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I intend this thread to be for personal announcements... Anyone and everyone -- please feel free to use it. :drunk:

My announcement (apart from the above) is that I've just added an extra album to my profile -- stuffed with a dozen photos taken today. :rolleyes:

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I like the new pictures Odalisque!! Thanks for sharing your fun side with us. It is always interesting to see the faces of our members.

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Four more pictures added to my Laptop Pictures album. They're of soft toys. :D

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I put two pics in my new album. Just to put a face to the name...

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I don't know what I was expecting but for some reason Jezetha I did not picture you as looking like that. You are younger than I thought!!! Thanks for sharing your pics with us!!!

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I look younger, Candy... ;)

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Candy's right -- you do look younger than I'd have expected my favourite Dutch uncle to be. :confused:

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You're seriously joking...

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I don't know whether any others of you do this, but I keep certain vegetables in the fridge (such as lettuce and celery) standing in a little water. It helps to preserve them -- a bit like putting flowers in water. Mugs that have lost their handles are better for this purpose (vegetable vases) than ones that still have their handles -- they use less fridge space. One of the handleless cups was (when new) a gift from a now-dead friend. This particular mug had also lost a V-shape chunk from its rim, it would probably have been binned long ago, but for its assocaition with a dead friend. But last night, washing the dishes, I cut my hand on the sharp V-shaped bite from the rim. Belatedly, I viewed the object as a hazard, and binned it. This has left me wondering about the things I keep and the things I throw away. :(

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Odalisque I hope the cut was not a bad one!!! My mom cut her finger washing a glass and had to have stitches put it:eek: I tend to keep too much and my husband is constantly throwing stuff away on me!!!!

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I hate it when I accumulate things I do not use, so, on a regular basis, I get rid of them. I give them to my mum (who gives them to associations for poor people-even if i wouldn't be too sure about that- :mad:) or i sell them at flea markets, which is fun when you make a stand with friends. It's funny to see people's reactions to some objects! The only "objects" i keep collecting is books, i do not even collect records any longer. I do not like things when they are not useful and I don't feel any bond to them.

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collections >books and art stuff mainly with dedications by friends...for the rest i'm with Steve Dakorte, i just need a pc...at least on a personal collection level, i'm not talking about other delights...

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I painted a pack of tarot cards in the 70s. Today, I scanned the first of them (the suit of cups) at work. I've downloaded the scans into an album. :)

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Beautiful work, Pet!

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I vividly remember first seeing Odalisque's amazing cards in the flesh.

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That's awesome. Thanks for sharing these scans!

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Ewww. He made his cards out of flesh?

Seriously, thats pretty cool. I once dreamt I found a pack of Tarots in a rummage sale. They were quite old, and had several extra trumps and suits. I can vividly recall these: The Reflection, the Bonefire, and the Ace of Marvels. Too bad my artistic skills are as limited as my linguistic ones...Kevin or Pet, I give you permission to telepathically download and paint these, if you wish.

-Jimmy

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Thank you for your kind comments. If I can get away with putting the scanner at work to more unauthorised use ;), I'll post more of the cards.

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After gross misappropriation of my working hours today, :D I believe that the entire pack of 78 cards is now posted to the TLO. Enjoy! :drunk:

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Congratuations on achieving that (surreptitiously)!

These cards are truly magnificent. Everyone should view them on your album.

I remember you doing these in the seventies.
des

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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.)

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I have now added my identity card (from the post-war years) to the "Beachcombing time's Plutonian shore" album. There are two scans, the interior and exterior of the card, this is the latter.

http://www.ligotti.net/picture.php?a...pictureid=1011

The fountain pen handwriting of officials seen in the interior clearly belongs to another age.

Not only no biometric data in those days (not that I know what biometric data is) but no photograph. I believe that this applied to adult cards as well as this under sixteen one. The card would have expired in 1962, had identity cards not been abolished long before. Now the government want to bring identity cards back... sort of, anyway... what the government people have in mind is nothing like this card.

Oh -- and the card really is made of card!

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I have just downloaded another 16 pictures to my albums. Five of them are of my halloween diorama (giving a much better idea of it than the previously posted pictures). The other eleven are of this year's Nativity. Here's a sample of the latter:

http://www.ligotti.net/picture.php?a...pictureid=1028

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Just to let people know that I have labyrinthitis:


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I've been to the doctor and have some pills, but my head is still spinning, and I can't cope with the kind of posts one finds on the TLO!

I should be back soon. :)

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I hope that all turns out well, Pet. Take care!

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Get well soon, Pet.

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Thanks!

The pills are helping a lot, but I still have a bit of a way to go.

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I have suffered from this condition previously, and it can be quite a miserable predicament. My first experience was the most acute. After waking, I stood up to walk across the room and the room began to spin violently. I fell to the floor and thereafter attempted to crawl back to the bed while in a massive state of panic. I could not even keep my balance in this position and would alternate crashing against the two walls of the hallway. I was convinced that I was having a stroke when I attempted to call out for my wife and I could not utter a word. Evidently I was so overwhelmed with fear that my mental faculties had momentarily dissipated. There are also exercises to relieve and prevent this condition, though I have found rest to be the best remedy for my bouts with this horrific malady. Best to rest, Pet! Get well soon!

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My second attack was the worst. I was in the bathroom, unable to stand. Mostly, I just lay down as the ceiling spun above me. Every once in a while, I rose to my knees to be sick. Perhaps the worst thing was not knowing whether it would pass -- I wondered whether I'd pass the rest of my life in that condition. :eek:

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Well, that's worrying. Perhaps you should go back to the doctor. Get well soon.des

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To clarify --

• My first attack was on Wednesday (not too bad)
• My second attack was on Thursday (dreadful)
• A second bad attack was on Friday morning
• I went to the doctor later on Friday morning, was prescibed some pills and have not had a bad attack since