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Welease Woderwick
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Ours is only a little hill, Boogie, but it still makes quite a difference - lots of run off. It is only about 30 feet from us to the bottoms 200 yards or so north of here.
Glad you had fun in Heidelberg, from the photos I've seen it looks a lovely place.
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Thank you WW ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
For those not on 365 here is a photo of my son and his GF hugging a tree in the forest above the city.
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Welease Woderwick
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I had a shower a few minutes ago and left my specs on the window sill, facing west into the afternoon sun and half in the shade of the window frame. When I put them on they were variegated as the bottoms, tops the way I'd put them down, had been in direct sunlight and had gone quite dark whilst the tops [bottoms] were clear having been in shadow. Happily they adjust quickly enough.
Yay for Transisitons™ lenses but that was odd!
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St Everild
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Jewellery update...only one necklace (and that was costume jewellery rather than the Real Thing, alas) but I did identify three other items, two of which I hadn't even realised had been taken ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) When I went looking for them, it was obvious that they were not where they should have been...on account of them being in an evidence bag in protective custody. So, I'll prepare the two insurance claims and get them sent off, as I very much doubt if anything else will be recovered at this stage.
Love the Ortak, Piglet - get it valued, photographed and insured if you haven't already done so!
In other news, we had a bit of sunshine here at lunchtime but it has clouded over again now, and looks like rain again.
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Piglet
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Welcome back, Boogie! **waves back** ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I'm almost embarrassed to tell you what a lovely day it was here - high of 19°, cloudless skies, glorious sunshine and no Humidex. It seems to be cooling down to nice, proper autumnal temperatures now, which suits me just fine - I love autumn here!
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St Everild
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Humph - if it's Autumn, then Winter is not far behind, and, as I am solar-powered, that means months of feeling sluggish and cold.
I wish I could fly south, like the birds!
The kettle is on - anyone want a cuppa?
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Welease Woderwick
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Sorry, St Everild, too late in the evening for me to take fluids but thanks for the offer.
If I flew much farther south it would start getting colder, we are only just above 10 degrees North here.
A day of losses, happily not serious ones but a pen and a BRAND NEW handkerchief - can't really blame anyone but myself but may blame A Certain Penguin just because most things that go wrong here are her fault.
One local lad tonight taught me the Malayalam word for monster so I had fun calling a few of the kids that - I think the general opinion of the local kids is that I am daft but fairly harmless.
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St Everild
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My sympathy on your losses WW - I HATE losing things, although I seem to do it quite a lot.
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balaam
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Daft but fairly harmless. I like that, it should be your sig.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... may blame A Certain Penguin ...
I didn't realise you were that far south.
I can think of a few people who are "daft but harmless". Mostly clergymen. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
We've been getting pictures on the Weather Channel of floods in Assam; my geography is so abysmal that I have absolutely no idea if it's anywhere near you. If it is, and you're in the monsoon season, isn't that what you'd expect?
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Welease Woderwick
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Sadly the Brahmaputra floods almost every year and they must have had a 'better' monsoon up there than we have - the devastation seems worse than usual this year - virtually the whole state is on a flood plain. It is about two and half thousand kilometres north east of here - compared with there we are pretty much extreme south, just about 270 kms from the southern tip.
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Welease Woderwick
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Some time later...
HWMBO is a VERY BAD INFLUENCE!!!
We went into town this morning, each with a quite separate list of tasks so I am happily trolling along doing my list when my phone rings, it is HWMBO and I thought he was going to say he had finished his list and was waiting back at the car but no, he had gone to a Book Fair in the Town Hall and found that about a third of the books there were in English and that I was expected to attend. I wander along there expecting to be disappointed and ended up buying four more books!
Who knew there was an eighth Artemis Fowl story?
On Monday, if Customs release them, I should also have another couple of hundred books that I have had shipped from UK - this will involve completely reordering my fiction shelves.
They need a good clean anyway so I will accomplish two tasks in one.
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Hi everyone. Several weeks ago I asked for advice for my nephew who would be traveling to London and Birmingham on business in September. I passed along all your generous comments. Here's his post-trip report. (Bear in mind this is a thirty-year-old from the Milwaukee area, where there is no public transportation outside of a few inner-city buses).
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Made it back safe from England last night. Thought I would pass on that the comments you sent were dead on. It was a good help.
It took us about 5 minutes in a taxi from the airport the first night to realize that we were NOT driving at any time. That opposite side of the road thing was much more challenging than I anticipated. So was just crossing the road!
We hardly had any time to site see during the trip. We were so busy with work, and work was way out away from the cities, that we never saw any sites until the last day when we were leaving. We got to the airport about 5 hours early (came directly from Birmingham that morning) so we hopped on the Heathrow Express and ran into town. Travel is really pretty easy once you know what you are doing (first time on a subway!!) but it is really expensive. We had enough time to walk to Buckingham Palace and take a few pictures and then hop back on the subway to catch a train back to the airport.
Hopefully next time we can build in a day or two to see the sites. Anyway, just thought I would let you know the comments were helpful.
So, my thanks as well!
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Piglet
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Glad to hear your nephew's trip went well, Mamacita. The first time I travelled alone on the Tube, having made sure that I knew exactly how many stops I had to go, there was an Incident and we had to change stations ...
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However, when I got off I headed straight for the work of Absolute Genius that is the Tube map and discovered that if you know left from right you can get about no bother at all. So much so that a bewildered fellow-passenger came and asked for help. Before I knew it I was showing her how to find where she was going.
Mustn't faff about here for too long - I have soup to make. We're Blessing the Animals tomorrow, followed by a clean-up, and I'm making a pot of soup for the cleaning volunteers. Haven't really got much to do as I made stock and chopped up the veggies last night, so it's just a case of chucking things into the slow-cooker and letting it get on with it.
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Jack the Lass
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I've been for my third blackberrying trip of the last few weeks, didn't get as many as the two previous trips but it was worth it as there were lots of juicy latecomers. And it looks like there are enough big red ones that I might be able to manage some more next week
It's sunny and blowy out, so perfect for hanging out the washing - I am unapologetically middle-aged about that, line-dried clothes smell *so* much nicer than machine-dried ones.
It's October next week. How did that happen?!
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Somewhere I've got a recipe for red blackberry jam - which might be necessary around here - they're going soggy before they're ripe in some cases.
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Piglet
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Animals have been blessed, church has been cleaned (not by me) and soup has been consumed to general approval. I changed the spices slightly (cayenne instead of chilli powder) and was a bit dubious about it when I first tasted it, but once I'd blended it and added in the cream it was OK.
It was another of those lovely bright, warm-but-not-too-warm autumn days; just as well, as a cathedral full of wet dogs would not have been fun.
We don't seem to be getting the wonderful autumn colours so much this year; according to a friend it's something to do with the salt spray that was chucked over St. John's by the hurricane a couple of weeks ago.
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Welease Woderwick
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A month or so ago I went to the pharmacy to buy some more chewable Vitamin C tablets and the guy showed me one that has added zinc so I thought I'd give them a whirl. They taste a bit different from the plain Vitamin C and I find now, after a few weeks, that they make me smell funny! Not unpleasant but just strange. I am fairly convinced that it is these tabs doing it as I smell a bit like how they taste. I am on the last strip now and shall revert to the plain ones later.
On another matter; usually I really don't mind not understanding a word that is said in church but this morning the priest said something during the announcements and everyone smiled or giggled - it was really annoying not knowing what was going on!
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Welease Woderwick
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A couple of hours later and we have had an hour or more's visit from a group of local lads learning Chenda Melam, one of the local art/drum forms. It was fun for us and several neighbours - and it was VERY loud. I took a load of video of it and whilst they weren't at the standard of the link they were pretty good - my video is clearer than the youtube one. I also took loads of still photos which I shall print up for them during the week. We rewarded them with drinks and biccies and they have promised to come back next Sunday morning when we will be having a social event here so they can entertain the outlaws.
Now do you see what I mean when I say the heat, the dust, the flies and the constant drumming?
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Moo
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Originally posted by piglet:
It was another of those lovely bright, warm-but-not-too-warm autumn days; just as well, as a cathedral full of wet dogs would not have been fun.
At our church we bless the animals in the parking lot. In addition to the usual pets, we also get a few small farm animals.
Moo
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
A month or so ago I went to the pharmacy to buy some more chewable Vitamin C tablets and the guy showed me one that has added zinc so I thought I'd give them a whirl. They taste a bit different from the plain Vitamin C and I find now, after a few weeks, that they make me smell funny!
I take chewable Vit C and zinc (separately) and I do NOT smell funny (I hope)
Rain rain rain today.
I think I'll have my chilli harvest today and make chilli paste - half are red and half green, so the time has come!
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Nice day yesterday starting with breakfast out, at a table in the sun. Just on the edge of being cold enough a morning to know that this is probably one of the last days this year to be able to do this, before the weather slips into mornings of frost and darkness and the food develops ice crystals on the way to the table... what happened to summer?
No rain yet today - but cool, cloudy and uninspiring.
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balaam
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we also get a few small farm animals.
Moo
You shouldn't make fun of someone's name, but this is too good.
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balaam
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Originally posted by Boogie:
I take chewable Vit C and zinc (separately) and I do NOT smell funny
Not enough for the smell to carry over the hill anyway.
Good start to the day. They started digging up the road outside at 7.30 this morning.
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A very strange day - our vicar is leaving to take up a new parish near Milford haven and this was the famiily's last Sunday with us.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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We're off to the City in as minute to collect my boxes of books from Old Blighty - another 4 cubic feet [or 19 kgs] of books just to make my shelves look even more full! It will be fun, eventually, re-ordering the whole lot of them.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by balaam:
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we also get a few small farm animals.
Moo
You shouldn't make fun of someone's name, but this is too good.
Sorry Moo.
Balaam, dear, you beat me to it! ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Wodders, I think your next project will have to be building a library wing on to Woddering Heights.
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There already is a library wing in Woddering Heights. It's called All available unused space.
Trust me on this.
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Welease Woderwick
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...and just who is to blame for that? Is it me or is it A Certain Snowbirf?
Have now got the book and the photos and had to pay duty on the photos and slides - over two quids worth!!
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Welease Woderwick
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I thought I'd better reiterate that this smell that I think emanates from my taking these tablets is not unpleasant just odd - and quite different from the sulphur and brimstone smell we get when Pete is here.
I am admitting defeat and going to bed having woken in front of the TV having slept through several overs of the cricket.
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...... googles snowbirf .....
I did a Clever Thing at the swimming baths today.
Yesterday I watched Dragon's Den, they had a shower mate thingie on - you put it round the button to stop the shower going off every few seconds. I wanted one, but when I got into the shower I have a brainwave - use the key/wristband thingie.
It works!
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Welease Woderwick
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...... googles snowbirf .....
WW signs up for basic spelling and word recognition course.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by PeteC:
It's called All available unused space ...
We've got one like that at Château Piglet. Quite a lot of it is of the "low-level" type, i.e. all over the floor ...
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... having slept through several overs of the cricket ...
Not quite as exciting as the golf*, then?
* I didn't watch it (I find golf almost as incomprehensible as cricket) but I understand it was Very Exciting and The Right Team Won.
eta: I contemplated going over to the American thread for a minor gloat, but I'm too nice.
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Welease Woderwick
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I am now properly awake, showered, cycle-rided [-ridden?] and breakfasted - hopefully my spelling, etc. will now improve [but no promises].
The thing about going to collect stuff from the docks is that although you have to be there you are not allowed to do anything except be present and to pay for things as required. We were not allowed inside the shed but sat outside whilst an agent did this and a porter did that and four separate customs officer did the other. We were there four hours in the end and that is actually quite boring when you can't do anything - but we sat in the shade and there was a pleasant breeze coming off the water.
The fourth customs man seemed really grumpy to start with until he gave us clearance then he suddenly became really friendly and chatty. Sadly the first customs man was a ManUre fan but I didn't hold that against him.
Having emptied the boxes last night, though not put things away yet, it was fun to find half a dozen photos of neighbour boy, with whom I go cycling, when he was a baby - I have promised to scan them for him today so he can transfer to his own PC - I will be doing a lot of scanning over the next few weeks as there must be about a thousand photos all told but I don't intend to hurry, Christmas will be soon enough to finish that task.
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You expect to have time at Christmas? You'll be too busy eating and sleeping.
Situation normal then.
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... four separate customs officer did the other ...
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... the first customs man was a ManUre fan but I didn't hold that against him ...
Why not?
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Welease Woderwick
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Well, he was a bit of a hunk...
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Welease Woderwick
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All fiction books collected from the docks on Monday are now neatly on the re-arranged fiction shelves - looking good!
Actually some of them - 18 from the yellow jacketed Victor Gollancz mystery series - are now on the guest shelves downstairs, including Edmund Crispin's superb Glimpses of the Moon.
The reference books will probably be sorted today or tomorrow, too.
This has all brought to a head the need for a new set of steps for the bookcases so I may go and have a look in town tomorrow for a 5 step set with a top rail. The 4 step plain pair I have used no longer feel so secure since my fall last year, my right hand is still a bit impaired.
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That's a tall stepladder for books, they must be floor to ceiling. I can see you getting something on wheels for scooting down the walls full of serious fiction.
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When the day comes that Uncle Pete can't travel on his own, let me know. I could handle just sitting back and reading through those book shelves. Today, that feels like a Bucket List item.
This too shall pass...this too shall pass. My new mantra for the day. Okay, not so new lately.
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Welease Woderwick
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I'm not so sure about serious fiction - there are a lot of kids and teenage novels and some serious fiction. We have the standard, for here, 3 metre ceilings and two sets of bookcases are floor to ceiling.
Lilypad, you would be welcome anytime - we can even put a comfy care for you up on the balcony, which, being upstairs, is a Pete-Free zone.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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If lilypad wants to come with me in 2014, I probably could use some help by then.
Rod, you know that I am a gentleman.
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Well, he was a bit of a hunk...
That's no excuse. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
It's almost beginning to feel autumnal here today; it was 14° and somewhat moist. Not sock weather yet though.
Spoke to the builder this afternoon and he's been in touch with Newfoundland Power again about tying the cables; they said either Friday or early next week (that'll be Tuesday at the earliest as Monday is the Thanksgiving holiday). So, with any luck the outside stuff might be done by the end of next week.
After that we've got to get the gyprock replaced that the first builder removed, then we'll have to do a spot of interior painting.
After that we'll have to do a lot of interior cleaning - very
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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A true gentleman NEVER says that he is gentleman - it should be obvious to all from his demeanour!
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Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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piglet - my reorganisation of the books meant I had to use the vacuum cleaner - this is true desperation time!
Shortly we are to have the builders inside the house to split the big upstairs hall to create a new bedroom and bathroom for me for when HWMBO, hereinafter referred to as Himself, gets married at the end of the month - this will then allow me to call his bride to be Herself. I am dreading the mess they will create but perhaps it won't be as bad as I fear.
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Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Would that be the mess that Himself and Herself will create, or.... ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Sorry - I meant the builders - if Himself and Herself create a mess I hope I have the capacity to keep quiet about it!
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Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Builders always make a mess.
Even the good ones, though these will make a good attempt at clearing up after themselves. Even so it will be way off spotless, little bits of dust will be turning up in crooks and nannies for months afterwards.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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I just got back from Joe Jackson's concert. If I were inclined to smoke, I'd be having one right now.
No kidding. Imagine a two hour music- gasm. I just wanted to come on this thread and personally thank you guys for producing him, because I will coast on this for the next week. Who needs heroin?
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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