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Milly, here's hoping you and little 'un have a magical trip and look foward to some photographs when you return of the Elves and Santa and his reindeers.
No frost here today, just dull, cloudy and cold. I finished and posted my cards yesterday, can't believe it's only 10 days away. Where has this year gone to?
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« Reply #421 on: 11:57:05, 15-12-2007 » |
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Where has this year gone to?
Well, quite a bit of it into cyberspace for more than a few of us! Wrap up warm, Mills, have a great time! |
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« Reply #422 on: 12:07:53, 15-12-2007 » |
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Where has this year gone to?
Well, quite a bit of it into cyberspace for more than a few of us! And that's the frightening thing Ron, the amount of time spent in cyberspace (not just on here of course) but also researching genealogy, music, etc., for which it is invaluable. I really cannot imagine life without a computer now. What did we used to to with our time? Or do I mean - we used to have a life?  |
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« Reply #423 on: 12:17:27, 15-12-2007 » |
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For me, going online has replaced a lot of my TV watching, I guess I only watch 3-5 hours a week now (including recorded stuff) and a lot of that it is BBC News 24 - plus Batman of course  . Previously, if I'd been out in the evening, I'd come home and switch the TV on, now I turn the PC on. I almost always eat breakfast in front of the PC, though I've never been into breakfast TV. It's a less passive mode of relaxation too. |
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« Reply #424 on: 12:27:39, 15-12-2007 » |
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It's replaced much of the reading of books as research for me, Anty: many of the other the other jobs which I spent time on in other places now happen at the computer: photography, music (creating and editing), designing, writing: even five years ago these would have been separate activities in different rooms: now nearly everything is performed at the same desk.
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Good morning. Well it must still be the morning, as I've only been awake for an hour or so. After a week of feeling absolutely shattered, and a late night out with the R3OK gang, I had a blissful 10 hours' sleep and actually now feel human again. I am hungry but am saving my appetite for a late (2:30) pizza lunch with friends, which is designed to sustain us through the Royal Opera's Parsifal which starts at 4:30. Have a lovely time in Lapland, Milly. It sounds wonderful. Winter is my favourite time of year (except when it's grey and raining) so perhaps I should do something similar one day  |
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Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
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« Reply #426 on: 13:14:08, 15-12-2007 » |
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Quite apart from other considerations, I hope you both have a relaxed and fun break Milly.
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« Reply #427 on: 07:37:28, 16-12-2007 » |
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It`s cold, dark, the crows are shouting at eachother and the only reason I`m up is because the cats demanded to be fed. Sigh. I don`t want to be up and shivering but I`ll never get back to sleep now. Mutter mutter. Oh, btw, good morning everyone! Trudges off to make another cup of tea. Muttering. |
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« Reply #428 on: 08:45:37, 16-12-2007 » |
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Good morning, Mort. It's getting light, and there doesn't seem to be any frost, though I felt incredibly cold when I woke up at some ungodly hour. All heating is now blazing away, and I've fed the birds.
I suppose I'll have to wrap presents today. Mostly books, so easy to wrap (not sure that I can remember what's for whom, however), but I made a big mess of wrapping a potted amaryllis yesterday. It was in a box, should have been easy. I blame the paper.
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« Reply #429 on: 08:56:07, 16-12-2007 » |
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Mary. Until I read the bit about the amyrillis being in a box I was agape with astonishment. I had visions of you wrestling with an unruly amryillis and coming off the worse for it  It was definitely the paper! When I were a lass us could steal wrapping paper that`d wrap an entire tin mine dead neat like and there was enough left over to sort out the monkey nuts and Uncle Albert`s coal scuttle. Glad you`re feeling warmer now |
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« Reply #430 on: 21:36:39, 17-12-2007 » |
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I suppose I'll have to wrap presents today. Mostly books, so easy to wrap (not sure that I can remember what's for whom, however), but I made a big mess of wrapping a potted amaryllis yesterday. It was in a box, should have been easy. I blame the paper.
Oh dear me, I know I'm on the wrong thread for the time of day but this has just had me howling with laughter, Mary. Amaryllises (that can't be right: shouldn't it be 'amarylles' or something?!) are such silly things, anyway: you wait all year, sometimes two, for a flower and then spend the rest of the time staring at a couple of green leaves trying to convince yourself something exciting is about to happen. The flowers are lovely though. Maybe the solution is to get twelve and hope they might somehow flower in rotation. |
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I suppose I'll have to wrap presents today. Mostly books, so easy to wrap (not sure that I can remember what's for whom, however), but I made a big mess of wrapping a potted amaryllis yesterday. It was in a box, should have been easy. I blame the paper.
Oh dear me, I know I'm on the wrong thread for the time of day but this has just had me howling with laughter, Mary. Amaryllises (that can't be right: shouldn't it be 'amarylles' or something?!) are such silly things, anyway: you wait all year, sometimes two, for a flower and then spend the rest of the time staring at a couple of green leaves trying to convince yourself something exciting is about to happen. The flowers are lovely though. Maybe the solution is to get twelve and hope they might somehow bloom in rotation. |
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« Reply #432 on: 22:38:34, 17-12-2007 » |
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It that an example of your wrapping prowess, tinners? Or just proof that you can put things in boxes?
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« Reply #433 on: 22:48:07, 17-12-2007 » |
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It that an example of your wrapping prowess, tinners? Or just proof that you can put things in boxes?
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Amaryllises (that can't be right: shouldn't it be 'amarylles' or something?!) So is Elves the plural of Elvis then? I've seen 'amaryllides' suggested FWIW. |
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