list to do Unpack jerseys and wash them for winter  |
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 13, 2009 10:40:28 GMT
It's an upside down situation isn't it ! Or is it downside up ?  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2009 10:53:47 GMT
A bikini? At leasr you can still wear one, quit whining HT!
Love your prayer wheel SD!
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 13, 2009 10:57:17 GMT
I didn't say I was looking good in it...  |
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Post by repertoire on Feb 13, 2009 10:57:20 GMT
Buy summer clothes and spend more for the clothing industry!!  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2009 11:04:44 GMT
Confidence my dear, no woman I know buys themselves a bikini unless they have the confidence to wear it. This is a good thing. Don't let my early a.m .prattle ruin it.
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 13, 2009 11:22:01 GMT
OK, call it confidence ;D
Pepe, I'll do my best !
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Post by rikita on Feb 13, 2009 11:40:53 GMT
it is sunny here today, so i feel bad about not leaving the house...
my heating bill is included in my rent though... on the other hand, i don't heat that much anyway, but dress warm indoors... well not really fully out of choice, more because my place is kind of old and there is always a slight draft...
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Post by gyro on Feb 15, 2009 19:40:36 GMT
Does anybody in the Northern hemisphere actually expect to have non-cold winters ?
Don't bemoan how cold it is this year, be grateful about how mild it's been for quite a few years before this ....
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Post by gringalais on Feb 15, 2009 19:50:49 GMT
We have had one of the hottest Januarys on record here and February, which usually is cooler has been unusually hot too. Even with a recent rate cut, my electric bill has also been higher than usual, I guess due to running the fan constantly. Usually my bill is about 10,000 pesos in summer when in winter it is more like 20,000-25,000. This summer it is running around 18,000. Still it is a lot cheaper than yours, but we use gas for cooking and the water heater.
My brother is working in the UK for a few months, he seems to have gotten the brunt of bad weather since he arrived.
gyro - I'd say it depends. I lived in San Francisco for years and the winters were always mild. Of course there you hardly get a summer either.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2009 19:53:58 GMT
About 90% of the winters in Paris have been mild since I moved here. So "real" winters are definitely an exception.
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Post by gyro on Feb 16, 2009 6:42:50 GMT
..so be grateful then K...
Gringa, fair play. When I said 'northern hemisphere' I was thinking mainly of northern Europe in all honesty. Being a small minded to55er and all .....
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 16, 2009 6:49:53 GMT
Since early December we've always had snow. It's been more than two months. I cannot remember this happened before here. January was way colder than average.
But you are right, the last winters were so mild that we're not used to the cold anymore.
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Post by rikita on Feb 17, 2009 21:15:45 GMT
..so be grateful then K... Gringa, fair play. When I said 'northern hemisphere' I was thinking mainly of northern Europe in all honesty. Being a small minded to55er and all ..... well, actually, they get cold winters in part of the southern hemisphere too. i hear it has a lot to do with distance from the equator, actually... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2009 21:39:51 GMT
I am glad to finally see winter again.
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Post by gyro on Feb 18, 2009 20:39:02 GMT
I'll be glad when people stop gassing on about the weather and find something interesting to OP about ....
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 19, 2009 1:42:25 GMT
Yes, it's a special form of tragedy when a person so able to make lively, interesting OPs is unavoidably detained by pointless posts about the weather. And further, that potential good OP maker is positively compelled to comment on how much he dislikes people commenting on the weather. Sad, really.
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Post by gyro on Feb 19, 2009 7:28:09 GMT
Yeah, sorry. I'd forgotten criticism was banned on this forum ...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2009 7:42:12 GMT
I haven't seen much criticism, but I think I have noticed someone thinking that he is making lively banter while being totally mistaken.
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Post by gyro on Feb 19, 2009 8:11:07 GMT
ha !
Please continue to presume to know what I think .... You wouldn't be you without such nonsense.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 19, 2009 16:11:38 GMT
As far as I'm concerned it's not so much the 'damn winter this year' but the damned heating bills that have not yet appeared. I live in dread.
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under my jeans... I am longing for warmer weather and then I'll buy some springlike clothes to cheer myself up.
