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Sun, 19 October 2008 17:50  |
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My Happening Life
Smooshes!
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| Re: My Happening Life [message #1701 is a reply to message #1688 ] |
Sun, 19 October 2008 21:01  |
dhudson
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Didn't Sunshine just get released in Britain? I would think that Britain would love Robin. When I was in England and Scotland for vacation, it seemed a land of fairy tales. I knew there had to be a Loch Ness Monster after seeing the loch, fairies had to real and living in some of the ancient castles gardens and there certainly was magic everywhere. So why doesn't Britain know and love Robin? Just wondering.
God Bless,
Dawn
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| Re: My Happening Life [message #1702 is a reply to message #1682 ] |
Sun, 19 October 2008 21:28 |
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| Susan from Athens wrote on Sun, 19 October 2008 17:59 |
I feel exhausted just reading about your day. Be tired. Be very tired. You deserve it.
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i think after a day like that ,you deserve a nice hot bubble bath with some soothing opera music ,some lite candles with your favorite scents and you favorite book to read while you soak.as tired as you get sometimes, you never forget to write you blog which we always wait for with bated breath. thank you 
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Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: My Happening Life [message #1709 is a reply to message #1680 ] |
Sun, 19 October 2008 23:54 |
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Peter and I had had a very silly conversation about his gig. When he told me about it weeks ago I wrote it in my diary. Then a few days ago he said, you don’t have to come if you don’t want to. I said, well, I was planning to, but I won’t come if you don’t want me to. No, no, he said, it’s entirely up to you. No, no, I said, it’s entirely up to you. No, no, he said. . . . I finally said, it would feel very odd not to come unless you forbid me to come, and he declined to forbid me. So I went.
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I've been reading Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy Sayers for a few weeks and this conversation you had with Peter struck me as exactly the sort of conversation Harriet and Lord Peter would have...
Also, I'm impressed with all of your ringing and say that you have earned the right to be tired!
Speaking of bells, I've been going with Mom to church early and sitting through the handbell practice for a couple of weeks and today there were three people missing so I was asked to stand in somewhere. After we put the things away, Loren asked me if I'd be at church next week because one of the girls will be gone and the handbell choir has to perform in the service, and so they need someone to play her bells... I know it's not quite the same thing as tower-ringing but I will be sitting on stage through the whole entire service and have to perform in front of people...
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: My Happening Life [message #1712 is a reply to message #1709 ] |
Mon, 20 October 2008 00:47 |
 librarykat
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| Reading Angel wrote on Sun, 19 October 2008 22:54 |
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Peter and I had had a very silly conversation about his gig. When he told me about it weeks ago I wrote it in my diary. Then a few days ago he said, you don’t have to come if you don’t want to. I said, well, I was planning to, but I won’t come if you don’t want me to. No, no, he said, it’s entirely up to you. No, no, I said, it’s entirely up to you. No, no, he said. . . . I finally said, it would feel very odd not to come unless you forbid me to come, and he declined to forbid me. So I went.
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I've been reading Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy Sayers for a few weeks and this conversation you had with Peter struck me as exactly the sort of conversation Harriet and Lord Peter would have...
Also, I'm impressed with all of your ringing and say that you have earned the right to be tired!
Speaking of bells, I've been going with Mom to church early and sitting through the handbell practice for a couple of weeks and today there were three people missing so I was asked to stand in somewhere. After we put the things away, Loren asked me if I'd be at church next week because one of the girls will be gone and the handbell choir has to perform in the service, and so they need someone to play her bells... I know it's not quite the same thing as tower-ringing but I will be sitting on stage through the whole entire service and have to perform in front of people...
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Ringing handbells is so much easier when the choir is in the choir loft and no one can see you make a mistake! I now lead the handchime choir in our bitty congregation. No choir loft, we're off to one side, but still, everyone can see us! eep! And it's so bad, I'm the choir director and I have NO academic background in music - it's just that no one else does, either! Blind leading the blind, anyone?
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| Re: My Happening Life [message #1724 is a reply to message #1680 ] |
Mon, 20 October 2008 05:58 |
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Lucy Coats
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I’ve tried the Tabasco and the mustard and the pepper and the chilli powder, and the mice have all said, ah! Condiments! How thoughtful! and tucked right in.
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I've never tried it with mice (shan't now, as obviously too inviting....) But I had a food-thieving labrador hellhound once. Left a ham, chilli and hot mustard sandwich hanging over the kitchen counter to 'teach it not to steal', as advised by my mother. It munched it, blinked a little, and curled up with a satisfied sigh. So it doesn't work on dogs either. 
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Lucy xx
"'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart."
http://www.scribblecitycentral.blogspot.com
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| Re: My Happening Life [message #1725 is a reply to message #1706 ] |
Mon, 20 October 2008 06:03 |
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Lucy Coats
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| Black Bear wrote on Mon, 20 October 2008 04:17 |
Sunshine just got re-released. Robin has often said in the blog that she doesn't sell well in the UK, but your guess is as good as mine as to why.
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I am a Robin evangelist here and tell EVERYONE who asks me for book advice (scads--it seems to be the bane of author lives, as well as 'will you read my friend's brilliant children's book, edit it and get it published....) to read her immediately. They all come back and say they love her. Can't understand the not selling well either...but the ways of publishers and the book buying public are a mystery unto me.
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Lucy xx
"'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart."
http://www.scribblecitycentral.blogspot.com
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| Re: My Happening Life [message #1731 is a reply to message #1724 ] |
Mon, 20 October 2008 09:09 |
celticengineer
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Cincinnati |
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I used plastic netting; quite beefy stiff plastic netting, and they (chipmunks or voles or something) chewed through it. Then I tried just digging a pit and laying a layer of wire netting on its floor, and then the tulip bulbs, and then another layer of wire netting and then the soil. So the tulip shoots garrotted themselves on the wire (if you use wire with small holes, 1/2", this happens. Wire with larger holes is too permeable to bulbs and to rodents). You can't win.
I understand cats are good for this kind of problem.
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| Re: My Happening Life [message #1774 is a reply to message #1684 ] |
Tue, 21 October 2008 04:04 |
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| Black Bear wrote on Sun, 19 October 2008 16:16 |
One fellow went up to Peter after and wanted to get all impressed and amazed that a famous writer lives right here in Hampshire. I considered waving and saying, Hi, I’m the chopped liver.
ROFL...
But writers do have to live somewhere.
Squalid garrets, isn't it usually? Or hovels...
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I'm the chopped liver around here. My husband is the Writer and I am (when introduced) his wife. And oh she writes a little too. And I want to yell about my work and where it's been published but I can't because then I would look like a twit and everyone hates a twit. And I'm NOTHING writing-wise compared to Robin, so I keep my mouth shut. But oh it's frustrating.
I never take it out on the sweetie, though. He's the best.
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| Re: My Happening Life [message #1874 is a reply to message #1865 ] |
Wed, 22 October 2008 08:26 |
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| Robin wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 08:00 |
AND OF COURSE THE BEASTLY MACHINE WORKS FINE, WHILE THERE'S A COMPUTER MAN HERE.
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Go figure. I always had the same trouble with my car. Automatics only stall for me.
Smooshes!
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| Re: My Happening Life [message #2022 is a reply to message #1680 ] |
Thu, 23 October 2008 16:38 |
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Well, your not here now, Robin, so I assume it finally crashed. So hard--to celebrate or not? If it gets you closer to posting, then yay! But so sorry this is such a pain.
My cleaning lady throws things away...
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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