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Reformation. (Sort of. Maybe.) [message #25388]

Thu, 21 January 2010 19:53

Black Bear
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Robin's sorta maybe kinda having a Reformation Moment. Smile

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Thu, 21 January 2010 20:09

holmes44
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my tree actually stayed up a week later than usual.is fiona available to come to canada.i have lots of stuff for her to sort through.lol

Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get

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Thu, 21 January 2010 21:02

blondviolinist
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I thought, I wonder if Fiona is silly enough to let me hire her for an occasional day of accumulation-bashing?
She was.

Smart move!

You also remember^ I hate you, right?
Yes, but we also know you don't remember which ones of your faithful readers we are Very Happy

GAAAAAAAAH. I’ve never been so current evented in my life. GAAAAAAAAAAH.
Ok, this one made me laugh hard. Unintended consequences of being a net bunny?

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard

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Thu, 21 January 2010 21:12

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Think David Tennant!
oh yes!

And she packed up and took 1,000,000,000,000 parcels to the Post Office.# I have a Post Office phobia. It’s very sad.
Desensitisation! Go to the post office to collect fabulous AllStars...

Fiona sounds a great helper - perhaps with some elvish blood, as she can magic photos up for you and translate tunes on to your non ipod...

Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear

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Thu, 21 January 2010 21:28

b_twin_1
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Think David Tennant!
*thinks*
*spends rest of the day totally preoccupied*

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Fri, 22 January 2010 00:15

Bratsche
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Quote:

Fiona runs a folk-music club****** I think she should write a guest blog about this, don’t you?

I'd settle for a guest blog from her perspective of today's mayhem (no, no, sorting, I mean) and bell-ringing (or is mayhem and bell-ringing redundant??)!

[Updated on: Fri, 22 January 2010 12:58]

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Fri, 22 January 2010 01:57

Diane in MN
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yes, this is the same mindset^ that has produced brilliant ideas like buying third houses and converting their attics to contain eighty (heavy) boxes of backlist.

But this is BETTER than buying warehouse space. You get another place to live/put visitors/garden in, and storage too. Smart move, really. Smile

I’m not even sure I want to know that Obama’s approval rating is .007% and dropping fast.

Mr. Obama had a lot of bad stuff dumped on his plate when he took office, but just looking at the health-care reform bill mess, I don't think he and his staff have done a good job with legislation and I don't think he's been a very effective party leader. And like it or not, the president has to be his party's leader and get them to work together to do what he wants to do. Hopefully this year has been an education for him and he'll do better for the rest of his term.

That being said, Fiona sounds wonderfully accomplished and if she has a cousin in Minnesota, said cousin can come and spend a few days with me. Smile

And yes, the guest post sounds like a great idea.

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Fri, 22 January 2010 09:19

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Think Nell Gwynn! Think Benjamin Disraeli! Think Freya Stark! Think David Tennant! You don’t have to be cripplingly polite even if you are British!^

Oh I say! Steady on now...

Quote:

...I mean to have her first exciting experience of the glory that is method ringing on handbells with Niall and Colin.

*Looks ruefully at scars on arms and remembers the feel of the lash across her back* Very Happy

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Fri, 22 January 2010 10:02

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AJLR wrote on Fri, 22 January 2010 09:19

*Looks ruefully at scars on arms and remembers the feel of the lash across her back* Very Happy

*winces* The bells.... the bellllllssssss..... Smile

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Fri, 22 January 2010 11:03

Mrs Redboots
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Black Bear wrote on Fri, 22 January 2010 15:02

AJLR wrote on Fri, 22 January 2010 09:19

*Looks ruefully at scars on arms and remembers the feel of the lash across her back* Very Happy

*winces* The bells.... the bellllllssssss..... Smile

And what is this outbreak of Ralph-the-Rover-ism on this hitherto unexceptionable blog???? Or is it Edgar-Allan-Poe-ishness?

So it is Fiona I really have to thank for the inspiration for the Husband's birthday present? We did really enjoy the concert, by the way (and there was Martin Carthy! Martin Carthy!!!!
)

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Fri, 22 January 2010 12:44

anef
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Gosh. I wish I could hire someone to deal with my clutter. Hmm, not that I'd want anyone else rooting around in my clutter.

(Thinks) Maybe I could pay myself to organise myself. I wonder if that would work. What would be a reasonable hourly rate?

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Fri, 22 January 2010 12:46

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blondviolinist wrote on Thu, 21 January 2010 21:02

[
You also remember^ I hate you, right?
Yes, but we also know you don't remember which ones of your faithful readers we are :d

Really. I was just thinking that myself. WHEW. Safe. Until she writes a note to herself and Fiona discovers it underneath a tower of magazines next year.

;)

Smooshes!

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Fri, 22 January 2010 13:53

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Robin said

†† Literally, I sometimes think. She would certainly far rather buy a front-row ticket for a Steeleye Span concert than eat.

LOL I'm completely with Fiona on this one - for a start a front-row ticket for Steeleye doesn't have any calories Wink

Robin also said

§§ Okay, what is the non-BlackBerry RaspBerry version of a non-iPod? The oMoya?

How about the p-pod? (or pea-pod, sticking with the food theme Wink

)

'*/-

Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....

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Fri, 22 January 2010 14:15

AJLR
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Vikkik wrote on Fri, 22 January 2010 18:53

Robin also said

§§ Okay, what is the non-BlackBerry RaspBerry version of a non-iPod? The oMoya?

How about the p-pod? (or pea-pod, sticking with the food theme Wink

)

Or the iHear ? Smile

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