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Hedgehog

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More happiness! Upthread I mentioned the "Breaking Cat News" comic strip and that it was on hiatus. Well, the main reason it was on hiatus was that the cartoonist, Georgia Dunn, was reformulating it to fit a more traditional newspaper format. She explained that she could no longer continue the strip in the web format unless it started paying (and better than the occasional merchandise sale to fans--for example, my Christmas/Hanukkah cards this year will all be BCN cards). She needed it to be picked up by newspapers (yeah, okay, not exactly a growth industry).

Anyway, Georgia announced this week that her strip has been picked up by Universal/Uclick to be one of their new strips for 2017!!! [Yipee] The Uclick sales crew will be pitching it to newspapers and is expected to start in March/April of 2017.

It truly is a delightful strip, viewing the world from the cat viewpoint--and their world tends to be their house or backyard. It is warm, funny and family-friendly. The lead cats are based on Georgia's real cats: Elvis (a siamese who tends to dislike everybody except Georgia,whom he is devoted to); Lupin, an adventurous white who (because of any infection) is deaf; and Puck, a warm-hearted black who lost a rear leg in his youth.

So I will be sending e-mails to my local papers trying to get them to pick it up, but in the meantime I still am rejoicing that Georgia has got the Universal backing! [Axe murder]

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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
... Organists Behaving Badly™ ...

Surely not!! [Angel]

An Organist's Wife Has Spoken. [Big Grin]

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Moo

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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
... Organists Behaving Badly™ ...

Surely not!! [Angel]

An Organist's Wife Has Spoken. [Big Grin]

Years ago there was a wonderful thread about organists behaving badly. I looked for it in Limbo, but I couldn't find it.

Moo

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jedijudy

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I loved that thread, Moo! Good times. [Smile]

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Tubbs

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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
I loved that thread, Moo! Good times. [Smile]

I found the press release but not the 2003 (!) thread. Nothing to stop us doing an update and including other church musicians. I'm sure people have got up to plenty of mischief since then. [Two face]

Tubbs

[ 14. November 2016, 13:17: Message edited by: Tubbs ]

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Boogie

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I spent the weekend at my brother's farm. They have a log burning fire. I really enjoyed setting it - very therapeutic [Smile]

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kingsfold

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Very hygge .

Tangent: could the Ship be described as "hyggelig" I wonder?

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quote:
Originally posted by kingsfold:
Very hygge .

Tangent: could the Ship be described as "hyggelig" I wonder?

Sounds very much like the German idea of "Gemütlichkeit."

(Sorry, hosts, I can't really translate "Gemütlichkeit" -- it's often cited as a word that cannot be translated into English, but it sort of means a feeling of coziness, contentedness, comfort, and relaxation.

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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by kingsfold:
Very hygge .

Tangent: could the Ship be described as "hyggelig" I wonder?

Sounds very much like the German idea of "Gemütlichkeit."

(Sorry, hosts, I can't really translate "Gemütlichkeit" -- it's often cited as a word that cannot be translated into English, but it sort of means a feeling of coziness, contentedness, comfort, and relaxation.

Also Gezellig in Dutch (cosiness of a sort).

I saw Arrival, the new Amy Adams film, last week. It's very sad in places, but an entirely uplifting experience. In the end,

[spoiler]when it's really necessary, the pen/tentacle/linguistic studies will be mightier than the sword [/spoiler].

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snowgoose

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This thread is so comforting!

Jenny, my youngest cat, has been suffering with bladder stones for a couple of weeks now. She was in such pain and misery at first and we didn't know what was wrong. The vet found stones and started treating it. Treatment has included subcutaneous fluids and heavy-duty pain killers. I have been giving her two shots a day. (We haven't had to give fluids for several days now.) Mostly she has been curled up in her bed.

I am delighted to report that she is now squirming like crazy when she gets her shot. (It now takes 2 of us to give it to her: one to hold, one to stick.) She is getting into everything and knocking things off counters and chasing moths. All of which means she is feeling much better. We'll go to one shot a day before bed time for a few days and then no more shots.

We have been so worried about her. It is good to see her being a little terror again.

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Nicolemr
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I have been non-stop rereading some of my favorite books, Lois McMaster Bujold's fantasys set in the world of the five gods. They are very comforting.

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Brenda Clough
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Curse of Chalion is one of the great fantasy novels of all time. Have you read her Sharing Knife series?

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basso

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I may have to reread the Chalion books too. I liked Paladin of Souls even more than its predecessor.

I read The Sharing Knife books, and liked them too. Still haven't got around to Vorkosigan, though.

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Brenda C, yes, I've read everything she's written. I have to say though, the Sharing Knife books are not my favs. Not that they aren't good, just that I don't like them as much as her other work.

Basso, did you know she has written three novellas originally only available in e-format set in the world of the Five Gods? Penric's Demon, Penric and the Shamen, and Penric's Mission. I just finished The Hallowed Hunt and am about to embark on rereading the Penric stories.

If I read I don't brood.

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Huia
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I met a young Californian on the bus today. He told me that he had fallen in love with New Zealand and wants to move here. It turned out that he had been kayaking my favourite place on the West Coast, Lake Brunner. It was so lovely to have him share his delight in the place, almost as good as re-visiting it myself. Then he asked me to identify the photo of a bird he had taken (a kea).

I was sorry to get to my stop, and he carried on to catch his plane home.

Huia

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jedijudy

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A gentle reminder that we have several threads to discuss books and book suggestions in Heaven. This is a wonderful thread to let us know that you are getting lost in reading, but please make suggestions and queries about other books in the appropriate threads.

Thanks!

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I'm doing lot of sudoku and reading #bidenmemes. I am diligently avoiding the newspapers in favor of a new novella (Bujold's Penric's Mission) and a house-become-jungle. We had a frost and must now arrange all the six-foot tender plants in front of the inadequate windows.

The jungle invaded my living room (via Mr. Lamb) while I was out with a group of Boy Scouts freezing my butt off. The fire was lovely, though, and we had the least amount of kid bickering ever!

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cattyish

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At work we have had a very keen work experience visitor from a school 25 miles away who is so enthusiastic that we've found ourselves smiling broadly and enjoying the mysteries of health care even more than usual.

Meanwhile I am also loving singing carols, even though it feels a little early before Advent really hits. We need to practice before some concerts next month.

Cattyish, Oh soul be thou as white as snow oh..

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jacobsen

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Things that make me feel good? My new wood-burning stove, set in the brick fireplace the installers built for me. The cats like it too.

Things that make me feel safe? In ascending order of stress management, golden age whodunnits, Georgette Heyer and closed world children's books such as the Chalet School series.

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Welease Woderwick

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I am sitting here in an hotel room in the middle of a city [it is still early so the city is not yet much awake] I have just opened the window and I was serenaded by a little group of doves cooing away to one another. It is a lovely and comforting sound, so different from the crows we get at this hour at home in my little village.

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Boogie

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Cuddling Mollie and watching her play with my Tatze.

Great therapy!


Mollie and Tatze


[Big Grin]

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Welease Woderwick

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Poor Mollie on those newly sanded and varnished floors!

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Kelly Alves

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quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
I'm doing lot of sudoku and reading #bidenmemes. I am diligently avoiding the newspapers in favor of a new novella (Bujold's Penric's Mission) and a house-become-jungle. We had a frost and must now arrange all the six-foot tender plants in front of the inadequate windows.

The jungle invaded my living room (via Mr. Lamb) while I was out with a group of Boy Scouts freezing my butt off. The fire was lovely, though, and we had the least amount of kid bickering ever!

The Biden memes have been the quinine in the epidemic of the last week. Love me some Joe.

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Ariel
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Doctor Who and kittens. What more could you want?

Yes, I know. They're born killers. Even if they appear to be friendly.

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Ariel
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Ah, they don't make them like that any more. [Big Grin] I used to love watching the Goodies.
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Pigwidgeon

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quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
Cuddling Mollie and watching her play with my Tatze.

Great therapy!

Mollie and Tatze

[Big Grin]

Tatze is such a loving, patient sweetheart -- and Mollie is absolutely adorable.

Dogs and puppies are the best stress busters.

[Axe murder]

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Twilight

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My cat sleeps in a cardboard box in the garage. I know it sounds cruel, but it is entirely his choice. He loves to come inside but wants to leave after ten minutes and he sneers at all the fuzzy cat beds I've made for him.

Always, after about two months he will suddenly shun his cardboard box for mysterious cat reasons of his own, so I get him a new one. This week, all I could find in a hurry was a little box about the size of a large toaster. I thought he wouldn't fit, but put it out, temporarily.

At three in the morning I let the dog out and I could tell by her frenzy of delighted wagging that all 15 pounds of her cat was firmly stuffed in the box. Yes it's a square box of cat with eyes. Very cute.

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Ariel
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quote:
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Always, after about two months he will suddenly shun his cardboard box for mysterious cat reasons of his own, so I get him a new one.

I suppose it might smell a bit stale by then.

quote:
Yes it's a square box of cat with eyes. Very cute.
I'm imagining something along these lines...
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Exactly! [Killing me]
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I'm looking after a friend's cat for the weekend, and she is an adorable little thing. Spent most of the first day under the bed, so I sat up there quietly doing some writing and she came out and had a fuss.
This morning she woke me for breakfast, did the classic walking over the computer keyboard bit, and has now retired to watch the world from the bedroom window.
I think I'll be volunteering to have her to stay again.

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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
quote:
Originally posted by Twilight:
Always, after about two months he will suddenly shun his cardboard box for mysterious cat reasons of his own, so I get him a new one.

I suppose it might smell a bit stale by then.

quote:
Yes it's a square box of cat with eyes. Very cute.
I'm imagining something along these lines...

It's instinctive -- the same reason that mother cats will suddenly take it into their heads to move the nest of kittens. Moving to a new box or domicile leaves all the fleas and parasites behind. Even if you keep your kitty well and there are no fleas, they'll instinctively do it.

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Huia
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Probably why my cat always chooses to sleep on the clean clothes [Roll Eyes]

Huia

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Twilight

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Ah, that makes sense, Brenda. Now, if I could just move to a nice clean house every few months...
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Dumping the ingredients into the breadmaker and two hours later, the smell of freshly baked bread wafting through the place as I take out a perfectly baked little loaf. This always makes me smile.

It sits there on the cooling rack looking plump and golden brown, and smelling so appetizing that I can almost never resist cutting a slice while it's still hot, watching the butter melt into it, and maybe spreading it with honey.

Sometimes the small pleasures are the best.

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quote:
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... cutting a slice while it's still hot, watching the butter melt into it, and maybe spreading it with honey ...

Absolutely. Or Tiptree raspberry jam. [Smile]

You're dead right - bread-making is one of life's most therapeutic little pleasures.

Must make a batch of loaves tomorrow. [Yipee]

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la vie en rouge
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Yes I also made bread this weekend. I prefer to use my fair hand (all that kneading is muchly therapeutic). This time I used half wholemeal flour (what the French call semi-complet) and added a load of poppy seeds. It was tasty.

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Tiptree raspberry jam is yet another proof that God loves us, wants us to be happy, and supports the sale of dental floss...

IJ

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Welease Woderwick

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Oatmeal in a normal sense is not available here but we can get porage oats - and I have found a ridiculously simple recipe for making oatcakes from them!

[Yipee]

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Welease Woderwick

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We were in town the other day and on the way back to the car Himself spotted a bird in a tree watching us - I think it was a Montagu's Harrier.

These are by no means rare but this was right near the town centre and, like many raptors, they are very beautiful.

For some reason I cannot make the link but a quick search should sort one out for you.

Where Montagu was at the time I have no idea.

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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Oatmeal in a normal sense is not available here but we can get porage oats - and I have found a ridiculously simple recipe for making oatcakes from them!

[Yipee]

I wonder if we might trouble you for that recipe? One of my life's more frustrating failures is an inability to make decent oatcakes.

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I shall place it in the recipes thread.

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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I shall place it in the recipes thread.

Thank you most kindly - will try it quite soon.

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Thay haif said. Quhat say thay, Lat thame say (George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal)

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A good, flavorful, freshly brewed mug of coffee with half & half cream, cinnamon and a drop of vanilla extract = a little bit of Heaven on Earth!

Walking down the street and exchanging a smile with someone you have just almost collided with is another beautiful thing.

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Lithuanian pea-and-smoked-flank soup....mmmmmmm...

Just the thing for warming up after a Winterfest shopping trip!

IJ

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There's been a lot of talk of bread in this thread but a thick chunk of good seeded bread spread with salted butter is a thing of beauty by itself.
There's a bakery in Abergavenny which sells out of its multi seed bread by mid morning, it's the darkest bread I've ever had, really nutty.....I'm wanting some even as I write this.it also makes wonderful toast.

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On Dr's recommendation I have been avoiding anything with wheat in it for the last month or so but today is the day I can start eating bread again!

[Yipee]

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Amen to the Joy of bread.
Fresh baked white, nutty brown bread with flour on top, plenty of butter.....all good 😊

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There I was chewing at the bread machine's seedy bread when I noticed an odd thing at the back of my mouth, smooth and hard.

Detached crown, hanging on by a thread.

Dead tooth pulled loose as well. I'm going to have to have a special surgical procedure, under local anaesthetic, to remove the root.

It was my most hard working chewing tooth!

I'm going to have to be more careful with the bread.

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I was feeling a bit grumpy when I exited the supermarket. A large van was parked outside with
Special Branch painted on the side.

A new firm of arborists in town.

Immediately lifted my grump [Big Grin]

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