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...house of major historical interest to the government in lieu of death duties but continue to live in it as long as they keep it open to the public--the tempo of loss has slowed. But there are few estates that do not face their annual nightmare of rising damp, falling cornices, skyrocketing repair bills and shrinking rents. These shared threats induce the mood of solidarity fondly guyed by Noel Coward decades ago: "Though if the Van Dycks have to go/ And we pawn the Bechstein Grand,/ We'll stand/ By the Stately Homes of England." As one should...
Football has been rather too unmellow for the Brownies, who prefer a Saturday afternoon in a damp cave exploring all sorts of new fungi. "Oh, wow, look at the mushrooms...
...exhibitionism (she upstages him in a local TV commercial) and a common wonder at nature. But the idyllic days are sometimes wistful because, Baxter writes, "I will probably never see her as a woman of 30." By his good-natured endurance of late fatherhood, Baxter has earned a damp eye or two in this jolly tale...
...Caribbean fiction" is only a gross restriction, an amputation and disfigurement of what is central: the mythical contours of the landscape, the pretences who inhabit it in the sublimated forms of colors, shapes, and sounds. Here it is a displacement by evaluation: "They come and go, walking on the damp ground in straw shoes. Their feet in the straw shoes make a scratchy sound. They say nothing...
Because they are natural food scavengers, roaches prefer to live near kitchens and other food areas. All breeds, except the Oriental cockroach, thrive in warm temperatures--around 30 degree celsius. The German roaches live best in warm climates, but most other breeds prefer damp areas like sewers...