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Brenda wrote: "Drink maple syrup!!! Wouldn't it be really, really sweet? Like drinking honey??"
I joke, I joke although probably some Canadian somewhere has done it lol. It would be too sweet. However, in the winter as kids we used to take clean snow poor maple syrup in it and it would freeze as maple Candy :D
I joke, I joke although probably some Canadian somewhere has done it lol. It would be too sweet. However, in the winter as kids we used to take clean snow poor maple syrup in it and it would freeze as maple Candy :D
Melissa wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Drink maple syrup!!! Wouldn't it be really, really sweet? Like drinking honey??"I joke, I joke although probably some Canadian somewhere has done it lol. It would be too sweet. How..."
YUMm!! ;)
Is there such a thing as clean snow? I thought that each snowflake crystallised around a speck of dirt....
Marianne wrote: "Is there such a thing as clean snow? I thought that each snowflake crystallised around a speck of dirt...."
True lol, however I think we ignored that bit as kids :P
I think as long as it wasn't yellow it was fair game.
True lol, however I think we ignored that bit as kids :P
I think as long as it wasn't yellow it was fair game.
yep, OK, a bit of grit wouldn't be noticed in the icy sweetness!
Maple syrup! Mmmmmm. My man puts it on his porridge every day. But maybe that's just because you never get snow here. I like it on ice-cream! Snow
looks
like ice-cream, when we see it on TV. Does it taste the same?
Tui wrote: "Maple syrup! Mmmmmm. My man puts it on his porridge every day. But maybe that's just because you never get snow here. I like it on ice-cream! Snow
looks
like ice-cream, when we see it on TV. Do..."
It does not taste like ice cream - sadly lol.
looks
like ice-cream, when we see it on TV. Do..."
It does not taste like ice cream - sadly lol.
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I joke, I joke although probably some Canadian somewhere has done it lol. It would be too sweet. How..."
Haha! LOL I can believe that! We do "strange" things as kids;)
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Gross! Now that thought isn't nice!
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looks
like ice-cream, when we see it on TV. Do..."
On porridge - yes! Drinking it - no!!
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Brenda wrote: "We have had our grandson all day - out to lunch then playing with cars and miniature car sets (from his dad's day!) - dinner and now relaxing a little;) No reading though!!! Tomorrow we go to see I..."
I hope you have fun. I really want to see that movie; it looks cute.
I hope you have fun. I really want to see that movie; it looks cute.
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Should be fun Melissa, thanks! I'll give a report;)
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We have Michael thanks!!
Melissa wrote: "Tui wrote: "Maple syrup! Mmmmmm. My man puts it on his porridge every day. But maybe that's just because you never get snow here. I like it on ice-cream! Snow looks
like ice-cream, when we see ..."
Lol...imagine if snow tasted like ice cream ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆
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Phrynne wrote: "Mental image of people falling off their skis and not being able to get up again because they are stuffing their faces with vanilla ice cream."Haha...byo chocolate sauce! And etc!! *(*´∀｀*)☆
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Haha! I like your mental images Phrynne;)
☼♄Jülie wrote: "Yellow slurpees are out!"Blurk!
Leonie wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "Yellow slurpees are out!"Blurk!"
o(>< )o
My Kindle blacked out on me today, mid sentence! I restarted and all my books were GONE!!! I nearly had a conniption, but after powering it off for five minutes and then restarting it all seems ok again...*shrugs*...has this happened to anyone before?
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That happened to me once ages ago Jools, and I panicked! I got onto the Amazon website and they (in the FAQs section) told me to do that complete power off and reboot thingy...which also terrified me! But it worked!
But what mine does in mid sentence is comes up with a box saying "this title is not suitable for this device" or words to that effect (with the NetGalley ones usually) - I just go back to Home, then into the book again, and all is well. That's happened quite a few times!
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Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "My Kindle blacked out on me today, mid sentence! I restarted and all my books were GONE!!! I nearly had a conniption, but after powering it off for five minutes and then restarting ..."Oh well so I did the right thing then, it seems to be ok since...phew!
I have never had that other problem that you mention Brenda??...that would be a pain!
Book loss! That's a dreadful thought!
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LOL!
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It is! I sigh, roll my eyes and fix it;) A 20 second break and back into it again! "Real" books don't have this problem;)
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I know! Especially the amount I have on my kindle O_O!!
Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "My Kindle blacked out on me..It is! I sigh, roll my eyes and fix it;) A 20 second break and back into it again! "Real" books don't have th..."Maybe worth mentioning to Netgalley Brenda?
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Close to 1000 Michael!!!
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It's probably my kindle Jools - it's pretty ancient now!
Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "My Kindle blacked out on me..It is! I sigh, roll my eyes and fix it;) A 20 second break and back into it again! "Real" ..."Ohhhh, maybe time to upgrade then? ;) keep the old one as a library just for re-reads.
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I have my books download to Kindle and ipad kindle, so if one goes flat, or worse, I can still read it on the other..also DH can read them.
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That's a good idea...as the kindle app is on our iPad, I guess the same could be said here - but do you know, I've never looked!!! lol
Brenda wrote: "I'm never likely to reread Jools! I'm not sure I'd be game - transferring all my books over! OMGoodness ...that's scary!"But your Netgalley books are still on your bookshelf in NetGalley, so you could download those to the new one.
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Brenda wrote: "☼♄Jülie wrote: "I have my books download to Kindle and ipad kindle, so if one goes flat, or worse, I can still read it on the other..also DH can read them."That's a good idea...as the kindle app ..."
In the beginning I nominated to have my books download to both devices...I think they allow two on the same address...and I think you can do that through your settings. Same with Amazon books.
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That's a good idea...as ..."
Ooh ok then...I'm very "illiterate" on all this sort of thing I'm afraid! I must check it out:)
Brenda wrote: "You can't with the ones that are now archived though can you?"Hmm, I don't know about that, but I have gone back a couple of times to retrieve an older book that was accidently deleted and had no trouble. I have also mistakenly added books twice because I couldn't find it!
Try it and see, no harm done.
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Hmm, I don't know about that, but I have gone back a couple of times to retrieve an older book that was accidently del..."
OK thanks:) At this stage I don't need it, but I'll have a look for the future...
It's about 33c degrees here today (that's England) and I've been worrying in case my Kindle collapses in the heat. Then I realized you guys think 33 is pretty normal for Oz.It's reassuring to know that if all the books I've yet to read disappear, they can usually be retrieved
☼♄Jülie wrote: "But your Netgalley books are still on your bookshelf in Net..."That's true of the books you get from Amazon too. Having too many books on your kindle is supposed to slow it down. I think its more to do with that, than it getting old.
There's no need to keep them all on your kindle, since you can get them from Amazon any time you need them and you only have to pay for it the once.
You only really need to keep the book on your kindle that you're reading right now.
But I always like to have a few old favourites that I refer to often and a few from my TBR ready and waiting. But once I finish a book, I get rid of it immediately from the device,knowing I can get it back anytime.
Deleting them from the kindle does not delete them from your Amazon cloud.
Here's a rant against myself. I get so grumpy because even after 4½
decades
of typing on keyboards I still cannot type the word "from" without getting the o and the r back to front. I must have to edit that word after typing it about 80% of the times I type it.I've even sometimes punished myself by making myself sit in the corner with a dunce's hat on, typing if out 100 times until I learn , but nothing works.
Sigh. from! from! from! from! from! from! from! etc
@Brenda I hadn't seen silverfish for years either so imagine my surprise and horror. They like bathrooms, cupboards, dry foodstuffs, linen, books ugh! BTW, next time I see some I'll bottle them and send them up to you:)@Faye Thanks, they do mention lavender oil as an aid to getting rid of these pests.
My big fear is my books and I have over $7000 of patchwork fabric! Even though I've only seen one silverfish so far, I'm getting the professional pest control in.
One more thing, I'm very sad now that you've all destroyed my illusions about snow. It's cold. It's white. It
should
taste like ice-cream.On the other hand, imagine the sticky mess you'd have once it started melting! :)
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Time to drink some maple syrup out of the bottle, and irritate our neighbours to the south with our celebrations [we don't do that [yes we do]].