I'd be annoyed if they had deliberately looked for a stray there (like Madonna going off to Africa to adopt babies) but this is actually a happy story, Imp. You can't force people to dutifully take animals in, but when a bond happens it happens. This won't be setting any trends, I imagine the paperwork is proving a nightmare.
My sister spends every winter in Spain and has done for years, and not only feeds the local stray cats, she has a rota set up among neighbours who live here permanently to keep them fed while she's away. Of all those cats, she bonded with one a few years ago, and it pined when she left and stopped eating, and is now a member of their family and goes back and forth with them. The very last thing she had wanted or intended, but when she left it behind for the first time she fretted (not even knowing it was pining) until she could go back and start the whole vets certificates / passport process. One cat - out of a dozen or more. These things not only happen, they're rather special when they do.
And of course Hammond brought back an old car zero value from one Top Gear trip, and how many hundreds of trips had he been on, and how many cars, most of them far fancier, driven? We wouldn't be human if we didn't take odd fancies.
It's a mystery. I talk on Skype to people. They don't gape and say I am nothing like my pics. A couple of my older pics from the past were TAKEN on Skype. No-one I ever meet in person looks past me expecting the real Biff to appear. And yet I get body-slammed again and again by people who haven't met me for faking my pics, and those who know me never ever say a word. They just tiptoe away.
and good grief no it is years since I have put in 48 hours work with 3 hours sleep
Or do you mean are my pics photoshopped? Had one up that was, and I said so in the caption. It has long gone, too many numpties didn't read the caption.
Fortunately for me, none of the people who have ever met me will ever step up to comment but Mimi has in the past posted a pic or two of me - candid camera - until I could bribe her to take them down.
Wiki combined atheists with those who do not consider themselves religious, mind. China 90% Sweden 73% Czech Republic 72% United Kingdom 69% Azerbaijan 64% Belgium 64% Australia 63% Hong Kong 63% Vietnam 63% Norway 62% Denmark 61% Estonia 60% Germany 60% Japan 60% South Korea 60% Israel 58% Canada 57% Spain 57% Ireland 56% Finland 55%
Intrigued by Israel, and for that matter by Spain, it's a rare Spanish house you enter here where you are not soulfully watched by pictures of someone with a halo.
Where did you get your figures? China has the highest percentage - 90% of population don't follow any religion - and Belgium isn't even in the top 5, according to Wiki?
And where do you upload those new pics every few months, Crest?
Just this one pic up on your profile (I looked) not even the one you had up for a couple of years. I don't remember any others. Some other site must be getting this smorgasbord of several pics a year.
Time for another from you, anyway. One of you and BA together would do nicely.
Molly, I prefer to see a prisoner with weary eyes, showered, dressed in ill-fitting civvies, heading onto the street and lifting their face to the unbarred sky, the dawning realization this is the first day of the rest of their lives
So do I, it is one of my favourite phrases so I typed it into Google because I know it has been mucked about with. I was taken aback at the length of that list
The translation commissioned by King James was deliberately beautiful, to reassure those who could read back then during the Reformation that no disrespect was being intended. For sure it wasn't a word-for-word translation and just looking at all those variations on one tiny unimportant phrase makes you wonder how far the 're-translations' have wandered.
Might as well blame Shakespeare for not telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about Macbeth who actually wasn't a bad king and ruled for years - probably without ever having puzzling soliloquies with himself about daggers before him.
The King James version was translated from Latin, not from original scrolls, and is spectacularly poetic. As best I know every major Christian sect has 'reinterpreted' it and got rid of 90% of the beautiful writing and only, surely, the C of E still uses the original King James version?
Hands up anyone whose version still says 'For now we see through a glass darkly
New International version For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;
New Living Translation Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror,
English Standard Version For now we see in a mirror dimly,
Berean Study Bible Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror;
Berean Literal Bible For presently we see through a glass in obscurity;
New American Standard Bible For now we see in a mirror dimly,
Christian Standard Bible For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror,
Contemporary English Version Now all we can see of God is like a cloudy picture in a mirror.
Good News Translation What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; .
Holman Christian Standard Bible For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
International Standard Version Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, .
NET Bible For now we see in a mirror indirectly,
New Heart English Bible For now we see in a mirror, dimly,
Aramaic Bible in Plain English Now we see as in a mirror, in an allegory,
GOD'S WORD® Translation Now we see a blurred image in a mirror.
New American Standard 1977 For now we see in a mirror dimly,
Jubilee Bible 2000 For now we see as through a mirror, in darkness,
King James 2000 Bible For now we see in a mirror dimly;
Douay-Rheims Bible We see now through a glass in a dark manner;
Darby Bible Translation For we see now through a dim window obscurely,
English Revised Version For now we see in a mirror, darkly;
Weymouth New Testament For the present we see things as if in a mirror, and are puzzled;
World English Bible For now we see in a mirror, dimly,
Young's Literal Translation for we see now through a mirror obscurely,
At 17 weeks sounds more to me like someone took them on then decided they couldn't cut the fuss and expense of puppies and they were too big to drown.
What an absolutely horrific option to choose - starving on a ledge. We've ALL seen dogs frantically racing along the road trying to catch up with the car they were dumped from. Karma will catch up with those owners one day but that doesn't help the dumped and terrified now.
Imp, what does spaying / neutering cost in Canada? It's quite expensive in the UK and even devoted pet owners don't always bother. They'll keep their dog locked up while it is in season but nature is nature, dogs will out, and hoo boy a litter on the way.
Cats - well, I have my cat because its mum fell pregnant when 5 months old, too young to spay. One kitten, which the owner decided to keep. Before he was even weaned she was pregnant again. She was kept inside every minute with both lots until she could be spayed and her firstborn was already, less than 6 months old, trying to mount her by the time she was whipped off to the vet.
Well but Molly I can think of no criminal - real life or for that matter on CS - I would want to be incarcerated with. Whether I was counselling or being counselled.
I'd love to be a mod, but eish I would decimate the place, so many heads would be lopped off and the hallways of the jail would echoing with the wails of those incarcerated until they could learn to interact normally.
CAN one learn to interact normally in jail, by the way? It always seemed unlikely to me. Here you go, bud, you'll be sharing a cell with a career criminal, he'll teach you manners and how to behave in future
Angel, enjoy! Molly the TV series is nice although they got Mrs D completely wrong
I have all his books, the animal-collecting ones as well as the Corfu ones (which are way the best) and brought them with me - remember I gave away or sold hundreds of books, but his made the cut, such fun
and now that's me off to roam the streets, sting held high - or go to bed. Nah. I'll go to bed.
There's a definitive test you can take on Pottermore.com but you have to join so I didn't. I wouldn't want to be a Slytherin but then I'm happy being a muggle so
Molly, there you go. My fee will follow in due course
Taurus Woman and Leo Man Love Compatibility. ... They both generally admire each other and deeply cherish their relationship. The Leo man is outlandish and craves more attention than one person can easily offer him.
Molly, I only really know the water signs but bear with I will look that up for you. Leos are quite big on control, though, I know that (my cousin is one) on the bonus side they tend to wonderful manes of hair.
Molly, no need to search for a Scorpio. They are stubborn, opinionated and bolshy, so a Taurus is not a bad match, is all I'm saying
General rule of thumb, like tends to like - air signs to air, water to water, earth etc
But opposite signs can have surprising sparks
Then of course the sun sign is one thing, but your partner's moon and planets can be in compatible signs so really there is always a reason why a couple seem to get on just fine even when astrology says they shouldn't
There is just a high enough level of coincidence to keep it ticking over. And no I never ever read my horoscope.
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but finding out when their birthday is, in idle conversation, is easy enough ... 
RE: Importing Stray Pets from Other Countries
I'd be annoyed if they had deliberately looked for a stray there (like Madonna going off to Africa to adopt babies) but this is actually a happy story, Imp. You can't force people to dutifully take animals in, but when a bond happens it happens. This won't be setting any trends, I imagine the paperwork is proving a nightmare.My sister spends every winter in Spain and has done for years, and not only feeds the local stray cats, she has a rota set up among neighbours who live here permanently to keep them fed while she's away. Of all those cats, she bonded with one a few years ago, and it pined when she left and stopped eating, and is now a member of their family and goes back and forth with them. The very last thing she had wanted or intended, but when she left it behind for the first time she fretted (not even knowing it was pining) until she could go back and start the whole vets certificates / passport process. One cat - out of a dozen or more. These things not only happen, they're rather special when they do.
And of course Hammond brought back an old car zero value from one Top Gear trip, and how many hundreds of trips had he been on, and how many cars, most of them far fancier, driven?