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message 1351: by David (new)

David Staniforth (davidstaniforth) | 7935 comments Very good, but I'd never trust a creature with rectangular pupils.


message 1352: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Yes, I love the extreme shepherding video


message 1353: by M.T. (new)

M.T. McGuire (mtmcguire) | 8051 comments T4bsF wrote: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6eCRP...

This is what sheep get up to in Wales."


The coolest thing ever.


message 1354: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Not quite sheep herding but close :-)

https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSecto...


message 1355: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments And now, a culinary delight, smoked gastropod

https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSecto...


message 1356: by Jim (new)


message 1357: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments You're milking it now.


message 1358: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Looking at the photo I'm not sure I'd want to try :-)


message 1359: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments You'd not want your hands to be cold.


message 1360: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments LOL
Push your way through a long shaggy coat like that one and I wouldn't be surprised to find a lamp post standing along in the snow :-)


message 1361: by Will (new)

Will Macmillan Jones (willmacmillanjones) | 11324 comments Jim.

You did a 'lol'.

Are you regressing in years?


message 1362: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments How do you mean regressing, the first time I saw it was probably about 1995?
Mind you my daughter was shocked when I replied with that on a text.
Mind you Jim replying to a text is a shock anyway


message 1363: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments You just cannot get the wood, another outstanding update from the Tsarina Tourism Service

https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSecto...


message 1364: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments This time there's no snails

https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSecto...


message 1365: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Hey Jim, my lovely?

I've been meaning to ask...how're your eyes? All healed up and happy?


message 1366: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Absolutely brilliant Patti. Fabulous. I've finally seen my optician for the post op checks and my distance vision is now so good that effectively there aren't any lenses he can use that will improve things.
I am now long sighted (My eyes were changed from being 11 diopteres down to -0.4 diopteres) but for reading glasses Poundland £1 plastic reading glasses are made to my prescription :-)
So every jacket, the car, the computer, and various other places have £1 reading glasses strategically placed :-)
And the colours! Blues are vibrant, greens so much richer :-)


Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) (nosemanny) | 8590 comments That's fantastic Jim! I'm 10-11ish diopters short sighted too, wonder whether I shouldn't just get mine done rather than wait for the cataracts?


message 1368: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments If you're like me, your eyes will be too bad for laser surgery. (It would leave the lenses too thin.)

I'm genuinely in two minds about the advice. I've never worn contact lenses, I was never that pretty that glasses made a difference, so that side of things never came into the equation.
I was lucky in the quality of the surgeon who did the work, he is a real craftsman. Not only that but he does everything with eyedrops, no needles. But even in the same hospital, some of the surgeons feel that they ought to use an injection into the eye as well and that would probably have freaked me out, although I do know people who have had that.

My general rule in life has been to avoid medical entanglements, surgery, tablets and similar until they were absolutely necessary (I don't take paracetamol every year for example, have no piercings, tattoos or whatever) but when they are necessary, do them. I've noticed that once you get to a certain age the NHS seems to organise your social life for you and at that point things to to hell in a handcart :-( So I'm all for putting that age off for as long as possible.


message 1369: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Oh Jim, I'm ever so pleased.

:D


message 1370: by M.T. (new)

M.T. McGuire (mtmcguire) | 8051 comments My Mum and Dad both found it close to miraculous. My Dad was very short sighted, like you and my Mum had got very blind...

It's the most amazing thing.

Cheers

MTM


message 1371: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments To celebrate, I've finally bought

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Cartograp...


Gingerlily - The Full Wild | 34228 comments You'll enjoy it Patti.


message 1373: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments I'm sure I will.

It's up next, after Darren's.


message 1374: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Patti (baconater) wrote: "To celebrate, I've finally bought

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Cartograp......"


my cup runneth over :-)


message 1375: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments And now my socks are damp.

Ich.


message 1376: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments LOL

At least I'm be able to boast to Will, "When she read my stuff she laughed so much her socks are damp"


Gingerlily - The Full Wild | 34228 comments Darren makes her other bits go damp...


message 1378: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Yeah but Darren is special.

It's the sweatshirt.


message 1379: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Dug up purely for Patti as she looks for dry socks


message 1380: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Thank you, Jim. :)

No idea which post Will referred to though.


message 1381: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments I suspect it was in the Prawns for Patti thread when I come to think about it


message 1382: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Oh sure. Tell me after I've already closed that thread.


message 1383: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Just to say I've done my first ever 'meet the author'. I was asked to by a local church men's group and it was quite fun. I talked about how I got into writing, a bit about the books, read them a couple of excerpts and then they sort of asked questions and we sort of chatted. Must admit I enjoyed it :-)


message 1384: by M.T. (new)

M.T. McGuire (mtmcguire) | 8051 comments Jim wrote: "Just to say I've done my first ever 'meet the author'. I was asked to by a local church men's group and it was quite fun. I talked about how I got into writing, a bit about the books, read them a c..."

Try the local library. I've done a couple of talks at ours and they are brilliant.

Cheers

MTM


message 1385: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Sounds scintillating.


message 1386: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments My problem is that at the moment I've nothing 'to give away' or even sell, other than pointing them to Amazon.

It's something I'm trying to work my way into and the library looks a good idea. They have a teens reading group and a creative writing group that might be interested


message 1387: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Patti (baconater) wrote: "Sounds scintillating."

Trust me, I scintillated. Indeed I positively coruscated

They handed out welding goggles :-)


message 1388: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments Scintillate, scintillate, globule orific
How I conjecture your nature specific
Way above in the ethereal stratosphere
Like a giant gem carbonaceous.

When torrid Phoebus refuses his presence
And ceases to lamp with fierce incandescence
Then you illumine the regions supernal
Scintillate, scintillate, semper nocturnal.

Then the victim of hospiceless peregrination
Gratefully hails your minute coruscation
He could not determine his journey's direction
But for your bright scintillating protection.


message 1389: by M.T. (new)

M.T. McGuire (mtmcguire) | 8051 comments Patti (baconater) wrote: "Scintillate, scintillate, globule orific
How I conjecture your nature specific
Way above in the ethereal stratosphere
Like a giant gem carbonaceous.

When torrid Phoebus refuses his presence
And ce..."


What have you been taking? Phnark!


message 1390: by Patti (baconater) (new)

Patti (baconater) (goldengreene) | 56525 comments That was just a skin pop. Imagine how frightening it'd be if I hit a vein!

;)

Actually, I wish I could take that as mine own.

Wonderful, isn't it?


message 1391: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Mind you as a nursery rhyme 'twinkle twinkle little star' is perhaps easier for the tots to understand :-)

But yes,impressive


message 1392: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments I'm wondering if my talk paid off, yesterday I sold one each of all my fantasy books which brings a ray of sunshine into the day :-)


message 1393: by David (new)

David Staniforth (davidstaniforth) | 7935 comments Good going Jim; maybe do an arena tour, and sell even more. I sold two last month; none, as yet, this month.


message 1394: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments The arena, hmmm

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illus...

I think I'd want guaranteed sales for this ;-)


message 1395: by David (new)

David Staniforth (davidstaniforth) | 7935 comments Nice to see from that illustration, Jim, that you intend to dress for the occasion.

As a correction to the above statement, it seems I have sold one book so far this month. A steady trickle is better than a dead stop, I guess :~)


message 1396: by Will (new)

Will Macmillan Jones (willmacmillanjones) | 11324 comments Jim wrote: "My problem is that at the moment I've nothing 'to give away' or even sell, other than pointing them to Amazon.

It's something I'm trying to work my way into and the library looks a good idea. They..."

Thats great, Jim!


message 1397: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments David wrote: "Nice to see from that illustration, Jim, that you intend to dress for the occasion.

As a correction to the above statement, it seems I have sold one book so far this month. A steady trickle is bet..."


My hope is that
The Cartographer's Apprentice: Leave Them Wanting More will act as a lead to draw people in. At 99p (Now apparently 79p) it's cheap enough for people to take a punt on. Then ideally they'll be drawn in. (I suppose I shouldn't keep calling it 'The crack dealer's gambit')


message 1398: by Will (new)

Will Macmillan Jones (willmacmillanjones) | 11324 comments Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Keep my fingers crossed that this time it does!


message 1399: by David (last edited Oct 30, 2013 11:30AM) (new)

David Staniforth (davidstaniforth) | 7935 comments Well, I bought it Jim, at the extortionate 99p rather than the bargain 79p. Not read it yet, but I will.


message 1400: by Jim (new)

Jim | 21813 comments Don't worry David, I trust the electrons are maturing nicely so it'll have that rich bouquet when you finally open it :-)


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