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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:27:03 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: love where you live ... and I do!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98137,98155#msg-98155</link>
      <author>Bonzai Kitten</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Heehee, Roysten Vasey you say?
Let me know when the place next door is up for rent!]]></description>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Phrontistery</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98120,98154#msg-98154</link>
      <author>Bonzai Kitten</author>
      <description><![CDATA[abacinate- to blind by putting red-hot copper basin near the eyes.

Just think, that happened often enough for there to be a special word for it...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:21:42 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Fforde Ffiesta 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,94906,98153#msg-98153</link>
      <author>Bonzai Kitten</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Bunyip:  Here here!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:18:06 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: love where you live ... and I do!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98137,98152#msg-98152</link>
      <author>PrinzHilde</author>
      <description><![CDATA[About these &quot;local buses&quot;: maybe it is the same idea as what is known in the Netherlands as &quot;Buurtbussen&quot; (neighborhood buses) and in Germany/Switzerland as &quot;Bürgerbus&quot; (citizen's bus). I found the term [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_responsive_transport]Demand responsive transport[/url] for the UK, although I am not sure if this is an appropriate translation. Basicly, they are private initiatives to fill gaps where &quot;official&quot; public transport companies won't run due to economic inefficiency. A private association buys a small bus and runs it along a (more or less) fixed line, but not on a timetable. Instead everyone wanting to use it has to make a phone call, and the driver will tell him when he will be coming round, thus collecting the maximum number of passengers in one go.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:53:40 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: love where you live ... and I do!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98137,98151#msg-98151</link>
      <author>Jazz_Sue</author>
      <description><![CDATA[OC Not Wrote: &gt; I do love where I live.  I realize it is a
&gt; complete genetic accident that I so do, but what
&gt; can I say?  California...no doubt about
&gt; it....California...no doubt about it...

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&gt; Oh great, thanks for reminding me the nearest I'll get to going THERE is the Gatwick to Heathrow shuttle service so I can look at the posters. Damn you! Damn your ...

Actually, I've just remembered. We've got the  M23 log jams, the Bovis Homes 'Concrete the World' United Front, the farmyard smells from the local landfill sites and the Gatwick to Luton fly past every 40 minutes.
You, on the other hand, got Schwartzanegger.
Fair swap.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:32:07 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Phrontistery</title>
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      <author>Jazz_Sue</author>
      <description><![CDATA[EgonSpengler Wrote:
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&gt; Indeed! I have a special place in my heart for
&gt; obrumpent. It just sounds so wonderful in the
&gt; mind.

I imagine something trumpet-shaped, but sounding like a tuba. Predominantly New Orleans orientated, I feel.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:22:34 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Phrontistery</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98120,98149#msg-98149</link>
      <author>Jazz_Sue</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I like jobler - one who does small jobs.

The short ones are the best!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:20:55 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Fforde Ffiesta 2008</title>
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      <author>sillypunk</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey all,

This is Liz (random canadian aka murder 1 in Richard three) just saying hi and thanks.  Had an ace time!  Hope to involved next year if I can just remember who to contact...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:08:02 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Phrontistery</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98120,98147#msg-98147</link>
      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Indeed! I have a special place in my heart for obrumpent. It just sounds so wonderful in the mind.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:59:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: New and interesting Collective Nouns!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,96391,98146#msg-98146</link>
      <author>OC Not</author>
      <description><![CDATA[A concatenation?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:45:52 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Grilled Cheese Invitational</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,97780,98145#msg-98145</link>
      <author>OC Not</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Back at Zen - oh yes, that little hint of mayo is key.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:45:27 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: love where you live ... and I do!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98137,98144#msg-98144</link>
      <author>OC Not</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Jazz, that is an incredible and wonderful story.  I hope my next move comes somewhere close to inspiring the same emotions in me (but I know it will not).  At least I was one of the ones who heard it first!

I do love where I live.  I realize it is a complete genetic accident that I so do, but what can I say?  California...no doubt about it....California...no doubt about it...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:43:29 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Phrontistery</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98120,98143#msg-98143</link>
      <author>OC Not</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Aw, chwist, another bookmark...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:35:54 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Fforde Ffiesta 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,94906,98142#msg-98142</link>
      <author>BibwitHart</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Eccles cakes! I love those! Although, I tend to associate them with the goon show character...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 06:13:22 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Phrontistery</title>
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      <author>BibwitHart</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have absorbed the word fabrefaction and will find it very useful!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 06:09:35 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Happy Birthday!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,81795,98140#msg-98140</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It'sthe 9th of May,
it is Annie's day,....................
 
(apologies to Mel Torme)

So, Happy Birthday to Annie.

And belated*, non Chronguard affected, birthday greetings to EmmaJayne.


Enjoy your cake!


* I think, coz the time zones make it difficult to know if it's 11am local time here  what the time is in your neck of the woods.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Fforde Ffiesta 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,94906,98139#msg-98139</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[You lucky b*ggers in the Northern Hemisphere.  You can throw a party and no one has to travel more than 500 miles to get there.

Down here if BK threw an open party Robert would have about 300 miles to travel, I would have about 600, and our Bananabender fforumites would travel around a 1000 miles, all of these being one way.  And Martin would have to start swimming now for the 2011 party.

So we of the open spaces congratulate you on what must have been a wonderful time (read this in green) and have put in a request for the Gravitron tubes to be implemented post haste.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:26:27 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: love where you live ... and I do!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98137,98138#msg-98138</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Jazz-Sue,


Congratulations!


You would be one of the few people in the world who are happy with where they live, despite all the negatives around you.


My memory of the area near Gatwick, from 1977-81, is basically green, except for the M23 (I think) so it is sad to think of it all being concreted over.  I assume that between you and Central London there is not a lot of green space left.  What of all the little village pubs?  I used to meander down to Brighton from London with friends who thought the 50 miles was too far to travel, so we broke it down by pub crawling to the coast.

I would be sad if this were no  longer possible.


Anyway, enough of this, may you have much happiness and find more inspiration for your writings at your new abode&gt;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:19:30 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] love where you live ... and I do!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98137,98137#msg-98137</link>
      <author>Jazz_Sue</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The subject title comes from a local government 'promo' designed to make local people feel REALLY proud of the beautiful environment in which they live (landfill sites/graffiti dens/lager louts/entire Green Belt going under thick layer of concrete etc) Actually, that's more the Deadhill area, where I used to live till I moved a few miles up the road. To an ex-council house on a large estate 2 miles from Gatwick airport, adjoining Green Belt land that is currently being covered in a thick layer of concrete. As you do.

Actually, this is a damn site better (pardon the pun) than the place I used to live. You get REAL wild birds, rather than the ones piling out of the local night club cum grotty boozer-with-lights-attached; and when you catch the odd farmyard smell, you can at least IMAGINE it may be wafting from somewhere connected with the rear end of a cow, rather than from the blocked drain at the rear of a suspect curry house (I kid you not. One day, I'll relate the story of the newly installed giant extractor fan, the loud squawk, and the sudden puff of pigeon feathers - when I'm feeling strong enough. My kids STILL won't touch KFC if it's in bitesize lumps)

But I digress. My new home town is, okay, quite a bit greener and more countrified, with a lovely old church and pub ... but those are the bits I can't afford. The bit I COULD afford is bland, modern and soulless. Or so I thought.
At this point can I just say, as I have before, that I am NOT making any of the following up, okay? I only relate incidents where I don't need to make it up - hence the lengthy wait.

It started with the transport system. There I was, idly perusing the bus time table (100/327/665 school days only) and wondering why none of the old dears waiting at the stop had bothered boarding when they finally turned up. And then a new one arrived (bus, not old dear), into which they DID all pile - even though, according to the listings, it shouldn't even have existed. It displayed no number, no destination, just these two proud words, front and back: LOCAL BUS. Those boarding did not converse with the driver as I would, asking from whence the vehicle came or to whither it was bound. If you did that, then plainly YOU WERE NOT LOCAL. Yep folks, there it was, in all it's Royston Vasey liveried glory: A Local Bus for Local People. And I thought: man, I LOVE this town.

But there's more, a lot closer to home - and to this fforum. My smallest daughter has become friendly with a kiddie the same age, a few doors down. My move finally settled - kind of - I'd tentatively begun typing away at my creative writing course again. Cue, breathless arrival of SD and friend.
'Mum, Amy's mum's a famous person! SHE'S RELATED TO JANE AUSTEN! Honest, she researched it and everything and not only that, she's a REAL writer and she's writing a book and it's going to be published!!!!'
Amy was madly nodding her head and beaming, which meant it MUST have been true, so before feverishly logging on here I asked what sort of book her mum was writing, imagining a kind of modern take on Sense and Sensibility, just as well written but with less horses and more sex.
'Um. Well, it's about Thunderbirds really, but after they've all died.'

Look, I realise my daughter could have fallen in with a family of complete fruitcakes with no more connection to the creator of Northanger Abbey than Adolf Hitler. I also realise  how unlikely it is that a descendant of Jane Austen would be typing up a novel from the leafy climes of a Gatwick council estate, let alone a novel relating the adventures of a group of Gerry Anderson puppet zombies ...

.. but I do believe in clumping and it would be exactly right if - despite severe reservations - I moved to a spot with close connections to my favourite author, without my realising it. In other words, it is just as likely the whole Austen/Thunderbirds thing is for real, in which case you heard it first, okay?

Whatever. Man, I still love this town.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 01:34:45 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Fforde Ffiesta 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,94906,98136#msg-98136</link>
      <author>Lycanthra Pod</author>
      <description><![CDATA[bound - I was behind the registration desk with a &quot;Immunised Against Lycanthropy&quot; tee shirt, an official stalker and Lord Hastings - talk about multiple personalities!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 01:19:24 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Happy Birthday!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,81795,98135#msg-98135</link>
      <author>wheelbent</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Huzzah for EmmaJayne!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:33:53 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Fforde Ffiesta 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,94906,98134#msg-98134</link>
      <author>EmmaJayne</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Betsy! Glad you liked the Battenburg - it is very delicious.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 23:53:28 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Happy Birthday!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,81795,98133#msg-98133</link>
      <author>EmmaJayne</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It's my birthday today - 8th May. Didn't get around to posting on this list before. Oops. 

Happy Birthday me!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 23:49:17 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Happy Birthday!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,81795,98132#msg-98132</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday for tomorrow, Annie]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 20:19:25 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Fforde Ffiesta 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,94906,98131#msg-98131</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Welcome, Betsy!

help yourself to pie - sweet to the left, savoury to the right as is usually sometimes the case.

(I will also take a modest bow for the GPS-NSR watch. Without any satellite required it is always 100% accurate!)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 20:18:41 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: just how is the Battenberg?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,94906,98130#msg-98130</link>
      <author>Betsythedevine</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I (Betsy) spent quite some time on my computer graphic of Battenberg, but I have never actually made such a cake. I saw my first-ever Mr. Kiplings Battenberg in a giant Tesco market just about a month ago. It was one of those things (George Formby being another) that I thought maybe Jasper Fforde had just invented.

England has so many delicious dessert-things that Americans don't know the names of, including Battenberg, Eccles cakes, Bakewell tarts, and sticky toffee pudding. 

But I digress. I recommend store-bought Battenberg although I'm sure that homemade, if I ever get to taste it, would be even better.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 20:09:56 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Phrontistery</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,98120,98129#msg-98129</link>
      <author>wheelbent</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Methinks that this is part of the Bookworld expanding into ours!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:45:40 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Fforde Ffiesta 2008</title>
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      <author>wheelbent</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello Betsy

Just how is the Battenberg?

To all the folks who went, remember the GPS watch from Mycroft's Shed, well take a look at [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=564133&amp;in_page_id=1770]this article from the Monday edition of The Daily Mail[/url].]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:42:27 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] Re: Fforde Ffiesta 2008</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,94906,98127#msg-98127</link>
      <author>bound</author>
      <description><![CDATA[awww thanks. Just so we have a even playing field how would i put a face to your name..?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 23:49:28 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>[Nextian Chat] What a great party that was!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,94906,98126#msg-98126</link>
      <author>Betsythedevine</author>
      <description><![CDATA[This is my first post here in the forum, so I don't know who anybody &quot;really&quot; is if you don't (like Wheelbent) mention what costume you wore. It was great to meet so many interesting people who (like me) really enjoy reading Jasper Fforde's funny books.

For those who also went, I wore the Mrs. Next costume with an apron that said &quot;Ask me about my Battenberg.&quot; I started a group on Flickr for photos of the event, if you search for the tag &quot;Fforde&quot; you can find all my best ones.

One more great thing about the event was that it gave me an excuse to re-read all the books again. Can't wait for Shades of Grey to come out, it sounds fascinating based on Jasper's reading.]]></description>
      <category>Nextian Chat</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 22:17:21 +0200</pubDate>
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