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I've mislaid my computer glasses. They have now been missing for several hours. No more activity on this site from me until they turn up. :(

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Sorry to hear that!

I expect Dr B will sort out the problem whenever he returns to the site. :-)

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In a moment of abstraction, I'd put them in a cardboard box just outside the bathroom. They took hours to find! :drunk:

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Here's looking at you, said the nictitater. ;)

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I seem to be the only member online at the moment. I think that this may be the first time that has happened. :drunk:

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Not for long, broster! :-)

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Ah! You're never alone with a Strand! ;)

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I notice that, for the first time, I've made it into the list of the top seven posters. :rolleyes:

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As a little celebration of the festive season, here are three of Em's twelve pains of Christmas, plus the first Em cartoon I ever saw.

http://www.ligotti.net/picture.php?a...pictureid=1002

I think that Em is a Swedish woman living in London. Her cartoons appear in the free evening paper The London Paper, and can also be seen on her web site http://www.emcartoons.com/

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I have just started a new album entitled "Beachcombing time's Plutonian shore". All but the first word is a quotation from memory (probably a misquotation) from Poe's 'The Raven'. The album's for fragments from my personal past. Here is one of the first two, my ration book for 1953-54. Since the book remains with me, I assume that was the last year of food rationing in Britain. The book clearly saw some use, so rationing must have ended part way through that year.

http://www.ligotti.net/picture.php?a...pictureid=1005

It's a reminder, I suppose, that I come from another world. The Ministry of Food ration book is at a great remove from the conspicuous consumption of recent years. Of course, things will continue to change -- and not necessarily in the directions that many people expect. (Not that I truly know what other people expect... I'm not even sure what I expect.)