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Offline GROWLER

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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2011, 06:00:35 PM »
Robert Southey. cloud9:

"Once upon a time, there were three Bears".  cloud9:

Absolute and pure bliss of the highest order. cloud9:
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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #16 on: October 07, 2011, 06:00:48 PM »
Quote from: Nick on October 07, 2011, 05:56:41 PM
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The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Two miles away, a church-tower stood on a hill, the houses of the little country town climbing assiduously up to it. Whenever one of the Brangwens in the fields lifted his head from his work, he saw the church-tower at Ilkeston in the empty sky. So that as he turned again to the horizontal land, he was aware of something standing above him and beyond him in the distance.
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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #17 on: October 07, 2011, 06:03:32 PM »
Just as an interesting aside in "A Journey" Tony Blair's account of his years as Labour leader he uses the word "I" 14 times on the first page alone.
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« Reply #18 on: October 07, 2011, 06:08:15 PM »
1801. - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord -the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #19 on: October 07, 2011, 06:14:00 PM »
Oh, Cathy...     happy100
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« Reply #20 on: October 07, 2011, 06:14:40 PM »
If she ever gets up here  ::)  I can take her to Stanage Edge and Hathersage  ::)

She seems to hanker after dark hunky men  noooo:
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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #21 on: October 07, 2011, 06:15:35 PM »
 rubschin: I wonder what BM's will be............









Prolly: First try to join up the dots in order whistle:
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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #22 on: October 07, 2011, 06:15:57 PM »
Says something that even my favourite book doesn't have a happy ending  sad24:
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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #23 on: October 07, 2011, 06:16:20 PM »
The cat sat on the mat?
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Offline Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)

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« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2011, 06:23:54 PM »
The 'best breed' for you depends on your reasons for having chickens- for meat or eggs or both, for a touch of beauty in your yard, for show, or strictly for fun. Chickens come in all combinations of laying ability, growth rate, size, shape and colour. You should have no trouble finding the 'perfect' chicken- one that is picture-pretty and ideally suited for your purpose.


Gail Damerow; A guide to raising chickens.
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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #25 on: October 07, 2011, 06:24:31 PM »
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on October 07, 2011, 06:15:57 PM
Says something that even my favourite book doesn't have a happy ending  sad24:

I must give you a big cuddle (since Growler is drowning crashing away) It is waht he would have wanted  noooo:
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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #26 on: October 07, 2011, 06:59:13 PM »
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

"The Go-Between"  ~  L. P. Hartley   :thumbsup:
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« Reply #27 on: October 07, 2011, 07:04:08 PM »
Is this a quiz?

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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #28 on: October 07, 2011, 07:42:42 PM »
Quote from: Nick on October 07, 2011, 07:04:08 PM
Is this a quiz?

Had enough of this week. Off to bed with Jonathan Dimbleby and some pills  evil:

Can I come with you please not literally you understand, I has been a bloody grim one and I for one am all for getting it over with as soon as possible.

Is there a book which starts?

There was a  small quiet and unpopulated part of South Hampshire which called to me not once but time and time again, it was only when I realised it was a grave yard that I stopped my incessant yearning.
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Re: Opening Lines
« Reply #29 on: October 07, 2011, 07:45:01 PM »
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