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Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: May 04, 2003 10:50AM
Made for over 100 years? I'm surprised they sell any, if it takes that long to make...
Hello crrbllsweetie I don't think I've welcomed you yet. I don't suppose you have a name that's easier to type? Or an abbreviation? I commonly get struck down with the myspelling vyrus so the simpler the better really...
How did you know about the building sites PSD? Sand in places it shouldn't be? ;)
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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.
BTW, I don't think I mentioned where I'm from when I posted earlier...
I'm in the States (USA), more specifically in Michigan (the state on the border with Canada, that's surrounded by huge lakes and shaped like a mitten).
I was lucky enough to meet Jasper last month (as was AAC) during his US book tour, which was great fun. There are threads about it (some with pictures) further down the page (or by now more likely on one of the "older messages" pages).
Oh, and I've been a Fforde Ffan since a friend lent me The Eyre Affair to read last September. I was sufficiently impressed that once I found out the next book was already out in Britian, I ordered it by mail immediately. Worked nicely, since I was then able to lend it to the chap who had lent me TEA in the first place.
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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith
Ahh, Michigan, the "mitten state..." Now I'm going to have to start calling my Michiganese friend Mighty Mitten Girl! Seriously, Magda, I bet the Brits here don't know the location of Mich, cuz I sure have zero idea where Yorkshire is. Then again, I'm an arrogant American.
Sarah and all y'all-
Call me whateva you want. Emma works.
- Currer Bell (whose real name is Emma)
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Revolt! Revolt! No matter why or when,
It's novelty--old novelty again.
Andrea: the roundabout next to the Henderson's Relish factory is a bit different now. It has a tunnel underneath for the trams to go through. Sheffield trams are cool.
Posted by: Andrea (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: May 05, 2003 08:58AM
Oh Boy and don't I know
I lived in the flats there when they were building it, we had diggers digging 24 hours a day 7 days a week for weeks, pictures fell off the wall, my daughters toys rattled on the windowsills.
We moved before they finally got it working, now I live near a train station and get into town almost as quick as I did from there.
Why yes, it is north of Texas. Of course, so is 3/4 of the country....
Actually, living in Michigan is nice, since I can pick it out easily on a globe even when there are no borders. It's conveniently mostly surrounded by the Great Lakes.
Of course, one can find Britian on a map the same way. Being surrounded by water can be handy that way.
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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith
Posted by: Andrea (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: May 06, 2003 05:02PM
Yorkshire is easy
it's bang in the middle
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Sylvester says.... *plock*
actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: May 06, 2003 07:18PM
'Lo folks! Thought I would join the spate of newcomers and introduce myself... clairet; live in Edinburgh; currently without management (cat); Originally from Oz (where cat still resides)...:-)
Aye. I'll give you that. (Although why you think asking Ben for confirmation will lend credence to your story I'll never know !)
BTW: Hi Clairet.
Spotting Leeds is also quite easy. London (Thames estuary between Essex and Kent) and Edinburgh (Firth of Forth). Draw a straight line between the two and Leeds is exactly halfway.
Probably as informative to Brits as anyone else. The number of people who think Leeds is next to Edinburgh is incredible - although they were largely Cambridge oiks whose ignorance is amazing.