"It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.
~ Terry Pratchett ~












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