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daisydaisy
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I love the English summer - today I spent a damp few hours on a beach with 4 under 4's and their mums. It was dry to start with, and when we could no longer pretend that the water drops were sea spray we covered our wind break with another that had broken, and had lunch in our "tent". Memories are made of this ... aided by the hot chocolates that we treated ourselves to in the posh beach cafe.
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You're unlikely to get bored by a Newfoundland summer: yesterday 28° and sticky, today 16° and rather cool. Guess which one I prefer ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Yesterday I did the lighting things upstairs but Himself didn't want more light in the Puja Room so I left that but I was then musing on going over to totally LED lighting instead of our current mix of CFLs and a few LEDs so I was vaguely searching on Amazon.in to see if there were any remarkable deals there - my search, using LED Bulbs turned up, amongst other things of similar nature, a book called Love, Sex & the Whip with an illustration on the cover I shall leave to your collective imaginations.
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
I concluded to buy the LED thingies locally rather than go to the hassle of getting them delivered - buying them locally is, I found, cheaper too!
[Years ago a female colleague and I were staffing a Sexual Health Stall at an evening event when a young woman approached us for advice - she was a dominatrix and wanted to talk about the safety, in HIV terms, of nailing her male partner's parts to a plank! We discussed it with her and she went away satisfied, I think. I was more worried about tetanus than HIV!]
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Welease Woderwick
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It is an abiding memory! She was just so blasé about it!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
[Years ago a female colleague and I were staffing a Sexual Health Stall at an evening event when a young woman approached us for advice - she was a dominatrix and wanted to talk about the safety, in HIV terms, of nailing her male partner's parts to a plank! We discussed it with her and she went away satisfied, I think. I was more worried about tetanus than HIV!]
As a nurse that was my immediate reaction too!
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Albertus
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Interesting. What's the answer? Basically 'make sure you have sterilised the nails'?
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Welease Woderwick
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I think so - Steriswabs™ on everything before you begin! It has always struck me as a pretty weird thing to agree to in the first place.
Chacun a son goût or whatever.
In other news today we learnt that on Monday Herself had 7 embryos implanted! I gather the chances of them all developing are pretty small but have been giggling over the implications - multiple tiered bunk beds? I may have to move out and take a little rented house just outside screaming range.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Eye bleach on your shopping list please, WW
Loth's right - now that I've seen that, I can't un-see it.
Best of luck to Herself for success, but not too much success ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
We had a v. nice feed last night at a place that's a breakfasterie by day, but has an evening menu as well. We started by sharing wings and rings (which was a far more generous portion than we needed), then D. had a skillet potato-bake thing, and I had the best-value lamb chops in the city - a half-rack of four with very nicely-cooked veggies and a baked potato for $20 (about £10). Most of the more up-market places in town would charge twice that, and much as I love lamb, I'm not prepared to pay $40 for it.
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Most of the more up-market places in town would charge twice that, and much as I love lamb, I'm not prepared to pay $40 for it.
I should think not. For that price you should expect at least an entire quarter of the sheep.
Had a charity cake sale today and in the donations bucket there was a dirty-looking 2p piece which turned out to be a genuine George V halfpenny, from 1932, i.e. it's 83 years old. It's not unknown to get coins which aren't normal UK currency in donations buckets, but this is a first for me. I'm keeping it for luck.
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In other news today we learnt that on Monday Herself had 7 embryos implanted!
Yikes. I know you said "implants" upthread but I'd sort of idly assumed this was dental or something. I hope she's okay.
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I've just got back from a lovely 4 and a bit days with my sister, her husband and their three kids, now 4, 2 and 7 months. Absolutely delightful to cuddle, play with and generally spoil the little ones - we took the older two swimming this morning, and seeing them laughing on the mini water slides and in the waves was adorable. My sister and I also took all three to the beach on Tuesday and again, paddling in the waves with them was lovely. Nieces and nephews are the best ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Piglet
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... Nieces and nephews are the best
Speaking as Auntie and Great-Auntie Piglet I completely agree! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Last shift done at the Crypt Tea Room today (the final week is split among the various teams and the choir is doing the last two days) and it was a busy one - we made over $700. I'm not involved tomorrow as one of the profs in our department died last week and his memorial service is on Friday afternoon.
I hope the chapel at the funeral home is air-conditioned - it's forecast to be 25° tomorrow and feeling like over 30 ... ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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daisydaisy
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by moonfruit:
... Nieces and nephews are the best
Speaking as Auntie and Great-Auntie Piglet I completely agree!
Being Honorary Auntie is pretty good too ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Today, as I drove over the busy motorway taking cars to the coast I noticed that it looked more like a car park and right at that moment the national BBC radio traffic news said it was due to the removal of someone sunbathing on the motorway ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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LeRoc
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My niece and nephew are very cool too. I was glad that I was able to spend some time with them last month.
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Piglet
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... I hope the chapel at the funeral home is air-conditioned ...
It wasn't. ![[Frown]](frown.gif) It was, however, packed, and I ended up standing at the back, although I managed to purloin a chair about half-way through which was just as well, as my back was beginning to ache.
Funerals seem to be the order of the day at the moment: the choir's suddenly been asked to turn out tomorrow for the funeral of a very elderly lady in the congregation although the family had originally said they only wanted a soloist.
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Good luck to Herself, WW.
I agree about nieces and nephews, having seen three of them this week. The grown up ones were delightfully grown-up, full of the exciting places they'd been and seeing the six year old meant we had a chance for a walk and a trip to a playground.
I'm waiting for the taxi to take us to the airport on holiday. I usually take a pillow as I'm fussy about such things, but I've ditched it so I can take some extra shoes as its a walking holiday and having just got my feet pain free I don't want to set them off again. Fingers crossed the hotel has the sort of soft pillows I like.
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Uncle Pete
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Fingers crossed the hotel has the sort of soft pillows I like.
Even budget chains have choices of pillows (or will install them at request) Good luck.
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Have fun Sarasa! I always take my own pillow case away with me if a pillow won't fit.
We are home from a few days in London with both sons. It was lovely, and very rare, to get them both together.
Twiglet was good as gold at her boarders and Tatze stayed with her best friend in the whole wide world, Zaba.
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LeRoc
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My 6 year old nephew just got his "B" swimming diploma. This means he's able to swim in water of any depth — with full clothes and shoes if necessary — and already has some lifesaving skills.
Proud uncle.
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daisydaisy
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Today I acquired another honorary nephew - or at least I'm an honorary aunt. We walked a reluctant alpaca together - cute thing.
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Now that we have our first grandchild, we also have two aunts and two uncles who are new to this. They seem almost as pleased as we are.
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Congratulations on your grandpahood, SS! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
After a nice lazy morning, we've had quite a busy day. The funeral went well (although it was horribly hot - 27° but feeling like 33, and it hadn't occurred to our dozy sidesmen to open the West doors), and there was a decent congregation, considering that the deceased was 98. When I saw the undertaker, I said "we really must stop meeting like this" - I don't think I've ever been to funerals on two consecutive days before. Must be getting old ...
Afterwards, having not had time for lunch, D. and I went to a local hotel and had a cheese platter, olives and a glass of wine, which was rather nice, and then decided that as it was such a lovely evening we'd go back and see another performance of Pirates of Penzance, which we thoroughly enjoyed (again).
Now I'm in the process of making rolls for tomorrow's lunch*, which I hope are rising as I type.
* Bacon + tomato + avocado + nice bread = heaven
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Celtic Knotweed
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Sandemaniac's cricket match has been cancelled due to rain. This also means I'm reconsidering my plan of heading over to the other side of town to see the Rugby World Cup (and a colleague playing in the touch rugby matches going on as a part of its visit to us).
On the other hand, I've just taken some fresh bere-meal shortbread out of the oven. Available for virtual tasting
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LeRoc
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Celtic Knotweed: This also means I'm reconsidering my plan of heading over to the other side of town to see the Rugby World Cup
I thought that only started in September? I wanted to go there but I heard tickets are very expensive.
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Due to the wonderful British summer weather, yesterday's laundry is still on the washing line, having had a further two rinses...
Depending on tomorrow's weather it may yet have a few more before finally coming indoors, since the current plan is for me to take the Opuses to Birmingham to do as much as we can manage of their Big Hoot owl trail, and to fit in shopping for the assorted school essentials which we haven't yet sorted (i.e. everything except mobile phones or uniform with logo!). Could be fun, could be a total disaster...
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My plan A to do more of the Big Hoot Owl trail today was thwarted by the weather. I've done most of the city centre ones and am deciding which of the ones over the rest of the city I want to find.
I also need to get some new work jeans and some new funeral trousers.
Owls will be more fun!
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Welease Woderwick
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When the alarm went off two hours ago it was thrashing it down outside so thinking I'm not walking in that! I quite happily turned over and went back to sleep. Now the sun is beaming down and not a cloud in the sky!
But I'm still not going to walk as breakfast is nearly ready and I'm rather fond of food.
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Piglet
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I love the idea of the Big Hoot; it seems similar to the Wenlock and Mandeville statues they had in London for the 2012 Olympics and the Paddington Bears when the film came out. My sis-in-law did several walks collecting pictures of both of those, and when we happened to be in London at the start of the Paralympics I took a picture of D. with one of the statues, just to prove we'd been there ...
A few years ago, there was a similar sort of thing here, but with mermaids.
It's been a very sticky, uncomfortable sort of day here; although it didn't get officially above 23° with a Humidex of 33, it felt even hotter than that to me. Cassocks and surplices don't half hold a lot of heat.
Did some nice music though: Hassler's Missa super "Dixit Maria" and Rejoice in the Lord always by that wonderfully prolific Tudor composer Anon in the morning, and Gibbons Mag and Nunc and Harris's Holy is the true Light at Evensong, all of which caused much Decanal Grinning™.
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It's tipping it down here too, which is not encouraging me to visit today's market.
My current desire for dryness is partly triggered by getting drenched in a thunderstorm walking down from Blackstone Edge yesterday. And because we timed it for the last train from Marsden to meet my bus I only got to wring out my socks on the train platform (and change to drier inner socks), so my shoes and feet were still wet when I finally got home at 11:30pm. Everything else had dried out by then, eventually.
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LeRoc
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If St. Peter could only send some of your rain here to Zimbabwe. They need it.
(PS Going from a Brazilian to an English to an African climate within one week isn't doing wonderful things to my nose and throat.)
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Ariel
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Pouring. Well, they said it would.
Quiet weekend with some butterfly-spotting, ice creams and a brief trip to Stratford curtailed by the oncoming rain. Stratford was notable for a street performer doing sleight of hand tricks with ropes (very convincingly) and someone selling those giant bubble devices which you wave around to generate giant bubbles, and which small children love to chase across the grass. The bubbles were so huge they were magical and I'm still not convinced there isn't some sort of snowflake pattern at the base, though it may just be suds.
Uneventful otherwise, you'd think there'd be a bookshop somewhere in Stratford which would have a section of novels featuring the Bard, but no.
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How many novels featuring Shakespeare are there? I think Anthony Burgess wrote one or two, didn't he? Otherwise, off the top of my head, I can't think of any. Has someone written some casting him as a detective? (If not, that might be a good or at least a lucrative idea!)
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Celtic Knotweed: This also means I'm reconsidering my plan of heading over to the other side of town to see the Rugby World Cup
I thought that only started in September? I wanted to go there but I heard tickets are very expensive.
Tickets are ridiculously expensive. We did try, but I'm going to be watching it on TV or listening to the radio.
This was the Cup itself on a tour before the event starts. Didn't go in the end as I spent a chunk of the later afternoon dealing with a sub-migraine bad headache , which leaves me with a low amount of crowd-coping. The walk along the river was a much better plan! (Heron, grey wagtail, someone eventually figuring out the automated lock gates on the Thames)
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LeRoc
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Celtic Knotweed: This was the Cup itself on a tour before the event starts.
Ah, I get it know.
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How many novels featuring Shakespeare are there?
More than you think. I read one years ago about what he got up to during the "lost years" in Italy, which I'd love to re-read but can't remember title or author; and just recently, I've read "No Bed for Bacon", "King of Shadows" and "The Stratford Boys". There are quite a few more; I'm in the process of tracking down some (hopefully) good reads, but don't want to buy them online and then find I don't like them. "Will" and "Ruled Britannia" might be worth reading and so might "Time's Fool", which is a mystery.
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LeRoc
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Hm, a book about Spakesheare, the Alien Detective from Andromeda. I'm sure there is money in that.
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Sioni Sais
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Celtic Knotweed: This also means I'm reconsidering my plan of heading over to the other side of town to see the Rugby World Cup
I thought that only started in September? I wanted to go there but I heard tickets are very expensive.
IMHO the ticket pricing is not unconnected with the resignation of Debbie Jevans who was CEO of RWC 2015. She was exasperated at the Old Boys Network that runs the game, pretty much in their own interests.
btw, as far as rugby is concerned I'm going to see a couple of the pre-season warm-ups between Bath, Exeter and Gloucester. Quite a few players will be discards from England's final squad so they will have a point to prove.
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I've been spending today settling back into my own place - I've been housesitting at the Vicarage for the past 3 1/2 weeks so I've had my run of a lovely big house and garden. Being back in my little flat, and with all my school prep to do before next week feels a bit like coming back down to earth with a bump, and not an entirely welcome bump either. Hopefully I'll settle myself down fairly quickly!
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It's a Foggy Day in Old St. John's today, and the view from the corridor outside my office has gone away. Mercifully lower temperatures in the forecast for the next few days (mid-to-high teens, much nearer the comfort zone of the Northerly Piglet).
There was some fairly serious-looking rain in Yorkshire on our Weather Channel - you folk seem to be having quite an exciting summer, meteorologically speaking.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by Piglet:
There was some fairly serious-looking rain in Yorkshire on our Weather Channel - you folk seem to be having quite an exciting summer, meteorologically speaking.
You're not wrong, Piglet. The only solution is to be carrying, at all times, sunglasses, sunblock, umbrella and waterproofs. Or just be resigned to being sunburnt and soggy all the time.
Luckily when yesterday's downpour came I was sat in a hut at the Yummy Yorkshire Ice Cream Parlour in Denby Dale eating a waffle sundae watching everybody else get wet.
We'd been to Mirfield Agricultural Show earlier in the day. No llama gymkhana this year, although there were llamas there. Also giant rabbits, miniature goats and pig racing.
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I really shouldn't have looked at the breakfast menu from that ice-cream parlour - now I want a Full English with eggy bread and Proper Bacon™.
Hold the beans though ...
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Welease Woderwick
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After that little bit last week I think I have been transported overnight to another time zone - probably somewhere not too far from Piglet-Ville - as on my morning walk I found myself humming The Day Thou Gavest which seems singularly inappropriate just as dawn is breaking!
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... humming The Day Thou Gavest seems singularly inappropriate just as dawn is breaking!
Oh I don't know:
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The sun that bids us rest is waking
Our brethren 'neath the western sky
That's you, isn't it?
I can't say that the sun's doing anything of the sort today; like the view from the corridor, it's gone away.
At least it's taken some of the heat with it ...
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Twenty nine out of eighty nine Big Hoot Owls seen and mostly photographed. Apart from the occasional mishap. I'm new to this photography caper, but am enjoying it more than I thought I would.
Mind you, I wasn't expecting to come home with a whole pile of useful stuff from Lakeland and a new bed ordered. Hedwig Owl was somewhat of a disappointment and I got distracted by the bed shop on my way to the other owls in the north.
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We managed fifty something owls yesterday before dripping back of the car and heading home. My feet had just about stopped aching when I got up this morning... I thik the Ops enjoyed it, but it's was hard to tell through the bickering. I had fun, though. I'd love to get back up to see the others, but can't realistically see that happening. I didn't get many photos, as I was trying to keep my phone dry, but got pics of our favourites Op 1 was particularly excited by Dr Whoot, and then even more so by the discovery of a full-size TARDIS at BBC Birmingham!
And That Washing finally made it indoors this morning; hopefully it'll be dry properly this evening at which point I can try and cram it into the over-stuffed airing cupboard! ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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We've just sung "the day thou gravest" at a reception into church of the father of a friend. Phillip was 92, a deacon in the Catholic Church next door to our house, and the patriarch of a large family - 10 children, 3 adopted, and so numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. One son is a priest who conducted the service and who will conduct the service tomorrow. All very sad, but an element of joy for a life well lived with an assurance of knowing where he is.
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Japes
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Originally posted by Beethoven:
We managed fifty something owls yesterday before dripping back of the car and heading home.
I am in awe! Though, I have seen more at a distance from various buses. I'm just not counting them unless I've been close enough to take a photograph of them.
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Op 1 was particularly excited by Dr Whoot, and then even more so by the discovery of a full-size TARDIS at BBC Birmingham!
As are most of those who have seen my photos of Dr Whoot.. I seem to have a lot of Dr Who fans amongst my friends.
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Japes: I seem to have a lot of Dr Who fans amongst my friends.
That's just because you chose them well.
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... humming The Day Thou Gavest seems singularly inappropriate just as dawn is breaking!
Oh I don't know:
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The sun that bids us rest is waking
Our brethren 'neath the western sky
That's you, isn't it?
Strangely I was thinking of you as I typed it!
Life was so much simpler when the world was flat!
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On my rather short evening walk last night one of the local lads put a hand on each of my [facial!] cheeks and said: I love your wrinkles!
I felt like replying: Who do you think I am. W H Auden? but didn't think he'd get the reference.
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Whenever I'm singing that verse, Zappa, Loth and the Oz/NZ shippies are the ones that spring first to mind, followed by you (well, they get the sunrise first, don't they?).
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