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« Reply #100 on: August 19, 2004, 04:05:48 PM » |
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Well I don't know how innocent you are FTY but that's another story!  When do classes start up for you? Have you been to the beach much and what is the weather like now there? |
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« Reply #101 on: August 19, 2004, 04:12:06 PM » |
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My middle name is innocent Well, we are nearing the end of winter here (meaning you guys are going into winter  /  depending on how you feel about that!) which is good for me because I love summer and going to the beach! It has been raining rather heavily these last few days which is good because we are in serious drought in Aus at the moment and hopefully the rain will ease the situation somewhat. However, one downside is that I have to hike around university with wet pant legs due to puddles and wind-blown rain. Today I sat in front of a heater and steam started issuing from my jeans |
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« Reply #102 on: August 19, 2004, 04:20:56 PM » |
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This doesn't sound like the dry card keeping environment you keep persuading me to use for my card storage??! I for one will be glad when winter gets here! I like summer if I have time to enjoy it but when I am dashing from flume to forum I like to be a comfortable temperature And it will mean an end to Shelob visiting me in my shower! In the past week I have seen two of the biggest spiders in the world in my room... (they were almost Oz sized FTY) and I am a country girl! YEUK! |
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« Reply #103 on: August 19, 2004, 04:21:06 PM » |
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It is interesting how our seasons are reversed. Well we are not heading into Winter just quite yet. One of my favorite seasons is almost upon us - Fall. We have some spectacular Foilage changes here when the entire countryside blooms in vibrant colors. And then the tourists show up in force - "leaf peepers" we call them! Fall is also the time for The Highland Games - yea!! I love the games, vendors, and especially the music.  Try to stay dry!! |
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« Reply #104 on: August 19, 2004, 04:29:10 PM » |
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Well obviously it does not rain in my room where i keep my cards  The air around here is so dry that puddles evaporate almost immediately after it stops raining. We are entering spring next - whoops, got too excited about impending summer that forgot there was another season in between!  Are you sure it wasn't Aragog Roz?  What are your spiders like? Big/poisonous? We have the (dubious) honour of having the world's most highly poisonous spider here in this country - the Sydney Funnelweb (great, it is specific to where I live  ) which was used as the model for Shelob according to Richard Taylor! He told of how they used to play pranks on PJ who loathed and was terrified of spiders So you can imagine all these mini-Shelobs creeping around Sydney - though I have not seen one yet, thank goodness! |
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« Reply #105 on: August 19, 2004, 04:29:27 PM » |
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What I find shocking is compared to the number of miles we are from the sun - what is it ? About 93 million miles? Yes the diameter of the earth is about 8,000 miles, so how come just because you are currently tilting away on that 23 degree tilt so you don't get so much sunlight etc etc... and we are of course on an eliptical orbit too... how eliptical is that? It must be a fairly serious difference!
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« Reply #106 on: August 19, 2004, 04:32:19 PM » |
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I have heard though that the spiders got there before you human folk got there and built sydney! No the most harm the spiders are going to do here is frighten the life out of me! I am quite accustomed to spiders up to 2 inches in diameterish - I don't mind those - anything above that and there are like a whole other member of the household that needs evicting! (sorry for the double post - FTY I was still typing my post when you posted yours!). Yes - I'd love to visit Oz but I'd be like Ron the whole time with your freaky spiders... who would live in such lands? |
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« Reply #107 on: August 19, 2004, 04:42:05 PM » |
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Yes - I'd love to visit Oz but I'd be like Ron the whole time with your freaky spiders... who would live in such lands? I feel a Brit-Aussie slanging match beginning... and the cricket has not even started yet! But it brings to mind one of my fave quotes from PoA - 'The spiders want me to tap-dance and I don't wanna tap-dance Harry!' 'You tell those spiders Ron' |
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« Reply #108 on: August 19, 2004, 04:47:17 PM » |
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No, Oz does look amazing, I'd learn to dive if someone said I could have a ticket to Oz... you have some amazing reefs! I'd also love to try surfing, the waves are a bit teeny tiny here! Although it is possible down in Cornwall where the fetch comes all the way from Florida (assuming the winds are travelling their usual way). Hmmm... but I'd have to see Sydney and the Opera house from a spider checked Helicopter ... argh! Imagine if I'd been 2 years younger and I'd applied for that PhD we were chatting about earlier FTY and I lived in Oz... I'd have to live in the next room to you so you could throw them out for me if they came-a-visiting! |
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« Reply #109 on: August 19, 2004, 04:55:39 PM » |
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I was just kidding, we all know that this is the most beautiful country in the world No bias or anything Yep, the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland is gorgeous, but you better come here soon, its disappearing sadly  thanks to pollution and increasingly warm waters which breed this parasite called the *something* starfish which destroys coral. |
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« Reply #110 on: August 19, 2004, 04:58:10 PM » |
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Yes true, and as the waters heat, a slower process of the coral "bleaching" (the water is too hot, it dies, goes white - 'bleaching') is a real worry! Gah! Stop driving everywhere everyone! Skate, take a train or walk! |
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« Reply #111 on: August 19, 2004, 05:02:22 PM » |
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I don't have a car, so I take public transport all the time anyways! |
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« Reply #112 on: August 19, 2004, 05:04:26 PM » |
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Hmm preaching to the converted eh?
Gah!
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« Reply #113 on: August 29, 2004, 12:14:07 PM » |
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Roz Perth is the best place in Australia we have everything . I love 15 minutes from the city and 20 min from the beach Heaven It is fantastic here I love it . Everything is clean and beautiful. Roz i notice that you do alot for others is there anything in Aussie we can send you?  ? |
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« Reply #114 on: August 29, 2004, 12:24:13 PM » |
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me? Oh... erm - thank you! A bit of that weather would do me nicely - can you get it all in an envelope You already have to "keep" FTY in her Harry Potter lollipop addiction so you are already helping a load... that's not to say if you see some cool HP related item I might like that I would say no
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« Reply #115 on: August 29, 2004, 12:57:36 PM » |
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thanks for reminding me FTY your lollies will be posted tomorrow
i got you 4 wands 4 whizz beeess and 1 beans
Well let me know if you think of anything roz.
I did see a card that said Ray of sunshine
that is as close to sending you sunshine as i can get it is raining here too
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« Reply #116 on: August 29, 2004, 02:25:46 PM » |
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Much appreciated as always! Roz, i am going to keep an eye out for any 'Aussie exclusives' here for you - LOTR or HP. Sorry we can't send you the weather (tried to get it past customs, but got caught  ), you will have to come over here and see it for yourself If I see a nice piece of Australiana that I can send in a parcel, I will let you know! |
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« Reply #117 on: August 29, 2004, 03:50:35 PM » |
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Cripes, well thanks! Yes I got import taxed on the sunshine - it amounted to the cost of 170 summer holidays so I "returned to sender" thanks for the thoughts though. |
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