Wife texts husband on a cold winters morning:Windows frozen.
Husband texts back:pour some Luke warm water over it.
Wife texts back: computer completely stuffed now.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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We bought a really nifty gadget from one of those hawkers in the mall. It
consists of two heavy plastic pieces with sponge insert on one and squeegee
(sp?) on the other and rather large magnets on both. The idea is to put the
squeegee one (with string attached) on the outside window, put the
Tamara wrote:
Yeah, and how are you gonna wash 'em? Do your Spiderwoman act?
It's true that, with casement windows opening inwards, you either can't
keep anything in front of them, or else have to move everything every
time (which is where the idea of lufcik - a small part of the window
Tamara wrote:
Don't know what's wrong with *yours*, but... To me, windows ought to
have two -- large and unbroken (to allow for maximum light and for a
dead air cushion, both in summer and in winter) -- glass panes.
And
they should open *out*, on hinges, like doors (so-called casement
Tamara, obviously, you don't have many mosquitoes or flies in your part
of the country!! You can't put mosquito screens up with swivel windows. I
know the ones you mean, my parents have them in Provence, and I love
them, but if I had them in Melbourne, we'd be invaded by flies during the
