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CWillie, I'm INTERESTED!   Thanks so much for sharing this.   Turner Classic Movies used to air contemporary and classic Shakespearean  (and occasionally a Greeck) play, but Comcast no longer provides TCM, at least in the basic channels.  

Thanks so much!!
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NeedHelpWithMom, forget making bandanas for cats. They will find a way out of those bandanas, and rabbit kick the daylights out of them =^..^=
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FF.

Yep! I miss my cat. She had an independent spirit, for sure!

Cats don’t live with us. We live with them!
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Never thought that I would be finding something positive about a pandemic!

At first, I could not go to DMV to renew my driver's license.

The DMV automatically renewed it until 2021, adding a year!

So, I dreaded the driving test coming up. And worried over the eye test. And totally stressed over going to the DMV during Covid if it should allow appointments by my birthday. They said I must come in.

So, I went online early and found that I could renew and pay all online, no eye test, no driver's test, no waiting in Covid lines.

This window of opportunity exists now. Time changes everything! (Maybe since Dec. 31st since the surge is now.)

Another happy thing for 2021.

Counting my blessings!
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Any Agatha Christie fans out there?

There is a special on tonight about her life in England.

It’s on PBS. Agatha Christie’s England.
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Have you read her autobiography? It’s acknoleged as the best thing she ever wrote, really interesting and illuminating about a girl/woman’s life a fair old time ago.
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Margaret,

I haven’t but it sounds like I should read it! I will. She was a fascinating woman.

She grew up in a very interesting era. She had a privileged life, didn’t she?

I plan to watch the next episode of this series that they are doing on her.

I find it fascinating that she wrote and sold so many books in her day.

The only books that sold more in that time frame were the Bible and Shakespeare!

Her books are still selling today. Not to mention the movies made from her books. Theatre as well. She was quite successful!
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Her upbringing was middle class priveledged, but her father’s fortune was lost, so she grew up on the fringe. For example, her mother imbued the Steiner rules about not teaching children to read until they were 7, but her nanny apologised to her mother ‘Madam, I’m very sorry but Miss Agatha can read!’ aged 4.
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Massive Agatha fan here !!
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Just saw something interesting on the news.

Apparently Amazon sellers are shipping out packages to random addresses in order to accumulate reviews.

These sellers are doing this to get higher ratings, so they are saying that only 60 percent of reviews are legitimate.

They pay people to write fake reviews. They send out less expensive, inferior products to the random addresses.

Nothing surprises me. I don’t take anything at face value anymore.
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Margaret,

It’s interesting to learn the behind the scene facts. Agatha was a very private person. Reading her autobiography would be fun.

Her literature was well known and she certainly sold tons of books!

She only gave one rare interview to a student at a university. He simply knocked on her front door and she spoke to him.
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NHWM - Whenever I read reviews on amazon or anywhere else I always skip the 5 star one because I figure they are almost guaranteed to be either fake or from morons who just opened the box and haven't really had enough time to give an honest opinion. I usually skim the bottom of the scale first just to see if there is a consistent theme of complaints and check a few different sites if possible, and I pay attention to the date of the review because sometimes a product that was previously wonderful is changed by the manufacturer and comments will reflect that.
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cwille,

Very true! So many fake reviews. Imagine getting a random package delivered because it is protocol to ship out a package for a review to be legitimate.

Crazy, huh?
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Willie, I'm usually sceptical about reviews unless they are all good or all bad. But if a product has amazing reviews and horrendous ones I usually take a chance.
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The (almost) full moon is shining through my kitchen window tonight. ☁️🌕☁️
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cwille,

Do you have a favorite moon?

Mine is a harvest moon.

Our city is lovingly referred to as ‘Crescent City’ after the crescent moon.
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My father used to grow white beans and after the harvest burn the long rows of straw. (Yeah I know, that would never be allowed today). This was done in the evening because the wind died down then, as a kid it was thrilling to be out after dusk to help carry a pitchfork of burning straw from one row to the next. Anyway... I'll never forget the year there was a HUGE harvest moon rising in the east as we were out in the field burning bean straw. It was magical.
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I love the beauty of full moons. I hate the pressure headaches I get around them, though. I hate to think I'm "one of those" people, who get a little nutty around the full moon... but I've been super irritable and agitated all day, with a tension headache that won't quit despite the Tylenol. I took a hydroxyzine to help relax and sleep and I imagine I'll be all better tomorrow. At least it's not serious... but it is funny-strange to me. It's happened often enough that there has to be some correlation.
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Cwille,

That sounds like a beautiful memory to me. That golden color of a harvest moon is spectacular!

I have always loved the moon. I have gazed at the moon more than the stars.

I remember looking out of the window in our car as a small child while driving to my aunt’s house and telling my mom that the moon was following me. Hahaha!

I loved that no matter where I was, the beautiful moon was there with me.
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Hope you feel better soon, Ali.
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Ali, at full moon, can you try really effective black-out blinds and curtains, and perhaps the masks that shift workers have to use? It’s easier to believe that light affects sleep and headaches, than to believe that there are bad vibes from the moon. My niece returned from shift work in central London, using masks and ear plugs. I’ve been converted to noise and light reduction, at least as a try! A full moon is lovely, but not when it gives you sleepless nights and/or headaches.
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Could it be hormonal Ali? I have had very few headaches post menopause.
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Migraines run in my husband's family. His grandma and mom claimed to always get them during their mentrual cycles. His grandma's did stop after menopause but his mom, post-menopause, continued to get them. Her migraines only stopped once she developed memory loss. I totally agree they were very real and very painful headaches (as my poor hubs still gets them) but I find it so interesting that hers disappeared as she developed cognitive impairment. It's not like she had a lot of stressors in her life. She had unhappiness. And I know it's not an inability for her to express pain, since she is able to know pain from her UTIs and back issues. Wonder what the connection is. Wonder if anyone has bothered to study migraines into elder years (although this may prove challenging).
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And this is one reason why I'll never be moving to Australia....

"snake hiding in pyjama drawer gives Adelaide Hills woman fright of her life"
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Cwillie 😂
Yesterday my daughter spied a largish grey huntsman spider in the car boot seal when we popped the boot to put the groceries in. We brought it home to deal with. DH flicked it out with a broom. It ran across the car roof (these can jump & ran fast!) then hid in the back door handle - daughter's door 🤣. She was not impressed.
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Cwillie, we have snakes here every summer, though rarely inside. The snake went inside to that woman’s pyjama drawer because its scrub home (30 miles from us) was burned down by a bushfire. The bushfire was much more dangerous than the snake! You get taught how to deal with snakes, and there’s antivenin available everywhere. DH Tony went on a snake-handling course himself, and I helped to make the catching gear (from a golf-club, coat-hanger hook, and two pillow slips. He takes them up to the far corner of the farm and lets them go.

My problem with Canada would be shoveling snow – much more difficult to avoid than snakes!
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Snow vrs snakes? I'd take snow any day.😖
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I hate spiders too. Our underground parking lot is infested with them. I feel like I need an umbrella to navigate going to the car.
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My DH2 Tony wanted to be an entomologist when he was a kid, before he got the engineering bug. He’s still interested in real bugs, and much prefers to take our many visiting spiders outside in a glass+paper. My line is ‘we don’t need spiders inside’! I can pick the few nasty ones, and I kill them. The names vary between countries (like fish and many plants, eg black-eyed susan), but Huntsmans here are not nasties at all. They get taken outside, while Daddy-long-legs get dusted and swept out.

We had a golden orb spider (plus her tiny male mate) a couple of years ago. They drift down on a gauze float at high altitude from the northern jungle areas if the conditions are right. We couldn’t use our blind all summer, while she made 3 consecutive egg webs in the blind's winding works. Lots of interest to watch. Unfortunately the babies didn’t survive, we're a bit short on jungle conditions here.

The other day I picked two moths copulating on the outside of our double glazed bathroom window, with tentacles (?) at both ends of the union, and called DH to check if I’d guessed it right. Tony said ‘I wonder how they work out what to put where’, and I pointed out that we can do the same in the dark without looking!
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Oh wonderful, and hilarious!
Should we all start numbering our dH ???? 🤣🤣
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