Remoter scrabble5/1/2023 ![]() ![]() The maths in Scrabble was always beyond me. Particularly if it has letters in it that produce a good score. The Scrabble dictionary favours the odd word – and I mean very odd – from wherever in the world it might come. Of course the aims of a Scrabble dictionary and the aims of a normal dictionary are quite remote from each other. What I didn’t learn is that the name for this ‘impromptu igloo’, as David Astle defines it, is a quinzhee. I learnt all this quite solemnly, although, unsurprisingly, I have never been within cooee of putting it into practice. ![]() But you had to remember to leave a hole for oxygen or else you would go to sleep and never wake up. Then your own breath and body heat and the insulation of the snow kept you warm. ![]() You piled up a dome of snow with a hollow centre, crawled inside it and sealed up the dome.
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