Grist to the Mill

21 December, 2006

FREEZING FOG

These days, many of us tend to be thoroughly entertained and comforted by central heating, games consoles, flat-screen TVs, 'in car stereo systems' etc. There's nowhere left for the mind to wander, our minds are so busy, busy, busy. But freezing fog on the longest day of the year? Just forget about modern life with all its distractions and imagine living two hundred years ago out in the country in this weather. Imagine a very damp, rickety stone cottage - all candlelight, shadows and draughts, heated by an open fire, with fog rolling in over the fields.

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