> > I'm OK with cold, at least you can dress for it and
> > doing any physical activity doesn't leave you soaked.
>
> You've obviously never played ice hockey - the absolutely
> sweatiest thing I've ever done.

No, I haven't played ice hockey, but I have "pucked around",
and that gets pretty warmish. Doesn't usually end with a punch-
up either. Unless the boyfriend turns up unexpectedly of course

> > get on your threepenny bits
>
> OK, I thought I'd heard them all, or at least most of them, but is
> there some hidden meaning here?

Rhyming slang (most often heard as "frupnee bits")

http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/list.asp?order=slangtoenglish&letter=T

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