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Makes sense to me, benjamin, but there again, I'm feeling a bit dozy this morning!!

Mapperley Man, I followed the link to your blog and was interested to read what you wrote on 24 March about why you 'despise' some atheists, even though you yourself are an atheist. I am a Christian but found your thoughts really interesting - thank you. If Mick2me had not put this link to your blog, then I probably would'nt have seen it, so perhaps you can see the 'removal' as a good thing? I really hope so..... I enjoy reading your posts on here.

Mapperley Man, thankyou for sharing your experiences of depression - I hope it has helped you in writing it down on this forum, and helped others to understand a bit more too. I have a friend who suffers greatly from depression so I can relate to much of what you say, and a family member who has a severe mental illness. As you said, the inner turmoil can rarely be seen from the outside. It was said to me: "no-one realises how hard it is for me to just keep going, trying to appear normal when I feel so dreadful inside" Thank you again

Catfan, hope everything will go well for your neurophysiology test tomorrow. Is it going to tickle I wonder!

I've signed it for the sake of you younger ones!

It would be like a sort of treasure hunt trying to track people down by finding clues/photos in their posts, wouldn't it! For all you Nottingham area residents it would be easier - Catfan could find a comfy chair in the Limekiln and make arrangements to stay there every day during opening hours for a week or so, then people could find him and register their contact details with him (but some people would be looking for a cat wouldn't they....). and Chulla could do the same in the Roebuck. I think I'm joking........

Ian, but it's a long way.... (Come on, sing along)

Well, might be able to find a few of you....

I was on my iPad,, too, nonna - didn't check if the same message was on the PC. I thought, wouldn't it be terrible if no-one could ever get on the site ever again!!! To lose contact with so many of you would be dreadful. It would be like losing a chunk of my life....

About 10 minutes ago after I'd posted a couple of things on the forum, a message came up saying the server had moved to another website and I was supposed to click to sort it out (not the exact words but something like that). I didn't do anything, in fact I switched off. When I came on again, it was sorted but a couple of my posts had disappeared. Did anyone else see this message?

My reply to your post, FLY, has disappeared! I said that I hoped you'd find your relative but I wouldn't know where to start looking for information. Good luck

I get lots of my clothes from Charity Shops and always enjoy doing the rounds when I'm in Ely. Paul sometimes does car boots when the weather is good but he is selling, not buying - we are still shifting excess 'stuff' from when we downsized (houses, not bodies!!). You can actually walk into the garage now, apparently, instead of climbing over things! I wouldn't know as that's Paul's place. (He is allowed in the bungalow as well!) We do also donate quite a lot to our local Emmaus Centre. I keep trying to persuade myself to give away a lot of books that I KNOW I will never read anymore

I feel so sad for you, letsavagoo although I haven't lost a sibling, only my parents. They were well advanced in years and lived happily with us for their last few years so I was able to accept their deaths without overwhelming grief. It was good that you had become closer to your sister in the preceding years - I expect she appreciated that too - and I'm really sorry that you still feel such anger towards your brother-in-law. I really hope this will lessen over time as it can only hurt and eat away at you. It won't affect the object of your anger. I know this is easy for me to say but

Ayup, sorry, we seem to be talking at cross-purposes. I know the Atlantic rift is a fact - I was referring to the sea bed getting wider/deeper thereby causing the sea level to drop!

Never heard these theories before! Do you think we've discovered something important ? ...... probably not, as the experts on plate tectonics would have already thought of it I suppose

Just had a strange thought ..... if the mountains are still being pushed UP, won't that make the Indian Ocean/Pacific deeper, thus allowing the warmed oceans more room so they won't rise so much? Or have I got the mechanics of plate movements wrong?

notty ash, I believe you are right that Everest is still being pushed upwards, so maybe that will keep the height the same as it is now, as the sea level rises! Whatever..... Everest is high and in the realms of probability I'm 99.9999999... % sure I'll never climb it!

The height of Everest in metres may be calculated to be lower if sea level rises, but it would still be the same height as always when you start from the foothills or whatever they're called!!

I wrote the following poem a few years ago when I was reminiscing about the holidays I'd had as a child. The two places referred to in the poem are Chapel St Leonards, where we went for our annual holidays until I was 10, and Llangwnadl in North Wales. In Chapel, we stayed on the same site each year on Sea Bank Road and it was OUR place, as was the village. I used to feel it was waiting for us each year.... A few other notes: My Mum used to say I had 'donkey feet' because I never wore shoes all holiday, even when walking on the road to the amusements in the village. The stone slab

I've been singing it on and off all day - in my head. They don't write songs like that nowadays (probably a good thing?)

So sorry about your young dog's accident with the chain. Have you reported it to the manufacturer? Pleased that not too much damage was done...

Keep your mind on your driving, keep your hands on the wheel and keep your snoopy (?) eyes on the road ahead.

Never heard that one before, Stephen. Sounds disgusting...

Carni, the picture is interesting but a bit weird (I think). I like the seascapes and pretty landscapes

Hope you'll soon feel better Carni, and back to your old self - don't mean 'old' old btw....