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When I was a kid, friends of my Canadian cousins would ask me if we had a break at school each afternoon for afternoon tea.

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I've been amazed at some of the things I've been asked. My Canadian wife was led to believe London was permanently fogbound. :rofl:

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does she wear glasses by any chance? :D I'm trying to work out whether my glasses wearing 6yo is better off walking to school in no glasses (and therefore with compromised eyesight lol) or being the weirdy brit wearing ski goggles....?

either that or I have to rig up some form of battery powered block heater affair she can wear under her hat... either way at the moment she can't see with her glasses on...

My only other alternative is to stop her breathing out, which seems a bit harsh...

Answers on a postcard...

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no one wears ski goggles i have seen.

hmm, condensation here obviously the problem. there are a few solutions to stop eye wear fogging in this manner. spit is one. fairy liquid is the other.

if you could get oink to spit on them you would cover both at once. ddrrrrrrummmmmmm tish!! i'm here all week, try the veal.

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:D

freezing point of fairy v drool?

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well mum spit being scientifically proven to be not only an antibiotic and coagulant, but also the most effective stain remover known to man, i'd say the gob has the fairy by about 10 degrees at least.

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:rofl:

duration of effectiveness?

<wonders if teacher-gob might suffice for return journey>

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difficult to predict, 10 mins maybe tops. you'll have to do a controlled experiment over the next few days, gob, liquid and no gob then give us the results. if you get an endorsement from fairy for added ingrediants i want 50% for the suggestion.

teacher gob has the quality of this apparently.

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I presume you or she is wrapping a scarf or something over her face?

I wear glasses I don't cover my face, my problem is when I come indoors not when I'm out.

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Oh my :confused::unsure::rofl:

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...as versatile as "mum spit" is, there's also this type of thing.

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Can't argue with this. When I was in the US got asked by someoneif I knew a family called Jones in Norwich (I guess I wasn't that far away in Essex). I also got to know a really nice couple but the chap wasn't sure if I would want to come over for dinner as he had been born in Germany and emigrated when he was 8. Took me ages to work out what he was on about......

Just don't mention the war.....

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Oh, Ooh, I know them! I know them!!!:thumbsup:

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Someone from Canada was in the boozer that my brother and sister in law used to frequent.

SIL says do you think she knows (so and so) who went to live in Canada some years earlier.
Bro says, don't be daft, Canada's a big place.

SIL asked anyway. You guessed it. She knew her...went to the same college in Canada.

It's a small world.

Wouldn't want to paint it though.

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well that certainly another application, though mum couldn't supply it of course. as usual, a job for dad.

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Oi you two.

Gutter, mind out of.:sneaky:

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you started it!!

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Innocently I'll have you know. :p

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yeah yeah yeah, its always the nice ones that have the most naughty side underneath.

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Yeah well my naughty side disappeared three and a half years ago. :p:(

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here you go...