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Ronan Keating will be having a concert at the Mud House Winery on the 5 February. Ie, the exact same time as the Canterbury Faire Ball will be happening, and just across the railroad. Chances are that we'll be able to hear it on site. So please do excuse me if I happen to leave the ball that I'm running to walk out and go "Hey Baby! You really got me flying tonight!" and other terribly poppy and non period lyrics like that.

http://www.adayonthegreen.co.nz/concert_calendar/Ronan_Keating__NZ

In other news, which I only just heard yesterday from my mother, RIP Stephen Gately, another member of Boyzone. He died a month ago in Mallorca from pulmonary odema (fluid on the lungs). Having been a proper little fangirl when I was in intermediate, it's really sad to hear he's gone. After Boyzone broke up, he tried a solo career and then went into the West End. He left behind his husband of 8 years.

 Ok, so bigdee beat me to it. Oh well.

I have a job! Yay!
It's Monday to Friday! Yay!
It's a day job (7.30 - 4)! Yay!
So I can actually go to events! Yay!
I get Christmas off! Yay!
And most likely bank holidays off! Yay!
I start part time straight away, while I work off my notice at Paper Plus! Yay!

It's just putting clothes on hangers, but I can handle that for all the lovely free time I will have and early finishes. Especially after so long in retail where any holiday must be booked in advance, and don't you dare take time off around Christmas. I'll be working six days a week for the next two weeks though, so I will probably be very tired. But it's only for two weeks... : D : D : D

Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BECKY1!

Despite his annoying habit of not being able to read upside down or back to front, there is all the edge of your seat cliffhangers from his other books. I think his chapters are getting even shorter now, though, giving more opportunities for small cliffhangers, and no breathing space.

I loved the Sir Percival's feast on Saturday - well worth the rush from work! Everything was polished and entertaining, especially the little Sir Percival chicken : D. Oh and the food was great too. It was definitely more sedate than the other events I've been to, but it definitely suited the atmosphere. And sing we in chorus, do it again, do it again, sing we in chorus, do it again!

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Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, September 28, 2009.
We hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. In commemoration, we have placed your picture on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sigh...
We miss you already. We'll be right here at http://cdbaby.com/, patiently awaiting your return.

We need more form letters like this. : D

OMNOMNOM!

Ok, so this is where we had dinner last night (bigdee and I). See the website here . I had the Little Beauty steak with chips and salad, and bigdee had the french cut steak with mashed potatoes and salad. Starters was pumpkin soup and dessert was sticky date pudding.

The soup was slightly sweet, and thinner than a normal pumpkin soup, but very tasty nonetheless. They also give you lots of butter for your very crusty bread. IMO, this is bonus points!

The steak was perfectly cooked and juicy. The mushroom sauce went very well, but I can't compare this as this is the first time I've had sauce on my steak. The vinegarette on the salad was a sweeter vinegarette, rather than the incredibly tart ones you usually get. This one let the flavour of the salad actually come through!

The sticky date pudding was sticky and datish and had a good dollop of cream. You also got two little puddings rather than the usual one.

They're all rather large serves, and worth it for about $70 without drinks. I'm definitely going back when I get a steak craving.

Hello all, here is the Canterbury Faire Ball list. Each song is linked to its step description on the internet, and some have notes on how I've seen it done in Southron Gaard. You're welcome to ignore these if they won't affect the dances, as some of the notes are nit picky things.

Canterbury Faire Ball List

Children's Set 
( What is the Children's Set? )
Simple Bransles: Double, Single, Gai, Burgundian
Petit Vriens

Circle Set
( Official Bransle )
Jenny Plucks Pears
Fedelta d'Amore

Twosome Set
New Bo Peep - we don't do the hands on shoulders
Ly Bens Distonys - we do the short version with the two singles and one double first
Black Alman

Threesome Set
Spagnoletta : for Two or Three
Rostiboli Gioioso: for Two or Three - For threes, we dance with our proper partner first, ie middle women go to the right first, middle men go to the left first
Bella Gioioso - Warning - this one links to an entire book to download. The dance is on pg 19.

Sixsome Set
Gelosia
Whirligig - we don't do an arming to start the hey, it's just straight hands all the way through
Colonesse

La Caccia Set
La Caccia d'Amore

You did what?!? Set
Salterello La Regina
Korobushka - on [8], the couple links arms at the elbow to turn through. (Jink your elbows, step in time!)

I not only found Korobushka, I found the lyrics with an English translation! Muhaha!

http://www.kaikracht.de/balalaika/english/songs/koro_not.htm

For homework, a class were asked to draw their parents at work. See Jessica's drawing (userpic). Here is the letter the teacher received the next day:

Dear Mrs ____,

I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer. I work at Bunnings and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week after the floods hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had and then I found one more in stock and several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn't show me dancing around a pole. It's supposed to depict me selling the last shovel we had in the store. From now on, I will remember to check her home­work before she hands it in.

Sincerely,

______

to To be or not to bee be? ---> Take your writing to Shakespeare's level with White Smoke.

I hope this isn't an advert for a grammar and spellchecker, because that would just be bad.

This was one of the games I played at slothphil's games day. I really liked it, although next time, I think I will have to take along something that has black on one side and white on the other, so I can remember which pieces I'm moving. I like the way you can make the monster move and sometimes have to sacrifice your pieces. Although it may just have been that we managed to get the monster to eat 7 people in 10 moves and none of the people were me : ).

From Saturday's The Press newspaper. Sorry it didn't copy well from Word. On the plus side, now I know how to use Readiris.


( Reckless Gamers to Blame )

How would you like to work as a Non Destructive Technician?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-me-jobs/Engineering/Mechanical/listing-234229405.htm?key=561028

Would anyone be interested in joining me? It's a comedy/music show that does covers of rock hits classics and folk tunes - on the ukelele. : ) I have it from someone who's seen it that it's good. Tickets are $30 and there are other shows, but I'd rather not try to make them as they are Thursday night and Saturday 12 pm. Feel free to ask friends.

Please tell me by Weds evening so I can run out and get tickets Thursday morning. You can pay me the monies either at Winter Weekend or at the show or on Tues next week or whenever you usually see me.

Oh dear, I think I'm going to be sick.

http://www.cadbury.co.nz/About-Cadbury/A-Glass-and-a-Half-of-Facts.aspx

I take it this was the advert they posted in the newspaper. Oh dear.

To anyone who's ever tasted Cadbury® Dairy Milk® milk chocolate, the precise makeup of the chocolate was probably the last thing on your mind when you were enjoying it.

When so many programs on tv and so many books advise you to avoid a hundred and one things in life, like additives and palm oil (either for environmental or health reasons) there's an awful lot of people reading the back of all the food they eat.

http://www.cadbury.co.nz/About-Cadbury/Frequently-Asked-Questions.aspx

Also, about the vegetable oil:

We have done this for a number of reasons. Primarily it is because our consumers have been telling us that we could improve their enjoyment of our chocolate by making it slightly softer to bite. Vegetable fat helps deliver this softness whilst at the same time maintaining our chocolate’s great taste.

Hmmm, so the thing about North Australia? Anyway, it's chocolate! Leave it out of the fridge for a couple of seconds and it becomes easier to bite!

Does anyone know how to get them off of my friends page? There are more of these than my real friends!

Following the last post about seagulls and donuts, this ad now runs across the top of my journal for me:

• Donuts Searching for local Bakeries? Trusted listings. Just Go Yellow! yellow.co.nz/donuts

D'oh!!

Cathedral Square and donuts do not mix. I bought 8 delicious little donuts from the donut cart, and was walking through Cathedral Square eating them. I was focused on the last mouthful, just about to taste the sugary goodness, when I got a faceful of wing. The last bite was callously ripped from my fingers by a mangy seagull. CHEEKY SOD!! Damn good aim though - he didn't even touch my fingers!

Pouncing and galliarding through leaves should not be so satisfying.