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Originally Posted by Verencat
Wow, what a great thing to have done! I have always wanted to record the stories my grandfather tells me, but just don't know how to ask. His life would make such a great book!
Your grandmother seems to have been very lucky to have made it through the war, and she looks like a really strong woman, a model to follow.
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oh yes, she's infernally strong-willed.
which is what makes her impossible to live with, and also paradoxically (one of) the reasons i love her.
you should *definitely* do the same with your grandfather. i was a little nervous about it myself, but she's so used to me asking questions and wanting to hear the stories that it wasn't really too difficult. i'll treasure these recordings forever, it's really amazing to have them, listening to her voice telling the stories... luckily, it's very easy to get her started. just take out an old photo album, and ask her, "so who's that ? and when was the picture taken ?" and she's off, and she'll go from one story to the next with no interruption (and sometimes in the middle of one story, she's already on to the next one). in the recordings, almost the only thing you hear me saying is occasionally "and then what happened ?" on the other hand, getting the details straight is like pulling teeth ; she's notorious for using the same pronoun to refer to 6 different people in the same sentence. and when i tried to get her to spell people's names for me or give me a name of a place, half the time she would just say "oh, forget it, you don't need that."
(the rest of the what you hear me saying is "how do you spell that ?" and more frequently, "just tell me for god's sake !"
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Speaking of, seeing as it's hit 33C, but the pool's only 20C, I'll think I'll slip into the 36C spa to warm up so that later I can get out and cool off. I'll have a ZCD as well, so that later/earlier on after the sensations wears off my brain will feel somewhat normal.
Cheers,
Marc
PS. bikini? Why? there's no guests around, so it's FREE THE GOOGLY BITS! time
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see ? SEE ??? this is what i mean.
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Originally Posted by Slite
So many MANY ways to abuse that post...
Must...restrain....self....  |
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Originally Posted by nomesque
Wow. Impressive restraint! I just tend to... well... go for it. Then apologise to all the offended people later.  |
i'm impressed by his restraint too. or maybe suspicious.
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BTW, I bought a breadmaker a couple of months ago. Hot darn, I never realised what I was missing! The thing makes gorgeous huge loaves which people LOVE. Which I love, and I've never been a huge fan of bread. I add linseed sunflower and almond meal, and quinoa flour, and chickpea flour, and nuts and fruit and spices.... *droooool*
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arg ! stop it !!! i'm really starting to want one !!!!
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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy
Iʻm looking at all the info online about my upcoming 20th *gasp* high school reuinion, and I am looking at the snippets of their lives and feeling, uh, sort of inferior. Shouldnʻt I be a brain surgeon by now? Or, at the very least, an aeronautical engineer??
(note to self: stop paying attention to the very few people with impressive jobs and pay more attention to the other 98%)
(and, just for the record, I am at least possibly-almost-a-year younger than most of my peers. Lest you think me very old. YIKES-- 20 years???)
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hee ! here's a little tip : just don't stay in touch with anyone from your school years at all (well, maybe a select few). no insecurity if you've no idea what they're up to !
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Originally Posted by Slite
Hey! No cheating... you HAVE to read all new posts in the "So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?" thread... It's a decree from Queen Z, or possibly Adrian, but I'm certain it's one of the amendments to the Pinwheelean constitution. Along with not using clotted cream with the trebuchet's
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he's right about that.
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
What? And give up on all of that??
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...and that's why.