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Lynn and I have just been trying to figure out where to move bits of furniture about and put a huge picture that we have up on the wall without making it look crowded. Still, given up now and it's almost lunchtime and I'm feeling loads better today!
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #2207 on: 21:27:20, 16-12-2007 » |
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Me too, martle! My daughter suggested and did it for me - 11 year olds have their uses...  |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #2208 on: 20:47:31, 17-12-2007 » |
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MJ, your daughter is a comic genius!  I expect many here are waiting for the sprigs of mistletoe to appear above Ron's owl.  |
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« Reply #2209 on: 21:16:38, 17-12-2007 » |
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Now this house in which I'm living in has a dishwasher, which goes a little way towards compensating for its being at the edge of the known world, but hasn't been working for the past few days, hence the Augean look in the kitchen. This morning I got up and FIXED IT. At least I messed around with it for a while and now it works again. Which in turn is some small compensation for the fact that I had to get the AA out to (it turned out) replace a bit of my car's engine yesterday afternoon after it refused to move from the car park at Sainsbury's.
Oh dear, first babysitters and now supermarkets. And I thought composers led glamorous lives far removed from the mundanity that afflicts the rest of us! I suppose you'll be putting up Christmas trees next. |
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« Reply #2210 on: 21:33:19, 17-12-2007 » |
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I suppose you'll be putting up Christmas trees next.
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« Reply #2211 on: 21:37:59, 17-12-2007 » |
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I suppose you'll be putting up Christmas trees next.
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« Reply #2212 on: 22:04:51, 17-12-2007 » |
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I suppose you'll be putting up Christmas trees next.
No, I have the au pair do that. Of course, when you're *really* rich, can I recommend  Jana and Yudmilla certainly know how to buff up a shine on your objets d'art. |
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« Reply #2213 on: 22:08:06, 17-12-2007 » |
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 "For parents who can't face cleaning up after a real pet, Pleo could be a big hit this Christmas. The baby robotic dinosaur (£250) is stuffed with high-tech wizardry, including pressure sensors beneath its polymer skin, infrared in its head, force-feedback sensors in its toes and 14 servo motors. Pleo can express joy and aggression, apparently. It can also yawn, sigh, sniff, sniffle, snore and sneeze." |
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« Reply #2214 on: 22:15:01, 17-12-2007 » |
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Or perhaps, borrow my time machine and get a real one (but watch out for the Veloceraptors)
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« Reply #2216 on: 13:26:53, 18-12-2007 » |
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Ye gods Andy, that is one big rat! What wonderfully named creatures on that link. I was particularly taken with the Wattled Smoky Honeyeater. Fabulous name! |
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« Reply #2217 on: 13:29:56, 18-12-2007 » |
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Andy, are you sure that's not a glove puppet? (Shades of Rag, Tag and Bobtail for 'those of a certain age'.)
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« Reply #2218 on: 13:32:58, 18-12-2007 » |
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[img]Pleo can express joy and aggression, apparently. It can also yawn, sigh, sniff, sniffle, snore and sneeze
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #2219 on: 13:37:34, 18-12-2007 » |
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Andy, are you sure that's not a glove puppet? (Shades of Rag, Tag and Bobtail for 'those of a certain age'.)
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