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  • in reply to: Join me for a gourd of langoat milk…… #1350
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      It was divine:face-angel:

      in reply to: Talks on the latest Instalments #1447
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        :yahoo_alien: Oh is this wh :yahoo_confused: at the salmon was all about! Eric, the Elias quote you posted in the diary is exactly what I was wondering about yesterday! Interesting….. :world:

        in reply to: Circle of Eights, Stories #287
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          India Louise and Eugenia momentarily forgot about the gold locket and walked over to the exceptionally long trunk. India dropped the locket into her pocket as she investigated the exterior of the trunk, which didn’t appear to have an opening. It seemed to have been made around whatever it housed, and permanently.

          ‘How strange’, mused India, ‘it must not be intended to open, ever!’

          ‘That makes me want to open it’, said Eugenia. ‘Let’s! Let’s open it!’

          Eugenia was rummaging in the desk drawers for a suitable tool.

          ‘Wow, look at this, Indy’. She held a heavy black letter opener up to show India, with an elaborate carved dragon on the handle. The dragon had glittering amethyst eyes, and a serpentine line of coloured stones along its back.

          India shivered involuntarily at the sight of the dragon. Horrid nasty creatures, dragons, she muttered, resisting an urge to cross herself. ‘Peace be with you, now bugger off’ she whispered the spell under her breath so Eugenia wouldn’t hear her and think she was a silly goose. Horrid scaley slimy stinky reptiles.

          ‘You go first, Genie, try and prise the trunk open.’ India didn’t want to touch the letter opener, but she was rather curious about the contents of the trunk.

          Eugenia was a strong and capable lass, with a practical methodical mind ~ unlike India Louise ~ and before long the first piece of wood came splintering off.

          ‘Nice one, Genie, well done.’ India said as Eugenia wrenched off another few planks.

          ‘Oh MY GOD!’ ‘Jumping Jehosophat!’ ‘What the……’ ‘Holy Moly, Genie, what the….’. After a few initial exclamations, the girls were silent, the hair standing up on their arms.

          They were looking down at the shrivelled features of a dried up body, covered in bits of disintegrating faded fabric.

          ‘A mummy! It’s a friggen mummy!’

          in reply to: Join me for a gourd of langoat milk…… #1348
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            PS Merging group head massage at 4:00PM TRT…join me! :face-angel:

            in reply to: Join me for a gourd of langoat milk…… #1347
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              psssttt!!! Change of venue this morning, meet me in Munchies at 11:30TRT :yahoo_coffee:

              in reply to: Circle of Eights, Stories #284
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                What’s that smell, Indy? It smells lovely in here, like coconut. It’s coming from that trunk over there.

                in reply to: Circle of Eights, Stories #283
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                  Laughter is Priceless’ .

                  Hey Genie! Look at this. India Louise held a gold locket up to the lamp. It’s inscribed on the back, look: laughter is priceless.
                  What’s on the front? Eugenia asked, moving closer.
                  The locket was egg shaped and had an unusual south pacific motif on the top, and an inscription in comic sans font on the bottom. Open it, Indy, see if there’s anything inside. Eugenia shivered. OOOhh someone just walked over my grave, she said, shuddering again. It’s weird in here, eh.
                  Yeah, bit scarey really, India Louise giggled, fumbling with the locket catch.

                  in reply to: Talks on the latest Instalments #1444
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                    Hmmm there is a secret whisper here that I can’t see! :yahoo_angry:

                    in reply to: Join me for a gourd of langoat milk…… #1346
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                      Time for a glass of Hot Crop Tea…….:yahoo_tongue:

                      in reply to: Join me for a gourd of langoat milk…… #1344
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                        Yoohoo! the drinks are on me!:weather-showers-scattered:Nice and cosy inside today….

                        in reply to: Circle of Eights, Stories #279

                        Once Illi had realized she was dead and could ‘go’ anywhere she liked simply by creating the ‘place’ around her, she decided to take a long relaxing holiday on a deserted tropical island. She would float in the warm lagoon, feast on coconuts and pina coladas and mangoes, play with the dancing lemurs and build fantastic sand castles on the beaches. As she visualized it, it appeared as if by magic all around her…the sun warm on her head, the sand between her toes, the gentle breeze fragrant with exotic blooms and the sound of gossiping parrots filled her senses. She closed her eyes and flung her arms wide in appreciation for the physical joys she had recreated, breathed deeply and relaxed for the first time since she had died. Finally, she felt like she knew where she was, even if that ‘somewhere’ was as ‘nowhere’ as ‘anywhere’ else, just another ‘elsewhere’ really…..

                        Illi stretched out on her back on the golden sand and squinted up at the cloudless deep blue sky. How nice, she thought, not to have any aches and pains, not to have to worry about shifting and those bloody belief systems, how simply lovely to just BE, with no perceived responsibilities, no interruptions…

                        Just then out of the corner of her eye, Illi saw movement in the sky. Something was descending onto the island. Illi couldn’t make out what it was, and wished she had a pair of binoculars. Silly Illi, she said to herself, reaching for the binoculars that had appeared beside her. I keep forgetting I can create anything at all.

                        Holy Moly! A great fat roly poly nun with a huge jolly grin was wafting down from the heavens, with an irridescent turquoise fairy in tow. They were landing on her island! We’ll see about that! Illi jumped to her feet and stomped off the beach and into the mangroves, sloshing angrily through the watery roots….. until she realized she could hover above the ground, which was a much easier way to travel.

                        Hovering was much quieter too, and the jolly fat nun and the bluegreen fairy were quite unaware that Illi was peering at them from behind a peachy hibiscus bush. In fact, the blooms on the hibiscus had grown to a most ridiculous size, and Illi could hardly see past them. She hovered to the side a bit, and decided on impulse to make her presence known to the intruders.

                        BOUH! :yahoo_skull:

                        in reply to: Join me for a gourd of langoat milk…… #1342
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                          Tracy was bored in the Faded Cabbage with nobody but Italians to talk to, so she left:yahoo_wave:

                          in reply to: Join me for a gourd of langoat milk…… #1341
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                            :yahoo_cow: :yahoo_kiss: :yahoo_billy: :yahoo_not_listening: :yahoo_bug: :yahoo_angel: :yahoo_party: :yahoo_call_me: :yahoo_pig: :yahoo_monkey: :yahoo_monkey: :yahoo_praying: :yahoo_nerd: :yahoo_waiting: :yahoo_peace_sign: :yahoo_cowboy: :face-monkey: :yahoo_cow: :yahoo_heehee: :yahoo_clown: :yahoo_chicken: :yahoo_alien: :yahoo_chatterbox: :yahoo_waiting: :yahoo_idk: :yahoo_phbbt: :yahoo_big_hug: :yahoo_big_grin: :face-kiss: :yahoo_thinking: :yahoo_tongue: :face-angel: :yahoo_alien: :yahoo_whistling:

                            in reply to: The Room of Requirements #1470
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                              What does {sticky} mean?:yahoo_idk: :yahoo_monkey:

                              in reply to: The Room of Requirements #1469
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                                hahahah! Well I searched Illi and got every William and brilliant too!:notepad: :yahoo_heehee:

                                in reply to: Pictures Pool #1319
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                                  Lordy Eric, what is the buy a drink link?!!! hahahaahah! Literally?? :yahoo_idk: :yahoo_money_eyes:

                                  in reply to: The Room of Requirements #1468
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                                    :yahoo_idea:Well, that all sounds rather technical to me, I think I need a fairy helper from fairyland to magically assist me with technical details, I think I’ll call my helper Tekka…no, Tikka…WAIT! I already have a fairy helper, her name is Tiki! So THAT’S who she is! The little cutie that appeared as if by magic in my mailbox is my tech support fairy godmother!:yahoo_tongue: :yahoo_idea: :yahoo_big_grin:

                                    in reply to: Join me for a gourd of langoat milk…… #1340
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                                      There’s quite a crowd gathering the the pub this morning, two bus loads of Italians on thier way to Inverness just pulled up and the coffee maker is overheating…..:yahoo_billy:

                                      in reply to: Talks on the latest Instalments #1443
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                                        Just testing F, so does that mean you couldn’t see it? Oh I see, my secret comment has a yellow band and Eric’s secret comment has a pink band…..of course, I am so trusting I haven’t changed my password, so if anyone was Agatha Christie :yahoo_peace_sign: enough they could check my (unsecret) secret whispers…… :yahoo_whistling:

                                        in reply to: Circle of Eights, Stories #278
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                                          India Louise shivered in the draughty corridor and glanced furtively over her shoulder. Bill! she hissed into the keyhole. She tapped softly on the door again, afraid of waking Manon in the next room. It would be difficult enough to explain to Bill, let alone trying to explain to the nosy and rather batty cook.

                                          She wrapped her dressing gown tightly round her, and felt the weighty key clunk against her thigh. Eugenia and India Louise had been playing ‘let’s pretend’ with the key that Grandad Wrick had thrown on the bonfire (that India found in the ashes the next day and thought would make a super present for Eugenia….. they both loved odd little gifts).

                                          For days they’d been wandering around the many corridors and wings of the Wrick castle, and Eugenia’s ancient rambling Sandlebright Hall. On fine days they’d explored the grounds, the aviaries and stables and hay barns, the meadows and follies, the lodges and farm cottages, through the spinney to the river and the boathouse, and back through the rose arbours… imagining themselves in different times and places, as different people, making up stories and weaving the key into each little story…… the murder at the boathouse and the key to the mystery… the key to the kitchen and the affairs of the cook… the parrots and the key to the bird cage…… the key to the captains trunk in the attic…

                                          Until they found the place where the key didn’t fit into the story…that is to say, the one place that should have needed a key, The Locked Room that only great grandad Wrick ever went in, was unlocked.

                                          India Louise couldn’t wait to tell Bill all about it.

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