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« Reply #625 on: February 16, 2012, 01:43:46 pm » |
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Decided to walk the long way home from my boyfriends.
They have turned the churchyard into a 'village square' and laid almost all the stones flat- even in the middle of the pathways! This has caused terrible damage to some inscriptions and decoration especially those which had lead lettering (feet, pushchairs and skateboards have pulled many of the letters off) so I'll be playing join the dots to work out the inscriptions. I'm going to spend this afternoon producing a record sheet for each monument- and give a copy to the church warden- i hope he/she will thank me when the inscriptions are unreadable in a few months/years. It makes me mad that our heritage and our dead can be disrespected in this way but I'm glad I can do something however small to ensure these people are remembered.
Reading this very nearly physically hurt. But then, I live somewhere where you're lucky to get any history past two hundred years... Luckily (I guess) it's a fairly new church, i.e. its Victorian. I've been going through the photos I took, the oldest headstone so far is 1884, which makes me worry that they simply threw away the badly damaged ones... The church opened in 1860 so there's a couple of decades missing. Hopefully though I've just not deciphered the dates on the oldest ones yet. What almost physically hurt me is seeing how little care they took- some memorials have concrete on the upper surface, one has some of the pieces arranged upside down! All of the ones laid flat in the 'flower beds' have been placed far too low and so the bark topping is covering much of them- I'll have to go back and clean these very carefully. |
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« Reply #626 on: February 16, 2012, 01:44:30 pm » |
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Flightless Phoenix, if there was one group of people who didn't think you were nuts for caring about old graves and history, I dare say it would probably be steampunks. You are among like-minded friends here.  Seconded. Here, Here! THIS made me happy today. |
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« Reply #627 on: February 17, 2012, 02:52:33 am » |
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Received a phone call & a perfumed letter from the girl I love today. Feels like that almost balances out all the bad from this week.
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« Reply #628 on: February 17, 2012, 03:16:42 am » |
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This makes me VERY happy.
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« Reply #629 on: February 17, 2012, 03:30:37 am » |
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This makes me VERY happy. That is absolutely EPIC. |
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« Reply #630 on: February 17, 2012, 04:05:05 am » |
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This makes me VERY happy. That is absolutely EPIC. I quite enjoyed that, Walkthebassline. |
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« Reply #631 on: February 17, 2012, 04:46:36 am » |
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This makes me VERY happy. Well now I'm certainly heading over to the Gah! thread after failing at robbing a pub and then being laughed at for it. Hurmph! (ha ha ha, that was great!) |
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"Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever." -Baron Munchausen
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« Reply #632 on: February 17, 2012, 06:57:34 am » |
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A good friend of mine is giving me a hand on the job search. Chances are I will not be able to talk much on here about what I'd be doing if she found anything for me. (politics) |
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« Reply #633 on: February 17, 2012, 03:45:12 pm » |
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Will be on a business trip to South Korea (again) next week. During the last trips I managed to see a bit of Seoul and learn about the people. As a voluntary fireman I was always interested in seeing firemen from other countries.
Just received an email:
A korean colleague organised a visit to the local fire-brigade for me. Will go there on Monday afternoon.
*Happiness*
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« Reply #634 on: February 17, 2012, 06:54:23 pm » |
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A good friend of mine is giving me a hand on the job search. Chances are I will not be able to talk much on here about what I'd be doing if she found anything for me. (politics) Well, I got a good laugh from this because the first time I read it, I missed the word "on the" and had a "Wait, What?" moment. Sometimes I wonder if my brain is firing on all cylinders.... |
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« Reply #635 on: February 17, 2012, 08:38:00 pm » |
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Thank you dumd students for leaving your stuff , behind in class and not returning to claim it. amore for me  . I mean seriously nice pens, flash drives, books I get everything. |
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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 #636 on: February 17, 2012, 10:45:48 pm » |
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A good friend of mine is giving me a hand on the job search. Chances are I will not be able to talk much on here about what I'd be doing if she found anything for me. (politics) Well, I got a good laugh from this because the first time I read it, I missed the word "on the" and had a "Wait, What?" moment. Sometimes I wonder if my brain is firing on all cylinders.... er...You aren't the only one that went there, DrArclight. Great minds... I'm going snowboarding this weekend. Hope to be back in the same condition I started. Paige |
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« Reply #637 on: February 18, 2012, 12:36:38 am » |
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Meeting my friends for a sunny afternoon end-of-the-week lunch at the Cowdog truck. It's the little things.
It's also finding out that there are all you can eat Seafood and Gumbo and zydeco music at the Granada Hotel in town tomorrow!
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« Reply #638 on: February 18, 2012, 01:37:47 am » |
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Meeting my friends for a sunny afternoon end-of-the-week lunch at the Cowdog truck. It's the little things.
It's also finding out that there are all you can eat Seafood and Gumbo and zydeco music at the Granada Hotel in town tomorrow!
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Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time...
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« Reply #639 on: February 18, 2012, 03:00:28 am » |
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I was at the TMTWNBBFN gig tonight. In the front row. Got to meet Lady Ava and her LYM who are both lovely people! And danced my feet off, my throat is hoarse... it was BRILLIANT!!! |
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« Reply #640 on: February 18, 2012, 04:31:20 am » |
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I was at the TMTWNBBFN gig tonight. In the front row. Got to meet Lady Ava and her LYM who are both lovely people! And danced my feet off, my throat is hoarse... it was BRILLIANT!!! I am thoroughly jealous of all of this. |
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« Reply #641 on: February 18, 2012, 04:34:28 am » |
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*more envy*
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« Reply #642 on: February 18, 2012, 04:52:18 am » |
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^what they said^
It sounds like you had fun Evelyn...
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« Reply #643 on: February 18, 2012, 08:44:44 am » |
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Did a subject at UNI last year called "Waking the Dead: Death, Burial & Memorials". All good stuff, cemetery studies.
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« Reply #644 on: February 18, 2012, 10:10:45 am » |
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I am aware that I made you guys jealous... and I'm not really going to apologize!  But if you have the slightest chance to ever see The Men live: don't miss it!!! They are awesome! Their CD's are brilliant but it's the live performance that really blows you away! (Even after sleeping one night, I'm still pretty hyper, can you tell? *g*) I'm told TMTWNBBFN will be hopping over the pond some time later this year... |
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« Reply #645 on: February 18, 2012, 11:24:05 am » |
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Went to the launch party of the new album from the Men, last night. It was fantastic!
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''I'm a loose bolt in a complete machine. What a match! I'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet.'' "You want steampunk to be a novelty, a LOLcat, a meme. I want it to be my life. Which of us is going to fight harder for it?" - Dimitri Markotin *DISCLAIMER* This dungeon is fictional, and any similarities to other dungeons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  http://www.facebook.com/avasapparelMention you're from BG when ordering for free shipping! http://www.etsy.com/shop/AshleighEllanUse 'AVA10' for 10% off! |
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« Reply #646 on: February 18, 2012, 11:44:00 am » |
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A good friend of mine is giving me a hand on the job search. Chances are I will not be able to talk much on here about what I'd be doing if she found anything for me. (politics) Well, I got a good laugh from this because the first time I read it, I missed the word "on the" and had a "Wait, What?" moment. Sometimes I wonder if my brain is firing on all cylinders.... ha! me too! I was like  completely forgot what I was going to post! |
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« Reply #647 on: February 18, 2012, 04:59:35 pm » |
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After ten years I once again laid eyes upon sixty or so issues of a magazine I avidly collected (then got tired of and had put up in the loft). Now I have them back, where do I put them?
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Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.
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« Reply #648 on: February 20, 2012, 04:15:13 am » |
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A good friend of mine is giving me a hand on the job search. Chances are I will not be able to talk much on here about what I'd be doing if she found anything for me. (politics) Well, I got a good laugh from this because the first time I read it, I missed the word "on the" and had a "Wait, What?" moment. Sometimes I wonder if my brain is firing on all cylinders.... ha! me too! I was like completely forgot what I was going to post! Same exact thing happened. Although come to think of it...the last time I was at the State Capitol I feel like that sentence happened....and it was not good. Creepy security guards...  |
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« Reply #649 on: February 20, 2012, 04:25:53 am » |
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Zombie kittens. They're so incredibley cute. Especially when they're Sphinxes.
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