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

Here you are. Would you like some pickles?”“Pickles gives me the wind something awful.”“In that case—”“Oh, I wasn’t saying no,” Mistress Weatherwax said, taking two large pickled cucumbers.
~ Terry Pratchett ~












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