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RE: Baba Vanga 2019 predictions.

I may complain about every bird in Spain coming to sing under my window at dawn but the hadeda is the bagpipes of the bird world, especially when a flock of them catch a skrik at 5 am about 10 feet away -



My crystal ball is silent re Macron.

RE: Baba Vanga 2019 predictions.

Hope you Googled a Hadeda with soundtrack, and that your speakers were on full volume

Happy 2019? How unpatriotic!

Bogey - is 2060 when we meet?

Have a great year

Happy 2019? How unpatriotic!

And to you Fay - glad to see a comment somewhere that your year has been great, you've been quiet lately

RE: Thanks Google

Yay, did it work? or just the pure satisfaction of saying it?

RE: Happy New Year Everyone

And you - 3 hours to go here

Happy 2019? How unpatriotic!

Molly, hadn't seen your comment while I was assembling my hads with my tongue stuck out in concentration, but yup, agreed

Happy 2019? How unpatriotic!

Not going back to comment on old blog(s) because I have written so many lately but thanks for comments left and and of course wishing and and maybe some togetherness for my favourites. Some favourites are starting into 2019 on a high, and some on a definite low, and some who would like it to continue just as it is, ta.

All that 2018 had had, had had no real effect - new approach needed going forward

if 2019 can bring us not what we want so much as what we need, it will be doing very nicely indeed

RE: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Let us know how YOU got on, cowboy -

And happy happy for 2019

Happy 2019? How unpatriotic!

Happy 2019? How unpatriotic!

Rotating pics sounds impressively hi-tech - can I sell you an app for that?

RE: LIFE HAS CHANGED UPDATE

Oh Wen you are having a time of it! Sterkte and keep your eyes on the future with a flood of goodwill buoying you up

Perceptions, people.

GT I am thrilled beyond measure to be your jester and hope you are posting something so I can have a good giggle too because i MISS you

Enough hugging - let's dance!

Perceptions, people.

Oh X everyone always wants everyone to read the whole blog

Perceptions, people.

Molly, I simply am not that brilliant. I've now made it clearer that it was Someone Else and can be appreciated

Perceptions, people.

I love you too GT, why are we hugging so tightly this particular time?

How to write good

GT, with whort do you hend sentences?

How to write good

Methuzelah - by a well-known scriptwriter and found among his papers, unfinished, after his death (yeah I looked it up )

Kal - how to write good in any language ... okay it is all a spoof including the title but many a true word spoken in jest

Perceptions, people.

Tough crowd.

I'll have you know the original of this, although the author's name had not yet been told to us, is being treated as absolute genius and I did think it was a bit brilliant myself when I read it - like turning life upside down and looking at it again in a different light.

But here on CS even though it is in italics it's assumed Biff wrote it and is having a bit of a meltdown I shall have to edit and make it clear it is Someone Else's Writing and therefore Safe To Appreciate

Philistines

Perceptions, people.

NUMPTY!!!!

I need that coffee!!

How to write good

Some are chancers, true dat.

But good editing turns your book into the book you intended to write. An unedited book is obvious from the first page, the first paragraph, which is usually as much as a reader gives it before they drop it and back away.

A truly great book can be ruined by poor or no editing
A mediocre book can become great

And there are thousands of chancers out there promising miracles ...

Perceptions, people.

I'm pretty sure I've more than exceeded my blog quota for the day and promise to shut up for a while.

Well, maybe coffee later. And to delete any comments which tell me to cheer up, because the commenter didn't read the bottom line



Some of you probably already saw this as a beauty one, it is doing the rounds. Huh, we're all beautiful. I fiddled.

RE: US Government Needs to Step Into THIS Century

Spanish Govt forms use IE too but I can usually get in via Firefox instead - ever tried it?

How to write good

Molly, like those who get all cross like and say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit?

How to write good

Methuzelah, there is a great deal of very bad writing breaking all 10 rules with gusto and bought eagerly by millions. There is some perfect writing with every single rule followed to the letter but the end result is too dreary and pedantic to read. Most stuff falls somewhere in between and this blog is just a bit of fun.

BTW - precious few indies are millionaires because promotion promotion promotion is such a huge factor but if you burn for the satisfaction of your book in your own hands, and to leave a brick in the wall, you can do 90% of that yourself and it costs you nothing but time and buying the book off the website when finished.

If you want to reach others, you really should pay for professional editing - no-one serious edits their own work - but the end result should always be worth it.

Sorry that went all serious for a minute! Back to the bleeding blog boyos

How to write good

Or the classic, that is something up with which I will not put.

(which actually sounds not unlike a standard Spanish sentence )

RE: Tension in the aisles

Harbal, well, he's good company with an excellent eye for a bargain, especially on products I, remember, never even heard of. STILL learning my way round. And neither of us have to pay for the other's, that's a huge factor.

I think I shopped twice with my hubby while married and yup, we bickered the whole way round. He held that price (as low as possible) was more important than taste, so I would put in the good stuff and he would surreptitiously take it out and put in the cheap stuff and WHOOF tension in aisle 3. All Gold Tomato sauce vs P&P own brand - well, that's the difference between a sauce that tastes like fresh tomatoes and one that is gloopy dyed euch. plus he spent hours calculating which size was cheaper by volume.

So I shopped alone. And I am strapped for cash and he is very rich. There's a lesson there somewhere.

Perfect gifts – edited from week-to-go to Got one! last comments

Wow Mae West is singing your song!

How many of your gifts / decorations were made in China?

(I say 'ironically Noritaki, I do know it is Japanese not Chinese! but you would have thought far easier to get than Royal Doulton ...)

Methuzelah, or Korean, or Japanese - time for the western world to take a grip and start competing, though.

Fiorenza, I have a buddy who was raised by a dotty aunt who insisted a Christmas tree HAD to be stolen, you couldn't buy one, you had to find a wild one and cut it down, or sneak into a plantation and steal one. That was their Christmas Eve tradition, steal a tree.

pK I rather like the Japanese "community first" ethic myself but yes, China is blazing quite a trail at this time.

LJ, old decorations are the best, especially the lopsided ones that came home from kindergarten and are still appearing on the tree 30 years later

How many of your gifts / decorations were made in China?

Mick, I always find that the weirdest, promotional stuff specific to one country and blatantly made in another