to wonder what IPOAT stands for?

[Hullygully]

Trying not to call anyone 'grasshopper'.
Are they happy to defer you? Then go with that. I mean, from the original idea to course application all happened very quickly didn't it, so now you will have time to think more about what it's really about.
Here chew this mushroom. oh and Om Shanti.

Still waiting to hear about deferral.

Yes it's all happened extremely quickly. If I didn't have the correspondence to prove it then I'd be thinking I'd had a dream. Nuts to it all. I shall get hideously drunk tonight and cry and stuff and wake up tomorrow calm and serene.

At the very least I've done a bit of soul searching which is always a good thing to do.

Well done Jins. Can we get out of this bloody cave now its freezing in here. Stomps off to find vin chaud.

Good show Jins

I quite like this cave. It brings out the primal in me.

(though I won't say no to some vin chaud)

Perhaps we could warm the cave up a little by going down the sweat-lodge route of decorating? I do believe that during the first week of March we are supposed to worship...

...Pan, yes Pan in his aspect as a great hairy beast. A sweat lodge and some grunting and chanting and pissing up the walls would be just perfect for that.

widow am laughing muchly here

AHaaaha. yep good idea. Out to hunt firewood then and some nice big stones to heat up. bring in the drums and off with the clouts.

Feel a bit awkward asking but Nigel has wrote from Uni. His course 'from demi god to deity' is not going so well.

Weelllllll, I was wondering if we could perhaps squeeze in a day or two to worship him? It would really jolly him along and count towards his finals evidently.

Any chance of penciling something into the almanac?

Oh, poor Nigel. We must do something for him.

Weeeeell,

If we were to dedicate, say, today and perhaps Shrove Tuesday to Nigel, we'd need to make up a day to Pan, because he gets really masculine if he doesn't get his days, and we'd have to make sure that Tuesday involved a sacrifice to Nigel consisting of bread, milk and leavening, or the wrath of the Great Pancake would be fearsome to behold. So perhaps instead of having that trip to Lourdes on the 15th Wednesday after Pentecost, we could barbecue some meat and hammer up some dry wall in honour of his Goatiness, that should even everything out. We can put the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes at the back of the cave, and try not to get wee on it, and then aim some prayers at her whenever we have a moment. She's pretty relaxed about that kind of thing.

Will that help?

Om Nigel in excelis.

Yes yes. We must have a Nigel festival of course, would there be something that we should do on that day, as part of the fesivities? Special food, masks perhaps, ritual dance? ceremony of some sort, to celebrate his electrical nature(have I remembered rightly). Rushes off to consult the itching or is that the I Ching, and the papyrus,

Oh ladies, you are wonderful

widow, I think your ideas and planning are wonderful and I can't thank you enough for having a little jig around with the dates and deities!

Oh mini, Nigel does so adore dancing, he takes after me what a splendid idea. A masked ball is in order!

Hully, see widow for details. She has nearly finished a wonderful 'at a glance' spreadsheet. We will never miss a day of worship (or wear the wrong ceremonial clothes again!)

Ay-yay-ya om ay-yay-ya

Everyone should don their ceremonial galoshes (safety first when the Van der Graaf is out, please), and begin the Nigelian Jig.

Whose turn is it to wear the copper pants?

widow - you're all techno-savvy, how doth yon kindle work?

Witchcraft.

(Is basically a lump of plastic, but the screen looks and reads just like a real paper page of a book. You buy e-books for it, at the same price you would pay for a lovely actual book. But you can get millions of books into a couple of ounces of plastic. This is my understanding of ot. I want one, despite myself.)

Yes. Am thinking makes sense for travels rather than lugging a case of books. Hmmm. Will have to get them for the dc too. Perhaps they would like them for an early xmas pressy - I'm sure they would. But just in case, I won't ask first.

Oh yes. Much better for reading anywhere other than bed, I imagine (although possibly wipe clean...?). Excellent for on the tube, where holding large tome with one hand whilst hanging on with other is tricky, and makes page turning difficult. My big bugbear is that the e-books should be cheaper, shorely?

Course, you could just get an iPad. New one out any day now. And they's shiny.

Still reeling at the copper pants. Picks self up off floor. I was thinking antlers, some white paint, -that would go well with the galoshes, spots on the body, or is that plague.
This could be a new fitness weightloss regime.

My turn for the pants!

My bro has a kindle, he reads constantly (more than I do these days ) he loves it.

I have to say I did not like it one bit. Give me an old fashioned book any day.

Widow - you are needed on Chickens' Mills and Boon thread with your back catlogue of deluxe bodice- rippery

I too am stuck with books. Still washing with a dolly tub over here,so no chance on words appearing out of thin air.

lol mini

You dare to suggest shunning to the Founder of JewLuBu, Umami?

In actual fact, I don't have this newfangled "internet" thing at my house. (I just use it at work or the library, and I haven't been at work for the last few days due to DS' poo explosions, due to his being on antibiotics for the past month and a half, due to the parents who let their carrier monkeys little darlings attend preschool with raging fevers and strep.) I expect to have it soon, though...now that DS is nearly 4 he can fend for himself, as I'm sure I'll neglect him shamelessly to potter about on mumsnet.