this month's temperature is below average

[R2x1]

" ...and we even cracked the skin on cow pats to warm our bare feet - in Auckland ! "

We went for the ones with steam emitting, fresher was better. Not in Auckland though, only at home out in the wop-wops. We had a King then too, maybe we will go back to the good old days, though please not not the wartime (and a dreadfully long time after) bread substitute which the wheat board specified the "flour" for. Man, if you fed that to the birds these days there would be SPCA inspectors waving cruelty summons in bigger numbers than the cones that warn you a cone may have fallen over a Km or two ahead.