| Remembering Sunday [message #22853] |
Sun, 08 November 2009 18:07  |
 b_twin_1
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Will Robin remember Remembrance Sunday? 
[Updated on: Sun, 08 November 2009 18:24]
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: Remembering Sunday [message #22870 is a reply to message #22853 ] |
Sun, 08 November 2009 18:26  |
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^^ Anyone who says anything to me about knitting at this point will be summarily beheaded.
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*sits back down*
Smooshes!
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| Re: Remembering Sunday [message #22872 is a reply to message #22870 ] |
Sun, 08 November 2009 18:27 |
b_twin_1
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| jmeadows wrote on Sun, 08 November 2009 18:26 |
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^^ Anyone who says anything to me about knitting at this point will be summarily beheaded.
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*sits back down*
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*applauds Jodi's decision*
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: Remembering Sunday [message #22876 is a reply to message #22853 ] |
Sun, 08 November 2009 18:56 |
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Both sopor and spoor* are sadly underused in the modern vernacular. And Word is idiotic.
*I have very funny memories of the first time I read Tarzan, with its use of spoor and thews...unfortunately, at the time I thought spoor only referred to "droppings." I remember wondering if the animals Tarzan tracked via their spoor were eating laxatives, since clearly they were leaving trails of doo everywhere they went!
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| Re: Remembering Sunday [message #22879 is a reply to message #22853 ] |
Sun, 08 November 2009 20:47 |
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To those with beds piled high with stuff ... a Murphy bed is a wonderful thing! You can't fold it up with more than one or two books on it ... and you never have to "make it" in the conventional sense. And when your room is really really tiny, folding it up gives you access to a lot more space. I have two shelves above mine for all the clutter (well, actually the complete works of one Robin McKinley).
The laundry basket note reminds me that if I leave wet laundry in the car while running post laundromat errands, it sometimes freezes. Another reason to love winter. I too am averse to dryers, and have worked out a half dozen places in my very small house to hang drying laundry in the winter and on really rainy days. I do envy Brits things like drying cupboards, heated towel rails and those laundry maid things with pulleys.
Actually we are having a brief warm spell in which I am trying to accomplish everything which absolutely must be done before the ground freezes and the snow flies. Home repairs, digging turnips, planting the last of the daffs, grinding leaves and pine needles for mulch ... and thinking about snow tires.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Remembering Sunday [message #22883 is a reply to message #22871 ] |
Sun, 08 November 2009 22:48 |
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The trouble is when I get an overdue notice from the library and have to pull the bed out from the wall to do a little archaeology.
Robin, I'm confused. I thought the two minutes was at 11 on the 11th. Is it instead observed on the closest Sunday?
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| Re: Remembering Sunday [message #22894 is a reply to message #22853 ] |
Mon, 09 November 2009 14:20 |
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ah yes. the books on the bed thing. it's hard to sleep without them. they help with dreams, too.
"they say that absence makes the heart grow fungus".
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| Re: Remembering Sunday [message #22928 is a reply to message #22916 ] |
Mon, 09 November 2009 20:00 |
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| Robin wrote on Mon, 09 November 2009 18:33 |
... he MIGHT say something here about how ROLLING OVER ON A SHARP EDGED OBJECT THAT WAS SOMEHOW OVERLOOKED EARLIER might have impelled him on the incompatible direction a little faster. . . .
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The sharp pointy corners of big heavy hard-bound books is why I like my e-reader so much. Incidentally, I meant to post last week that FIRE was on the virtual shelves at Fictionwise and I got it. Haven't read it yet because just now I am sticking to audiobooks where I can multitask and make ornaments, that I hope to sell during the decorating season, at the same time. However, I'm here anyway; the blog is a necessity. Actually I think my computer could "read" it to me, but the mechanical voice of a computer "reading" is not tolerable. Not yet.
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| Re: Remembering Sunday [message #22931 is a reply to message #22910 ] |
Mon, 09 November 2009 20:09 |
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| Robin wrote on Tue, 10 November 2009 00:25 |
Keyboard and MOUSE? Okay, I'm impressed. I stick to the laptop with the touch pad in bed. . . .
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*grin*
I will just mention that keyboard and mouse are wireless, and monitor screen is on a bracket next to the bed.
There IS the occassional issue of "Okay where the HELL did that mouse go THIS time....?"
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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| Re: Remembering Sunday [message #22964 is a reply to message #22931 ] |
Tue, 10 November 2009 06:58 |
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| Vikkik wrote on Tue, 10 November 2009 01:09 |
*grin*
I will just mention that keyboard and mouse are wireless, and monitor screen is on a bracket next to the bed.
There IS the occassional issue of "Okay where the HELL did that mouse go THIS time....?"
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I find the mouse needs to go under the duvet! Seems to work, even with the rest of the laptop above it - and it keeps my hand warm!
As for books on the bed - sometimes I can't find my current book, and find it has somehow been put on Husband's bedside-table, which means I must have fallen asleep with it on the bed still. Mostly I try to put my current book under my pillow, but when it's a large hardback (I'm currently re-reading DEERSKIN, which I own in hardback), it can be a bit intrusive....
Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
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| Re: Remembering Sunday [message #22990 is a reply to message #22989 ] |
Tue, 10 November 2009 19:09 |
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| Robin wrote on Wed, 11 November 2009 00:05 |
A BRACKET next to the bed????
Golly are YOU organised.
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LOL
No, I just have absolutely ZERO surface space in my bedroom which isn't covered in junk - it was much easier when I just had a laptop....
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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