wiseheart | So, it is party time again, folks!

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation

Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

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My choice of cross-stitch embroidery was not the best type of project for a sewing circle; I could easily listen to conversations while doing it, but I could not actually talk while stitching. I think it had to do with the counting.

I keep meaning to get audiobooks to listen to while sewing, but part of me just loves the written word too much. I have been doing a bit of sewing while listening to things I have recorded on my new TV recorder box, which also does radio, which has been very good.

How do you prepare it?

It is. Just feed 'mahjong' and 'butterfly' to Google, and you'll find it. It's a variant on the Connect version.

Thanks.
For the Yuletide exchange, the first thing that happens is everyone who want to nominates three rare fandoms to be included in the eligible list of fandoms and up to 4 characters in each of these fandoms. A team of us then sort through these to check the fandoms meet the eligibility criteria, merge duplicates, check character names, etc. After this the list becomes public and people point out mistakes, lobby for fandoms to be included or removed, before signups happen.
It is a lot of fun, and tends to be a good way to find out about a lot of interesting books. :)

Thank you! :)
I've been drinking lots of tea as the best thing for a sore throat, but chocolate sounds like a good idea as well.

that sounds like a fun game.

So this should be the third top level comment needed, only two more to go...

Remind us, how far did we get last year?

They sounds very impressive.

I really should make and send cards this year, but I don't know if I'll get that far.

I find it depends on the project, how much I can talk or pay attention to other things while doing. It is certainly good for the bit of projects when I'm doing borders or large blocks of colour. However, I quite often end up slightly off patterns and improvising to fix the design. So far it has not usually gone very wrong - especially as people won't generally be comparing the results to the patter, I hope.

I find the interesting thing with audiobooks is the slow place means that I notice things that I don't when reading - especially little background details. (It is also fun because I listen to most of them with my partner and then we end up discussing the books, and having both just heard the same bit it is fresh in both our minds. At the moment we are taking it in turns to pick new books when we want something we don't already have, so he has me listening to the Culture novels by Iain M Banks and Foundation by Isaac Asimov, and I've got him to listen to several Guy Gavriel Kay ones and Swallows and Amazons series.)

Yay, another chapter! I'll hopefully get to catch up soon. :)

Last year we did the multiple entires version, just in case LJ would crash the party again, but it didn't work out very well. I'll have to check the numbers. Give me a minute.

Admiral

rcfinch, Ma'am, we reached an entirety of 622 comments, divided between the two party entries.

It's a while ago, but I'I believe I've read most of wilde's plays and attended two (including Salomé with the music of Richard Strauss - which makes it an opera, of course). I've read a number of his short stories and poems. And lastly, I own the biopic 'Wilde'.

I really meant this as a comment, but it won't do any harm here at page 4, I guess...

And that was spread over 6 pages, altogether.

So, let's see if I can actually count...
Apparently, I can, since

rcfinch just got us on Page 4.

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You're made of win!

Not cheating, that's just being prepared!

I do my best.

I remembered this delicious dish I have had a couple of times in a Chinese restaurant with my friend K: aubergine in black bean sauce. I 'cheated' and bought ready made black bean sauce (last night as well), so all I had to do was dice the aubergine, a green pepper and an onion and fry them all and then add the sauce. I had it with brown rice (trying to be healthy; hence the brown). I am very pleased with how it turned out; the aubergine really soaks up the flavour of the black bean sauce, and the green peppers work really well with the dish, despite the fact that I normally don't like green peppers (I am a big fan of red, yellow and orange ones, but the green taste too bitter for me normally).

Well 30 more comments, and we will reach 600

Well done for getting us onto page 4!

I really need to get hold of the Wilde film. I wanted to see it when it came out, but I think they didn't show it at the cinemas in the town I lived in at the time; since then I have also learnt to love Stephen Fry (not really having known of him, then), so it is getting stranger, and stranger not to have seen the film!

The only Wilde play I have seen performed live, was an opera version of The Importance of Being Earnest; I wasn't as impressed as I had hoped to be. It wasn't a particularly traditional type of opera, which I have since realized I should have expected of the company who performed it. Still very enjoyable, because I love the source text! I find Wilde's plays strangely readable; with Shakespeare even with the best intentions, I can't really follow the text unless I have seen the play performed, but I have read a number of Wilde's plays with great enjoyment before ever seeing the played out.

I do also really like The Canterville Ghost. I first read an abridged version as one of my English 'textbooks' in my pre-teens, and even in that form it was good; the full version is better of course!

Sorry to hear that you have been ill - that is an incredible amount of work when you are not feeling well!

That sounds like an excellent idea! I do love getting cards, especially ones people have made themselves.

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