Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all in Abthite from the Lundy, the Barmaid and the Man
from the MMB

Melody
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Roger Burton West wrote:
>
> Cadbury Moose wrote:
>
> >_DO_ get well soon. Sneezing dragons tend to leave circular
> >scorch marks on the opposite side of the valley, which attracts
> >the attention of the crop-circle mob - you'd think they'd have
> >realised by now that this village is "normal" only in the
> >geometrical sense of being at a right-angle to reality.
>
> Would those be the ones who muttered about "government conspiracies"
> while ignoring the "Beware of the Dragon" signs, and tasted vaguely
> stringy and underfed?

Very probably, I'm afraid.

Oh well, the Milk Marketing Board will no doubt get the blame.


Again.

Cadbury "They'd none of them be missed" Moose
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"There are some complaints that money can't buy. For everything else,
there's BastardCard. Accepted everywhere, especially with mallets."
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Drake 'flu (or should that be flue?) - worse than Man 'flu.
Plus, when a Drake sneezes, half the fire alarms in the district go off (the
other half having been incinerated by the sneeze, you understand.)

May everyone have a fine and dandy new year, and would anyone like to see my
Christmas Pressie? A paperweight from Phillip Island, darnunder, wot my Mum
and Dad got whilst they were there visiting the Great-Aunt - the paperweight
featured two somewhat resigned looking penguins bobbing up and down on the
liquid that half-fills the thing. For the bewebbed, there is a photograph
here:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1813654&l=57e28&id=627692455

Au Res.,
Paul
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--- On Thu, 1/1/09, pwl wrote:

> From: pwl
> Subject: Re: Happy New Year!
> To: alt.books.tom-holt.DeleteThis@firedrake.org
> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 3:57 PM
> On Jan 1, 3:00=A0pm, Jac....DeleteThis@Bookaholics.mbl wrote:
>=20
>=20
> > I'll drink to that. =A0I actually was awake when
> the New Year came in but we weren't paying attention.
> =A0We'd beein flipping between things we have taped and a
> rented DVD of the first season of the Muppet Show. =A0Last
> night we saw Harvey Korman and Lena Horne. =A0I can foresee
> lots of explanations in the not too distant future, these
> people were famous when Memere and Farfar were lots
> younger--just watch the show and enjoy the silly frog, Tess.
> =A0
>=20
> Ah - one of my favourite shows! I was fortunate to receive
> the Season
> Two DVD for Christmas (got Season One last year). It's
> fun to watch
> with the commentary on - but unfortunately it sometimes
> takes away
> from the silliness in the skits. My all-time favourite has
> to be the
> Swedish Chef with the spaghetti...
>=20
> Fond memories of my second childhood.

My older sister said that she started wondering about her sanity when Swedi=
sh chef started to make sense, scary isn't it?

Jackie=0A=0A=0A
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--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Brian Howlett wrote:

> From: Brian Howlett
> Subject: Re: Happy New Year!
> To: alt.books.tom-holt RemoveThis @firedrake.org
> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 4:00 PM
> On 1 Jan, Jackie RemoveThis @Bookaholics.mbl wrote:
>
> > it's nippy down here in Virginia
>
> It's just struggled above freezing here in the North of
> Scotland for
> the first time in a week.
>
That's about where our temps were, but around here below freezing is not very common for any length of time. And three snowflakes cause a panic, partially because the roads are so crowded that anything that can cause a slowdown just sends everyone into hysterics. Not to mention the fact that since the weather is not usually drastic, they try to get by with as little snow removal equipment as possible to save money.

> The temperature doubled on my journey home from work on
> Monday - it > went from -8C to -4C.

Talked to my parents in Northeastern Connecticut yesterday, they've got over a foot of snow and when they went to mass it was 4F. What a difference 450 miles north and east makes.

I've always wanted to see Scotland is it as beautiful as the pictures in the tour books?

Jackie
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On 2 Jan, Jackie RemoveThis @Bookaholics.mbl wrote:

> I've always wanted to see Scotland is it as beautiful as the pictures
> in the tour books?

Do you have web access? The following link is to a picture a friend
took from Glenfinnan Viaduct, which isn't too far from here, in
December 2008. It isn't from a guide book...

http://www.brianhowlett.me.uk/temp/Glenfinnan.jpg

That's pretty typical of the sort of weather we've been having here.
Global Warming? No. Climate Change? Possibly. I don't remember such a
sustained spell of cold weather for many years, caused by the high
pressure we've been getting in winter instead of summer.
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--- On Fri, 1/2/09, Brian Howlett wrote:

> From: Brian Howlett
> Subject: Re: Happy New Year!
> To: alt.books.tom-holt.TakeThisOut@firedrake.org
> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 5:10 PM
> On 2 Jan, Jackie.TakeThisOut@Bookaholics.mbl wrote:
>
> > I've always wanted to see Scotland is it as
> beautiful as the pictures
> > in the tour books?
>
> Do you have web access? The following link is to a picture
> a friend
> took from Glenfinnan Viaduct, which isn't too far from
> here, in
> December 2008. It isn't from a guide book...
>
>
Wow! That is definitely a lovely view, I think I'll leave the picture up on the home machine for a while if you don't mind. And drool over it, but I can see where the temperatures might be a bit coolish. Given a choice though, I always opt for cold rather than hot---you can always add layers or dress in water resistant outerwear but when it gets hot and nasty, there's a limit to what you can take off:-)

Every now and then, my hubby starts talking about retiring to Florida and I get the shakes. 1) It's too hot 2) and possibly even more important--it's too flat. I grew up in northeastern Connecticut, hills and streams everywhere. This section of Virginia has some hills and luckily there are mountains not too far away but Florida looks as though someone had been working at it with an extra large rolling pin. So if I end up staying there too long, I start worrying about falling off the blasted state.

Thanks for sharing the picture,
Jackie
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On 3 Jan, Jackie RemoveThis @Bookaholics.mbl wrote:

> Thanks for sharing the picture

My pleasure.
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