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Hello.
Welcome to WP.
Enjoy your stay here.

hiya - looks like he's going to be ok , thanks - it could just be a wound / cut gone a bit septic after all - so, fingers crossed again. - sigh - he's just so adorable and smart and mellow too

cool - I like the way the word 'juniper' looks - I find it a very asthaetically pleasing, very balanced but not bland or too even.
Yes - love that movie - if i tell you why it could be a spoiler ( particularly a bit at the end when the main character is confronted with the full story of the human race.....I'll stop there though..)

thanks for your posts - they cheered me up today

Hi autism,

Hope you're having a nice day.

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Hi again 5th,

I'm glad he's going to be ok. Happy to cause happy too

I have a cat, she's approx 15. I really care about her, she's a typical cat though. She lost a nail in a fight recently, I panicked but she's grand.
She's looking for sympathy by pretending to limp, it was from her back left paw and she's limping on her front left one (then stopping limping when she thinks I can't see, the lovable imp) lol.

What do you like?

ha ha - ie - your limping cat - little minxster

what do I like? ooh, loads of things - do you mean like particular interests? They are legion - history, art, films, neuoroscience, books, vinyl, languages, rock climbing ( don't do it any more though) different cultures, northern renaissence cathedrals, the french renaissence, middle ages, aspergers/autism, synaesthesia, mythology, french cuisine, japanese food, word derivation - ermm I find that most things - with the exception of football - intereresting .

Thanks. It has something to do with amarus, latin for bitter, but that's not like me anymore - I kept it cos it sounds nice and not overly girly, I hope.

The Juniper Game is about a 14 year old girl called Juniper (who lives in a house I am jealous of her for - great descriptions) who's obsessed with medieval things. She also suspects she's telepathic. At her school, she gets to know a shy nerdy boy who's really good at art. She 'sends' him images telepathically and he draws them. Then, she has visions of medieval times and he draws them and it gets a bit out of control - it's not clear how real the visions are. It's a cute book, a bit melodramatic and clearly for young teenagers, but a favourite of mine.

Reading got done, at 3am finally! My eyes were working fine I think, brain just wouldn't take notice of all the little black squiggles it saw.

Hi 5th,

Hope you're well. Sorry that I haven't posted in a while.
Yup, the cat knows she'll get more attention. My bf lavishes attention on her.

Whats synaesthesia? Cool on your other interests, they sound interesting, I like ab-sailing but didn't get to do it more than once.
Neuoroscience is way over my head to understand.

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Hi Amaren,

Hope you're well. Sorry that I haven't posted in a while.

Your name is nicely feminine but exotic, womanly not girly, a strong name.

Is The Juniper Game a book that can be easily ordered via bookshops or would it be better to look online?

hiya Juniperberrygirl,

what's a bf??.............I was thinking eerr 'big foot'?? as in stroking her with your big foot - but then that would imply you had a small foot too......so that gave me a funny mental image..

ah, synaesthesia....basically a crossing of the senses as in 'coloured hearing' or having certain colours for letters, or numbers.........smelling colours...there are so many variations ..but i guess basically put when two senses - any two senses cross over - ie for me the number 5 is green - if i think of the number 5 then i automatically see the colour green in my minds eye. There is /was a post/thread about it on here ( a few days ago)
Neuroscience is really not as complicated as it is made out to be - depends how it is presented I suppose.

What did you absail?

Hey 5th,

Bf is short for boyfriend, I don't know why I feel better to abbreviate it.

I knew a girl in school who could sometimes see music and taste letters. She told me about it but I must have forgotten the word synaesthesia. It must be interesting but distracting to have it. Do you have it?

It could be presentation of neuroscience or it could be that you're more intelligent than you think?

It was a small cliff, in Secondary school. I sometimes mix up words, I think it was called abseiling, climbing up and then standing on a small cliff, the down bit (lots of rope and harnesses) and then hopping down the cliff releasing the rope as I was told. It was really supervised, I was about 15 I think. I really liked it though.

ha ha .......of course - bf - silly me I was a bit fuzzy headed when I replied. I think i know what you mean about the 'boyfriend' word - I'm not particularly fond of it myself .... never have been .....somethig about the sound/ look of it maybe?

Yes, I have synaesthesia - and yes it can be distracting , very distracting at times , the sensory overload can be quite painful. But it has it's advantages too It's one of those things that you kind of think everyone has ( but at the same time if you talk about it too much to 'normal's - you start to realise better keep quiet about it - well, that's my experience - I'm fairly comfortable with it mostly now though) It seems to overlap with AS quite a lot.

Well, thanks for the compliment about me being more intelligent than I think I am but i really believe that it's the way things are taught that makes a such a huge difference - and the way one chooses to process the information. I always remember this amazing teacher I had in secondary school who could make absolutely anything interesting - he was one in a million - I remember his introduction to algebra ' today, I'm going to show you how to explore the unknown' he made it sound mysterious and exiting - and it was - until I went into the next class and it became really dull , but then he was such a visual thinker and everday he would come in early and fill the blackboard with fantastic drawings to accompany the days lesson. I think he was a polymath - anyway I digress.......

Absailing - yeah ! ! down a cliff - cool ( actually I don't much like that word - but it will have to surfice for now ) I've only done it down in a man made environment - used to climb cliffs when I was a kid but didn't go back down and didn't use ropes - I don't remember ever climbing back down - must have gone back down a path I suppose - long time ago you know!

Can I ask you what senses are interlinked? And what's it like? If I'm not prying? It's really interesting.

I agree that a good teacher can help people learn and also help them want to learn, a poor teacher, at best, produces boredom (with the exception of those who are independently interested). What's a polymath? Sounds interesting.
I found Biology as a subject fascinating but was surprised that some of my peers had difficulty with it.

For me it was only once absailing with a school group. I really liked it though.