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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
Hope everybody had a great time. We had a quiet Christmas with the day itself at the inlaws and then inviting them back on boxing day. Then on Tuesday we had more family round for a super-spreader event. Truthfully, it wasn’t. Every single person did a lateral flow test before attending. Which was a bit weird, but seemed the right thing to do.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Sounds familiar? in the forum Blogs 4 years, 9 months ago
Also “An IOPC spokesperson told PA Media: “We can confirm that on 17 December we received a referral from the Metropolitan police service [MPS] of a complaint about an alleged party at Downing Street in December 2020.
“Having fully assessed the referral we have decided it is invalid and we have returned it to the MPS to handle as it det…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Sounds familiar? in the forum Blogs 4 years, 9 months ago
Absolutely!
I do not like wearing a mask when I go shopping, but it is a tiny hardship compared with, say, passing on the virus if I unknowingly had it, to somebody else. I’m so tired of hearing people, my neighbour for instance, declaring that he will “never” wear one in a shop because he’ll “never catch it that way”. He’s a tree surgeon and…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition December 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 9 months ago
…Oh, and a very happy 21st to you!
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition December 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 9 months ago
Up the hill
Popular Oldwell couple Jack and Jill Bouquet are recovering in hospital from what police described as a “vicious and unprovoked attack” on Saturday night. Regulars at the Old Well pub on Old Well Hill were alerted by calls for help around 11:00 in the evening. Landlord John Spratt described how he and his wife found Jill Bouquet col…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp – November 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 10 months ago
Well, two entries this month. Both of them top notch.
Sandra’s story tells me so clearly about that moment when, inexplicably, there is no avoiding the surprise of what you expect to happen actually happening. It’s so familiar and so infuriating.
Knicks plunges us into the very innermost world of a relationship. Twisting and turning thoughts: I…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 4 years, 10 months ago
Last day for the monthly comp! Hope that’s not a prophetic ambiguity.
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Athelstone replied to the topic The Future of the Den – Part 2 in the forum Blogs 4 years, 10 months ago
Incidentally, I turned off the option to log edits when you edit a post. Does anybody have strong feelings about this?
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Athelstone replied to the topic The Future of the Den – Part 2 in the forum Blogs 4 years, 10 months ago
Hi Squidge, glad you like it. There are forums that hang directly from the Den, and forums that hang from groups. Blogs is a forum that hangs from the Den. The item next to Blogs on the main menu is the path to all the Den forums and you can also get to Blogs that way. What I’ve done is to copy the Blogs link up to the top of the main menu. Click…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic The Future of the Den – Part 2 in the forum Blogs 4 years, 10 months ago
Delete button. That made me scratch my head. @raine do you have a delete button for forum threads at the moment? I sneaked Teabreak onto the (real) Den for a quick check, as my own userid has slightly different access, and it looks as if there isn’t one. It seems very strange that I hadn’t noticed before. I’ll add it to my investigation list. Yes…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic The Future of the Den – Part 2 in the forum Blogs 4 years, 10 months ago
I worry about whether it’s all too late as well, but I shall carry on for the time being.
On a practical note, to reply to a post on the “activity” page, you should see a button marked “Comment” with a number next to it. This is a button to make a comment, as well as a count of those made so far. Below each reply, you should see a further Reply…[Read more]
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Athers, I’m late to this, sorry, but I’ll have a play around and check things out. I’d like to join the others in thanking you for your efforts to keep the Den alive.
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Athelstone started the topic The Future of the Den – Part 2 in the forum Blogs 4 years, 10 months ago
What’s new? I’ll tell you what – the Den, that’s what. OK, not exactly new, but different.
Some of you may have seen my blog a while back, where I questioned the future of the Den. Well, I’m sorry if it all seemed to go quiet, but the truth is I’ve been beavering away finding how stuff works and how some of it it doesn’t. Long story short,…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 4 years, 10 months ago
21 November already! Time to knuckle down and enter the monthly competition. All it takes is between 1 and 500 words and the prize could be yours.
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Athelstone posted an update 4 years, 10 months ago
Half way through the month. Time to dig deep and enter the monthly competition. You know you’ll enjoy it.
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 4 years, 11 months ago
I don’t think it’s ever been mandatory to leave at Easter – short of expulsion. You are required to choose your subjects for a full year well in advance of Easter, so that staying on is the default position, even if it’s obvious to all that a specific student is going to leave. In theory, I could have left school at Easter in 1972, but at that…[Read more]
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Thanks, Ath, that’s very helpful. My MC is being pressured by her parents to leave school and earn a wage, but the employer/employment route might be the way to go. Pity I didn’t think of this when I drafted the book.
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Athelstone started the topic Monthly comp – November 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
OK NaNoWriMo: this month I’d like you to write just 50,000 words on anything that strikes you as appropriate. No, on second thoughts, I’d like a maximum of 500 words on the topic of something difficult, a target that would take a great effort to achieve, that was either met or missed.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Comp – October 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 11 months ago
Awwww!!! Thank you Raine, I really enjoyed the comp.
I love the other entries. We are the best! -
Athelstone started the topic The world, her dog, memories-dot, dot, dot. in the forum Blogs 4 years, 11 months ago
Read some blogs I wrote about 10 years ago that recalled events of 30 years before that. Curiously, unable to connect directly to those events anymore, in that I remember them and can recount the details, but much of the emotional impact that was there when I wrote about them is no longer available. I can remember that there was an impact and can…[Read more]
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Merry Christmas.
And to you too.
And you. Thank you for keeping this place going.
Happy Christmas Ath, and to all Denizens
Hope everybody had a great time. We had a quiet Christmas with the day itself at the inlaws and then inviting them back on boxing day. Then on Tuesday we had more family round for a super-spreader event. Truthfully, it wasn’t. Every single person did a lateral flow test before attending. Which was a bit weird, but seemed the right thing to do.