Welcome Back Trog & Why I am Missing
hi trog.nice to see your return to the internet and to this board. i know you are settled in a new place now - back in europe, i believe - but i don't know where...you will find this board excessively...
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Grace,Your unfortunate experience reminds of two of my friends that were crime victims. The first friend, a college roommate, was mugged outside of her apartment one evening. She described the same...
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great story, redshoes - that certainly is NOT why i thought you had picked that name........thanks a heap.
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Dear Grace,Thank you for your update...I'm so sorry you have been the victim of a burglary!!! If you ever feel the need to hop an ocean or two, please come visit us in the cold north. We'll try and...
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Oh, grace. What an awful thing to have happen! And scary. I usually do not worry about burglaries, as we live in a pretty run-down place. ;-) But I am terrified when the wind gets strong. (When I was...
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nice to see you two mom2 - for all of the inevitable difficulties of 'family', your words do conjure up a consoling image, for this time of year - of the BIG FAMILY christmas...i was tempted to ask...
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Happy New Year to all!!!As I write this some of you will already be in the year 2002...We are having a few friends over tonight for dinner; they bring the kids and stay over, so it's not excessive...
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Happy New Year to you all! mom2, we also have always lived far away from family, so our celebrations have usually been whenever we have the good fortune to be together again. Only rarely (never?)...
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Quote: "we do the Austrian thing and put on the Blue Danbe walz and dance around the livingroom, trying not to knock over the tree."
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This is a great thread. I'm sure Grace never knew it would be so entertaining after what she has gone through. What stories! I must ask if I can incorporate them in a book ... Long ago, when I was...
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pookah - i trust you'll be taking your fianc to YOUR family, next year? sounds like that's be a lot more fun.and yes, as far as the burglary goes, i'm over it now, it was just about a week that i...
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Sorry to hear about your burgulary Grace. I hope all is well now. Happy Christmas and New Year to all.This year l had big arguments with hubby over where to spend Christmas. It was pretty awful...
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Hi JaneRob,And welcome back! Sorry you had such a difficult holiday! This time of year does tend to bring out all our skeletons at once, doesn't it? I hope everyone remains safe from the fires. I...
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This thread is very valuable, if for no other reason than to illuminate us all as to the craziness of our respective lives. You can only do so much to try to make a great Christmas -- and after that,...
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You DO have wonderful stories, Pookah! Christmas with your family sounds great! Did I mention that our Christmas dinner this year was leftover COLD roast beef? (I kept telling myself that many in the...
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I love it. "Christmas Tales Better Left Untold" should be the title of this thread!I may have to steal some of these gems after all. They make the "Gift of the Magi" pale in comparison.I must tell you...
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it sure is amazing how some of these threads go - amazing but good.it's odd how some of the threads i have very much hesitated about even starting, are the ones which end up bringing people out the...
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And my answer: Oh! Yes! I was on holiday in Africa. In Port Harcourt, Nigeria... Lots of sun, the most beautiful flowers, a barbecue for Christmas and a fantastic time... However, looking outside the...
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That's quite a picture, Dancecrazy. I can' even imagine it.As to whether mine is as good as it sounds -- I would have to use that quote "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."Big...
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While there is a lot about French cuisine that I will never understand (eating horses head for one thing) I can certainly handle a little foie gras. And that almond cake you have once a year on .. i...
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What? Horses head??? Never heard of that one before... You mean sheep, surely? As for horse, we (sometimes, not often, and not for me!) eat the meat, in steaks... Oh, on 6th of Jan, you mean the...
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