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Jack the Lass
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I was just thinking today that I haven't seen Heavenly Anarchist posting for a while, she's usually a stalwart on this thread. HA if you're reading this I hope you're OK ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
After a bit of an Indian Summer the last few weeks Scotland well and truly reverted to type today, and I got drenched. At least the weather was dry over the weekend, as the in-laws were up for the weekend. Possibly my highlight of the weekend was my MIL confidently asserting to the staff at the Bannockburn Heritage Centre that the English won! (I don't think she'll be winning Diplomat of the Year any time soon ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ).
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Piglet
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I think HA said she had a lot happening IRL at the moment - as you say, hope she's OK. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Originally posted by Jack the Lass:
... confidently asserting to the staff at the Bannockburn Heritage Centre that the English won ...
Oops ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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LeRoc
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LOL, I just realised that the last time that I saw autumn was in the year 2000. I've already been taking pictures.
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Piglet
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How did you manage that - are there places where autumn doesn't happen?
Having said that, spring doesn't really happen here in Newfoundland; one day you're still in boots and sweaters and then all of a sudden* the trees turn green and the following day you're looking out your sandals and tee-shirts.
Autumn here is lovely (and can last into November if we don't get too much wind). The trees are now beginning to turn red and golden, the rowan berries (or dogberries as they're called here) are bright red and the weather is just the way I like it - still a bit sunny, but not too hot. Bring it on!
* It really is that sudden - they just seem to burst forth, and once they do, it's summer.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Piglet:
How did you manage that - are there places where autumn doesn't happen?
Yes and there are places where winter doesn't either. Welcome to the equatorial regions where the seasons are long, hot and punctuated by heavy rains and/or desert winds.
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My latest food discovery is sweetfire beetroot, from Tesco - little beetroots with just a bit of spice in with them. Very yummy, and a tasty addition to my evening salad and wrap!
Currently preparing for the delights of DCC meeting this evening...it's not an appealing evening to be leaving home in, I'd far rather stay wrapped up in the warm and dry!
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ArachnidinElmet
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I don't know about autumnal weather, but we've just had bucketing rain and now a thunder storm. It's like the Bride of Frankenstein out there.
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LeRoc
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I went to a BBC Radio 4 broadcast with Curiosity Killed... yesterday. It was fun.
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Piglet
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What was the programme being broadcast, LeRoc? D's sister and brother-in-law live close enough to London to be able to go to the odd recording (usually of gems like The News Quiz or Stop the Week - I'm v. envious.
I'm gearing myself up for a seriously busy weekend - the bloke who's been doing work on our house (and who I'd hoped to get to do a bit of clearing up) isn't coming now until Tuesday, which is un fat lot de bon as we're having a few folk round for dinner on Monday as it's Thanksgiving Day.
A good deal (but not all) of the work on the house is finished, but there's an awful lot of bruck* lying about (mostly the handyman's), and a heck of a lot of cleaning to be done; there was plastering, so there's dust.
Oh yes, and the cooking ...
* bruck n. an Orcadian dialect word meaning rubbish.
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LeRoc
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Piglet: What was the programme being broadcast, LeRoc?
BBC National Short Story Award
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Welease Woderwick
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A Question for Shipmates:
Why is it that a very late night, and the knackerment subsequent upon the same, is worse the second day?
I've been away for a few days and didn't get to bed until 03.30 yesterday morning and was fairly washed-out yesterday but it all seems worse this morning - as it always does. Is there some scientific explanation for this? Is it just me it happens to? More especially, is there a cure?
Great time away, saw lots of friends, ate far too much but think that 6 nights away is too much. Have 4 nights away in Sri Lanka [only an hour's flying time] coming up next month but apart from that I think I'll limit myself to one or two night trips.
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Curiosity killed ...
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I don't know WW, but it's something I recognise too. I know I am going to be shattered tomorrow, and Sunday when it's today I should be out of it. (We have a local authority inspection today and I left work just before 11pm last night and about to leave to go back in this morning.)
LeRoc, it was fun going to that BBC Short Story thing with you. I failed to make the National Poetry Day celebration last night, but I have some more tickets coming up.
(I use BBC tickets as my get out jail free cards. They give me a time to leave work in the evening, because I like to avoid the Central Line in the rush hour. Going into Central London, doing something entertaining and then coming home is a whole lot more fun.)
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Sioni Sais
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As one who gets out of phase with sleep I find this too. I suspect it is that the human body can handle lengthened days but only so far. For that reason the first day after is treated as a continuation of the previous, albeit with an intervening nap, but the tolerance breaks down shortly afterwards. It certainly messes with medication schedules.
I can handle about 35 hours uninterrupted without much bother, eg 7am Friday to teatime Saturday but I go downhill then. If I can get a nap then the overall period lengthens but only so far and in that example I would be no shape to go to church on Sunday morning, even if I get a full eight hours sleep beforehand.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
A Question for Shipmates:
Why is it that a very late night, and the knackerment subsequent upon the same, is worse the second day?
It's the same with vigorous exercise. The muscles ache and protest not the day after, but the day after that.
odd.
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I am the same. I find the second day after little sleep worse than the first. I think you keep running on adrenaline for a while but after two days it’s all run out.
Good news of the week: brother and sister-in-law, who live in LA and who I consequently see less than once in a blue moon, have found affordable tickets to come to foie gras land for Christmas. Happy dance ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Wesley J
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Interesting, Boogs! And I thought it was just me, suffering that delayed action!!
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Piglet
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I reckon SS has it about right - your body can handle one stupidly late night, but it will catch itself on after a while unless you can make up the deficit with a nap or two (and sometimes not even then)
As most of you know, I'm part piglet, part owl, and sometimes (if I know I don't have to get up the next morning) I stay up until silly o'clock (usually messing about on here ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) ). It does catch up with me eventually though, and I have to have an early night and go to bed at 1 a.m. ...
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Piglet
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It's been a very wet and blustrous day here, and I haven't been over the threshold.
I have, however, made the chicken liver pâté that'll be part of the pre-dinner nibbles on Monday evening, and done some long-overdue housework (while the builder's stuff is lying about I've rather lost the will to clean and tidy beyond the absolute necessities).
D. has verged on sainthood by doing hoovering (which I hate), floor-cleaning and even a spot of (very effective) stain-removal on the sitting-room carpet.
Now I'm trying to reconcile the different times and temperatures needed in the oven; apparently the roasted veggies can be done in advance and re-heated in the microwave (!) but the lamb and the potatoes would be a lot easier if our stove had two ovens like the one we had in Belfast.
D. said it would be nice to serve freshly-baked bread - I agree, but it's another thing to be factored into the oven timetable. I took a couple of French sticks out of the freezer today, but really fresh (still warm) ones would be nicer; I don't know if warming previously-frozen ones in the oven would work.
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Sioni Sais
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Mrs Sioni is decorating the sewing room (to be), has made our pastor's birthday cake (not the one we cut up after the meeting: Mrs Pastor does that, ours is a gift) and we went shopping earlier.
I have been following the rugby and now that England are out I can sit back and enjoy it.
eta: Got called for a flu jab so went along for that this morning. Hardly felt a thing, makes a change from some of the horse needles I've had.
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Lothlorien
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Piglet, no way would I be warming roasted vegetables in the microwave. Just perhaps if they were leftovers and it was just me to eat them. You could cook them earlier, and while your meat is resting after baking, all nicely wrapped in foil, turn the oven up and heat them. Or while you make the gravy in the baking pan with the lovely scrapings etc.
Frozen peas etc can be cooked in microwave but please don't warm up baked vegetables.
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Piglet
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Thanks, Loth - it's a new recipe to me*, so I appreciate the advice. I was a bit sceptical anyway, and I should be able to pop them back in while the potatoes are cooking - they don't need a very high temperature, so it shouldn't do the roast veggies any harm.
* why, I hear you ask, are you trying it out on your friends?
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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A lovely day with friends at the 'Shoes - Pleasure and Pain' exhibition at the V&A, even though it was rammed. It was fascinating to see such a variety of wholly impractical shoes - Manolos, Louboutins and so on - but I did think it would have been good to film the feet of people actually walking round, and show their shoes on a screen above the displays, for the contrast ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) as well as to pass the time queuing to get to the next display case.
What I really couldn't stomach were the tiny shoes for the bound feet of Chinese ladies ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
As my friend said, if we went to the V&A every day for a year there would still be something new to see
Mrs. S, feet aching even now
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Curiosity killed ...
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I attended university near the V&A and would deliberately arrive slightly early so I could see another room in the V&A and/or the Science and Natural History Museums. I still don't think I saw everything and it's been changed since.
I get the V&A update emails and keep meaning to get there, but whenever I've tried the queues to what I want to see have been so long I've explored elsewhere in the museum or abandoned the V&A and headed to the Natural History or Science museums. I did try to rediscover the fabric rooms recently as they were incredible, but failed, just found all the Pre-Raphaelite stuff instead.
I also get sidetracked: to get to the V&A now I go past the Museum of London, John Soane Museum, Wallace Collection, National Gallery and British Museum, all of which I'm quite happy to visit. If I change trains a stop earlier than I would to get to South Kensington I can get to the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory faster.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Piglet:
D. said it would be nice to serve freshly-baked bread - I agree, but it's another thing to be factored into the oven timetable. I took a couple of French sticks out of the freezer today, but really fresh (still warm) ones would be nicer; I don't know if warming previously-frozen ones in the oven would work.
This reminds me that I was looking at part-baked breads in the supermarket and decided against buying them as the quantities were too large. But perhaps that might be an idea for you: part bake your baguettes the day before until they're pale, then finish them off when you're ready to do so.
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
As my friend said, if we went to the V&A every day for a year there would still be something new to see
I love the V&A - the place is a treasure house of beautiful artifacts and it's impossible to see everything in one go. I always come away feeling inspired by the designs and colours. So many wonderful things under just one roof!
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Re-heating the bread in the oven works great. If the crust is already thick and crunchy, wrap in foil and warm slowly. If the crust could do with some more crisping, then just put the bread on the rack as it is. I do thaw them on the counter first. Guests always think I have made fresh bread as the house smells lovely. Happy Thanksgiving!
Lily Pad,
who is up getting the turkey in the oven and is contemplating putting some bread on and wishes there were a couple of loaves in the freezer.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
...'Shoes - Pleasure and Pain' ...
Mrs. S, feet aching even now
You should have worn more comfortable shoes ...
From the title, it sounded much more, erm, exotic than just posh shoes. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
Thanks for the bread advice; we actually ate half of one of the loaves for lunch today so I'll need to do a new batch anyway. I think I've sussed out how to make the timings work - I'll let you know.
Harvest Festival went off v. nicely today: Missa secunda by Hassler and our first outing of All creatures of our God and King by Harris in the morning, and lovely Tudor stuff (Ayleward responses and canticles, and Batten's O sing joyfully) in the evening, eliciting much Decanal Grinning™.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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I wore the most comfortable ones I was prepared to be seen out in - my cowboy boots. Next step would have been my walking shoes and I just couldn't bring myself to do that, not with all those lovely Louboutins etc
(There was nothing 50 Shades about the exhibition, Piglet, other than a few pairs of high, laced boots - I think the pain was probably the bound feet )
Mrs. S, who's got the Comfortable Shoes*
*song from The Picture of Doreen Gray, due to be reprised at our Church FUN Concert on Saturday
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That exhibition sounds great Mrs S, but I'm not sure I'd like having to queue so much to see things.
We went to the Musical museum in Kew on Saturday, An amazing collection of self-playing instruments such as barrel organs and player pianos. The tour ended with a demonstration of their mighty Wurlitzer. Flashing lights, model T Ford sounds, and it rose and sank into the floor. Well worth a visit if you are in the area. We're going back in a couple of week to see it in action again when it acompanies a Hallow'een showing of Nosferatu.
In other news the builders have finished, leaving us with a new bathroom and shower room. We spent three hours yesterday cleaning up. I now know why my grandmother who loved housework was so thin, scrubbing floors and beating mats is HARD work.
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
I attended university near the V&A and would deliberately arrive slightly early so I could see another room in the V&A and/or the Science and Natural History Museums.
When I was a student at King's London some years ago, I once arrived early so I could go into Tate Modern when it opened as I wanted to buy some postcards.
What I hadn't bargained for was going into the Turbine Hall and having it all to myself to see the amazing "Weather Project". Stunning! (My wife and I went back late one night to see a dance performance by Merce Cunningham's group - also stunning, but in a different way).
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St. Gwladys
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Sarah's, if you are ever in Cornwall, you'd probably enjoy Paul Corrrin's museum near Looe - he's got all sorts of street organs, player pianos and a Wurlitzer.
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St. Gwladys
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Sorry, I meant my answer to be to Sarasa's comment, and didn't realise my iPad had "corrected" it.
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St. Gwladys
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Sarah's, if you are ever in Cornwall, you'd probably enjoy Paul Corrrin's museum near Looe - he's got all sorts of street organs, player pianos and a Wurlitzer.
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Piglet
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Thanksgiving dinner sans turkey done and dusted. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, and the roast lamb went down a treat. The roasted veggies weren't bad - if I do them again, I'll try and do them closer to the time we're going to eat, but they tasted fine. It was just as well I made a fresh batch of loaves, as we polished off two of them between pre-prandial nibblies and accompaniments to the main course and the cheese.
I am, however, now completely knackered - perhaps I should have taken tomorrow as a day off to recover ... ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
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Thought I'd better show I'm back after 6 weeks without internet. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Also, I could see this valuable and fascinating site vanishing down the page, so I've brought it back again.
Otherwise, life just goes on. And on.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Sipech:
Terrible news! Stephen Fry is leaving QI. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
Excellent news! Sandi Toksvig is taking over.
Win! Win!
Sandi is much less smug but just as intelligent. We'll lose the Stephen Fry/Alan Davies banter though, but it should freshen things up.
What happened to Sandi's political party?
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
What happened to Sandi's political party?
It exists, they are holding a Policy Launch on Oct 20th. Sandi doesn't seem to have a prominent part in it, but may be involved 'behind the scenes'.
She got a lot of online abuse when she announced she was leaving The News Quiz to set it up.
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Piglet
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We enjoy catching The News Quiz when we're home on holiday*, and I thought Sandi Toksvig was very good at it; I'm sure she'll be good at QI as well.
Who's taken over The News Quiz?
* I know we could get Radio 4 on the interweb, but really the only place we listen to the radio is in the car (which we don't over here, as the radio programmes tend to be a bit rubbish).
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Wesley J
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That'd be Miles Jupp, of Archie the Inventor-'Balamory' and of 'Rev' fame. He ain't bad really.
You can also subscribe to News Quiz mp3 podcasts, BTW (Friday Night Comedy podcast), see here, then slap it onto your mobile phone or mp3 player.
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Piglet
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I'm afraid we haven't joined the MP3 age, and our mobiles are only used for making phone calls and taking photographs; our plan doesn't include the web. Not that it bothers us hugely; we keep a stock of CDs that we like in the car, and are happy to have the Beeb when we come home.
In other news, today brought the summer that was absent in July; it got up to 23° but feeling like 29 this afternoon, which was about 5° warmer than the previous record for 14th October.
Even as I type, it's still 16° and it's just gone midnight.
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balaam
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Sipech:
Terrible news! Stephen Fry is leaving QI.
Excellent news! Sandi Toksvig is taking over.
Win! Win!
Another win, the BBC no longer have to look for female panellists as they now have their token female on every show.
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Nenya
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It's the same with vigorous exercise. The muscles ache and protest not the day after, but the day after that.
What is this vigorous exercise of which you speak?
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Originally posted by Nenya:
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Originally posted by Boogie:
It's the same with vigorous exercise. The muscles ache and protest not the day after, but the day after that.
What is this vigorous exercise of which you speak?
Nen - great to see you again!
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Welease Woderwick
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As for me I'm wondering if I can get the words vigorous exercise on the banned list! Some of us have rather delicate constitutions.
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I'll join you in that campaign, Wodders.
I think I may have to go and have a lie-down just reading them ...
Somewhat cooler day here today (after the 23° we had on Wednesday the only way was down), but still v. nice, and the trees are really beginning to put on their autumn clothes now - so pretty.
I love Newfoundland in the autumn!
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by Piglet:
I love Newfoundland in the autumn!
Even though it doesn't quite scan, I've now got 'I Love Newfoundland in the autumn' to the tune of 'I love Paris in the Springtime' going round in my head. Gah. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Piglet
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Sorry about that.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Tonight we run our annual autumn concert in aid of two good causes in Africa. As I am the co-organiser, mistress of ceremonies and performer in two of the acts, I am chewing my nails here. I keep telling myself that we have a 100% record of successful concerts up to now, but it isn't sinking in ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
Wales play the Boks this afternoon. Mr. S's computer has decided it can only boot into XP so he is wound up as well - heaven knows what we'll be like by 7.30 ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
Mrs. S, on several sets of tenterhooks
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Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
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Ooh, I hadn't seen about Sandi Toksvig taking over QI; I should imagine she'll be quite good. I always enjoyed her on The News Quiz, although I think that Miles Jupp has done a sterling job too.
I've got that slightly peaky, I might be about to be ill/ come down with something feeling. I'm hoping it's just end of (half) term itis - we have one week left till we get a week off, though it's going to be a long one with two parent's evenings to get through. I just hope I don't then spend the whole of half term sick. I'm keeping up the lemsip to ward it off!
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