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Thursday Open Thread | 63 comments (63 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Well, I'm back in the "rainy area", where it's cloudy and drizzling with occasional bursts of rain.

Left Dijon at 9:00 and caught the 5:30 ferry (after a sprint around Carrefour for cheese and pate). Back home in tme for dinner.

Apologies to Melancthon for not calling in, I thought you were away. Never mind, I'll be in the area after the Paris meet in Sept so maybe then.....

so now, back to normally scheduled sarcasm

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 11:17:34 AM EST

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Hi Helen, nice to see you back online. :-)

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 02:59:41 PM EST
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Thank you. I have been around occasionally but will be more or less back full time for a month. Then might be absent again, have to see.

It's been strange to note that without regular access to a newspaper I don't feel the same urge to comment on stuff. I don't feel I have any perspective to add.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 03:31:22 PM EST
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You may have no perspective, but I'm sure that bottomless well of cynicism isn't entirely exhausted yet ;-)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 06:10:13 PM EST
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from hell's throat I stab at them (4.00 / 3)

With the world situation as it is and watching our esteemed leaders either forking up huge bales of money for their retirement funds from shady insider deals and governmental "expenses" or flailing around piteously as the inadequates they mostly are, there is plenty of fuel to keep the raging fires of my cynicism aflame for a long while to come.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 06:20:38 PM EST
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Re: from hell's throat I stab at them (4.00 / 2)

The rest of us will bring marshmallows and deckchairs to sit on and toast in those flames.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 06:28:21 PM EST
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