The Kara Sea region is remote, sparsely populated and bitterly cold, frozen over for much of the year.

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The EU is trying to cook up a "Goldilocks budget" - not too hot for the countries like Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden who want to see spending frozen and not too cold for the countries of the South (Spain, Portugal, Greece) and East (led by the biggest net beneficiary Poland) who want to see spending on them maintained.

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Despite it being the middle of April, that spring was exceptionally cold and the waterfalls that streak the mountains were frozen over.

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Similarly, a heatwave which leads to swimming in rivers and drownings, a cold front which leads to a larger than usual number of half frozen people.

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During hundreds of camping trips and meetings and service projects and weird and wonderful events such as the Klondike Derby (a cold-weather competition in which scouts drag makeshift sleds over frozen ground for hours), I learned how to adapt to changing circumstances on the fly while keeping the main goals in sight.

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