jot (jot) v.t. To make a hasty note of.
jot-ting (jot-‘ing) n. A brief note.
__n. The least bit; an iota.
i-o-ta (i-o-ta) n. A small or insignificant mark or part.
__Syn. 2. jot, particle, shred, speck, whit.
It’s difficult to know what to say out loud. Shout about. Or, duck tape the mouth about. My Reader has proclaimed non-bearing of grudges and certainly no annoying voices of gripes, vexedness, and/or bad attitudes.
My Reader encourages the least bits. With humour, please. Yes. Humour is good.
That about says it all.
Observations here and there with a whit of whim.
Sometimes in a hurry.
Sometimes not…
Hi Raye! Thanks for dropping in on my blog, it made me discover yours! Love the art, and will explore further. Pleased to meet you, Marina
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Just found you via Carrie Rubin and a reply you shared with her. I’m mesmerized by both your art and your wit…. #newfollower Okay, your sarcasm, too. 🙂
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charming blog !
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Just had a quick look-see at (b)ananartista SBUFF….very very interesting!!! Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment.
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thank you! … hope to see you in my next post … in the meanwhile I’m enjoying yours 🙂
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Hi Jots. Before summer we talked about meeting up next time I came to Seattle. I was here in July, but time flew.Now I have just returned and I thought I should try before I suddenly will have to leave again (I am here until the end of the month). Would be fun to meet up. 🙂
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Otto…grand idea! Would you email me so that we can attempt to align our schedules for a get together. Looking forward to hearing from you. Raye
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I haven’t been here for a while and dropping in reminds me of how much I like your paintings. There’s such a freedom and energy about them–a real sense of joy.
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Hello. I think you are a wonderful artist and I love your work! Please allow me to nominate you to the Blog Tour Award. Even though you may not care much about awards, I assure you that I would be very happy to read your answers for these 5 questions. This is the blog post: http://michellemaya2005.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/one-tutorial-a-day-for-31-days-day-31-of-my-journey-inspired-by-a-flower-wreath/ Have a wonderful day! Mihaela
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Hi,
Love your style. I will come back. I joined your followers.
Magny
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I love the images on your blog! They are so beautiful, uplifting, uplifting, uplifting, I find them very inspiring, very vibrational! Thank you so much for posting!
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Dearest Raye,
I haven’t heard from you in too long so I have issued a challenge… up to you to accept of course!
http://adelectablelife.com/2015/03/25/love-in-ten-lines/
Dale
xoxo
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🙂
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Hello! You have very beautiful and interesting blog! I enjoyed it. 🙂
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Thank you Vlad. It is nice reading about all the things you like (and do not like) in Russia. Very nice photographs! Thank you for your comment and for stopping by to say hello! Raye
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nice paintings. nice jots.
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I love your work both prose and art!
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Thank you so much for “showing me off” to an entire new and improved group of friends. Also…I’m so appreciative of your affirmation of my wonky prose and humoured figgy art. Raye
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Hi Raye
You are very welcome. I really enjoy your lighter side of looking at life! A sure pleasure. 🙂
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Just sticking my head in to say hi.
Hope all is well in your part of the world!
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Fantastic site, great art work. Happy I stumbled here.
Chris
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Thank you, Chris, for the stumble! and the compliment…
Raye
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Knock knock….
I am standing outside of your new apartment door…just popped over to see if all is well with you and if you are feeling settled and OK? Px
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Oh, you Sweet-Tea, you!! Sad to say I’m still where I was before. The offer made fell through…no fault of mine. So I’m opening my “old” apartment door, putting the kettle on and placing yummy biscuits on the table so we can have a nice girlie chat. I am so smiling…..
Will be gone for a fortnight beginning Wednesday…London birthday parties to attend, and then selfie-days at St. Leonards on Sea, E. Sussex coast. Painting, drawing, walking the downs. Hoping all is well on your nice slice….!
oxoR
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How wonderful! Looking forward to hearing all about your trip. So near and yet so far! Bon voyage. 🙂
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Just found your site, it is full of nice surprises!
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Good Morning , nice to meet You and Your blog 🙂 Great posts, great ideas , pleasure to be here , i wish You the best,in free time see my little place too, Regards from Poland , EM
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Hi Jot, I have nominated you for Seven Awards (in one)! Congratulations! Here is the link: http://sherrimatthewsblog.com/2014/02/19/awards-part-three-the-shauny-award-for-blogging-excellence-and-seven-awards-in-one/
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Happy New Year, my friend!
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Jots, just in case the dentist rendered thou unconscious and wiped out your memory here is a reminder of your tabby award!! The Sunshine Award – please go and see http://meticulousmick.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/the-sunshine-blogger-award-another-image/ to pick up the gong. ~No problems if you have decided not to do awards, just don’t complain about true fillings. MM 🍀
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Thanks so much for visiting my blog! I appreciate it very much. I’ve enjoyed my visit here and look forward to following your posts. 😀
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No, thank you!! I do so enjoy the commentaries on your posts. Just looked at Split-Toning….who knew?? Now I do!! Jots
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Jots, your gifts have earned you the Versatile Blogger Award nomination, congratulations. For all the small print head on over to Versatility Award at:
http://meticulousmick.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/versatile-blogger-award-take-2/
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You received reply on your site? Thank you, again. May take a while to sort myself out today in order to post and recognize that silly thing that you did…….! Smiles….Jots
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I am finally having time to visit those who have liked my ramblings and it has been a nice surprise to find such talented people in my path. So glad ours crossed! Thank you for LIKING my blog!
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Great to see that you liked my ‘About’ page and hopefully there may be more on my humble site that can bring a smile to your face. Bless him, your dog looked gorgeous. MM 🍀
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MM…Yes am smiling over your photos and stringing of words together…commonly called sentences. And yes again, Babe was the most wonderful dog…in the world.
Best wishes for the job prospect. I shall be hanging around your posts….and am most appreciative of the follow.
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Love the new picture. As always, thanks so much for stopping by my blog. Always a joy to read yours.
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Barney,
You and Hugh are both spot on with your posts this great Portland Sunday morning. After reading Hugh and then you, realized how envious, and how I covet (yes…the sinful C-word) others’ “deep thoughts”, the time to think, to sit…to write. To write the truth that keeps me, for one, going…jumping for justice…fist raised for equality…and oft times, smiles for sanity! Thank you [sincerely] for thoughts well said…all of you: yourself, Hugh, BTG…you know…yous guys.
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Hi There!
Would you be willing to participate in something we are doing for Susie Lindau on Friday morning? I am contacting as many of her followers as possible. My thought is that we all post on our own blogs on Friday with the same title, “Susie Strong”. The content would say something simple like, We are thinking of you. I haven’t known Susie for long but this blogging world is such a family. I thought it would be nice for her to see this message from as many of us as possible. Her husband is going to be updating us after her surgery. He can tell her or she can see it once she is up to it. Are you in? Thanks, Maria aka brickhousechick
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of course of course!!!!!
I was going to post something about Susie’s last post on my blog tomorrow but I’ll wait now until Friday…it would be perfect timing. Yes, and part of my comment was going to be about “our” family and the community we have created…the community Susie has created. Thank you so much, Maria, for the inclusion…count me in. Raye
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Great! Thanks Raye!
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You stopped by my ABOUT ME page, thank you…then I wondered when I had last updated it, just to find i had written an update but had not clicked on the UPDATE button, anyway I updated but it’s still outdated by a couple of months… thanks again 🙂 and read you soon, Alexandra
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Jots,
I received your email. I’m here.
When’s the new post?
Le Impatient Clown
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Cher Clown Impatient,
Accrochez-vous à votre nez rouge grande.
Un peu plus de temps, s’il vous plaît.
Je vous remercie de tout ce qui précède …
… et puis certains ….
jots
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Jots,
Bien sûr mon amie. Bien sûr.
Le Clown
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Merci…
XXOOXR.
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Jots … and this reminds me of Gomez Addam’s reaction when Morticia spoke French.
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FrankA….What are you doing reading this old stuff for?
You not busy enough today? Smiling, she asked.
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But it was a fitting comment! I thought about giving a video too … are you ears itching today?
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Ears itching? You talkin’ about me?….that’s what my Mother used to say if one’s ears were itching…..someone was talking about you. So….?
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Hmmmmm …. my current post?
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See current post….
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Your current post. Not mine……
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ciao! luvFAB blog.
thebestdressup
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Thank you for dropping by and especially for leaving a comment! Always heart-ening to have positive thoughts…R.
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Am Awarding you 🙂 check it out here http://jensinewall.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/rare-reality/
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Hi! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. I’m just getting started (ever so slowly) here on WordPress, so I hope you enjoyed what you read. And also hope you’ll come back again in the future.
I’m already in love with your wonderful blog! It’s beautiful, and I’m looking forward to reading more of your posts.
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Thank you so much.
Success and fun…yes, lots of fun…with yours!
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Thank you for the like and comment. It was awesome. Happy belated new year to you!
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Cheers … and thanks for stopping by my gifts for the holiday post. And yes … the cellos were awesome.
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Hi Jots- Thanks for believing in me and supporting me from the very beginning! I’d like to nominate you for the Super Sweet Blogging Award. Please keep up your “Jots” and best wishes for Christmas! http://zhongguojumble.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/two-more-awards/
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I do like your blog!!! it’s like…….J.D. Salinger with an English rather than New York accent. Thank you for dropping by my drawly blog, liking and following. I am so looking forward to future posts!!
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Thank you so much for the “follow” and your comments. Wow…J.D. Salinger? Wish I deserved that compliment!!
I’m intrigued with your posts…and the recipes. I shall be following, as well…..
Jots
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The flow of the words – the tone, all remind me of my dear Mr. Salinger. I had the great fortune of discovering him at 14. Then in 1971, I emboldened myself to write to him. It was kindly forwarded by his publisher. To my amazement, several weeks later, he replied! We corresponded sporadically for several years and then miracle of miracles, I was invited to come visit. It was only the one visit in the dead of winter, but…..so if I say your writing is like JD, it is! So there. Through him, when I was 14, I was introduced to Zen and from there on, to cherry blossoms, red maples, Things Japanese, different trains of thought and perception. So that is why my blog is South Meets East – my little words are a homage to that beginning and to a past lover (not JD) of 6 years.
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Sincerely honoured.
Thank you.
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I have nominated you for a Beautiful Blogger Award and I hope you will accept. Pop over to my Blog and look at Fluffy Moments for the details.
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Well! Aren’t you just the sweetest Sweet-Tea ever!! I’m in my own “mud room” at the moment: tightening skin tone, sweating pores and peering through cucumber chips at my computer imagining myself “beautiful again”. Let me tell you, mon cheri…it’s an entire uphill slog. Will respond as soon as I find my garden hose to rinse off…
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You paint a very vivid picture… Would definitely be an uphill slog here. Was out to lunch today at Bella Italia in Norwich where the lighting in the loo has to be the most unkind ever. Bit of a shock to the system. Move over and share the mud!
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Liked going through your blogs. 🙂
They are all nicely written. I’ve decided to follow you. Nice to meet you here.
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Thank you #1 for the follow and your kind words.
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Perhaps like a “dot” with a smudge of assemblence.
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Hmmmm…..smudge of assemblence…Arte Johnson’s infamous “…very interesting…”
Thank you for stopping by!
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I know you hate having to repost so don’t if you don’t want to BUT you have an award coming your way http://jensinewall.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/accolade-a-day/
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Thank you so much My Lovely Friend!!! Will get on this…sooner than later.
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when ever it suits
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Another award coming your way 🙂 http://jensinewall.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/sunshine-and-pants/ / … ps you do not have to renominate 🙂
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very cool! 🙂
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Thank you so much Ames…and for the follow!! You are on MY “list” , as well…………..
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thanks for the follow as well! 🙂 cheers!
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your it http://jensinewall.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/apparently-im-it-10-2/
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Oh….this may take a while…just sayin’. However, my thanks for playing “tag” are over overwhelmingly….over the top!!
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you are welcome .. and you can say your “safe” 🙂
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Love it! Summed up quite well. 🙂
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Ummmm…..hoping you’re braced for the odd wanderer through your blog.
http://notlostjustweird.com/2012/04/11/im-a-liebster-lobster/
🙂
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What did you do to me, Luv? Does this mean no dance class today at 3p…and the campfire with marshmallows…and Beck????? What about Beck?
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Bwahahahahahaha. Oh there’s a dance class. I showed up but sadly I’m guessing the time zones got crossed. There I stood in just my tie and no one else showed up. *sigh*
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No, No, No, I’ve been waiting for hours. I know I would have recognized your…..tie.
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🙂
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Feel free to inbox me when my spot on your dance card comes available.
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You are always on my list…now more than ever. XXOOjots
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I like having a permanent spot on your dancecard. I promise to behave…at least until the music starts.
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Are you hearin’ me? Snort…snort… That’s me. I never snort. Well, hardly ever. Once in a while but never ever twice in a row…
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Wahahahahahahahaha!!!! Snorted twice in a row! WOOO HOOO!!!
Break out the beverages!
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This is serious talk, NoZ. I’m a bit, no I’m a lot worried about this game of Red Lobster, Red Lobster, It’s Time to Come Over. All that linking, plinking, & kerplunking.
But….you were just kidding right? I don’t really have to link, plink or kerplunk?
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No link, no plink, no kerplunk. But you do have to kerplink or do the crab dance that dare not speak its name.
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I’m over it now. Left you a msg. on About Jots..don’t know if you’ve seen it. Many thanks. Yes. Many thanks. I’m good. Even better. Polished my high-top high heels and ready to hit the floor!!! You coming???
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WOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!! Pardon me for a moment, your shoes are blindingly bright. They’re reflecting the light from my sequined shirt.
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Thank you NoZ for this honour. I’ll get over the shiver my timbers number in a little while. I’ve just got to keep the important things in life on an even keel, balanced, unteetered and not tottered and….remember to bring the marshmallows to our campfire.
Snort…snort
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I always keep the campfire in my back pocket, which probably explains a lot. Keels aren’t meant to be even, they’re catty-cornered for a reason, I just don’t know what that reason might be at the moment.
You teeter and I’ll totter and we’ll balance the marshmallows with the graham chocolate crackers, swing the spotted raccoon by the nostrils and sing “Blue Moon” at noontime.
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Just reading a little more about you (and “jotting”) and enjoying immensely 🙂
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Great (debateable daily) minds continue to run on same track. Spent quite a bit of time this a.m. looking at You!! As well…..enjoying. Also…immensely.
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Thank you for that 🙂
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I’m following you….not stalking mind you…just following!!!
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I forgot to ask…is the building on your banner really the “small apt”? It’s a nice picture 🙂
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I wish!! Took this snap whilst on a three week visit back “home” in England. It’s the side of an old building (most buildings in the UK are old) in Winchester. I do so enjoy your posts, Anne!
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did u post a piece called “piano passion” ‘cuz it won’t come up…it says “page not found” continue…
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OKay OKay OKay…..we keep having this same conversation. Not my fault. My dog ate my homework. The gnome in the garden is wreaking havoc in the top soil. It is not raining inches but yards and snow on Sunday. Life is good……..thanks for asking.
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Yes I know that! I keep trying to delete “Baying” and end up re-subscribing. It’s the “double clicker handicap” thing. I’ll keep unsubscribing…you keep telling me telling me to continue…not a good plan…but a plan. My turn: continue…
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My boss tells me I belong in the “double-clicker handicap” category. Yes. I’ll fix to continue….
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Ouch, Tony…you’ve caught me with my fingers between the keys. Started to post last pm and, 1) couldn’t figure out how to get the snaps all up and not just the one, 2) figured I was too knackered to worry about it, and 3) frankly, Scarlett, I just didn’t give a damn. Changing my moniker to: double-clicker challenged…..
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