Why my entries are being ignored? I am upset because my notebook entries are not interest anybody. I placed my last entry in the notebook section but it was not met somehow by italki society. Then I moved it to the discussion section with a hope that at least one person will check it out but again it was a fail. Tell me guys what is the key to reach success among local public?.. I am clearly understand that italki is not a place for amusement or whine but I usually try to write a sinsere or interesting entry with looking forward for feedback.

Hanging danger! I live in the Saint-Petersburg, Russia. It is considered as enough developed city with big culture and it is undoubtedly true. But something of the culture legacy features leads to unimpressive, bad consequence.

From one hand-side there are only historical building in the city center, as in the other parts of city but much many, which were built in the 19th or even 18th century (people from Central or South Europe should laugh of that fact). From other hand-side the city located in the North of Russia, approximately at the same latitude as Stockholm or Helsinki. And the winter may come suddenly.

The most part of buildings have roof edges with projections (maybe it could be called eaves). Also downpipes are join with roof edges. When the winter comes and frost occurs we can observe big and even huge icicles that hang on the top of downpipe or on the joint of downpipe and roof edge or carnice. Such icicles conceal a danger which might reveal with thaw. Keeping in mind the fact that now we can see a trand of weather frustrations as temperature can changes around zero, icicles could plummet down due to their really heavy weight.

Having walked in the city center, I noticed that such icicles are not eliminated by corresponding city services. At least not all icicles, not everywhere. The weather is getting warm and soon might be an accidents, by the way they are occur every year.

As far as I know, the same situation presented in other parts of our country. It is not necessary in the north of country. The determinative factor is the temperature frustration around zero with huge volume of precipitation.

I'd like to know how is it going in other countries with similar climate conditions. And what about accident frequency or frequency of icicles elimination actions (if you like the latter more). Please share if you've read this by that point. And correct if you have time :)

Hope it is an interesting topic as for people who live in the south regions and as for them who live in the north.

My cousin is spending his holidays with us next summer. Why the continous form of tense is used? Why is that correct when we talk about future like in this sentence? And would it be correctly to express future action if the question will contain Present Simple tense's expression like the following? My cousin spends his holidays with us next summer.

Why indefinite article is correct? We live in … large block of flats. I thought that proper insertion is 'the' but it's wrong. It confuse me because we are talking about certain block, the block where we live in. Why another article is correct? And 'it confuse me' or 'it confuses me' is correct? :-) Thanks in advance!

Which tense of verb is right for this example of talking about future action? See below We must run to the cinema. The film … in five minutes. Which tense of verb should we use in such sentence, 'starts' or 'will start'?

'Used to' in the present tenses Am I understand correctly that expression 'used to' suitable only for facts or habits in the past? So I can't say for example 'I used to play tennis' if I want to describe a habit in the present days? If I see such sentense about tennis I have to make a conclusion that it was a habit in the past?