Happy birthday londonronnie
Hope you're having a lovely holiday.
Intermittent internet access here on the Trent&Mersey canal also, hence my late post.

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Just saw son 1 off on the train for his university interviews. There may have been a moistening of the maternal eyes. Then he let slip that he is meeting his long-distance, also interview-bound girlfriend at the station where they both change trains. So romantic! (sigh)

Young love is one thing, but it is good to know that Romance still lives even at my advanced age in the world of Pros fandom.

There will be more of the Ritual Year in due course. But just for now:

Dear retailers and media editors, 'the twelve days of Christmas' is NOT a 12-day countdown to December 25. Got it?

http://catholicism.about.com/b/2013/12/13/the-twelve-days-of-christmas-havent-started-yet.htm

I don't concur with Scott P. Richert's religious views, but his sentiment on this - yes!

Not that I claim credit for getting out of bed on a cold Sunday morning to attend a Remembrance ceremony, I only do it because of my sons. The Scout and Guide movements provide virtually the whole of the uniformed contingent in Montgomery, our Ruritanian former county town. A few dozen townsfolk still parade, from the fine Town Hall to the large medieval parish church, led by a blue-coated town crier and the mayor in gold chain and fur-trimmed scarlet gown – yet with such a non-militaristic spirit as to encompass the laying of an alternative lilac wreath.



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Happy birthday Murphybabe! Have a great day with the people you love doing things you enjoy xxx

All work and no play makes for nothing to post about...

well, a little play - went to see The Look of Love



A private screening, in that there were no other punters. It was a weekday afternoon - but Shrewsbury Cineworld deserves credit for supporting a British film, even just for a week, since I gather lots of provincial cinemas haven't.

Being (loosely) biographical didn't do much for the drama, but a great cast of the current generation of character/comedy actors (just like in the film and TV of that era!) romp through sexy Soho, from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Including "the Bodie alley" from Takeaway (maybe... at least, we wanted it to be *g*)



and a scene at The French House (probodie and londonronnie take note!)

MayDay greetings to my lovely f'list.
Not often does it fall on such a perfect spring morning.

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"It's the in shade."

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Language advice please.
If an American talking about seduction refers to a 'love bite' what do they mean? The context I have suggests a playful or sensual nip. But in UK and Australia a ' love bite' is a horrid bruise inflicted by adolescents on each other while petting.
This relates to my work believe it or not!

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At Llandudno on the North Wales coast for a couple of days. Not a place I'd thought much of, but the Victorian architecture is wonderful.
We hugely enjoyed a ride on the cable tramway, one of only three of this type in the world.


The one in San Francisco, Mr Muse reckoned, was the best thing they did on their visit there last summer. (The third is in Lisbon - maybe next year's holiday will be to Portugal *g*).

Never expected these views - Snowdonia on one side:

seaside town on the other

Welcome to our winter springtime wonderland!





Enjoying a cosy morning here, starting with porridge and hot cross buns for breakfast.
It's Mr Muse's 60th (say it quickly) and in all those years he can't recall spending his birthday blanketed in snow.

Just 20 miles north, yesterday, there was about 8 inches of snow first thing in the morning. I know this because I took Molesworth for a check up at a specialist hospital that is, unusually, in a rural setting. The routine trip became quite an adventure. Now I know why the advice is to keep a shovel in the boot!

Yesterday evening both boys were looking forward to going with their Scout groups on an overnight hike in the hills to the south - that was, sensibly, postponed.
To think that this time last year I was sitting outdoors soaking up the sun, on the very route of their planned hike.