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| Re: The Middle of the Night Again [message #47329 is a reply to message #47327 ] |
Wed, 04 January 2012 23:39   |
EMoon
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Yes...will miss this being my nightcap reading every night, but being under the deadline guillotine myself (and having cut off other things so I don't collapse in a gibbering heap, quite) I wish you every second of productive time you can manage, and some hours of sleep as well. If you need a break from the blog, take it. All weeping and wailing will be far away from you, yourself, and the book...and when you return we will all rejoice. (Not that I have a right to speak for anyone but myself...)
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| Re: The Middle of the Night Again [message #47332 is a reply to message #47330 ] |
Thu, 05 January 2012 04:51 |
 b_twin_1
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| Diane in MN wrote on Thu, 05 January 2012 01:29 |
And I know robins—ahem!—are known to sing after dark, but what else is there that sings in the middle of the frelling night?
Bloody mockingbirds. Three a.m. means nothing to them. Of course we don't have them in Minnesota, so I can't blame them when *I* see three a.m. . . .
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We get the Southern Boobook (Mopoke)
And in summer.... koalas. (attached sound file)
Attachment: MALKOALA.WAV
(Size: 572.93KB, Downloaded 46 time(s))
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: The Middle of the Night Again [message #47351 is a reply to message #47324 ] |
Thu, 05 January 2012 12:33 |
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Oh what a gorgeous ring! Well done, Peter!
Smooshes!
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| Re: The Middle of the Night Again [message #47354 is a reply to message #47324 ] |
Thu, 05 January 2012 14:47 |
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Mrs Redboots
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I envy you your husband in his lovely choices of presents. Mine has to be told what to buy me (but then, to be fair, he does!). A lovely ring.
And I would assume a blackbird - we are having them here in London, too.
But the other night I was staying with my parents, in Sussex, and I heard an owl. I was almost sure it was an owl, not my own breathing (it sort-of woke me up), but I haven't heard one there since my childhood - it used to frighten my brother half to death when he was little. But when we went out to the car to come home to London, the owl swooped overhead (and yes, of course I thought of the poem in PEGASUS about "The owl swoops/The mice go "Oops"!).
Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
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| Re: The Middle of the Night Again [message #47423 is a reply to message #47324 ] |
Sun, 08 January 2012 15:44 |
Besunami
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Here in California, we're serenaded by mockingbirds all night. Like blackbirds, the males are competing for mates and the blokes that aren't getting any action sing on into the streetlight lit twilight in desperation. On the bright side, mockingbirds can sound like a symphony of bird calls! The music makes me think of Act I, Scene 1 in Hamlet when Marcellus says| Quote: |
Some say that ever, 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. (I.1.175-181)
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