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Ron, I just could not resist the " apple acid, vine acid, fruit acids, lemon acid, essential oil and amil esters from ant and capronic acid".  Coming back to this, apple=malic, vine=lactic?, lemon=citric?, amil=amyl, ant=formic, capronic=capronic (how did they get that right. How come they didn't call it rapic acid? ) |
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« Reply #631 on: 15:42:00, 17-01-2008 » |
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Best of luck with the version of English used in there. I see what you mean, Bryn. Almost as good as this: http://www.allchateaux.com/chateau-riell.html |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #632 on: 15:52:35, 17-01-2008 » |
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Ah! It does not rain but it pisses here! Oh, I see some blue in the sky; a tiny patch: all is not lost for my hopes of an excursion dry later on in the day..
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« Reply #633 on: 16:55:13, 17-01-2008 » |
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Very many thanks to everyone who has said kind things to me here. I do feel a bit brighter now, but the weather is still VILE. I'm under the weather, along with virtually everyone else in this country at the moment.
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« Reply #634 on: 17:09:08, 17-01-2008 » |
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We've had maybe twenty minutes of sun, but that's lucky: I had to travel up the coast road today, and at the point where you can usually look across a gap in the hills to Strathmore and the Cairngorms, there was nothing but a greyish pink swirly mist: I'm guessing that they've had blizzarding snow up country.
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« Reply #635 on: 17:38:59, 17-01-2008 » |
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We did have a dry patch today and it isn't raining at the moment but the Met Office have said Devon, Wales and The Lakes will have 100 mm rain (that's about 4" in old money) over the next two days. It's what happens when all that water makes its way down the Wye and the Severn which are already flooding which is worrying. I think there is a lot of snow forecast for Scotland on Friday and Saturday Ron. It is so totally dispiriting. On a brighter note, I now have a new keyboard which works  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #636 on: 19:04:34, 17-01-2008 » |
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Perhaps a light coat of varnish carefully applied over the letters on your keyboard might help to keep them legible for longer, Anty! (Careful mind, just a tiny spot. and no getting any down the gaps in between....
So far, they're forecasting rain but not snow for here: as I've mentioned before, we have a very strange micro-climate, so all around there can be masses of snow whilst we're still clear, or at worst, have just a light dusting.
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« Reply #637 on: 19:16:28, 17-01-2008 » |
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Ron, I have on 'loan' the keyboard from my old puter at work Snaffled out in a plain brown envelope - until I can find a replacement. I just have this problem with black keyboards, even on my new Hewlett Packard keyboard at work (which I got mid-September with my new machine) the letters are fading fast but my old, trusty, grey one is pristine. And it's not, as Bryn suggested, that I have long nails!! I think I must exude something acid/key destroying in my fingers  Met Office definitely said snow for you earlier, hopefully it's gone elsewhere? |
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I think I must exude something acid/key destroying in my fingers
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« Reply #639 on: 22:07:13, 17-01-2008 » |
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I think I must exude something acid/key destroying in my fingers
Yeah, that'll be it then. First of all, contact Professor Xavier, and then get onto Universal Studios to make sure your character is included in the screenplay for X-men IV I shall head up the queue for your autograph with the characteristic acid stains Very funny John  |
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« Reply #640 on: 22:16:27, 17-01-2008 » |
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Met Office definitely said snow for you earlier, hopefully it's gone elsewhere?
The Weather Bug widget on my Mac says rain every day for the next week apart from Monday: cold, but nae sna': the Beeb local sites say the same. Could be wrong of course... |
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« Reply #641 on: 22:25:29, 17-01-2008 » |
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Just checked the Met Office Ron and their snow alert for you has gone. Perhaps snow would be better than constant rain??
It's funny, down here folk are staying cheerful and saying "Oh, well, could be worse, if it were colder it would be snow" but quite honestly, looking at the latest Environment Agency predictions, I'd rather have snow than the floods.
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« Reply #642 on: 23:54:44, 17-01-2008 » |
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Milly, about weak teeth...
Did your grandson have a severe viral infection during the stage of life when his adult teeth would have been waiting to come through (i.e. ages 2-5 ish)?
I only ask because my sister always had awful teeth and was referred to a dental hospital whereupon my mum was asked this question. The answer was yes, she had particularly severe chickenpox aged 3. I had it at the same time, aged six.
The consequences for me were constant ENT infections causing me lots of pain and discomfort throughout the rest of my childhood. The consequences for my sister - according to her dental consultant - were the destruction of her milk teeth, and a permanent "tide mark" on her adult teeth marking her medical history like rings in a tree trunk.
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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I don't find Fairy tails to exciting.
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« Reply #644 on: 07:51:37, 18-01-2008 » |
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Good morning everyone,
You are not going to be surprised to hear that there was rain here all through the night. It is very dark and raining now.
Isn't it strange that I can see my mistakes if someone writes it back to me, but I don't see anything wrong when I type it myself?
The student who plays Fairytales doesn't come every week. Some people only want to play the most famous music, but this one likes to investigate more obscure pieces.
How are my friends here doing this morning?
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