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22 Oct 2007, 7:46 pm

In 2001 there was no choice where to go, there was only one way out - south. Power poles alight on both sides of the road. We spent one night in a big entertainment centre along with masses of other people, and another three nights in a motel. My big worries were the kids and the cat. Everything else - so be it. There's a certain amount you can do to prepare, so you do that, but then it's all up to fate.

And the truly weird thing about fire is how capricious it is. In a single street, half the houses might be unscathed while the other half are completely destroyed, without any apparent pattern.

If anyone can come through this situation, Nan can, I reckon. Cool head in a crisis.

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22 Oct 2007, 8:31 pm

Just got back from my walk with smiling dogs. I think I'm having a perserveration here but back to weird..

Before I went to V I met a beautiful girl on the beach ... well she's nearly 40 but doesn't look it. We started talking and within 5 minutes I asked her if she were weird, as you do. Of course she was weird - talented, thoughtful, artistic, insightful.

Today I met her again. She knew she was going to meet me today. ESP. We had a wonderful conversation. It was very satisfying. Recognition.

I haven't had any updates on the fires but will look at CNN or suchlike.

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I think there must be some chronic learning disability that is so prevalent among NT's that it goes unnoticed by the "experts". Krex

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22 Oct 2007, 8:35 pm

I saw a woman muttering to herself in the store the other day. I looked at her strangely. I never though of aspergers! Next time I'll mutter "Bloody NTs!" But she is older than me and probably wouldn't understand the term.

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I think there must be some chronic learning disability that is so prevalent among NT's that it goes unnoticed by the "experts". Krex

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22 Oct 2007, 8:43 pm

nannarob wrote:

Or maybe she was crazy! You never know about us mutterers!! :wink:

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22 Oct 2007, 8:57 pm

I noticed SwampBlossom mutters a lot now. She didn't when we first met.

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22 Oct 2007, 9:03 pm

http://www.kogo.com/pages/streaming.html

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22 Oct 2007, 9:35 pm

Thanks for that link, CC, but you have to live in the USA to access it. There was some aerial footage on this morning's TV news, pretty scary-looking.

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22 Oct 2007, 9:49 pm

This is the link to the local station that Nan sent me. It's the one I've been watching.

www.10news.com

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22 Oct 2007, 9:50 pm

postpaleo wrote:

I noticed SwampBlossom mutters a lot now. She didn't when we first met.

HHMMMMM! I wonder why that may be!! :roll:

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22 Oct 2007, 9:52 pm

That link works, thanks Lauri.

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22 Oct 2007, 10:30 pm

Some pictures of Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's inspiration and muse

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22 Oct 2007, 11:10 pm

another night all I can do is read through the page after page after page here on the Cafe

(my heart is with Nan and her family two legged and furry )

Just wanted to say hello to my friends as you all chat to each other, don't forget me!

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23 Oct 2007, 12:45 am

Speaking of Alice in Wonderland, did anyone see that movie, called Dreamchild? It was about Alice Liddell, coming to the US to celebrate the Anniversary of the book. I really liked that movie.

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23 Oct 2007, 1:22 am

Just dropped by to check up on Nan.

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23 Oct 2007, 4:10 am

I haven't seen Dreamchild, hartz, but it sounds like it's worth watching.

Click HERE to read a somewhat lengthy scholarly analysis of the photography of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll's real name).

I dunno. In a 1994 issue of Harper's Magazine there were published:

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a series of letters written in 1879 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) to Anthony Mayhew, a fellow professor at Oxford University, and his wife, about their daughters: Janet, age six; Ethel, age eleven; and Ruth, age thirteen. The letters appear in History Laid Bare: Remarkable Accounts of Love, Sex, and Perversity, edited by Richard Zacks and published by HarperCollins; they were originally published by Oxford University Press in The Letters of Lewis Carroll.

The letters essentially consisted of Dodgson's sustained pleading to be allowed to photograph the girls nude without a chaperon present. I drew my own conclusion.

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23 Oct 2007, 9:59 am

sinsboldly wrote:

We need a dang waving icon :cry:

Hey der. (insert waving icon) :mrgreen:

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