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I got a LotR Lego set for my birthday last year. It was the Moria one with the cave troll. Despite my excuse being that I have children, I've kept them well away from it. My preciousss...

Thanks. It's not a subject one can easily say "I'd like to know more about that", but I know what you mean! I read a (fiction) book dealing with the issue, one of the Stieg Larsson Millennium books - "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and it interested me, despite me not really liki...

I take it you guys have seen this? http://thelordoftherings.lego.com/en-gb/Videos/Default.aspx And especially this collection of cutscenes stitched together: http://youtu.be/m_CvoG3nY3Q Alex is too scared of the Black Riders to watch LotR proper, but he's very intrigued by the story so he watched th...

The places that have me stumped are the ones where you order and pay at the counter, and then the waiter brings the meal to your table. The wait staff basically does most of the work of a full-service place, except taking the order and bringing the check. There's one such place where I go all the t...

Regarding common-or-garden weather here in the UK, we had a beautiful spring day last Sunday; we had a little boy's birthday party (the son of our friends, Alex's best friend) at a village hall with a lawn and playground outside. We had planned all sorts of indoor games and activities in case it rai...

So shocking. Some of the pictures reminded me of images of the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami a few years ago - complete destruction. :( Dan wondered if houses in Tornado Alley are still built mostly of wood, or are people using reinforced concrete and similar materials? I really don't know w...

I read about this and was horrified about the girls' ordeal, but so happy that they were alive and could return to their families. Not to diminish the horror of their experiences, but I wish that other girls like April Jones in the UK had had a similar fate.

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LOL! So true!

Yay Tosh! (I get what you mean by rain in Southern Spain. Every time I've been in Almeria, land of the Spaghetti Western, there's always been a downpour) :D Tyrion and Arya are probably my most constant favourite characters. Bran is... interesting. I'd say his, arm, leg situation is probably the &qu...

Woah.
We are forecast snow again for Friday/Saturday, but it will be just another light flurry, I bet. Still, it's probably a record year for days with snow, if not total snowfall.

We keep having coldish snaps with snow flurries. Most unusual for Britain!

Thank you for posting those pictures, Sunny. Anna was such a beautiful dog, she had such a characteristic, lovely face.

Oh no Jude, what terribly sad news! I'm really sorry to hear this.
Lots of love and tender hugs to you and Sam.

Yay and BRRRRR.

-5 indoors? Oh dear! I assume that if you didn't have heating you didn't have hot water, either? And at -38.

Yum, yes! I've never encountered funnel cake (although I've heard of it), but it does look pretty much the same. Mmm.

Haha! I've always wondered. :D "Pigs in blankets" is slightly better, but "toad in the hole"? The actual dish is nice, though, as long as the sausages are decent. But then I love Yorkshire pudding and anything done with batter. Pancake Day is approaching! :D My dad's family are f...

Yikes! Stay safe, Lali!

Haha! :D There's been some measure of "snow chaos" for at least a couple of days every winter in the last 3-4 years. Nobody carries snow chains or winter tyres, and there are very few snow plows. They simply grit the roads, which is fine for ice, but it doesn't work when you get copious am...