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Sorry, I'll try and revise it slowly. I did write it at some obscene time in the morning.
Barbie - I recomend just saying whatever comes into your head whenever. There's no hierarchy of people here,
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Jon, I too use Adobe Acrobat extensively for work purposes, but unlike you have come across quite a few people who dislike the format (sometimes I suspect principally because you can't easily cut and
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Sometimes just writting yourself a timetable helps. You can see what you have to do and it stops that swirl of stuff in the brain. If you are up against deadlines it might make it clearer whether yo
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said the dodo with the speech impediment
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The elephant's life is tedious, lugubrious and slow...
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That just jogged my memory about a book called Pigs Might Fly, by Emily Rodda (I think). In it, a young girl gets taken to an alternate world where coincidences happen more often because of something
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you'd think he'd be used to that now.
He's gone down to his grandma and grandpa's for a week. I've not got enough holiday left to go with them until next thursday.
I miss him already.
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That's all very interesting.
Did you know the only reason John Tolkien hasn't been done for child abuse (I read) is that he is now too infirm to be worth prosecuting? This is the regular broadsheets
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I like Enid Blyton. I read all the Brer Rabbit stuff. I also liked Bobby Brewster by H.E.Todd.
I'm too old for much of Roald Dahl although I read them to my sister and remember Rik Mayall 'reading' G
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Belochka: Mine's a complete Penguin edition of M R James. It's a 1984 reprint of the 1931 original collection
PSD: Sarah agreed with me about the way you speak. And like I said, you read poetry beaut
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Lords of Midnight? Yes, and the follow up, Doomdarks Revenge. The latter, especially, took a great deal of time to 'beat', and used some remarkably efficient coding systems in order to create a vast
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AAC - Glad you mentioned Joe Theismann, always wondered what had happened to him 'cause of the namecheck on The Simpsons, where Homer is watching a video called 'Football's Greatest Injuries'.
Rugby
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No jeans and hair not long enough for ponytail so Thursday's out.
Suppose I could limp and be Landen if I can't face travelling up as Miss H on the train! But then, he doesn't 'exist' at the moment.
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I've played Magic a few times when it was first popular and several of my friends were VERY into it. None of them play it much now.
I know an artist (in our local SCA group) who's done illustrations
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Punctured, presuming one is speaking of vampires.
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'Round and 'round the mullberry bush, the monkey chased the....
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Ooh, go on the little train! It's fun! Well, it was when I was 8... I seem to remember Bill Bryson being less than complimentary about it, though.
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And for my own one:
1. I wasn't built to get up
Supernaturals. Not necessarily their best song, but Smile has been overused in adverts and that since.
2. wig in a box
From the musical Hedwig and T
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Thought that might get your attention. Well it's true. My publishers want to sell the last copies of my western 'Darrow's Word' cheaply.
'Darrow's Word' is about the sheriff of a Wyoming town, and hi
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Eddie's a bit old really. But Andrea's friend's baby is still quite small. And I know a couple of doctors, so I might be able to get letters about my 'pregnancy' from them :) The council don't *have*
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I wonder if it's a subsidiary of Goliath...
Sarah, is that where you found Wilfred?
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"This was willed where what is willed... can get rat
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I've have the the book and thoughly enjoyed it but it's very difficult to get hold of. A friend had a pre-film edition, in which the narrator's text was in a different font from the main story.
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Right! I'll come down to Leeds or Manchester, whatever's decided as the meet, if some very nice/ brave person could offer crash space? I'll come bearing chocolate...
And if anyone wants to come to Gl
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