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| | | | | 2436.19 in reply to 2436.17 | |
| Nila Problema. You win some, you lose some. Be a dull old world if we were all the same! Stay cool. |
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| | | | | 2436.20 in reply to 2436.17 | |
I'm struck by the fact that your name and Tighnabruaich's come from my ancestral hunting grounds. I also wonder whether you might in fact be the same person!
Idle curiosity ... |
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| | | | | 2436.21 in reply to 2436.20 | |
| Ancestral hunting grounds? In the run-up to Hallowe'en, dare we ask....? |
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| | | | | 2436.22 in reply to 2436.21 | |
Well, I doubt if much actual hunting was done other than of their neighbours' sheep! My father's family were cattle thieves and low-grade pirates up and down the west coast of Scotland. But both my parents had strong connections with both Kilfinan and Tighnabruaich.
Will you be prepared for the trick 'n' treaters come Friday night? I think I'll choose to be out. |
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| | | | | 2436.23 in reply to 2436.22 | |
That's a relief - I thought perhaps we should be avoiding you at full moon! But what an interesting family history - everyone has a few skeletons in the cupboard. By the sound of it, your ancestors might have saved up other people's skeltons for you to find....
Saturday night, isn't it? Though I dare say a few will try it on tonight. I shall be listening to a talking book with the lights off, I think. |
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| | | | | 2436.24 in reply to 2436.23 | |
Saturday, of course, as I realised shortly after posting to you. I'm all equipped now with a huge bowl of mini oranges, chocs and dried apricots (Do Not Contain Nuts) wrapped in orange paper and gold ribbon for the mob that will arrive soon after dark. I taught them their manners last year: this year I expect loud, clear and unhesitating Thank You s to ring through the air. Or else!
Will Mili enjoy Hallowe'en? Do you look at the icanhascheezburger site? a couple of good cat and pumpkin shots! |
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| | | | | 2436.25 in reply to 2436.24 | |
Mili slept on my lap while I watched the Simpsons movie with the lights off, and ignored a couple of knocks on the door.
The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork has ruled, following consultations with wizards, that nothing can be guaranteed not to contain nuts. His Lordship felt "Probably doesn't contain nuts" wasn't helpful. |
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| | | | | 2436.26 in reply to 2436.25 | |
All too likely.
Well, the little monsters at the door had learned their lesson and this year the Thank You!s were ringing out loud and clear before I'd even handed the stuff out! |
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| | | | | 2436.27 in reply to 2436.20 | |
You are risght. I think what I have done is setup two accounts and have been logging on using both.
Not the end of the world though is it :)
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| | | | | 2436.28 in reply to 2436.27 | |
| Far from it! I did the same myself when I first joined and didn't realise quite how it all worked. Anyway glad to have my guess confirmed: it seemed a bit much of a coincidence that there should be a Tighnabruaich and a Kilfinan on the same thread. I was just waiting for an Otter Ferry to complete the triangle ... My family rented a house in T. in the very early 1950s on a few months' leave from Hong Kong, and my sisters and I scattered our mother's ashes around her mother's grave in T. cemetery just a couple of years ago. I was at K. a few times before my mother died, for clan weekends. |
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