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Thanks for the book recommendation, and I really shouldn't be making light of the British soldiery. My God, whole villages decimated or worse of their young men in the trenches in Belgium (Wilfred Owen was right) and then what you lot went through in first Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, and the Battle of the Atlantic-- it would bring tears to a glass eye.
SNNFF damned allergies....
One thing: For anyone who wishes to come play in the snow with me and my friends, and brings their own bike, give some thought to mudguards. It's always a toss-up toward having them, with the extra weight accumulating as snow packs in then starts rubbing on the tires... It's very tiring.
Also, the wind can be something otherworldly here. At zero degrees F (Hey! It's zero, no temperature out there at all!), in a 12-mph wind, wind chill makes it feel like about 17 below. It's very common to have to use ski goggles that your tears not freeze in your sideburns.
I'm really not doing a very good job of selling this thing, am I? Hmmm...