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God I wish it was snowy here. It's starting to heat up again, Winter come back :C
My kingdom for a house in the northern hemisphere so it could never be Spring or Summer.
Yeah I had a very light headache all day too, not enough to complain about but just enough to make it uncomfortable. And everything that I enjoy involves staring at something for long periods of time :C
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Michael Robotham talk. I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion, with questions and answers at the end, and the very large crowd obviously did too. As a journalist in his "past life" working in the UK and other countries, the stories he told were wonderful. A very nice guy. I have a photo but am having trouble getting it off my phone for some reason:( When I get it to work, I will add it here:)
Ashleigh wrote: "Thanks Dale. That's the one that did my head in with all the similar colours. Back onto counted cross stitch now. :) Had a slight crisis with using the wrong size banding and getting halfway throug..."I am seriously impressed. I once tried cross stitch, but the thing I made was minuscule, an drove me mad. To actually have the patience to complete things as large as that is impressive! And then to be eager to do more...
Ashleigh wrote: "As I said I would, here are my dolphins. These are going up out of order they were done in but I am trying to get good pics for you. "
WOW Ashleigh this is beautiful. You've done an a AMAZING job. This must've taken you quite awhile to do. You're very talented that's for sure.
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Lovely dolphins!Do you sign your work?
I used to do a lot of cross stitch and I always added my name and the year at the bottom.
I was looking at one on my wall the other day and for the first time in a long time, noticed that the date was 1992...and I suddenly had an OMG moment when I realised I made it 21 years ago!
Ack, when did I get so old? I often catch myself thinking that 1993 was 10 years ago...instead of 20.
I just used some graph paper and drew out my name, just in backstitch/outline (whatever you call it) not in actual cross stitch. That made it a lot easier and I could use the same pattern every time.
Kathryn wrote: "Bette wrote: Thanks, Brenda. I found it!!!Author page: where it shows average ratings, # distinct works, it say Similar Authors
For everyone's information...
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That is a very cool feature,..."
Me too, Kathryn! The more suggestions, the better:)
Ashleigh wrote: "As I said I would, here are my dolphins. These are going up out of order they were done in but I am trying to get good pics for you. "
That is gorgeous, Ashleigh. You've obviously put a lot of time and effort in with a great result. You should be proud:)
Liam wrote: "My kingdom for a house in the northern hemisphere so it could never be Spring or Summer."Me too, Liam. Your northern hemisphere house would have a neighbour - me! Hate spring/summer - I need to go to USA right about now...
Did anyone else read http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... ??? Seems to be creating quite a bit of 'fuss' amongst members and authors...
Bette wrote: "Did anyone else read http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... ??? Seems to be creating quite a bit of 'fuss' amongst members and authors..."
I hadn't seen it, Bette, and I've only just read the initial post (with the 2 updates) although I see there are over 3000 comments on it!! But from reading that first post it just sounds like common sense and common courtesy to restrict your book reviews to comments about the book. And I have no shelves based on authors anyway, let alone shelves that make a personal comment about an author or authors, so I don't think it will affect me.
It strikes me as strange that it has attracted so many comments! I guess we're all different...
Bette wrote: "Did anyone else read http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... ??? Seems to be creating quite a bit of 'fuss' amongst members and authors..."
I hadn't seen it before Bette but it makes sense to me. After all, we are meant to be giving impressions of the book not the author's life.
Bette wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "Bette wrote: Thanks, Brenda. I found it!!!Author page: where it shows average ratings, # distinct works, it say Similar Authors
For everyone's information...
I must be dumb, Bette. I can't find anything like that. Do we have a link?
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That is a ve..."
Hey Dale,If I knew how to insert photos in GR I could post a screen shot, but photos sound like they're a bit beyond my capabilities so I'll try to describe it.
If you click on an author's name, scroll down until you get to where it shows the author's books (just below the author's profile) - it says the author's name in a beige bar e.g. Charles Dickens' books. Just underneath that bar it has a line that says
"Average rating: 3.79 · 1,289,543 ratings · 36,753 reviews · 835 distinct works · Similar authors"
Click on the "similar authors" link, and voila!!
Hope that helps...
Bette wrote: "Did anyone else read http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... ??? Seems to be creating quite a bit of 'fuss' amongst members and authors..."
Besides, does anyone else keep track of how many reviews they've written?? How do these people know whether GR has deleted one of their reviews or not? I don't normally even go back to my reviews unless I can't remember a book and am trying to jog my memory!
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Seems to be creating quite a bit of 'fuss' amongst members and authors..."
Thanks Bette, yes I've been following it too..
Kathryn wrote: "Hey Dale,If I knew how to insert photos in GR I could post a screen shot, but photos sound like they're a bit beyond my capabilities so I'll try to describe it.
If you click on an author's name,..."
Okay, it's official I'm a twit. LOL. I found average rating, reviews and ratings, Kathryn, but can't find similar authors. Is that something I was supposed to have put into the profile?
No, of course you aren't a twit, Dale!! I don't think it's something that you need to enter into your profile as an author, but I'm not sure why similar authors isn't showing up for you... I just looked at your profile and I can see similar authors for you, but interestingly when I click the link, nothing happens. Do you think this is another one of those things where authors see different things on people's pages to what the general public can see...?
Where you are seeing average reviews, ratings etc isn't under the profile pic, is it? Because that isn't where the similar authors link is - it's under the author's books heading.
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If I knew how to insert photos in GR I could post a screen shot, but photos sound like they're a bit beyond my capabilities so I'll try to describe it.
If you click on a..."
This is directly under "Dale Harcombe's books"
Average rating: 4.04 · 24 ratings · 12 reviews · 10 distinct works · Similar authors
You see "similar authors" in lighter print to click on Dale:)
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Hi all,Sorry to have been MIA for so long - life has been catching up with me and then Robbie surprised me with an impromptu trip to Fiji which was absolute bliss :)
Hope all are well, talk soon :)
Kathryn wrote: "Where you are seeing average reviews, ratings etc isn't under the profile pic, is it? Because that isn't where the similar authors link is - it's under the author's books heading."Okay, thanks Kathryn and Brenda. Found it. And yes, as Brenda said I'm like no-one. That could be good or bad LOL
Tracey wrote: "Hi all,Sorry to have been MIA for so long - life has been catching up with me and then Robbie surprised me with an impromptu trip to Fiji which was absolute bliss :)
Hope all are well, talk soon :)"
welcome back Tracey.
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Michael wrote: "Farewell to one of Australia's most well known authors.http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/..."
Vale Christopher Koch.
One of my neighbours must have just got a puppy. It has been howling and whining since about 4am this morning. Poor little thing, it must be lonely:(
Bette wrote: "One of my neighbours must have just got a puppy. It has been howling and whining since about 4am this morning. Poor little thing, it must be lonely:("Aren't the neighbours at home, Bette?
Not sure if this is the correct place to put this but I thought it might interest some of our members. I have just signed up for this course through Coursera - for those of you not familiar with Coursera they offer free online courses in various topics - I have completed a number of courses and highly recommend them. Anyway for anyone interested in historical fiction:https://www.coursera.org/course/hisfi...
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Thanks for sharing Michele!
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Poor little puppy...missing his mum:( I know most newbie puppies cry their first few nights away from mum..
Bette wrote: "One of my neighbours must have just got a puppy. It has been howling and whining since about 4am this morning. Poor little thing, it must be lonely:("Maybe peek over the fence, we had next door's puppy whining and crying for a few hours, looked over the fence and he'd gotten stuck in a cane chair, half through it. Scared itself to death.
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Maybe peek over the fence, we..."
Aww! Poor little thing...he would have been terrified!
Brenda wrote: "Bette wrote: "One of my neighbours must have just got a puppy. It has been howling and whining since about 4am this morning. Poor little thing, it must be lonely:("Poor little puppy...missing h..."
If it were mine I would be keeping it inside. We did that with both our boxers and had minimal separation anxiety.
@Vicki I presume they were but they weren't doing anything! I wanted to go grab the little thing myself and bring it home:)
@Liam God, I'm gonna stress now if I hear it again. Although this morning, I can't hear anything but the damn wind:)
Michele wrote: "Not sure if this is the correct place to put this but I thought it might interest some of our members. I have just signed up for this course through Coursera - for those of you not familiar with ..."Brenda, maybe we need a thread where ARs can share details of courses and information???
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I'll chat to the other mods and see what they think...thanks guys:)
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Poor little pu..."
OMG! Wasn't it inside Bette? I was thinking (assuming) it was in the laundry! That's where we've always put our new puppies until they settle into the routine.
Bette wrote: "Brenda wrote: "@Vicki I presume they were but they weren't doing anything! I wanted to go grab the little thing myself and bring it home:)"That would be me, too. :) Poor wee pup.
Michele wrote: "Not sure if this is the correct place to put this but I thought it might interest some of our members. I have just signed up for this course through Coursera - for those of you not familiar with ..."Thanks for the info... I have just signed up.
Hi everyone, I've been absent due to a new full time job and juggling it with the existing full time job of being a mum and keeper of a house. So I feel I've been left on the sandbank as the groups I'm in have swept on without me.Feeling I couldn't keep up I decided to just jump back in in a safe spot so saying HI! here. :-)
There, I talked about anything... but don't discuss politics and don't have a dog.
AM making damper for our special Sunday family breakfast and having it with lemon curd a frien made. NOM!
Okay, hi, bye! :-)
Janis.
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Deb wrote: "Michele wrote: "Not sure if this is the correct place to put this but I thought it might interest some of our members. I have just signed up for this course through Coursera - for those of you no..."Excellent Deb, hope you enjoy it. I might see you on the discussion boards, the other courses I have done have had around 40,000 people joining in, so the boards can get busy :)
Had a sudden reduction (to nil) of Goodreads emails, which is how I choose to received notifications from some groups. Apparently Goodreads had a problem with my email address, so it stopped emailing me. Am now attempting to catch up on all the interesting threads. Could take a while...
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Oh snow.....wish we could add some of that to the heat which is coming our way Michele!
Thanks too:)