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I'm really good and yes, I have been amazingly busy, I've got 5 essays on the go at the moment which is pure torture.
I havn't posted in yonks, mainly because the computer room is always bombarded with juniors on beebo etc and whenever I remember to post, I get carried away by some event or other and it completely skips my mind.
Thanks for all the support, it really makes me happy to hear and I DO hope you havn't been up to too much naughtiness in my absence?????. Yes, I do mean you J.R!
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Catherine Standing (Cooper) Canteen Cath 1.12 (1983-85) & Col A 20 (1985-90) Any idiot can deal with a crisis. It takes a genius to cope with everyday life.
Hi Gemma!
I am so glad to have met you at the Miss West Memorial Service on 16 September, and I guessed that you had been rushed off your feet ever since. I am pleased to learn that you appear to relish the Christ's Hospital experience!
I am coming to the Carol Service on Thursday (I think it's Thursday.. a friend has been given a couple of tickets for this 'gold dust' event, but she is going to be transporting me because after surgery this coming Tuesday I am not allowed to drive for three weeks). Will you be there? Can we meet again? (I shall be unmissable - left arm heavily bandaged and probably in a sling.......)
Kerren
Anyone who was anywhere in Britain yesterday will have shared the same weather: it was abysmal to say the least. So what do I do? I go hiking with Sprouts. I won't say don't ask me why, but don't expect a coherent answer. So, we go from Shipley to some barn, and then to the Southwater Vicarage (NW - hoping someone here knows the area). Get very lost and reach spitting distance of CH - on the junction to the 2 Mile Ash Road we go down to the Downs Link with the theory "we won't get lost this way" and then, passing the Bax, finally reach the Vicarage, whereupon it is decided by Anthony Smith and Tim Taylor (our aGSL & DC, and the YL co-ordinator) that we ought to pull out - Ed's doubled up with pain, Tana has blisters and Cerys is moaning. Freddie and I are happy, but each only count for 1 -and team sizes are 4+. We get back - Miss Bowen (our brilliant Explorer Leader) is fine about it and gives us chocolate to help us recover, before driving us back to house. Go and eat pasta 'n' red at the afternoon Ready Steady Cook event.
Read in Chapel on Sunday: various passages from Isaiah. Has to have been the slowest I've ever said anything! Got to sit next to Revd. Mitra - was very good because he helped boost my singing volume on such Chunes as Loeth! He Cometh With Cloudseth Descendething (which I have, in Quenya, on the front of my christmas cards this year) and O Come O Come, and get to see him Doing a Frecknall (conducting to himself during the anthems). Whataman.
Got very excited recently because Rise of the Tau - the best Fan-Fiction, or other type of fiction - ever produced - has accelerated its update speed! The writer, whom even those privelidged to know his real name call 'Revenant' or simply 'Rev', is taking every single myth and sub-plot in Warhammer: 40,000 (and that's a lot of sub-plots) and drawing them all together into a cataclysm of writing and reading pleasure. It's a bit like Lost: each chapter (141 so far) ends on a cliff-hanger, and each time he answers a question he asks a thousand more! (Note: whoever asked me what I meant in my sig once, when I said 'Publish Revenant Before He Explodes' - we want this published; it's a petition thing, variants of which have appeared in signatures on the BL Forum) Major goodness.
Am sending more Christmas Cards this year than every other year of my life put together - a grand total of 71. Slightly concerned that I may have started to turn into a Socialite. Next thing you know, I'll be going to discos and theme nights (you'll know that I've fallen to corruption then!) and hanging around outside Sports Centre. Fortunately, they're all in Quenya, except for the name of the recipient, so The Bellrog is pushing through. Plus a bunch of them are to staff, so I don't think there's much risk of my nerdiness failing just yet.
Have been nicknamed the 'Grammar Geek' by the Latin Set for my voracious appetite for Latin Grammar - yum yum yum! That'll be the tea working.
Thought for the day: Araneum est optimum de felum
- Quattus Erurestus Campana
What a week. Went to the Lakes with Sprouts, and among the achievents were:
- A whole roast dinner done in half an oven
- Wore Housey up Helm Crag, and then again to JDS's
- 313 photos - gradually making their way onto Facebook
Glad someone likes it - think you're the only one!
Lakes sounds good.
Julian Taylor-Gadd
Leigh Hunt 1985-1992
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Oh, just thought I'd say: a very interesting article in the Blue about the UCHF - if interesting is the right word...curious might be a better one. Tantalising stories indeed...!
Eruresto wrote:Oh, just thought I'd say: a very interesting article in the Blue about the UCHF - if interesting is the right word...curious might be a better one. Tantalising stories indeed...!
*rubbles like the guy out of Star Wars 1*
It was written quite a long time ago.
Catherine Standing (Cooper) Canteen Cath 1.12 (1983-85) & Col A 20 (1985-90) Any idiot can deal with a crisis. It takes a genius to cope with everyday life.
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