"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
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My son has just phoned from the Dolomites where he has been skiing. They
have had huge snowfalls and it is brown (and apparently doesn't taste
very
pleasant either!). The locals say it contains dust from the Sahara which
sounds very plausible.

I lived in Greece for 5 years and it is traditional lore that you should
whitewash your house for Easter. Most people do, but leave it till the last
minute. This is of course very traditional as well, called in UK and USA
businesses as "Just in Time" and considered a virtue, laziness if you are
another nationality.The day after most of the whitewashing occurred we had
the same winds and sand and lived for a year with brown freshly whitewashed
houses!

Stuart Hudson

P.S. Yannis, I am sure that the Olympics will teach the rest of the world
what true just in time management really means, if it is not a huge triumph
I shall be very surprised.