The Locksley School of Visual Arts at the University of Milton North

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Would you like a glass of Chateau Gizzy?

Well, dispassionately speaking, it is hilarious and gross, all of it.

When I first found I was like, No??!! you have got to be kidding, right?

Imagine you are a visiting alien, and on your home planet they reproduce like the amoeba. You'd be falling about cacking all the way back to your flying saucer.

Well, indeed. It's one reason we don't have a mirror on the ceiling.

Have I over-shared here?

But, meanwhile, I have been continuing my studies in the Faculty of Fine Art (Department of Sculpture). I found a dusty old manuscript on which was written:

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. Auguste Rodin

..And they're obsessed with it. they even show what are surely artificial examples on their electronic audio-visual divices and write about it constantly too. it's a wonder they find time to do anything else.

Gadzooks, Snork, I'll be glad to get home for a bit of decent binary fission porn, I can tell you

I wondered why I like that one Maud I think you DD and your friend are very perceptive!

Massive, I loved your rescue mission for Mrs LN , mrs, I hope the outlaw visit wasn't too stressful.

I doubt if Amoeba-man would aree though.
Eww, they are like a bunch of flabby sticks with odd little floppy bits..

agree, that is. One of the flabby sticks hit the wrong key

Perhaps it isn't religion which is the opium of the people, these days, then?

Well, Small, I have been keen for a while on getting an iPad (more than an iPhone, I think). And then my friend filled the screen with those (I suspect artificially enhanced) blue eyes and I wanted to rush home and let loose the SMFV! And they always say that granny knows best, don't they?

rattling in their saucers

Certainly seems so Maud. Isn't there a song called Lurve is the Drug

Cry havoc,and let slip the SMFV! I am wondering when and why my next attack will occur.

For anyone who might appreciate a tall dark handsome northern man in military uniform ....

I find it's easier to control the SMFV when it's a three figure sum at stake.

Come to bed eyes

Because obviously the rest of him isn't up to much at all...

Have just had a bollocking from H for daring to use my phone whilst his parents.

Gad, that lot were so cool it hurt! Loved the eye-patch.

What do you think of the Kindle? I think I'd rathet have one of those and an ordinary new laptop than an iPad.

Tell your H it was my fault, MrsLN, you needed to give me urgent help on a vital topic.

Because obviously the rest of him isn't up to much at all...

Mr Ferry has always been a source of fascination to me. The tuxedo! The floppy dark hair! The air of lounge lizard louchery! The way he croons ! I always used to mishear one line as silk stockings thrown aside as invitations. Oooh.

I really cannot get excited by the Kindle. I like the look and heft of a book and want to know that, if I drop it in the bath, the worst that will happen is that the pages will go crinkly. I read recently that the standard font on a Kindle means you are less likely to remember what you read on it (which may be a good thing if it's poorly-written fanfic, she said uncharitably). But perhaps a Kindle has something to offer anyone living overseas if it's not easy to buy English language books locally?

That is I suppose my main reason for lusting after a Kindle, Maud. Instant gratification for one thing. For a second, avoiding all the very high p&p charges Amazon sees fit to impose. For the last book I got, they charged me more for that than the book itself.

There are a couple of bookshops on the island that sell furrin books but apart from the problem of the termites, there isn't as much choice as I'd like. A preponderance of airport type books, alas.

I've downloaded a Kindle app onto my (Android) phone. It is handy if you end up somewhere with time to kill unexpectedly.

My friend bought her DH a Kindle for Xmas (at my suggestion as she was saying how all he ever asked for was books and they were running out of room for them). He is really chuffed with it, and having had a look at it I must admit it's a more tempting prospect than I'd have thought.

Can see your point about the bath factor though, especially as that's where I do most of my reading.

Perhaps we should tell them to bring out a waterproof version, like those submersible cameras or watches.

Yes, in your circumstances, Massive, I might buy a Kindle for that reason alone - but would there be copyright/licencing issues which would still restrict what you could get (am visualising Kindle as a sort of literary YT)?

You pay to download books, like you would to download music so can't see there'd be licensing or copyright issues. You can get newspapers and magazines too - would probably be ideal for you Massive

I was thinking it might be like iPlayer, where things aren't available outside the UK for licensing reasons, as Massive knows to her cost. But if Kindle's licences are global then obviously it's a non-issue.

I think you have to register your machine with either the UK or the US site and that brings some copyright issues into play. But if you download via PC rather than the 3G link, or what have you, you seem to be able to get round it. It's very complicated though and I am not as techno-savvy as I might be.

Yes, but you would learn, Massive. Think of what's at stake! The whole of literature at your fingertips!

The prospect is intoxicating!! They won't ship to the island though so will have to wait for kind friend to bring me one or my next trip to Blighty.

Don't ask me why. Copyright ishoos? Quien sabe?

If you get one and had any major teccie issues you can always let me know & I'll ask mates DH who is a professional techno-geek!