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Shattered Again [message #38828] Sun, 30 January 2011 18:52 Go to next message
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Shattered again


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Re: Shattered Again [message #38845 is a reply to message #38828 ] Sun, 30 January 2011 23:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I’m so trashed I think I may go to bed early. . . . Maybe I’ll finish reading that novel. . . .
Sounds like an excellent plan - is there ever a bad time to read a good novel? Very Happy

^ Which is to say that organising ringers to do stuff is one of those cat-herding occupations, and at very least if there’s two of us we each have someone to complain to.
Herding cats helped me remember this...


^^ I’m not sure I’ve ever noticed what a very wide toothy grin Niall has. I wonder if he has a little goblin blood?

hahahaha! Yes!!! I've noticed!!!!


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Re: Shattered Again [message #38846 is a reply to message #38845 ] Sun, 30 January 2011 23:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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People who show up to do something with church services every week have a very different shape of weekend to those who don't. Sunday as "day of rest" vanishes. Although I am basically a morning person (defined as "I can't sleep past the sun coming up unless I'm sick", not a willingness to be that way) I loathe having to get up and be dressed and out the door before the sun comes up. Waking up and stretching in bed and contemplating the ceiling and rolling over to try for another half hour (doesn't work but is a pleasantly slow way to start the way) is much better than the snarling alarm, the staggering from bed half-asleep and falling over the slippers on the way to the bathroom.

Once upon a time as a youngster I could make the transition from bed to fully functional faster, but now...it's a longer time or more discomfort.

For a laugh unrelated to church, ringing, hellhounds: How Many Horses Does It Take to Change a Light-bulb? By breed...



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Re: Shattered Again [message #38847 is a reply to message #38828 ] Mon, 31 January 2011 00:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I’ve been sitting through operas for forty years. I don’t know. The stress level is different.



I think that sitting through operas differs in that you are not being watched while you sit, and that you do not have to sit, all the way through, in one particular position or posture. I am a fidgetty sitter, partly due to seating not fitting my short self, and therefore never finding a comforatble way tio sit. Generally I prefer to have a semi-Arabic posture, one leg bent at the knee being pyramidal, and the other one bent under the upper leg, with me leaning against something with great back support.

At this point, I'd love to sit upright most of the day, instead of largely balancing on my tailbone in a marshmallow bed.


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Re: Shattered Again [message #38848 is a reply to message #38846 ] Mon, 31 January 2011 00:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I know I have a set of dogs' lightbulb jokes, and many other categories of them, as well, but HORSE lightbulb jokes? Wow, I haven't been so surprised in years of collecting them. Thank you heaps!


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❦If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful ❧ William Morris❦
Re: Shattered Again [message #38856 is a reply to message #38845 ] Mon, 31 January 2011 02:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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southdowner wrote on Mon, 31 January 2011 04:32


Herding cats helped me remember this...



This is hilarious!! Very Happy


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Re: Shattered Again [message #38858 is a reply to message #38846 ] Mon, 31 January 2011 05:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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EMoon wrote on Mon, 31 January 2011 04:53

For a laugh unrelated to church, ringing, hellhounds: How Many Horses Does It Take to Change a Light-bulb? By breed...


That's lovely, thank you. Smile


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Re: Shattered Again [message #38862 is a reply to message #38828 ] Mon, 31 January 2011 07:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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despite breaks during which we were allowed to lay aside our coral natures and reengage with bipedalism

I just love this phrase. Smile


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Re: Shattered Again [message #38885 is a reply to message #38828 ] Tue, 01 February 2011 02:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I’ve been sitting through operas for forty years. I don’t know. The stress level is different.

Well, the seat is (hopefully) more comfortable, and you're focused on the opera. Not the same as sitting around waiting to do something, or sitting up straight as part of a group. But I know what you mean about doing the Quasimodo impersonation after an extended sit. It's one of those birthday things, I suppose, like getting bifocals . . . Smile



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Re: Shattered Again [message #38903 is a reply to message #38862 ] Tue, 01 February 2011 10:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Smile That was that night's Phrase That Lets Me Stop Sweating.
Re: Shattered Again [message #38904 is a reply to message #38885 ] Tue, 01 February 2011 10:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yes, opera seats are a LOT more comfortable, not that I haven't sat in some remarkably dire VERY MUCH PAID FOR theatre seats. So there's that and what someone else said about not being looked at, not being part of what's on display--and not anxiously awaiting your cue. But as someone who has eliminated a huge wodge of desirable, readily available and a NUISANCE not to be able to eat food (the nightshade family, chiefly: tomatoes, potatoes etc) to keep my rheumatism in check--which it does do: slip me some unnoticed potato in something and the next morning my hands don't close--I OBJECT to the Quasimodo deal.
Re: Shattered Again [message #38907 is a reply to message #38904 ] Tue, 01 February 2011 10:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Robin wrote on Tue, 01 February 2011 15:11

slip me some unnoticed potato in something and the next morning my hands don't close


Do you have to be vigilant for potato starch as an ingredient, or is it actual potatoes as veg which are the problem?


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Re: Shattered Again [message #38910 is a reply to message #38907 ] Tue, 01 February 2011 13:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I would assume it's anything to do with a potato, but since I almost never eat processed food which is the only place I can think of you meet potato starch??, I don't actually know. If it said potato starch on the label I'd probably give it a miss.
Re: Shattered Again [message #38914 is a reply to message #38910 ] Tue, 01 February 2011 14:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Potato flour / starch is used a lot in gluten-free flour mixes. (Having used it myself for that. Don't any more... )


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Re: Shattered Again [message #38917 is a reply to message #38914 ] Tue, 01 February 2011 20:11 Go to previous message
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Oh, frell, yes, of course, you're right. Yes, I had to stop using those too.
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