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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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I would assign getting lettuce at any time of the year - any attempt to grow salad leaves or hostas results simply in providing a soup kitchen for slugs (since I try to garden organically and am rather fond of hedgepigs slug pellets are a no no.. and the eco friendly alternatives require a degree of vigilance I am not always able to maintain). I do have some roses still in the front garden which is rather fab - and I hope due to the sheltered south facing site rather than global warming.
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA)
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The solution for slugs is to put out a saucer of beer! No joke! The slugs end up drinking themselves to death and don't bother your plants nearly as much.
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Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 8,093
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I assign horrible weather, singing when no one's listening and filming silly scenes in a church.
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Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris
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Drummer in the Deep
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Next Sunday A.D.
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I assign bowls of free beer!!
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Skyrim, again.
Posts: 820
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I assign hard packed snow you can slide on without a sled. It rocks.
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#1006 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Adoption and happy families.
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peace
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Everlasting Whiteness
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Getting your last piece of coursework for the term in.
Spending an evening watching films with friends. Planning Christmas activities.
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Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
Posts: 2,983
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I assign snowstorms that cancel all classes after 2pm on a day you really don't feel like going to class.
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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum |
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Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
Posts: 3,489
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I assign winter vacation, and the things that follow from it:
-Taking long, hot baths in the middle of the day, while reading a book of one's own choice. - Resting one's feet on the radiator and watching the spruce outside the window gradually droop under the weight of the snow. - Banishing all textbooks, notebooks, etc. to a dark corner, out of sight, out of mind. |
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Everlasting Whiteness
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Somebody thinking enough to offer you a lift on what is really a freezing cold night. Restores your faith.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Going up farther north than north, even though it's amazingly windy out and the sea breeze is freezing you beyond recognition... Then to turn up in an obscure little coffee house (ex-boiler room), with many complete strangers.
Only to end up consuming large quantities of warm coffee, accordion and many more sounds and dancing with those complete strangers as if they are your kif and kin. In short, having a bloody good time with Jason Webley and complete strangers. ![]() It made the otherwise annoying trip through such weather all the more better. ~ Zima Ka
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Vinur, vinur skilur tú meg? Veitst tú ongan loyniveg? Hevur tú reikađ líka sum eg, í endaleysu tokuni? |
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Everlasting Whiteness
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Getting back home after a very long term and decorating the house ready for Christmas! It's all so sparkly now. Also, rediscovering that houses are supposed to be warm! And of course, having food cooked for you completely free of charge (unless it be setting the table or washing up
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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I assign having a nipper in the house at Christmas - it can only get better when I can start telling him about Father Christmas and how he much prefers a can of Guinness to a glass of sherry, how he won't leave any presents unless you keep your eyes closed tight shut all night and how the reindeer are powered by the magic of good girls and boys, so you need to be good to make sure the reindeers (sic) can get here...
...though I'm not looking forwards to being woken up at dawn and not being able to have a bacon sandwich before we open what Father Christmas has left...
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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I assign the Great Alaska Pizza Co. because it's wonderful pizza, almost no crust(we hates the crusssst). And sledding down a nice huge hill, steep and long, not tiny hills, sledding down the deck is pretty boring!
Going on the downs all day with the parents at work and no one to boss you around!
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
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Fondu after the Chrismas Eve service with 80 proof Armangac (whew!) and Chardonnay .... and Pinot Noir (14%)
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
Posts: 2,230
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What I got for Christmas!
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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Ubuntu Linux.
Every problem I've ever had with Windows - all gone.
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Everlasting Whiteness
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Having a family willing to do bizarre things such as sit round a table and ring bells when your number is called out. Where my mother finds these things I will never know but it was fun.
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#1019 |
Flame of the Ainulindalë
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I assign to Shire
Not caring for any Christmas preparations but only sitting in tables already made...
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Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet... |
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Blithe Spirit
Join Date: Jan 2003
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My cousin, who lent me her pretty green dress to wear on Christmas Day (for reason why, see Mordor thread)
My bag, which finally turned up this evening after (probably) many adventures. We all sat round looking at it, wishing it could talk to tell us all the places it had been, and how it had spent Christmas...
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#1021 |
Silver in My Silent Heart
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The coming back to life -feeling you get after having been sick and hopeless.
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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I heartily second Volo's .
And add finding something pretty and frivolous you coveted full price while Christmas shopping and absolute snip in the sales. ![]()
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
Posts: 4,737
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Immodium.
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Gordon's alive!
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#1024 |
Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 8,093
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My almost-ready and very pretty green ball gown...
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
Posts: 2,538
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Lysol 99% disinfectant. Beats the Mordor out of nauseating formalin...a bit.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Skyrim, again.
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Watching two of my very good friends finally get married yesterday.
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 8,093
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Friends who bring you flowers when you're ill.
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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Realising that a huge work you've left to the last moment and you don't feel like doing at all isn't huge at all.
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Flame of the Ainulindalë
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Facing the world's troubles with Christ's hope!
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A bunch of peeping tom neighbors who won't leave me alone!
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
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Er, Groin, maybe a Dwarf wants to banish things he doesn't like to the Shire, but most folks around here generally assign things they like. Things they don't like tend to get assigned to Mordor.
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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All the four posters above me really amuse me.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Facing the world's troubles with Christ's hope!
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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I assign Laurinque!(she is my friend from school) and a boy I nicknamed Beautiful!
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Everlasting Whiteness
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Things just ... working. Getting work in in plenty of time, having a bus that drops you off at just exactly the right time, wandering around campus for a couple of hours doing everything you needed to get done and having friends who will do that with you and then agree to go to a new exercise class with you so you don't have to go on your own for the first time.
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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My little brothers (I have three of them), who have been unusually nice today.
One went to buy me some lemonade when I asked him. Another made me ice cream when I asked him. And the youngest took my dog for a walk when I complained it's too cold and dark and damp outside.
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard.
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Running water! How I miss it.
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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Well I suppose you could pray about it!!!!!!!! (that usually works for me!)
But on the subject! My director for the last play I was in! He is so awesome!
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