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…to a Wedding.

12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 17th 2011

Last week I was confused by my gain on the scales and this week I am equally baffled by the result.  I have been good over the week and tracked my points accurately but my clothes feel tighter than they did last week which led me to think I had gained some more.
The scales said [...]

19 Comments CherryPie on Apr 14th 2011

9th April 1941:

The budget has almost knocked the Balkan campaign out of the news. It is the former and not the latter that I overhear people everywhere discussing. [1]

[1] The budget raised the basic rate of income tax to ten shillings in the pound (50%). Peter Davison

From the Orwell Diaries.

Comments Off CherryPie on Apr 9th 2011

7th April 1941:

Belgrade bombed yesterday, and the first official announcement this morning that there is a British army in Greece – 150,000 men, so they say. So the mystery of where the British army in Libya had gone to it at last cleared up, though this had been obvious enough when the [...]

12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 7th 2011

I was a little bit surprised by my weigh in this week, a gain of 3lb. I only had one bad day which was Mother’s day, the food options were out of my hands. But even the few extra treats during that meal can’t account for such a gain. I thought I [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 7th 2011

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. Heinlein

8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 3rd 2011

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The Mermaid

By Alfred Lord Tennyson
WHO would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?
II.
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb’d I would sing and say,
“Who is [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 2nd 2011

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