Penny Cooper is unhappy that this country (the United
States) is so illogical as to keep using Fahrenheit. I mean, look--we are almost the only country that still uses Fº (list here--others who do include Liberia & Micronesia).
And we should use metric measurements too. Except teaspoons, Penny Cooper says, "We should keep teaspoons because they are very nice."
Penny may not be as entirely logical as she thinks she is, but it seems British recipes (e.g. the recipe for Mary Berry's scones) do use teaspoons for spices, and metric weights for flour, etc.
Anyway, Penny Cooper wants full credit for how cold it is here––"Even for dolls"––and feels the F/C division makes it seem warmer than we are. A wave of frigid Arctic air has dropped temperatures "below-zero Fahrenheit".
That's below minus-17º Celsius.
It's -3ºF (–19ºC) this morning, and due to stay in this range for the next week.
Penny Cooper also nudges me to post this AMAZING portrait of her friend Racer. Racer now lives in London with Sarah Wallis, doll-artist extraordinaire of Circles of Rain--who painted the portrait and sent it to me! (It's large-postcard sized.)
I love this so, so much, it is one of my all-time favorite things in my possession. It captures Racer perfectly as a real, live girlette--I can feel her looking at me.
I can see she's still a totally bright-eyed spright! But she has grown up a little and traded in wearing her underwear on her head for a hat Sarah crocheted for her.
Thank you, Sarah!!!
