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I continue to be amazed at how cheap things are. Now that spring has finally arrived (allowing me to go out cycling this afternoon for the first time in 2013 without leg and arm warmers), my wife bought some tools for the garden. Two trowels and a sort of fork thingy cost a miserly Dkr.50; while a pair of gardening gloves weighed in at a meagre Dkr.39. I don't know how they (and I don't know who they are) do it.

Walter Blotscher