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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 8, 2018 8:22:19 GMT
Just back from walking the dog on the beach. Not a cloud in the sky. Perfect.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 8, 2018 12:16:00 GMT
Whatagain - Sorry to hear about your nightmare experience in Hotel Dieu. We stayed there several years ago and my husbands eardrum burst during the night so you can imagine the blood etc. Sounds like a bad luck place to kip - No not really. His ear was bad for days before we moved in. It certainly is convenient to lots of walking sights. Not that you were doing any of that!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 8, 2018 16:27:03 GMT
In between hospital visiting I have been spending hours and hours hand sewing. A mindless task but extremely satisfying. So far I've made covers for five chair cushions (our wooden dining chairs are all different, mostly rescued from old building sites, skips and bought at jumble sales) and now I'm making a rag doll....it's going to be a Morris dancer rag doll....don't ask me why.
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Post by questa on Mar 8, 2018 21:36:37 GMT
Sounds like my place, cheery. Furnished in the style of early Red Cross with accents of St Vincent de Paul.
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 9, 2018 17:11:01 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 9, 2018 17:38:40 GMT
One atm Patrick....I'm fighting with the little white shirt atm. Third attempt as we speak. I made my own patterns and based the shirt on a proper one with lots of teeny seams, cuffs etc. The buttons are FABULOUS 1/4 cm diameter and very fiddly. If he turns out ok I'm planning on making a Green Man rag doll....then might make another few dancers... I will post pics and you can all have a good laugh my sewing skills are fairly rudimentary
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 9, 2018 18:18:23 GMT
One atm Patrick....I'm fighting with the little white shirt atm. Third attempt as we speak. I made my own patterns and based the shirt on a proper one with lots of teeny seams, cuffs etc. The buttons are FABULOUS 1/4 cm diameter and very fiddly. If he turns out ok I'm planning on making a Green Man rag doll....then might make another few dancers... I will post pics and you can all have a good laugh my sewing skills are fairly rudimentary How are you going to manage the little bells..... and the hat and the ribbons..?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 9, 2018 19:41:33 GMT
I collect silly bits and bobs...I have lots of beads, ribbons, tiny silk roses and little bells (the sort found on some hippy jewellery). So once I've wrangled this blinking shirt into some sort of semblance OF a shirt I can make the white socks, black felt knickerbockers, black felt boots and red floral braces, red garters with bells on, the neckerchief...little white hankies...the hat will be a challenge but I have already made some ivy and roses to attach to the ribbon... Well you did ask
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Post by whatagain on Mar 10, 2018 20:44:32 GMT
USS CV2 Lexington aka Lady Lex has been located in Coral Sea on march 4th, after being sunk there in 1942, being the first US carriver vessel to be sunk. Sister ship USS Yorktown was damaged, sent back to Pearl Harbor, and repaired in urgency to meet her fate at Midway.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 10, 2018 21:32:38 GMT
Does Donald Trump care?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2018 19:50:38 GMT
Standing in line at the Oaxaca airport in the pre-dawn hour, with that hopeless feeling one gets when they don't open the #%^&$@ check-in desks, what to my wondering eyes should appear but the image of St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless cases ~
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Post by rikita on Mar 20, 2018 0:18:53 GMT
the other day, agnes asked me whether time will ever end. i wasn't quite sure how to answer, so it is not a lie, and not scary, and not too confusing. while still trying to find words, she had already changed topic, of course ...
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 20, 2018 7:23:16 GMT
My wife's birthday today and I'll be in paris. Great. Happy birthday Mrs Again!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 20, 2018 11:31:41 GMT
WHAT next?
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Post by tod2 on Mar 20, 2018 12:07:43 GMT
Whatagain - Did you go you shopping for some naughty (but nice) lingerie....
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Post by whatagain on Mar 23, 2018 14:31:01 GMT
Too old for that Tod... I bought a book about gardens. Safer ;-)
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 24, 2018 15:10:09 GMT
Europe is finally moving its clocks ahead for the next six months tonight, for those who were wondering why some of us have been a hour late in appearing since a lot of the Western Hemisphere changed its clocks.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 24, 2018 15:35:23 GMT
It won't happen in Mexico until April 1.
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Post by questa on Mar 24, 2018 21:41:00 GMT
That is only 6 days away, Bixa.
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Post by rikita on Mar 25, 2018 0:49:19 GMT
well, a. misunderstood the direction of the time change and took this opportunity to fall asleep more than an hour later than usual today. and she must get it from me - i planned to get to bed early (additionally, i have to get up early tomorrow. normally it would be just early-ish, but it will feel early this time), yet i am still up ...
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Post by tod2 on Mar 25, 2018 13:49:39 GMT
Whatagain - Liar , Liar your pants are on fire! I've met you and you are one fit puppy. And a very very nice man. OK, go with the book...
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 25, 2018 14:07:56 GMT
The first day of summer time is always so strange when the afternoon seems to last forever.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2018 14:27:11 GMT
Oh Bixa, you must have been scrambling for your camera when you saw that lady with the St. Jude statue. I love the one of her clutching it like "there was no tomorrow" and no one dare think about taking it away from her.
I wonder if she put him in the overhead bin or held onto him the whole flight.
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Post by bjd on Mar 25, 2018 18:06:19 GMT
I once stood in a check-in line with a Philipino lady who lived in Canada. She had a huge jug of holy water to take as carry-on (this was some years ago). I asked her whether she had been to Lourdes. Yes, and she had also been to Fatima in Portugal but that bottle was in her checked luggage. The plane arrived safely.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 25, 2018 19:52:41 GMT
My Singaporean friends had a big jug of holy water from Lourdes. Their concept of the item was that you could add more water to the container at will and that it would all become holy water from Lourdes. I approve of that sort of faith.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2018 21:34:30 GMT
I wonder if she put him in the overhead bin or held onto him the whole flight. Oh lord -- I hadn't thought of that. I was wondering how many little plaster bits were going to break off in transit, though. The plane arrived safely. As well it might! Since I am often on flights from & to Mexico, I appreciate that the other passengers keep that big metal thing aloft with their multiple signs of the cross on take-off & landing. That is becoming less common, though. ... you could add more water to the container at will and that it would all become holy water from Lourdes. I've heard the same thing about holy water. Surely you got a little bottle on your visit to Lourdes, no?
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 26, 2018 9:20:53 GMT
Mrs. Cactus (who is Irish) was on the phone to her sister this morning.
The conversation ended “I know, I know. I don’t know.”
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Post by tod2 on Mar 29, 2018 17:16:49 GMT
Mick, what I want to know is: Did she say it in that nasal twang like Prunella Scales in Faulty Towers, BUT with an Irish accent? Gawd, that could be funny!
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 30, 2018 4:30:15 GMT
Air France decided to get rid of identity checks for boarding its flights a couple of months ago. They decided that the identity checks at the primary airport checkpoints were sufficient or else why bother?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 30, 2018 4:47:40 GMT
Well, finally one of the airlines came to its senses! Forgive me if I've ranted about this already, but I swear most of the crap that passengers are put through is to make sure we all know to act like obedient sheep. A sterling example of that is going through Customs in the US. There we all are, shuffling along in line and hoping we don't miss our connecting flights. And what for? It's so we can present a stupid piece of paper with a few questions we filled out. So, after treating us like known criminals through every step of the "security" process, at Customs they decide to simply take our word that we're not lying on their effing form. That is proof that it's only an exercise to keep us docile. Have I "touched livestock?" Sheesh! --
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