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Flossiesdoll
11 yrs ago
I think asking for money towards the honeymoon is tacky. I feel that wedding presents are about contributing to the couple's household. It's not my responsibility to pay for their holidays.
Chit-Chat
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on the tattoo line - do you think its OK to pierce the ears of little children
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Piercing children should be classed as assault
Flossiesdoll
14 yrs ago
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I think jewellery on young children looks hideous, and I think piercings on babies and toddlers is disgusting. I don't think any child should be pierced until they're a teenager, and they should be asking for it themselv…
Flossiesdoll
14 yrs ago
> I would recommend seeing a pediatrist or
> an Occupational Therapist. The pediatrist
> can recommend shoes that may help gait and
> balance. I've worked with people who's
> ankles roll in and that was what we …
Chit-Chat
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Calling all Scots! My 13 year old son needs some ideas...
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Scones, tablet, drop scones, cranachan, oatcaks, porridge, black bun,
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
macaroni pie, deep fried Mars bars, stovies, Irn Bru, Sean Connery, Billy Boyd, Robert Carlyle, Tom Conti, John Hannah, Alexander Fleming, Joseph Bell, Joseph Lister, Elsie Inglis, no smoking in public places, Scotland's…
Release Techniques
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Books Released to Books Journaled -- How many of yours have been caught?
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my stats are pretty good then!
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
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I've done 60 releases and had 11 journalled catches, which is nearly 20%! But none of my caught books have been journalled more than once. It makes me wonder why people would journal that they've caught it and then not j…
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
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Pumpkin & goat’s cheese lasagne
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 oz butter
1 onion, peeled and chopped
3 ½ lb pumpkin, skin and seeds removed, flesh cut into 1cm dice (weight after skin and seeds taken away about 1 ½ lb) …
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
> H'mmm... this seems to be a very important
> issue. The card I drew is: Judgement.
> I'm using a particularly gentle deck,
> today, and when I draw judgement with THIS
> deck, this is what I see: overarching…
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
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My question would be "what shall I do about Neil?"
Thank you!
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
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> H'mmm... the Moon. It's going to be an
> eventful year, vis a vis your love-life.
> But completely unpredictable! And chance
> are you aren't going to know, yourself,
> from one moment to the next.
> Excit…
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
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What, if anything, will happen in my love life this year?
Thank you!
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
I win the UK one at least once a fortnight, although I've never entered it.
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
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I live in Edinburgh and I find Hogmanay has changed beyond all recognition here. It used to be that the locals would go out to the pubs, congregate in Tron Square for the bells, then go to parties or go home, kissing as …
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How would you have handled the 3 year old who wouldn't eat her hamburger
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how would I have handled it?
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
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Well, if I was that little girl's mother, we wouldn't have been in MacD's, but that's not the point.
If I was her mother, if she didn't want to eat, she'd have been given a glass of milk, the burger would have been re…
Flossiesdoll
17 yrs ago
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Has anyone considered setting up a MySpace page for BookCrossing? I'd do it myself, but I think it should be done officially by BookCrossing. Then everyone who has a MySpace account could add BookCrossing as a friend and…
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
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A copy of Foucault's Pendulum which I released was caught and then re-released - and I just received an alert telling me it's now in lost property in the local bus depot. Grrrrrr. I've emailed the bus company asking them…
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
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when I get home from work. But - I have never been able to put a bra on my putting my arms through the sleeves, pulling it up, and fastening it behind me. I have to fasten it at the front then birl it round.
Release Techniques
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I think I just realized something (OK, I may be a bit slow).
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And then think about
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
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the tiny numbers of books being released, and the even tinier numbers of books being picked up by someone who is interested, has internet access and cares enough to log it, and then re-releases it and logs that release..…
Chit-Chat
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Am I the only person in the industrialized world who doesn't want an iPod?
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I don't have one.
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
And my brother asked me if I wanted an MP3 player last Christmas and I had to tell him I had no idea what they were. In fact, I still don't know.
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
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how in American "liberal" is used as an insult, whereas in the UK it's a good thing to be. And please, socialists in America? Where? Believe me, your furthest left parties are still far right. And please, please, learn t…
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
But you could say that about the whole year, to be honest.
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
> That was the first thing I thought when I
> heard the news of this unfortunate
> shooting: I didn't think "bobbies" were
> armed. Thanks for the clarification. I do
> know these weren't really bobbies and
> t…
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
It's all my fault. I cleaned the windows the other day; that always makes it rain.
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
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> At least 467 people killed in the Troubles
> in Northern Ireland (IRA amongst others
> responsible).
> Short memory?
It's nearly 4000 dead as a result of the Troubles, Catholic, Protestant, republican, loy…
Chit-Chat
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Lard, dripping or olive oil? What's your choice?
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Clarissa Dickson Wright is an obnoxious idiot
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
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and I wouldn't pay any attention to what she says. Her shop is a 10 second walk from my office, and the block has had to have a lot of work done on it. The fuss she made about the scaffolding, you'd think it was the end …
Book Talk
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What's your favourite Stephen King book?
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I was disappointed with the Dark Tower series
Flossiesdoll
18 yrs ago
I liked the middle ones, but the earliest ones and the latest ones I was disappointed with, and the last one I hated. I really struggled to finish it.
