I’ve just had a phone call from the landlord. To cut a long story short we have to be out by mid-Feburary. Not, it should be stressed, due to naughtiness on our part. Rather the landlord wants to move back in.
So even before our mail direct runs out we’ll be looking for a new, unfurnished, home.
Today’s factoid:
Should the world’s sea ice and icebergs melt (e.g. from global warming) then the sea level will not rise as one might expect. Archimedes’ principle states that a floating body displaces a mass of water equal to its own mass. Should the floating ice melt, it will turn into a volume of water of the same mass and will exactly ‘fill in’ the hole it leaves behind leaving the sea-level unchanged.
This does not mean we should not worry about global warming of course. Ice resting on land masses displaces no water and hence when it melts it will raise the sea-level.
Source: Wikipedia.