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We went out to enjoy Carols by Candlelight and, at his request, left the boy to decorate/dress the Christmas tree. This is the sight that met us when we arrived home!


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Has anyone read the reviews for the (available for pre-order) DVD/BluRay of Sherlock Season 3? If you want a good laugh go here. Here's a couple for your enjoyment ( Read more... )

Strolling though tumblr (Sherlock returns to BBC1 on 1/01/14 yeah!) I found this picture of very original Christmas wrapping paper. Since it sums up my OH's attitude toward the festive season so wonderfully I had to show him, and yes he did laugh!


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These were originally written by Frank L. Visco and first published in the June 1986 issue of Writers’ Digest. There appear to be a number of similar types of rules about, but I was sent this one by a friend and was amused, particularly by "Who needs rhetorical questions?". :-)

1. Avoid Alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end ( Read more... )

Seventeen fire officers were called out to Waimea College at 3.40am yesterday to deal with a flaming jandal. (aka a flip flop)

Richmond Volunteer Fire Brigade station chief Ralph Lonsdale said the jandal had been set on fire deliberately and was "burning furiously".

"We're now waiting for the other jandal to catch fire, wherever it is."

The file containing the birthday cartoon my dearly beloved son sent me via Skype was called 'Aged matriarch appeasement'. Cheeky sod!

America was not shut down properly. Would you like to start America in safe mode, with free healthcare and without the guns? (Recommended)

https://twitter.com/cshallwriter/status/384935341318103041

The flight (lasting all of 25 minutes) was delayed by 5 hours due to fog and at one point we thought we weren't going to get there at all, but we made it to the show. As to the show, well the World of Wearable Arts Awards show lives up to its name as it is just wow, it's also, stupendous, amazing, spectacular and many more adjectives of a similar ( Read more... )

I've never really been into sailing but if you lived in New Zealand over the past two weeks you needed to have been completely and utterly incommunicado not to have heard about it or even seen the two huge catamarans gliding across the water like planes. Oracle, Team USA won, but the end result seems to have been more a matter of who had the most ( Read more... )