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...Joking Apart (1978) In a four scenes spanning a 12-year period, Ayckbourn charts the fortunes of a "perfect" married couple and their circle of friends whom they inadvertently cause nothing but misery. One of the best examples of Ayckbourn's ability to milk the bleakness of ordinary lives for extraordinary humor...
...that the cool whoosh of the one and the jangling clank of the other bleed together into a moment that startles both me and Andrew’s mom, who’s just now walking into the house. I turn around to face her, a quart of milk in my hands. We look at each other for a moment, and then, without thinking, I raise the milk to my nose to smell it.“Still good?” she asks, dropping her keys on the side table by the door.I smell it again, and then...
...talked. “Did you take a snack yet?“No.”“What do you want?”“I don’t know.”“Do you want some milk?”“OK.”The chatter on the TV was overshadowed by the volume of my Mom’s silence.“Is there something wrong, Mom?”“No, everything’s fine.”Again, the silence...
...From the 17th century onward, dairy farmers who wanted to supplement their income from milk - or who just needed a source of sweetener that was better and cheaper than sugar or molasses - drilled small holes in the trees during the brief weather window between winter and spring. (Sap typically runs out of maple trees on days when the temperature is around 40 degrees following a night when the mercury dropped below freezing.) The farmers called the maple tree stands "sugar bushes" and hung buckets under the drilled holes. Every day or two - depending on how fast the sap was running...
...done instead is develop cheaper technologies and products." One example is urea-molasses-mineral blocks that are cheap, reduce methane emission by 20%, and also provide more nutrition, so they're easier to sell to illiterate farmers who don't know a thing about global warming but want higher milk yields...