... I saw her (EL James) interviewed, but couldn't remember what she looks like. Also heard brief radio interview, she sounds like a pleasant London housewife....
My Mum is buried in the back field. We are a lot easier about where we bury our dead ,these days. You can be be buries in any old back garden(even in a raised...
... ...and in view of the update from Pen, Morten is now obviously honour bound to get buried with his Mum, outside the consecrated church grounds -- maybe in...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton's_fork Just remembered this from school.... Sorry Morten,not intending to be nasty,especially as its spelt differently....
Better me than Vig. If you sprinkle anything near him, he tries to snort it. pm From: Literature@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Literature@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf...
... What laffs, Pip. Actually, it makes me laff whenever I think of snortin' reminds me of Richard Prior -- even funnier considerin I can't remember what...
Hmm Vig hasn't been round these parts lately maybe the Feds finally caught up with him. It's the way he'd have wanted to go. Sent from my iPhone ... Hmm Vig...
A film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road is being shown at the Cannes Film Festival this week. I remember enjoying the book 20 odd years ago, it...
... Didn't he tap it out on a toilet roll or somethin'? -- Thus confirming Truman Capote's verdict, perhaps: "That's not writing, it's typing." ? A friend of...
I've seen the Pacino film before, he played the part really well, more understated than he sometimes is in other films. Pacino is a huge Shakespeare fan, he...
Sweden has won Eurovision, while our prettyboy Tooji has ended up in last place. In spite of the fact that the same people wrote both songs. Sweden has won...
... My commiserations but the UK, with ten times the population of Norway, could only manage to come second from last :-) You're lucky you didn't see the...
England hasn't been good at football since the sixties. Only the Premiere League is good because of the imported players. Many Norwegian players play in...
... Sadly, that is true. (In those day, I played for a team called Chadworth House -- we won the league with 165 goals for 15 against. It wasn't a very good...
Do people in Norway take Eurovision at all seriously? It's always been a bit of a kitsch joke in the UK. I mean, we do get some people here who genuinely love...
Eurovision is very popular in Norway. Most people don't like the music, but they like the tradition and the glamour. Britain usually sends crap to Eurovision....
I think since the 70's established musicians here have looked down on Eurovision, it's usually up and coming acts or has beens who go in for it. Sent from my...
There were more books on Astrology in Newton's personal library than on Science. He discovered that gravity operates at all scales; but he was looking for...
This link works when you cut and paste it... The Venus Transit - 5th/6th June 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF_qr3yN3xo I'm reposting it simply because...
I saw this a few years ago...small black pea moving across the sun. but it was too cloudy at sunrise to see this time around. 'nother one in five years time...
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Jun 6, 2012 4:12 pm
sniff. I imagine one amazing writer's party in heaven though. Transitioned at age 91. Kare...
A great man has passed. But 91 is a respectable age for a man. He had a very rich life. We should have a southern funeral celebration with a jazz band, not a...
I remember reading Dandelion Wine and The Martian Chronicles when I was a kid and really being transported by them. Sent from my iPhone...
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Karen Lewellen
klewellen@...
Jun 7, 2012 1:45 am
yes indeed, bet he would have loved that too. Its funny the longer I live, the more I appreciate how little age is starting to matter. We have a Mayer here...
Thats because old age doesn't actually inpinge on your personal life. My father cares little for old age,he never has..HOWEVER the people who love him carry...
... Not quite, young lady :-) It's a phenomenon with an eight (not a five) year interval -- and the next transit of Venus will be in 120 odd years time, from...
A long while ago, I got one of the highest marks for Economics in the Open Executive Class UK Civil Service examination. This has always shocked me, for I knew...
The sad thing is that so many homes are awful,with old people stacked like cord wood ...... Yep ,I missed a one out there somehow...no more preas in my life...
