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Thanking you all for your considerable patience, I return blinking in the dwindling daylight as a result of my annual diabetes eyetest with the eyedrops
What D started in South America, moved on to North America, then to Scandinavia and then back where it started
<Doh> emoticon, what am I like? (memo to self: Please Read Things With Utmost Concentration, Skimming is a Most Unhealthy Habit!) Sorry. I notice that someone locally has had their first grandchild and posted notice in the paper about it. The babe will be christened Ossian. There's odd, thought I, and just this morning I was thinking about Fingal! Tis true, life imitates coincidences.
Thanking you all for your considerable patience, I return blinking in the dwindling daylight as a result of my annual diabetes eyetest with the eyedrops
What D started in South America, moved on to North America, then to Scandinavia and then back where it started
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
One is reminded of the final line of 'The Great Gatsby'.
Perhaps F. Scott was an AA-er manqué...
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"
(One of the great last lines ever, imho)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Absolutely spot on, anton except .. .. the return where the orchestra which he now leads is called the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar; the youth orchestra is now called the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra
Absolutely spot on, anton except .. ;yikes: .. the return where the orchestra which he now leads is called the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar; the youth orchestra is now called the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra
Eee by gum
The last time I correctly cleared all 3 of Anna's fences was in 2009!
I wasn't working today. More stressful than that. PM coming over....
Bon courage, mon brave!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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