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*dies*

FINALLY. Stupid browser refuses to show the top toolbar so I've been switching modes until I can actually FIND the damn update button...

Okay. Anyway. I'm in Birmingham, in the house of my relatives and savouring civilisation. I've been staying in many, many B&Bs, and one can have too many cups of complimentary tea and cocoa before the boredom sets in.

We've been to Hay-on-Wye, the biggest second hand bookshop town in the world - over *30* of the damn things. I have restricted myself to the first Robert Rankin book and two paperback Shakespeares so I can write my oral. Other than that, am restricting spending as far as possible, but I'm going to a huge new shopping centre and market tomorrow >.<

Tink has procured volumes 5 and 8 of YnM and my life is thus approaching completeness. Am now off to update

mercurial_wit again and stop being quite so antisocial towards my cousins. And reread both Jasper Fforde books. READ THEM *prods annie and eujar especially* They rock.

Perhaps it's a good thing I'm not going to Animania. All this talk of papier-mache is quite alarming.

NB - Cath, can you poke James for me and ask if he ever wears ANYTHING but his Venture gear when on hikes? (I saw the photos) :D

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Have not typed up survey because it is no longer urgent - no store openings till March. So we have time, and it'll be easier if we do it when you get back, ne?
One less stress for your vacation! ^_____________^
Now I'm off to work. >.

You know what the worst thing James wore was!?!

Think Rainbow Thermals.

Think Short Short Shorts.

Think Shin Pads.

Think Soccer shirt.

Think little feminine bowl hat.

And the most disturbing thing on the hike? Matt, the guy who looks like Samwise the Brave with an orange mug attatched to his pack, requested that James put his hair into pigtails because he looked "so damn cute" (true quote).

Overall, that hike made all the males a notch more homosexual. Even my dearest Ben. We named ourselves "The Fellaship of Ms Ring," where I was the One Ring, my Ben was Gollum (doesn't he have the eyes!?!), other Ben was an Uruk-Hai, James was Eomer (but he was in denial and wanted to be Aragorn *snort*) and Matt was Samwise the Brave, a nickname previously given to him from first Film Night.

Next hike we have, you MUST come!! Was uber awesome. ^_^

daaaaaaayyyumm!! i wish i hads ME such a cool last name as ring, so *i* could control me the lotr rping males. you lucky ho <+|:D

Freya, DO YOU KNOW A PATTERN FOR THE SHOE STOCKINGS??????????????
*runs around and panics for a while*

Okay, now that's over. How are you going? Is England as dreary as ever? Brain not working now. Too much sewing.

- Liz-monkey

What the hell is a shoe stocking?
England is indeed dreary. Hopefully Rome shall be an improvement.

You know the tube-like stocking thing you stick over the shoes. You told me about a pattern you had but, me being really stupid, did not get them off you. I am an idiot.

Can you help me? Please?

Nooo, I can't remember saying anything about a pattern *is confused* I might have been talking about iceskate covers, but they're a little different. I could probbaly adjust the design though - obviously I can't help much from over here!

But try cutting out a long, wide stocking shape, like an Xmas stocking, and then another identical one. stitch them together with elastic at the top and bottom. Gah. Hard to explain.

i am very interested - who is this jasper fforde, and what deos he write?

1st book - The Eyre Affair
2nd book - Lost In A Good Book
3rd (as yet unread) book - The Well Of Lost Plots

They're brilliant, very funny and very clever and with many literary references that we, the elite and pretentious, can laugh at and feel smug about. The first one is all about Jane Eyre and I am assured that they are VERY postmodern, so really you should read them purely for that.

They're good. I laughed out loud. Enough said.

ohhhhhhhhhhh!!! THOSE are the ones ms vance sniffy said 'weren't high art' but that she really, really liked anyway. the ones she tried to get us to read.

HOW DO THEY PORTRAY BELOVED MR ROCHESTER? THERE IS NOT A REPEAT OF WIDE SARGASSO SEA'S ****SLANDER*** I TRUST?!?!??!

He's cool! And witty, and nice and very in love with Jane. i can see why you like him.

*gasps*

ARG! We're online together! And I have no MSN!!! *dies*

and i was just distrcated for a long time making an icon! and you've probably gone away again!
nooooooooooooooooooccchhh!

I'M STILL HERE! But I am trying to update and have no msn to tell me when a reply comes!!

TALK TO MEEE!! *waves frantically*

*waves frantically back over several oceans and hemispheres*
fraaaaaaaaarrr!! FRAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!! HAS YOUR FAMILY AND THEIR LACK OF MAN-PERVERSION DRIVEN YOU INSANE YET??!???!

DON'T MOVE AN INCH!!!
MSN is finally getting somewhere.

...yes. Don't want to spend another week with them. *snivels pathetically and hurls herself at eujar to be given sympathy*

*pats frar comfortingly*
have they been cruel to you? or do they simply not understand very basic things which poor frar's need to grow?

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