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Chit-Chat » Question regarding modern weddings. » RE: RE: RE: Question regarding modern weddings.
MoonDark 11 yrs ago
Can't really see a problem with that;
I think the problem was not that the couple was having a second ceremony, but that they gave everyone the impression that that *was* the weddi…
Chit-Chat » Question regarding modern weddings. » RE: Question regarding modern weddings.
MoonDark 11 yrs ago | 2 replies
Today we found out the couple married in a civil ceremony at the courthouse. This was planned. They are still holding what I now refer to as the "second" ceremony and subsequent reception on the upcoming Satu…
Chit-Chat » World Book Night 2012 UK - Have you been chosen? » I didn't put my name forward this year.
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
I enjoyed last year, I suppose - got rid of all my copies without trouble, in fact I ran out! - but the whole thing seemed so shambolic and I got absolutely zero feedback from anyone, anywhere about it (I never got the W…
Chit-Chat » Hello everyone! Grab a bowl and a spoon! » RE: RE: Hello everyone! Grab a bowl and a spoon!
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
Good grief! ScottishHoosier, KrazyKatLaydee, Bluestocking88...Am I time traveling?
Could be... :-)
Chit-Chat » I have a new pusscat NOW WITH PHOTOS!! » RE: I have a new pusscat NOW WITH PHOTOS!!
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 1 replies
HI Miss M - I've only just popped back on the site so am catching up with your news and photos now. Tiggy is gorgeous, and she looks very settled and happy with you; I'm so pleased that someone chose you so soon.
Chit-Chat » your earliest book-related memory » Not a clear memory, too long ago
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 1 replies
but I seem to remember my dad sitting in my bedroom patiently reading Winnie the Pooh to me, as I requested every night for months, poor bloke, and me correcting him when he tried to skip bits to get me to sleep sooner. …
Chit-Chat » A house with no cat in it... » RE: I know I said I would not come back to chit-chat, but I wanted to offer you my deepest condolences, MoonDark
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
Losing a pet is devastating. Pets are always there for you to share joy and relieve sorrow, and they never judge. I am very sorry for your loss.
Well, thanks for dropping by and for your tho…
Chit-Chat » Yard/Garage/Boot Sales » RE: Ah-HAH!
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 1 replies
It was Colonel Mustard in the living room with the brass...thing.
It was MoonDark in the living room when MrDark brought home one too many pieces of tat from the boot sale, with the brass thin…
Chit-Chat » When people post (what I consider to be) stupid stuff on Facebook. A rant. » RE: RE: I generally ignore the posts
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 1 replies
How does FB know what news is "important"? I didn't think you could do that by individual. Can you elaborate?
I'm not sure how it tells, but with this new subscribe function you can suppose…
Chit-Chat » When people post (what I consider to be) stupid stuff on Facebook. A rant. » RE: I usually ignore them
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
WHAT A CROCK ..... We can't say Merry Christmas now ...we have to say Happy Holidays. We can't call it a Christmas tree, it's now called a Holiday tree? Because it might offend someone. If you don't like our…
Chit-Chat » Yard/Garage/Boot Sales » The item generally known as 'the brass thing'
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 3 replies
- Mr Dark likes trawling boot sales occasionally, (buying up all sorts of rubbish!) and picked up a tall Indian brass... thing. We think it's a candlestick, but a damn big one as it's about five feet tall. It was once d…
Chit-Chat » Author Christopher Hitchens has died. He was 62 » Yes, it's a great loss
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
Hitch was a great writer and clear thinker, and he will be missed. He even gave us a new expression; woolly thinkers and confused arguments were taken apart with such ferocious accuracy that the recipient was said to hav…
Chit-Chat » When people post (what I consider to be) stupid stuff on Facebook. A rant. » I generally ignore the posts
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 4 replies
- roll my eyes and scroll past - unless the person concerned makes a habit of posting sentimantal rubbish, in which case I tell FB that I only want to see important news from them. In extremis, I have got as far as hidi…
Chit-Chat » Where did you username come from? » Is it that time of year again already?!
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
I've just done a search on my previous posts, and have copied and pasted... :-) "A 'time of the month'! Shamelessly nicked from 'The Mists of Avalon' by Marion Zimmer Bradley; moon-dark is the time when the goddess hi…
Chit-Chat » Where did you username come from? » RE: Username
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
My username comes from a character in a series of naval books by Alexander Kent. Richard Bolitho. I chose this because Hornblower had already gone.
I always wondered about that, Bolitho. I rea…
Chit-Chat » Farewell, my gentle friend, Tami » Oh no...
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
I'm sorry, Bibliotreker - it sounds like Tami was a smasher and you're bound to miss her painfully. Thoughts and hugs to you. MissMarkey lost her cat the day after my Kitten left us too - so we're all going through it. W…
Chit-Chat » A house with no cat in it... » RE: RE: A house with no cat in it...
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
So sorry for your loss. I totally understand. Cats earn their way into your heart don't they. I lost my dear little cat, Shy, just yesterday after being hit by a car. My house doesn't feel right either:(
Chit-Chat » A house with no cat in it... » RE: RE: RE: we lasted eight weeks
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
two girls, now 3 months old, named Mika and Ronja, they keep our appartment in permanent chaos, and it is great to be able again to say that the chaos isn't our own fault ;) pictures on my flickr account, …
Chit-Chat » A house with no cat in it... » RE: How're you doing, Moondark?
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 1 replies
We're OK, thanks for asking. Getting used to it, I think, although MrDark says he can't quite get the hang of not immediately thinking in any given situation of what the cat needs - which doors need to be open or closed…
Chit-Chat » Where the heck is my damn umbrage? [Update below] » RE: Where the heck is my damn umbrage? [Update below]
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 2 replies
Covert! Is there any need for such profanity in a public forum?!
Chit-Chat » A house with no cat in it... » RE: we lasted eight weeks
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 7 replies
since our beloved Isis died on Aug. 31. On Oct 29 two baby kittens moved in with us, they were born on the very same day our Isis died.
Oh... kittens! Names, descriptions, pictures? :-)
Chit-Chat » A house with no cat in it... » RE: RE: What they're up to now
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 2 replies
Oh, and don't forget the Mission Impossible theme music to accompany the explosives-laying. She'd probably be in a black catsuit.
Chit-Chat » I can't figure this Christmas thing out. » RE: Accolade?
MoonDark 12 yrs ago
So often these days we see so many people playing fast and free with the English language, and substituting "your" when "you're" is meant.
Now *that's* what I'd call bad language!
Chit-Chat » A house with no cat in it... » What they're up to now
MoonDark 12 yrs ago | 5 replies
I had to share this with you! MrDark and I were talking this morning about the Pussycats That Have Gone Before, and we decided that "Bagthorpe will be doing a tap dance and maybe some card tricks to distract everyon…

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