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Post by questa on Jul 31, 2019 0:16:33 GMT
Maybe your mouth wants to become a monarchy?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 1, 2019 17:35:50 GMT
I think one of my front tooth crowns is disintegrating. That happened to me last year. It cost me almost a thousand euros of which only about 200 were reimbursed because a crown was no longer possible and it had to be an implant.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 1, 2019 19:13:15 GMT
Thanks pal....
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Post by Kimby on Aug 2, 2019 1:30:00 GMT
New trauma. My hands and wrists are really hurting. I might have to stop using my iPhone...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 2, 2019 1:47:38 GMT
RIP Kimby! (My true secret thought is "Good ~ now she'll interact more on anyport!" )
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Post by questa on Aug 2, 2019 2:34:54 GMT
No wuckers (worries) Mate. Of course I messed up the joke...I meant to say your tooth does NOT want to be in a monarchy.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 2, 2019 3:33:44 GMT
RIP Kimby! (My true secret thought is "Good ~ now she'll interact more on anyport!" ) That would be true except a. when I got this phone, Mr. Kimby reduced the amount of data per month for our computer and b. He’s always on the damn thing so I can’t spend any time on it anyways...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 2, 2019 5:09:32 GMT
Time for more data and a nice little laptop for you!
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Post by lagatta on Aug 2, 2019 10:14:31 GMT
Livia brought in a cricket a few days ago. Played with it like a wind-up toy. Of course it died, and didn't make the noise she liked any more. She wasn't particularly trying to kill it, as she would a mouse, but it did eventually die. I'll have to find a noisy toy for her.
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Post by questa on Aug 2, 2019 11:58:32 GMT
Mother dear, I am CAT, I hunt and kill, it is in my DNA. Your toys don't smell like food, **Sigh** OK, I'll be good just for you!
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Post by Kimby on Aug 2, 2019 16:39:47 GMT
Pearl caught a vole the other day, and carried it into the garage where it escaped and is probably happily munching wires and hoses on the car....
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Post by Kimby on Aug 4, 2019 13:44:09 GMT
Yesterday I finally got around to approaching a task I have been avoiding/procrastinating for months, only to discover that the tote bag of reference materials I’ve been hauling around through three states, in case I got motivated, was the WRONG bag, containing the materials I was finished with....
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 8, 2019 15:47:15 GMT
Today I had the final bit of dyed hair cut off at the hairdresser...I'm now my natural colour...which is mostly grey. It's daft I know but I was really glum about it. However I dragged myself along to the nearest posh shop and have acquired a nice lipstick, rouge and face powder just to add a bit of colour...old lady chic AND I treated myself to a GORGEOUS green linen shirt...
Hubby loves my grey...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 8, 2019 16:51:26 GMT
I'll bet you are a knockout with natural hair! We have got to stop being ashamed of being whatever age we are. Looking as good as we can at whatever age, shape, etc. makes a more positive statement than futilely trying to cling to our lost youth.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 8, 2019 17:47:35 GMT
Neither my grandmother nor my mother wanted to dye their hair, but their hairdressers convinced them -- and of course once you see yourself 10 or more years younger, it is easy to get hooked. Of course, past the age of 70 or 80 it is just a silly illusion, but I guess with failing eyesight, it is easy for a lot of people to convince themselves (and not just women). In the end, my grandmother stopped dying her hair and looked much better with her white soft hair. I kept getting my mother's hair dyed just because it was one of those routines that are easier to keep when faced with Alzheimer's. I feel that it helped her to feel more normal somewhere deep down inside, and I didn't mind paying 47 euros every 2 months or so. And also it was sort of a way to reward the hairdresser for putting up with my mother during the difficult years. "Would you like to brush your own hair?" "You can take that brush and shove it up your arse!"
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Post by bjd on Aug 8, 2019 18:04:24 GMT
For years I dyed my hair but rather erratically -- often about twice a year although it grows fast. My husband kept saying, "You have to learn to grow old gracefully", which was of course annoying to hear. But about three years ago I stopped bothering and it still isn't really gray all over. I do see more and more women with gray hair, even youngish ones. It's true too that old women with wrinkles look terrible when they continue to have their hair dyed dark colours. Like Chinese politicians.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 8, 2019 19:47:22 GMT
Henna was never meant to look natural. It just helped young women to remember the 6 months they had spent in Goa. In the 1970's, Air India operated two 747s a day from Paris to Bombay.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 8, 2019 20:00:02 GMT
It's growing on me (literally) I'll get used to it I reckon. It was just a bit of a shock, I dont want to look younger...it's just that the new REAL colour changes my appearance quite a lot. I also look like my Mother!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 8, 2019 20:13:04 GMT
Looks good to me.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 8, 2019 20:21:47 GMT
Years ago when I first came to Paris to live, I noticed so many women with absolutely awful dyed henna hair. Now, the ladies seem to be doing a more natural aging which is quite lovely. At 85, I wish I had more grey hair instead of this striped no color effect I have. 85?? Surely not. There is a mistake here.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 8, 2019 20:24:11 GMT
I think one of my front tooth crowns is disintegrating. That happened to me last year. It cost me almost a thousand euros of which only about 200 were reimbursed because a crown was no longer possible and it had to be an implant. Turned out it wasn’t a crown but the remaining live tooth at the front and my lovely lady dentist was able to rebuild it. £85.
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Post by questa on Aug 9, 2019 0:35:16 GMT
That is not grey, there are too many different shades and high lights giving it life when dyeing it makes a flat mono-colour. I would call that colour Pewter, with the subtle shadings of silvers. I did the long, blonde straight hair thing in the 60s when Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary set the fashion. My hair was very wavey, light brown and would not grow past my collar. Now it resembles a Stick-nest Rat's home www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2018/03/stick-nest-rats-are-masters-of-construction/
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Post by lagatta on Aug 9, 2019 0:44:27 GMT
My hair is about the same colour as cheeries', but much curlier - kinkier.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 9, 2019 2:12:56 GMT
Questa, pewter is the exact same word I thought of when I saw that picture of Cheery's lovely hair.
I tinted my hair for a while because when it first started going gray, it was like an ugly, deadening veil over my naturally dark hair. When I decided I didn't like the way it looked any more, a friend of mine around my age who had all white hair (he'd started graying very young) suggested that I go ahead & let it go natural, pointing out that it would be easy enough to go back to tinting if I wished. I have very long hair, but cut it to shoulder length trying to get rid of the tinted part. That made it two tone, so I cut it shorter and have had gray moving to white hair ever since.
I caught myself saying the other day that I have black hair, even though that's been long gone. I guess it would be nice to have it again if it would grow out of my skull that color naturally, but I'm not the least bit tempted to start trashing it with chemicals again.
Huckle, I suspect your hair looks a thousand times better than the way you describe it!
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Post by questa on Aug 9, 2019 4:24:08 GMT
I went to a fancy dress party last month. The theme was punk rockers. I wore my black 'bovver' boots, black jeans and T-shirt with my friend's heavy black leather jacket (Marlon Brando style). Lots of silver chains and my hair done in standing up peaks all over my head and sprayed a lurid pink. Big safety pins as earrings... C-O-O-L !!!
Bixa, if I figure out how to send a photo to your PM could you please set it as my Avatar. I have tried but I can't grasp the procedure.
My hair has not fully recovered.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 9, 2019 5:11:08 GMT
Is it a picture of you as a punk?! I will try, but you can do it more easily from your own computer. Go to your Profile, then click on "edit Profile". Choose the top option ("Use only the Uploaded/Linked"). A window will open. Choose the top option in that window, clicking on the button beneath it which says "choose image". Once you've chosen the image from your computer, I think you should see it over on the left hand side of the edit Profile page. If you're happy with the image, click "save avatar".
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Post by lagatta on Aug 9, 2019 12:24:51 GMT
I feel the same. I miss having very dark hair as I have blue-green eyes so it was startling. I do use a silver rinse on it (which is also a conditioner) from time to time because city pollution and sun can yellow it a bit and I really do NOT want to be one of those women who "go blonde" at a certain age. But I no longer want to pour harsh chemicals on it every few weeks. That stuff goes into the water system as well. I got my first grey hairs at 15 or 16; it runs in the maternal side of my family. They tend to be long-lived though.
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Post by questa on Aug 9, 2019 13:43:53 GMT
Bixa, affirmative! It is 11pm here now and I have used up my daily quota of brain power.(going through the lists of dogs for adoption. Time for the little patter of paws again!) I will try to do avatar tomorrow...mmm...AVATAR...good name for a dog?
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Post by Kimby on Aug 9, 2019 16:26:14 GMT
“Avatar” is catchy. But what will you call him/her when you’re calling the doggie to come to you?
“Experts” recommend two-syllable names for pets, as they lend themselves best to the sing-song-y way we call our animals. “Avvy” and “Tarry” aren’t as cool as the whole name.
But one syllable names are the worst, as we tend to add a “y” to them. “Jake” conveys a whole different image than “Jakey”...
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 9, 2019 17:08:50 GMT
Ours is Molly but we still shorten it to Molls.
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