Each morning, Mirvish gave away "gifts" to the first few customers through the doors (to this day, a determined and shivering few line up at 6am on the corner of Bloor and Bathurst to claim their free tuning fork or toaster), as well as dollar bills to the poor and turkeys before Thanksgiving and Christmas.
In failing to have ambitious enough plans to end the misery of millions of families shivering in poorly insulated homes, Miliband is not only missing a huge opportunity to save the NHS billions of pounds, he's also missing the chance to show he can say "boo" to Mr Osborne and make big, bold decisions when it matters.
To stop people shivering in their homes in a reasonable timescale, we need a programme that will start by insulating 4 million homes by 2020, including grant funding for 2 million of the UK's poorest households.
And as I stand shivering knee deep in the Atlantic ready to leap in and save her, Lydia casually surfs past me on to the shore.
Figures show that even if every policy they've promised on energy efficiency is delivered, poor people will still be shivering in drafty homes for another 25 years.
When I get out at the end, as the road meets the water, a group of revellers are linking arms and happily singing Auld Lang Syne when their chants are cut short by the sight of a man shivering.
We didn't go to bed, just sat in bars talking about OJ, the shivering girls and the football that lay ahead.
Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
One December when I lived there (I know, lucky me and I felt that way too, when I wasn't shivering and coughing), the sun came out exactly once.
Minor clubs, meanwhile, were shivering.
