SH> I almost thought laughlab was too serious.  There's a collection of jokes
 SH> about Canadians but I'm going to have to look up the URL as I lost it.

I only saw the program on TV ant thyought that was funny.

 SH> Yesterday it was balmy -- the temperature got up to +3 -- but we're back
 SH> to the normal -10.  However, the days are now getting seriously longer.

In north Sweden they are down to -38 C but we have alot warmer, only -5 C
and one can even here notice that the days are getting longer and the snow
makes the days bright.
We have now about 20 cm snow and there are more on the way today.
My newly installed "mount-heating" (we call it so) is working ok. I have a
130 m deep hole and it seems to be enough to heat up the house. Not even
at -15 C it had to use extra electrical power so I'm satisfied.
Are you heating your houses with oil or what?

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