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Anthy :hug::hug::hug: Oh. My. Goodness. I'm glad to hear things are looking up, but it must have been a nightmare at the time. I'm just popping into say a very Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to everyone in the Homeroom, and B77 at large. I hope everyone who is travelling stays safe, and everyone who...

This is great news, vison.

I hope you have a very Merry Christmas.

Happy Anniversary Iavas and Eru

(and they are beautiful pictures too!)

*shudders in sympathy for Rebecca and her flying spider* Once upon a time I had a hunstman spider drop on me in the night. These things are big, and hairy, and just plain ugly. I literally picked it up and threw it across the room. And then spent the rest of the night gibbering away to myself with t...

wholly, heartily, enthusiastically reading everything

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edit - tosh! you beat me to it!

so

My, what awful howlers arrive

toshw

I rather liked the BBC version of the Narnia stories. I can’t remember the beavers, perhaps I missed that episode. :P I wasn’t aware until about 5 minutes ago that there had been an animated version too: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/samaranth/thechroniclesofnarnia_animated_1_1...

Perhaps children would be safer if they weren't allowed closer than 8 foot of any man until they were of voting age. Perhaps men should be in purdah. This is akin to some religions' identification of gender with uncontrollable and perverse sexual urges. Up to now it has been women who have suffered...

If it were a policy aimed anywhere else but at the protection of children I might be tempted to agree with you, TED. It is undeniably discriminatory, in the sense that it makes a distinction on the basis of gender. But children – particularly those in the younger age groups - are simply more ...

me!me!me! nl


(this Sunday 4/12?)

edited to add: "please"

TP, in relation to the issue of whether or not a woman is more likely to care for a child sitting next to her, I would have been just as concerned if the unknown person sitting next to my son was a woman. I consider it unreasonable of the airlines to expect that any unassociated adult (particularly ...

I support the policy, actually. It is not dissimilar to the policies imposed in other areas, born out of a significantly higher prevalence of paedophilic behaviour by males than by females. Sure, the airline could have handled that particular situation a little more discreetly– at check in, f...

Well said, Alatar.

"I knew Impy before she was famous!"

Oh no! Pity about the memory card.

Rome is great. I hope you get more of a chance to do the culture thing here, eborr, than you did in Athens.

TW, I’ve always found this smiley to be quite useful… http://bestsmileys.com/angry1/8.gif But a :hug: and some more rum are probably more, er, positive. Cars and I do not get along. They always develop a mysterious rattle when I’m the driver. Or start to mysteriously stall, espec...

Another Cecilia Bartoli fan :love: :love::love: A singer with great heart as well as a great voice. I thought she and Bryn Terfel made a glorious Figaro and Susanna, in a television production I saw of The Marriage of Figaro years ago. I think Renee Fleming played the Countess in this as well. (But ...

Just dropping into see how NL is getting along, and to leave a :hug: for Prim. I’m not the chattiest, not even at the best of times. And lately I’ve felt that I have less and less to say. I’m not an offical Hoomie, never got beyond the training wheels stage, but as long as the f...

inner karma or outer jeopardy?

itchy


and yes, welcome to Elessar

edited to add - The Watcher beat me to it!

so:


royal mail finds gigantic boomerang!

still itchy...

All of the above, I think. I don’t believe that I can honestly say that my position on anything is absolute, I can only ever reach a ‘this is my belief for the moment, based on the facts as I know and interpret them’. However, with quite a few issues it would take a pretty hefty ...

lions, witches - Narnia excites universally

(or maybe it doesn’t, but I’m excited!)

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