She grew up in a cold, strict household, where emotional connections were few and far between, and after her mother died (when I was about ten), she decided parenting was about "love".
Diaries kept in Boston during the intervening winters showed they were "very cold". The households chiefly stricken by the "bewitchment" were those closest to marshy land.
You wake up one morning to find the topic is headline news, due to an announcement that the government is planning to introduce harsher penalties for companies that cold call households.
Mrs. Ryder, the rector's wife, brought The Cold into the household.
By Sylvia Townsend Warner The New Yorker, March 10 , 1945P. 26 Mrs. Ryder, the rector's wife, brought The Cold into the household.
Numerous surveys have demonstrated that refrigerated display cabinets, seem to be a weak link in the food cold chain, and household practices also constitute weak links.
Sure, the US unemployment rate had been steadily dropping for a year – holding at 5.5% after the latest disappointing jobs report – but in the Gertz household, cold temperatures mean unemployment is up by one.
We anticipated potentially higher exposures to CO during the cold season, when household members typically sit around the fire for warmth.
H is for home equity, a quaint notion from the 1990s (cf. housing bubble), and haircut (a cold-blooded euphemism for household calamity).
Friends of the Earth energy campaigner Donna Hume said: "On the very day the weather turns cold, cash-strapped households are bracing themselves for massive hikes in their energy bills, driven by the nation's dependency on increasingly expensive gas.
