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Back from the Ether
Posted by: Sarah B (---.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: April 14, 2003 08:12PM

Hey everyone.

I'm back from... wherever it was I was. Not sure. Somewhere out there in the Ether where they don't even have old computers, let alone ones with modems.

Anyhow, now I'm back. It'll take me a year to get through all these posts.

And I'm off again to Austria on Friday. Anyone know any good places to go in Ossterrich?



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Re: Back from the Ether
Posted by: skiffle (---.range217-44.btcentralplus.com)
Date: April 14, 2003 08:37PM

The Osssterrichhh Ffarrmm ?

Re: Back from the Ether
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: April 14, 2003 08:37PM

Whoo! Welcome back - nice to see you again. (Er, e-see, anyway.)

Mildred will be pleased to know that Wilfred has a new dodo lady love, so she need no longer panic. Or whatever she was doing. However, he is a gentleman even if he does have that little problem of his, so he sends her a very friendly hiccup.

Have fun in Austria! :-)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Re: Back from the Ether
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: April 14, 2003 08:43PM

Welcome back, have no idea of good places to visit in Austria, as I was too busy drinking Stohl 80 to bother looking for anywhere else, and it rather rots your mind.

How was the ether, by the way?



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re: Back from the Ether
Posted by: Sarah B (---.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: April 26, 2003 03:59PM

The ether was grand, as was Austria. Very etherial. The Ether that is, not Austria. The latter was much more hilly.

Travelling through Austria leads to dialogue such:

"Oooh, a tree!"
"Oooh, a mountain!
"Oooh, a tree!"
"Oooh, a tree!"
"Oooh, a tree!"
"Oooh, a mountain!
"Oooh, a tree!"
"Oooh, a tree!"
"Oooh, a quaint little house!"
"Oooh, a mountain!
"Oooh, a tree!"
"Oooh, a tree!"

And so on.

Still, t'was fun. And the german police did say that I would be allowed back in the country *eventually*...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Re: Back from the Ether
Posted by: Rob (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: April 26, 2003 08:26PM

Yep. I found the photos from my hols in Switzerland all looked identical. At the time it all seemed important and different but back in Blighty they were all just snow covered mountains.

Re: Back from the Ether
Posted by: jon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: April 26, 2003 08:36PM

That's practically a metaphor for life, that is.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Re: Back from the Ether
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: April 26, 2003 09:22PM

A friend's Dad once accidentally double-exposed a set of slides on a European holiday, which led to some fantastic results. The view of Versailles with the Alps in the background was impressive. Our favourite was a shot of Iain's Mum stepping off the pavement in a Belgian town. The houses on either side of the street were fine, but where the street itself should have been was a cloud-filled abyss. It looked like Iain's Mum was about to step into the fires of Hell.

Re: Back from the Ether
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cable.ubr06.dudl.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: May 02, 2003 05:33PM

lol Very clever.

I'm still trying to make sense of which mountain is which... they all look the same...

France was very flat in comparison as we travelled back!



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.



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