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My day: went to Spitalfields Market together with charming forum member Outflyer Calliope for a vintage market / costume sale. I found a lovely pink Victorian dress for myself, another Victorian dress for a friend of mine who had to stay at home (both were a steal I might add). Plus another dress, a red one, 40ies style, which looks actually quite va-va-voom with me in it!  And to top it all (quite literally!), I found a bowler hat in my size, by Christie's London, for 10 £. That was enough happies for an entire week today! Lovely, fun company, great clothes, delicious food, so much fun! |
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« Reply #526 on: February 04, 2012, 10:43:55 pm » |
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Quick trip to Brighton resulted in a new Suitcase and a Top hat, which fits better than the one I currently have, when I returned my new boots were waiting for me on the doorstep.... Tomorrow a visit to Spitalfields to buy leather for a project or two, providing the threatening Lurgi doesn't get any worse... |
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« Reply #527 on: February 05, 2012, 10:19:37 am » |
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I've found two places that can count as home to me. Slab city down in southern California where anything goes, and the Outback down under. I already I plan on living in the outback for several years learning from the bushmen. Yay Better start planning.  |
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There is a reason for this. And trust me, when a bunch of harry potter geeks think your fucking retarded, you know there is something wrong.
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« Reply #528 on: February 05, 2012, 12:08:12 pm » |
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Time Team is back on air    (I don't have anything in particular against it, except a. if it ain't Roman, they ain't interested and b. my Father watches it incessantly on More4, even though they're just the same tired old ten or so episodes repeated ad nausea). Tonight, they're digging in a little town called Dunwich  |
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« Reply #529 on: February 05, 2012, 01:23:33 pm » |
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Oh the horror =P
I quite like time team but I'm a archaeologist who specialises in the 19th cnetury- so the ooohhh romans thing annoy me too!
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« Reply #530 on: February 05, 2012, 01:39:21 pm » |
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Frankly I'm surprised there's anything Roman left for them to destroy excavate. The most interesting episodes I've ever seen have been their excavations of Matthew Boulton's Birmingham Soho factory, Arthur Liberty's silk printworks in South London, the world's first 'railway' (technically, plateway or tramway) viaduct in South Wales (now buried under about 50' of spoil) and the two or three aircraft they've done.
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« Reply #531 on: February 05, 2012, 01:47:00 pm » |
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Today's things that have made me happy are preparing to book for the Asylum, and deciding I should probably come back to this very forum that got neglected due to business offline.
Regarding Time Team, I stopped watching after my Archaeology tutor told us a lot of it was faked- they were doing a dig in Norwich (I think that one was one of the few that wasn't Roman) and were trying to find the specific location of something. They'd just started digging when my tutor found records showing what they wanted somewhere else, and he was told to leave it until the Sunday because they couldn't be bothered to relocate. So naturally, the program has them finding a couple of bits but not what they wanted, then in the last minute my tutor comes running on saying he found where they went wrong and everyone says 'oh well, if only we knew sooner'...
Plus I've heard stories of Tony Robinson being an utter *bleep* but that could just be hearsay.
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« Reply #532 on: February 05, 2012, 01:52:01 pm » |
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I don't know if it's "couldn't be bothered to relocate"... it would have taken a lot of effort to move, they'd have needed different permissions to dig somewhere else and they still have a time limit... by the time it was all sorted they'd probably have done not much better...
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« Reply #533 on: February 05, 2012, 04:33:56 pm » |
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The time limit annoys me and the way they pretend they found out things so fast- like in an episode I saw recently (it was an old one though) they discovered a skeleton, and they acted like the found out whether it was male or female and her age to within 5 years (they said late 30's) when they'd only uncovered a few bones!
I know a little bit about human bone (although I'm no expert- my uni dropped the course before I got to take it =[) and I know that without both the pelvis and skull uncovered they would have been speculating the sex at best, and that it's notoriously difficult to age adults accurately (after the fusion of all epiphyses in the early 20's) The jaw bone was missing and tooth wear is the best indication in adults- at least in prehistory. Grr
TThings that made me happy today: Chinese takeaway for tea! WooHoo!
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« Reply #534 on: February 05, 2012, 07:59:30 pm » |
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Meeting my partner in crime for our monthly "Plan a trip to France" session today. Planning is really fun. I'm grateful that I can travel every now and then.
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« Reply #535 on: February 06, 2012, 09:44:55 am » |
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Finding a copy of Jules Verne Classic Science Fiction on my bookshelf, hiding behind something else. It is a reproduction of three classic JV stories - 'From the Earth to the Moon', 'Round the Moon' & '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea', with original illustrations, & two articles. 'the World of Jules Verne' & 'Verne & Films' by Alan Russell.
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« Reply #536 on: February 06, 2012, 03:43:36 pm » |
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Its my birthday today.
My presents:-
A pack of 2 wooden T-junctions for our train set.
And a copy of "Bradshaw's Railway Guide".
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« Reply #537 on: February 06, 2012, 04:33:55 pm » |
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Happy Birthday!
I hope it continues to be full of train related goodness!
I'm happy becasue I managed to get some work done and my nana is coming out of hospital =]
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« Reply #538 on: February 06, 2012, 05:27:06 pm » |
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Happy Birthday!
I had a great evening last night, and I'm happy because of it. A good game, a good party for the game, and a decent nights sleep on top of it all.
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« Reply #539 on: February 06, 2012, 05:44:19 pm » |
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Happy Birthday. |
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« Reply #540 on: February 06, 2012, 07:14:34 pm » |
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Happy Birthday Mercury Wells! I hope you`ll have a nice day =)
What made me happy today is me and some first year`s I`ve been hanging out with deciding to do a Disney evening with Thai food tomorrow.
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Mercury Wells
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« Reply #541 on: February 06, 2012, 07:17:21 pm » |
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« Reply #542 on: February 06, 2012, 07:38:12 pm » |
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The game last night. My team lost, aye, but only just. Ya never really make a Hail Mary-would have been nice if they did.
Hell, for that matter, it would have been nice if they had actually SHOWED up to the game, rather than just kinda suck the whole time.
The Giants played a GREAT game, I tell ya.
Best part?
I called the entire game-victors, coin toss, and spread.
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« Reply #543 on: February 06, 2012, 08:19:56 pm » |
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Happy Happy Birthday Mercury Wells!!
May the Kraken Fairie bring you good tidings and bottles of fine liquids!
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« Reply #544 on: February 06, 2012, 08:20:48 pm » |
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Many happy returns, Mercury Wells! I too know the absolute joy that model railway goodness on birthdays brings!
My other happy for the day lies in that I've just completed the application for what I would deem a 'dream job'. Working for the Victorian Society advising on the conservation of 19th Century buildings (focussing particularly on churches, but working on any Victorian building would suit me right down to the ground).
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« Reply #545 on: February 06, 2012, 09:21:16 pm » |
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Got a small meeting tomorrow about selling my wares in a shop!
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« Reply #546 on: February 06, 2012, 09:27:21 pm » |
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Got a small meeting tomorrow about selling my wares in a shop!
Sweet! Just don't go all commercialized on us and start upping your prices!  Seriously though, I hope it goes well. Your work is amazing. |
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« Reply #547 on: February 06, 2012, 09:28:10 pm » |
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Got a small meeting tomorrow about selling my wares in a shop!
Sweet! Just don't go all commercialized on us and start upping your prices! Seriously though, I hope it goes well. Your work is amazing. THIS also made me happy! thank you! |
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« Reply #548 on: February 06, 2012, 11:15:41 pm » |
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In counterpoint to my "Gggaaaahhh" post of a couple of weeks ago concerning the closure of the original "Harry Ramsden's Chippy" It's Savedhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-16910637Just not as Harry Ramsden's though |
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« Reply #549 on: February 07, 2012, 03:51:16 pm » |
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I just posted in the GAH thread about my horrendous experience with an almost roommate and who once was a good friend. Which I know I am partially to blame for. I should have been more assertive, and less of a procrastinator. But we live and learn. The thing that makes me happy is that just before the conclusion of that madness my girlfriend's roommate announced to me that she was growing rather attached to my friend's cat. Who we've been watching for the past month, since he showed up with it and dumped it on us. Which is great because as circumstances would have it, she'll be our cat for the foreseeable future. Hooray.
Let me just add that it is not that I am not a cat person. But this cat is very much simple, I'd even say ding-bat, and also a spoiled little brat.
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