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Here is the really quick (like 2 seconds quick) sketch I made up earlier when asking various people here what it was called.

I am aware my scribble scratch is hard to read so I will attempt to explain. We have a building, two stories, the lower portion is a bar. Upstairs, accessed by external stairs along the side of the building leading to the first floor roof, is two apartments. The roof area thing at the top of the stairs is the only access to these apartments. What is the roof area thing called?

It is not a veranda (there is no overhanging roof). Nor is it a balcony (not projecting from the building). Isn't a porch since it is on the roof of the first floor and spans the entire length of the building (and half the width). Patio should be on the ground, this isn't. Best I could think of is a "deck" or "terrace" but it doesn't really feel like either fits.

Suggestions?

Current Mood: confused

The rat-brat child has what I consider the worlds most ridiculous school assignment ever. Ready for this? (You can laugh, or WTF, or whatever you want, this is the actual assignment taken "as is" from her book).

( cut for textbook graphic )

Where we live there are no stores which use paper bags anymore (outside of the one specialty kitchen store where I buy a small fortune worth of spices every month). Even the "boutiques" use some sort of stiffer molded plastic. I haven't seen a paper grocery bag in well over a decade. What they do have is the option to purchase (usually for around a dollar) a reusable fabric bag with the store branding on it in the store colours. As a result everyone has a small mountain of reusable fabric bags and it is not unusual (quite common really) to see people in line at any given store with a rainbow of bags from various stores and the plastic bags are only used if the groceries won't all fit in the bags the shopper brought with them.

So my daughter went out to do this survey and without exception the answer she got was "Fabric".

Before she scribbles "Invalid survey" all over this thing and writes her own I thought I would ask here. For anyone who cares to help her out do you prefer plastic or paper bags when you go shopping and why?

Current Mood: annoyed

Okay, I'm spamming today, I know this. It happens (mostly I am out of other distractions). I need help.

( That guy ... you know, the one you hate? )