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There's something in there for everyone. There's also 4/4, 6/4 and 10/16.
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Nice!
BF's coming over for Christmas. (looks for the steam shovel)
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Merry Christmas, guys!
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Indeed, merry christmas!
Steam shovel???
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Well, BF grew up with both parents and has a mother who cleans up all the time - our house is a lot more chaotic by comparison.
We're having a nice time, solving lots of puzzles!
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He's back home but I'll be visiting him over new year's! Hurray!
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Allright, confession time ladies and gentlemen...
I was a huge fan of Cats for a brief period of time after seeing it in London in 2000. When a new film was made of the show it did get my interest.
There was a film version from 1998, a direct-to-video edition that had sort of the master-cast you'd want for such a production (with Elaine Paige and
John Mills) that in spite of all the cutting that was done ("Growltiger's Last Stand" aka the pirate bit was cut in its entirety, numerous songs miss
a verse and many dance sections have people appearing and disappearing) I really enjoyed, thanks to the great production values. Until there was a
point when I realized I never saw it in full from start to finish. Even the show itself was just too much at points.
A new film has just come out - after the trailer was released last July there was a Twitter storm on how incredibly off-putting, hideous and kind of
scary it looked. Like the 1998 video there's big stars - Judi Dench and Ian McKellen among them - but you really don't want to see them like that.
I was curious to see how it pans out - but after seeing the second trailer, the third trailer, hearing the film version is to be replaced ASAP with an
updated version... I think I'll hold off. After reading a few hilarious reviews and seeing some stuff no man was ever meant to see I am doing my best
trying to bring back the fond memories of finally getting to see the show way back when...
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Not a Cats person, myself, but I've heard about this new version with Dame Dench. I've even seen a few clips of it. It doesn't look good indeed.
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Back in the Happy Memory Cats Zone. I remember before the show started we had about two hours to ourselves, which five friends and I spent in the café
across the road, drinking hot chocolate and playing cards.
The AIVD puzzle is proving too much for its solvers. I'm incredibly stuck myself.
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It’s 2020 here in Australia! I hope everyone’s having a good time and I wish you all a good new year.
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Happy new year to you, guys! Hope it'll be a great one for everybody.
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Happy new year to everybody!
I spent it with the inlaws. Two years ago I spent NYE with them and it was good fun, gourmetting with the family, lighting fireworks with the kids,
and at midnight, go to their roof and watch the fireworks from there. Since they live in the middle of nowhere (sister-in-law lives in a village with
a church, primary school and that's it) their roof offers a terrific view of the next few villages - plus the people there tend to spend more on
fireworks since there's little else to do. 
I told my dad how amazing the view was from the roof there, but as night fell, there was a heavy fog that was so dense that we couldn't even see the
fireworks from three streets away. :shock:
It was a scary cycling trip back, I can assure you! My inlaws were slightly more laconic since apparently 2008 was even worse - to the extent that my
sister-in-law and her husband got caught, hubby walked in front of the car to lead it since even the pavements were hidden by the fog. Still we're all
happy that we're all back home in one piece.
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Yes, I don't like driving in fog. We had a pretty bad experience a few years ago in the latter part of driving from Alençon to Calais in the late
afternoon. A very freaky experience if you've grown up in a part of Australia where such things never happen.
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New York Times posted a highly critical article about OYO, which is the company that bought Belvilla.
https://www.pymnts.com/news/international/2020/employees-claim-oyo-u...
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I'm building a shed and it's more than half finished. It's a pretty substantial one with a solid, garage like structure. It will be my new workshop -
somewhere to put my work bench and all my tools, plus all our gardening tools. The small room in the house that is currently my workshop is about to
be incorporated into a master bedroom renovation. It was a very strange tiny room, open on one side, that made no sense at all and we've come up with
a plan that involves knocking a wall down and putting a couple of others up that will result in a layout that makes perfect sense all around.
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How's stuff with the fires, Poly? It's worrying news what seeps through here...
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Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  | | I'm building a shed and it's more than half finished. It's a pretty substantial one with a solid, garage like structure. It will be my new workshop -
somewhere to put my work bench and all my tools, plus all our gardening tools. The small room in the house that is currently my workshop is about to
be incorporated into a master bedroom renovation. It was a very strange tiny room, open on one side, that made no sense at all and we've come up with
a plan that involves knocking a wall down and putting a couple of others up that will result in a layout that makes perfect sense all around.
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That sounds like a nice project. Any before/after pics, so we can see the evolution of the work?
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Maybe some pics later.
As far as the fires go, we don’t live in the bush, so we’re not directly affected, but some days there has been significant smoke in the air.
Regardless of our personal situation, the fires are devastating. Our prime minister is an idiot.
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I guess you knew that before the fires started...
Been having medical minor issues here of the embarrassing kind, hope it pans out to be nothing...
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Just saw a Red Cross ad, collecting money for the fire victims and evacues in Australia. Followed by money collecting for starving kids in Yemen.
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