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hugs Val I sent you a PM xox

Yes Wildcat and your welcome:)

@Val: I am so glad and happy for you with this progress - you go girl, love you:) A time to pause, A time to think, A time to remember @Wildcat: Some history of a Canadian we are proud of *********** On May 2, 1915, John McCrae’s close friend and former student Alexis Helmer was killed by a German shell. That evening, in the absence of a Chaplain, John McCrae recited from memory a few passages from the Church of England’s “Order of the Burial of the Dead”. For security reasons Helmer’s burial in Essex Farm Cemetery was performed in complete darkness. The next day, May 3, 1915, Sergeant-Major Cyril Allinson was delivering mail. McCrae was sitting at the back of an ambulance parked near the dressing station beside the YserCanal, just a few hundred yards north of Ypres, Belgium. As John McCrae was writing his In Flanders Fields poem, Allinson silently watched and later recalled, “His face was very tired but calm as he wrote. He looked around from time to time, his eyes straying to Helmer's grave." Within moments, John McCrae had completed the “In Flanders Fields” poem and when he was done, without a word, McCrae took his mail and handed the poem to Allinson. Allinson was deeply moved: “The (Flanders Fields) poem was an exact description of the scene in front of us both. He used the word blow in that line because the poppies actually were being blown that morning by a gentle east wind. It never occurred to me at that time that it would ever be published. It seemed to me just an exact description of the scene." J. McCrae

First hugs all @Maddy so glad you got this love the pic, Scott nearly flipped out when Jen showed up;) @Lil It was a great night but some pics can't be shown:P @Val I love his cartoons he is/was classic to bad he retired:( @Wildcat: Give me the name maybe I can have my people stop them so you get your trip.....maybe ETA: Last Edit honest *blinks*

LOL Val 7 slt for the party - big hugs Hippie be sure to join us with Ladysue Okay yesterday I was cleaning up and came across my old Gary Larson book of comic strips from the 80's. I find them hilarious and in keeping with my warped humour. So look out you are bound to see a few of them...........

Oh Maddy I noticed that mix up back on the SLums but I must admit the blue looks kind of cute. A little highlight of white or pink would be nice also:) blink

@Wildcat "nun ja bitte" window seat, winks back;) @Val you found my passport picture Val, ty and a big hugs to you also ♥ blinks (oh damn I thought I got rid of that) hugs and waves weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:D

WOW real hump day today, Österreich, cool can I come Wildcat huh huh. hugs all - doesn't blink:)

LOL - hugs, you Wild Cat ETA: blinks

LOL - hugs, you Wild Cat ETA: blinks

aaaaaand the prize goes to LIA......lasting 3 minutres and 45 seconds into the morning Champagne......hugs Weeeeeeeeeweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:D

aaaaaand the prize goes to LIA......lasting 3 minutres and 45 seconds into the morning Champagne......hugs Weeeeeeeeeweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:D

Good Morning all wooooooot, things seem normal again:) Thanks for breakfast Hippie;) Giggle juice from Val:) Tunes from Wildcat (wonders if she got kissed last night) /blinks:P I have to ask who put the blue and jelly bum prints all over the wall and someone put happy faces on them /stands tapping foot waiting for an answer ETA: Looks like Hippie and Maddy work

Good Morning all wooooooot, things seem normal again:) Thanks for breakfast Hippie;) Giggle juice from Val:) Tunes from Wildcat (wonders if she got kissed last night) /blinks:P I have to ask who put the blue and jelly bum prints all over the wall and someone put happy faces on them /stands tapping foot waiting for an answer ETA: Looks like Hippie and Maddy work

Well I remembered at exactly 12:15 on the 6th Nov, or wait was that 11:15...hhhhmmm but thanks for the warning:P

waves to Maddy - hugs:)

Hugs Val, Hippie and Lia:) @Val yes your right I didn't even think of that:)

Good morning my dear friends:) Blinks @Wildcat:P @Val yes the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, is our Remembrance Day also. With all the knowledge we have of the past we still add to the list of those we remember:(

Okay fine so isn't our turn at bat, on the field, on the court, in the net, on the pitch? Good thing they supply the equipment all I have is running shoes. Oh maybe the equipment is faulty?

That's all really interesting Snugs but WHAT THE HECK IS THE SCORE? /Dee shakes her head you would think she was talking about vampires or something!

Morning All, not sure what is going on either??

Raven, in my stand against the commercial aspect of Christmas I refuse to place my "world famous" Christmas hats on the Marketplace until the 15th of December. Well okay they are not "world famous"; Well they're sort of Christmas, some are red and white; They are hat's though and I put Christmas in the title:P

Well that about sums it up Canoro, it is about spirit and what suits who (humbug to the commercial aspect though) and of course we are not the first to wage this war of thoughts are we. Merry Christmas! ... What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented against you? If I would work my will ... every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas," on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. CHARLES DICKENS, A Christmas Carol I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on their journeys. CHARLES DICKENS, A Christmas Carol

@Dil: Yes roast beast I can smell it now, just lovely. I hear that the price has gone up again this year seems to be some kind of shortage (probably hype) oh well. /looks for Cindy Who;)

Keli I think Void is in the NO list, it's possible I am wrong but I don't think so:P *waves to Void how is the vaping (vamping,lol) going? I have managed to stay on for almost 5 months now......