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wiseheart ([personal profile] wiseheart) wrote2011-10-01 12:43 pm
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Party time again!

Hi folks! *waves*

Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 55 on October 9, which used to be an important thing, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and enter my virtual retirement, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 7 or 8 or only God knows how many years.

So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 742 comments on 6 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!

You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual Dobos Cake recipe - it's my absolute favourite, although I never managed to get it as good as my Garnny used to.

Cheers!

Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp. Join us and have fun!

725!

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Only another 17 comments to equal last year (including this one)...

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Phew, long wait.

[identity profile] rcfinch.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, enough to see and do before that. Time flies!

Re: 725!

[identity profile] rcfinch.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Fourteen!

[identity profile] rcfinch.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe the wisest course, yes.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Certainly does. Clocks back soon, and I don't remember summer happening...

Re: 725!

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
We are slowly creeping up on it! :D

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
There was summer here... in ?June it was lovely for a week or so....

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember some hot days back in March. What a rubbish summer it was!

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! But a lot of them have been recently! And then winters with a horrible lot of snow - although thankfully there isn't usually much here, even when the rest of the country is covered in it.

735!

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Less than 10 comments to go...

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Last winter was bloomin' bleak here! The river froze. I reread Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising". Brrr! Getting chilly just thinking about it!

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
And the colours are lovely, and there's a nice mulchy smell of leaves.

Re: Birthday Present the Second

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The artist at the top has a nice gallery with pictures of several unusual places in Arda.

I wonder if Aragorn hoped to stay there too. Poor Pippin and Sam, missing out on even more beer.

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
The canal froze here (but not the river as it is tidal), and a friend of ours built a snowman in the middle of it (and no, I don't think it was really safe to be on it), but it was too cold to snow for most of the time, so there was less than an centimetre, but the pavements were covered in ice, so I could hardly leave the house.
It was horrible!

Maybe this winter will be better...

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
yes. :)

Re: 735!

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Even closer now...

Re: 725!

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Surely we can manage it this evening...

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
WOO HOO! New comments record!

Re: Birthday Present the Second

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Lovely!
and talking about auturm colours
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Lovely!
and talking about auturm colours
<a href<="http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/File:Mat%C4%9Bj_%C4%8Cadil_-_Green_Hill_Country.jpg">http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/File:Mat%C4%9Bj_%C4%8Cadil_-_Green_Hill_Country.jpg</a>

Probably better for them - less opportunities to get into trouble...

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I really hope it's milder this year. We had a fair amount of snow, but the worst was how cold it got: no cover here in the Fens.

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooray!

Re: Birthday Present the Second

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, beautiful!

[identity profile] jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com 2011-10-07 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
eek!

Hopefully it will be better this year!

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