tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20229171472271769192024-02-07T04:48:20.139-08:00Kia's StuffKiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.comBlogger259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-50695992896296617812018-04-03T17:46:00.004-07:002018-06-23T07:30:20.776-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
PCOLA'S LIST OF USTREAM <span style="color: red;">AND YOU TUBE</span> ARTISTS<br />
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ANGE’S PLACE - ANGE - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/52Dt55sUW3R">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/52Dt55sUW3R</a> <span style="color: orange;">Friday 6:30 pm Eastern</span> On Youtube: Angela Tallent <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwe3rJJiR8ai0HSS8h__TPQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwe3rJJiR8ai0HSS8h__TPQ</a> </span><span style="color: lime;">Twitter: @Ginjela</span></div>
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(THE) ARTISTIC BIKER - BLADE - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-artistic-biker">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-artistic-biker</a> - <span style="color: red;"> </span>On Youtube: The Artistic Biker <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheArtisticBiker/featured">https://www.youtube.com/user/TheArtisticBiker/featured</a><br />
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BARB OWEN on Youtube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/BarbOwenDesigns/live">https://www.youtube.com/user/BarbOwenDesigns/live</a> First Friday of the month 2p.m. eastern.<br />
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BUNNYDESIGNS - HEATHER <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/heatherac">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/heatherac</a> <span style="color: red;">Thurs 3 am - 3 pm Eastern, impromptu Sat or Sun
</span>On Youtube: BunnyDesigns <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt2q_3CT-bDDnFz2hn_w1Dg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt2q_3CT-bDDnFz2hn_w1Dg</a></div>
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CASS1415 - Kathy - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/creating-in-my-art-journal">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/creating-in-my-art-journal</a>
On Youtube: Kathy Arbour <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/stainedeffects">https://www.youtube.com/user/stainedeffects</a> </div>
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COLOURING BOOK CLUB - HEATHER </div>
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CRACKED MINIS - JENNIFER - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/AtNuLC2eXvW">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/AtNuLC2eXvW</a> </div>
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CRAFTING AIMEE - AIMEE -<a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/HcFEeMrfQtV">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/HcFEeMrfQtV</a> </div>
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CREATE WITH ELLA - ELLA -<a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/create-with-ella">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/create-with-ella</a>
On Youtube: Create with Ella <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbkSnk96WLai82DvQhw80BQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbkSnk96WLai82DvQhw80BQ</a></div>
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DEBBY EPPS - DEBBY - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/debbyepps">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/debbyepps</a> <span style="color: red;">Sat 7 pm Eastern</span>
On Youtube: Debby Epps <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUn6Zi5obbcaOKjNEA_FnSQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUn6Zi5obbcaOKjNEA_FnSQ</a> <span style="color: lime;">Twitter: @epps_debby</span></div>
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DISTRACTED BY PRETTY THINGS - GENIE - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/5SkzeRB4dgh">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/5SkzeRB4dgh</a><br />
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DOROTHY GIBBS<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs2_Ue-trVAAW1dR_m1sEWg" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs2_Ue-trVAAW1dR_m1sEWg</a></div>
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(THE) FRUGAL ECLECTIC - JOYCEE <a href="https://www.blogger.com/-http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-frugal-eclectic">-</a> <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-frugal-eclectic">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-frugal-eclectic</a> <span style="color: red;">Wed 1 pm Eastern</span>
On Youtube: Able2Rejoyce <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgrmZQo12OM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgrmZQo12OM</a> </div>
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HEATHER MACCA - HEATHER - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sUCVNTzukjy">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sUCVNTzukjy</a>
On Youtube: Heather Macca <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZyzvHyYG93XiDkr4OgSOA/featured">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZyzvHyYG93XiDkr4OgSOA/featured</a></div>
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INKWELL - DEDE - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/inkwell">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/inkwell</a>. <span style="color: red;">Mon & Wed 9 am Eastern, Impromptu streams Fri 9 am Eastern.</span>On Youtube: Dede Willingham <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw0gHer3DFqwAEStta_2xyg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw0gHer3DFqwAEStta_2xyg</a> <span style="color: lime;">Twitter: @Inkiwell</span><br />
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INKY OBSESSIONS MIXED MEDIA ART FUN - PATTI - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/inkyobsessions-mixed-media-art-fun">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/inkyobsessions-mixed-media-art-fun</a><br />
On Youtube: Patti Tolley Parrish <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiqWESzbM3NTuOMgcT7zWAg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiqWESzbM3NTuOMgcT7zWAg</a> <span style="color: lime;">Twitter: @plynn411</span><br />
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ISLE OF MAN - FIONA - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fiona-67">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fiona-67</a><br />
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JEN READING WITH PUGS - JEN - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/b2MDGh82Wrb">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/b2MDGh82Wrb</a>
On Youtube: Reading with Pugs <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Pebbles730">https://www.youtube.com/user/Pebbles730</a><br />
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KBERG59 - KATHY - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kberg59">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kberg59</a> On Youtube: Kathy Berg <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5aTfIxZHgskHdSp9VHubfg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5aTfIxZHgskHdSp9VHubfg</a> <span style="color: lime;">Twitter: @kberg59</span><br />
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LAUREL FROM NJ - LAUREL - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/laurelfromnj">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/laurelfromnj</a><br />
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LIA’S ARTWORK - LIA - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/FdSLhyVuAj9">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/FdSLhyVuAj9</a><br />
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LINA’S WHIMSICAL WORLD - GALINA - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/BC8ggxL7Sgn">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/BC8ggxL7Sgn</a> YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nbCS2WGeRY&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nbCS2WGeRY&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
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(THE) MAGICKAL TOUCH - CAROL - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/NcYLt6F8AQY">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/NcYLt6F8AQY</a>
On Youtube: My Arty Moments in the The Magickal Touch Studio TMT <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFoxi0gF3XbbyJfglh3unbQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFoxi0gF3XbbyJfglh3unbQ</a><br />
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MARIE SCHWAB <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/coachschwab53">https://www.youtube.com/user/coachschwab53</a><br />
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MISS ALLIE K - ALLIE - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Gfu5GqevSZ6">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Gfu5GqevSZ6</a><br />
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MISSLINUX2010 - LINA <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fUMCWL8T972">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fUMCWL8T972</a> Youtube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAkWP71k_TcrdT3KLiV-NjA">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAkWP71k_TcrdT3KLiV-NjA</a><br />
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MIXED MEDIA ART JOURNALING W/JOURNAL ARTISTA - PAULA - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/journalartista">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/journalartista</a>
On Youtube: JournalArtista <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/JournalArtista">https://www.youtube.com/user/JournalArtista</a><br />
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MONKEY ISLAND MADNESS - JANET - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/h6AJ9qMfdgA">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/h6AJ9qMfdgA</a> <span style="color: red;">Mon 1:00 pm Eastern & impromtu streams</span>
On Youtube: Janet M. Young <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC56b0_ZxN0oT6yYUKIM5Qrw">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC56b0_ZxN0oT6yYUKIM5Qrw</a> <span style="color: lime;">Twitter: @JMYHMo</span><br />
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(The) MUSICAL SCRAPPER - JEAN - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/musicscrp">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/musicscrp</a><span style="color: red;"> Mon 4:00 & Thur 1:00 pm Eastern</span><br />
On Youtube: TheMusicalScrapper <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvOWvp6leM-12yMATQqRcqA">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvOWvp6leM-12yMATQqRcqA</a><br />
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PLAYING WITH PAPER BY MELVINA - MELROSE - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/BHbAYj2DTwt">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/BHbAYj2DTwt</a><br />
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QUEEN PAM’S ADVENTURES IN CREATIVITY - PAM - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/queenpam-s-adventures-in-creativity">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/queenpam-s-adventures-in-creativity</a>
On Youtube: Elon QP <a href="https://www.youtube.com/ElonQP">https://www.youtube.com/ElonQP</a><br />
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SCRAP N SHARE - OZEGRAN JEN - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/scrap-n-share">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/scrap-n-share</a>
On Youtube: ozegran <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZK_an0uFW4RngsX1BUd1MQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZK_an0uFW4RngsX1BUd1MQ</a><br />
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(THE) SCRAPCHIC - COLEEN -<a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/thescrapchic">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/thescrapchic</a><br />
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SCRAPS TO BEAUTY - ZANDRA - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/zandra17">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/zandra17</a> <span style="color: red;">Wed & Sun 7:30 p.m. Eastern</span>
On Youtube: scrapstobeauty by zandra <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChAvy4eoJC4qp_o8o15J_zw">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChAvy4eoJC4qp_o8o15J_zw</a> <span style="color: lime;">Twitter: @ZandraCudney</span><br />
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SHAWNA MEERUWSEN <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QOB1zeR1J7i_F3EsmdgRg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QOB1zeR1J7i_F3EsmdgRg</a><br />
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TIME WARP ART - BREN - <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/time-warp-art">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/time-warp-art</a>
On Youtube: brenTangle <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDzwGSZgI5Tya3jZw16z2mg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDzwGSZgI5Tya3jZw16z2mg</a> <span style="color: #274e13;">Twitter: @ElegantTangle</span></div>
Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-49561359932844726612017-09-30T23:03:00.000-07:002017-09-30T23:03:06.047-07:00Some Amigurumi I Have Made<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My latest passion is crocheting amigurumi. I'm even working on my own patterns. Here are some ami's I have made.</span><br />
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-12348830390871766052017-01-12T14:03:00.001-08:002017-01-14T06:48:41.228-08:00Every Inchie Monday: Hamster<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello Folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well I find that at the moment, post surgery, I don't have the energy to make inchies. I hope you don't mind if I </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">drop by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">occasionally and contribute when I can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I could not resist Hamster because when I was growing up there was a T V show on Canadian television (CBC) called <i>Tales of the Riverbank</i> all about Hammy Hamster and his friends, including GP the Guinea Pig, <span style="background-color: white;">Martha Mouse, the Wise Old Frog, Turtle and Granny Rabbit.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> These creatures were all played by real animals with their voices dubbed in by humans. Here is Hammy in his car.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I may only duck in once and a while. And I may not be able to comment on all of your offerings, but I am looking at them and enjoying them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(Here's a slightly larger version of Hammy s you can actually see the windshield of the white convertible with Hammy driving. (I've been having trouble uploading the picture to the EIM site so it may have uploaded the larger version - sorry.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you Trillion for some great inchie making years - I joined mid 2014 and enjoyed every inch of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Feeling better every day after a long stay in the hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't have the energy to search for my Hitch Hiker's Guide, so perhaps someone else can provide te context I also don't seem to have a quilled inchie saved, so no quilling this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm also a little late with my letter to Santa:</span><br />
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-42557748816817432692016-12-24T17:34:00.002-08:002016-12-24T17:34:22.699-08:00Every Inchie Monday: Ugly<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello Folks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well my surgery went well, but getting all my bodily functions working turned into a bit more of a challenge. I was finally released from hospital after 17 days. But I'm home now, in time for Christmas, and improving every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I decided to go with the ugly duckling for this week's word.</span><br />
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-31842620137492093462016-12-04T16:04:00.000-08:002016-12-04T22:23:12.719-08:00Every Inchie Monday: 42<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well again this one is too famous to bother finding it in the book (and I admit my book has gone walkabout again). After countless years of trying to find the answer tot he question "what is Life, the Universe and Everything" the answer comes back as "42". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think it was about now that I began to realize that there was some esoteric connection between the word prompts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So my one and only inchie this week reflects something that happens in the next book - <i>The Restaurant at the end of the Universe</i> - where the question is redefined as "what is 6 x 9?" No my math is not bad.</span><br />
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-50910611375446161322016-11-28T20:08:00.000-08:002016-11-27T20:09:12.759-08:00Every Inchie Monday: question<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello folks - thanks for dropping by,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm not even going to bother finding the exact passage where the word question comes up because the question in<i> The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy </i>is so famous: What is Life, the Universe and Everything?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now you must give me a little bit of slack here for doing the obvious. I thought I was being so clever because I made these inchies before I realized all the words were from The Hitchhiker's Guide:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I think I will start working on the animals soon but I don't think I'm going to quill them this time. I've gotten away from quilling and am into crocheting amigurumi right now. And I can't imagine trying to quill one inch animals.</span></div>
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-87232806207912154202016-11-21T10:19:00.002-08:002016-11-21T14:21:59.093-08:00Every Inchie Monday: "Lighting"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello Folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well once again I can't find my<i> Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i> (time to do some cleaning). However, I probably would not have found the correct word because I misread the prompt for this week as "lightning" not "lighting" - lol. So rather than re-do my inchies, I decided that lightning lights up the sky so would do for "lighting". Here goes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My first lighting is lightning hitting the CN tower in Toronto. According to Google. "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The 553.33-metre [1815 feet] freestanding structure gets hit on average </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">75 times a year." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> So much for "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place".</span></span><br />
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Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-47893960321173010262016-11-14T11:09:00.000-08:002016-11-14T11:09:22.495-08:00Every Inchie Monday: wormhole<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello Folks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wonder if wormholes exist? Sometimes the lines between science fiction and science get a little blurry. If they do, they probably aren't interstellar travel hubs like most SF seems to think!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chapter 19 of HHGG opens with the statement that "careless talk costs lives....at the very moment that Arthur said 'I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle,' a freak <b>wormhole </b>opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant Galaxy" where a war is about to start. Arthur's words pop up across a negotiating table but it seems in their language it is </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That was not easy to condense! but it's one of my favourite images in the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thinking literally, here is a worm in a hole. It probably should be a red hole so as to be in an apple, but somehow it ended up blue.</span></div>
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-3424932534043296162016-11-07T13:14:00.000-08:002016-11-08T12:41:53.880-08:00Every Inchie Monday: Cloud<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well folks, I think this week I have to admit defeat. I can't find cloud in the part of the part of the book we are at. Maybe I missed it or maybe it's earlier in the book, but there comes a point where the search is no longer fun, so I stopped looking.</span><br />
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Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-1877437216687949702016-10-31T21:47:00.000-07:002016-10-30T21:48:09.591-07:00Every Inchie Monday:Coastline<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello Folks -- Happy Halloween!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did you know that Canada has the world's longest coastline? -- </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;">265,523 km</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, or 164,988.3 miles </span><span style="color: #222222;">[conversion by Google]. The figure varies a little according to which source you use, but it is still more than twice (not far from three times) that of Indonesia which comes second. It's all those little islands in the Arctic, I suppose, and being the second largest country in the world. When we talk about the vastness of this land we say from coast to coast to coast (because we have three oceans).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now what to quill for coastline Best I could come up with is a lighthouse to guard all those many miles and the ships that pass by. I even included a little gem for the light.</span><br />
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-92013320658024117802016-10-24T22:37:00.000-07:002016-10-23T22:55:44.996-07:00Every Inchie Monday: Pirates<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arggh Mateys, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pirates you say, in <i>TheHitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy</i>? You bet, but space pirates, of course!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ford and Zaphod are talking about their childhood on Betelgeuse, and Arcturan megafreighters. Apparently "The Betelguese trading scouts used to find the markets and the Arcturans would supply them. There was a lot of trouble with space pirates before they were wiped out in the Dordellis wars..." [chapter 29]. Nice to know space is safe from pirates now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On to the inchies. My first offering uses one point perspective which I used to love to teach to students. Three little rules and instant success. It was always so satisfying to see their faces when they realized they could actually do something that at first thought seems difficult. We also used to let the students out of the classroom to draw the hallways which the students always loved - no way to supervise them all at the same time -- freedom!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have a great week expanding your horizons.</span>Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-53804051457179842782016-10-10T08:22:00.001-07:002016-10-10T08:22:49.961-07:00Every Inchie Monday: direction<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello Folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well I found one example of direction near the end of the book. It may not be the one Trillian intended because direction is a fairly common word - but here goes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"...Zaphod was standing and scanning the horizon, because that was how far the gold ground stretched in every direction. perfectly smooth and solid. It gleamed like ... it's impossible to say what it gleamed like because nothing in the Universe gleams in quite the same way a planet made of solid gold does."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some of these words are quite difficult to depict! Obviously I was too lazy to draw a map. Instead I chose a picture of one of those GPS finders you put in your car. I really need one of these because I've always said I can get lost in my backyard.</span><br />
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-34564532690741574082016-10-03T21:45:00.000-07:002016-10-02T21:45:46.986-07:00Every Inchie Monday: dinosaur<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello Folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arthur is in conversation with Slartibartfast about the construction of the new Earth. The latter notes, "It's only half completed ... we haven't even finished burying the artificial dinosaur skeletons in the crust yet.... Arthur declines a trip to visit this new Earth saying, "It wouldn't be quite the same."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My -- and I'm sure everyone's -- favourite dinosaur is Dino from The Flintstones. Isn't he cute?</span></div>
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-37031358448849138672016-10-02T21:45:00.000-07:002016-10-02T21:46:34.358-07:00Every Inchie Monday: dinosaur<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello Folks,</span><br />
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-8001911534046246702016-09-26T12:26:00.002-07:002016-09-26T12:26:46.907-07:00Every Inchie Monday: Brief case<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello fellow space travelers,</span><br />
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-83683146531649282862016-09-20T06:15:00.003-07:002016-09-20T06:17:28.006-07:00Every Inchie Monday: Infiinity<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello Folks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well according to Douglas Adams "Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity -- distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless." [chapter 24]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another word not easy to draw. But the first thing that came to my mind was Buzz Lightyear and his cry of 'To Infinity and Beyond!'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found two references to sky (this week's word for <a href="http://everyinchiemonday2012.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Every Inchie Monday</a>) in this part of the book<i> Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.</i> Believe me - it was not easy. The first is to the song Eddie sings - "When you walk through the storm, hold your head up high....At the end of the storm is a golden sky" and the sweet silver song of the Lark (if memory serves). This is the same song the word rain came from. [chapter 17]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A little bit farther back in the book [chapter 16], The Heart of Gold is descending towards Magarathea where "the suns now stood high in the black sky, the pyrotechnics of dawn were over, and the surface of the planet appeared bleak and forbidding...."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I was growing up, my father had me totally convinced that there was another colour called sky-blue-pink. It was a sort of family joke and is very descriptive of the sky at sunrise or sunset:</span><br />
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-67429037564143064212016-09-05T22:20:00.000-07:002016-09-04T22:21:22.167-07:00Every Inchie Monday: Mice<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi Folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well everyone who's read <i>The</i> <i>Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy</i> remembers the white mice. Trillian keeps them in a cage on the Heart of Gold and they escape on Magrathea. It turns out that the mice are </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings,"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> not "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">little white furry things with the cheese fixation and women standing on chairs screaming in early sixties sit coms," as Arthur thinks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> All this time it was the mice who had been running the experiments and who</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> had commissioned the Magratheans to create the Earth in the first place. The Earth was destroyed by The Vogons 5 minutes before the experiment would have come to fruition, which necessitates the creation of a new Earth. [chapter 24]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now insects of any kind, on the other hand, do have me screaming hysterically (well maybe more cringing than screaming) - I simply cannot abide bugs, or anything creepy-crawly - or slimy! Yup, definitely phobic. Maybe I should be more sympathetic towards the mouse-phobic. </span></div>
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-72590138792577888122016-08-29T19:55:00.001-07:002016-08-30T14:57:55.094-07:00Every Inchie Monday: Petunia<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can't currently find my HHGG so I'm going to have to wing it this week. I do know the Petunia, this week's word at <a href="http://everyinchiemonday2012.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Every Inchie Monday</a>, is like the whale - one of the things the missiles morphed into when the improbability drive was turned on. There is no long conversation from the Petunia - it just says something like, 'Oh no, not again'. The narrator thinks this might have been something quite profound if they could figure out what it meant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now I can draw flowers but chose to go off centre</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">again this week. Did you know Porky Pig has a girlfri</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">end? Yes, you guessed it, her name is Petunia Pig.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[Edit - today is not a holiday and Labour day is next weekend] On to my cable story - when my cable TV went gaga - the picture was pixilating - the company sent someone out to fix it. But as is always the case, when the tech arrived, it wasn't pixilating. He stood around and looked at it and as he had already checked signal strength and some other things, he couldn't do anything. Ten minutes after he left, it started pixilating again! So I called and he came back and this time he could find what was wrong and fix it. Nice guy to be so patient. I felt like a total idiot.</span></div>
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-53428085907403249872016-08-22T22:30:00.000-07:002016-08-21T22:31:08.739-07:00Every Inchie Monday: Dolphin<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hello Folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Dolphins (this week's word for <a href="http://everyinchiemonday2012.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Ever Inchie Monday</a>) have an entire chapter [23] devoted to the in <i>The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>! It turns out they are more intelligent than people and had known about the upcoming destruction of the earth in time to leave before it happened. They are famous for their parting words to the people of the earth which were misinterpreted as "a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner.' What they actually</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">meant was that now famous phrase, and title of the fourth</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">book of the Hitch-hikers trilogy, "</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">So long and thank you for all the fish.</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I didn't go very far afield this week in finding things to depict for my inchies. My first is simply a dolphin (wish I'd thought to put a hoop in the picture and have it singing):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fjords, this weeks word for <a href="http://everyinchiemonday2012.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Every Inchie Monday</a>, are one of the things in <u>HHGG</u> that for some reason has always stuck in my brain. Maybe because it is associated with Slartibartfast. He's the old man who was responsible for designing part of the earth: as he says "used to have endless fun doing the little bits in fjords." [chapter 22]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had to do quite a bit of research for fjords. Certainly I know what they are but unlike Slartibartfast, I'm not very good at creating them. So I dug farther and discoverd there is a horse called the fjord horse. This is "<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">a relatively small but very strong </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_breed" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Horse breed"><span style="color: black;">horse breed</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> from the mountainous regions of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Norway" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Western Norway"><span style="color: black;">western Norway</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">.[Wikipedia]. Furthermore they are always dun in colour, so that is what I have drawn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So if I couldn't draw a fjord I certainly couldn't quill one! Again Google to the rescue. This time I came upon a company which makes boats called, of course, Fjord boats. So here is a little boat. I suppose you might find one in a fjord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sorry if I didn't comment on your inchie last week. Blame the Olympics! Hope you are all watching the Olympics and enjoying them as much as I am. Canada doesn't win a huge number of medals, so we warmly celebrate every one of the winners, and all of the competitors too.</span></div>
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<br />Kiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12117701411454242866noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022917147227176919.post-65879375529620078702016-08-08T11:16:00.001-07:002016-08-08T11:16:44.161-07:00Every Inchie Monday: Whale<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi Folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well in contrast to the last two words, whale is an easy one in <u>HHGG</u>. It is one of the things the missiles turn into when the gang turn on the improbability drive. Unfortunately the whale is created exactly where the missile was in the atmosphere and we get to hear its thoughts as it plummets to the ground. They run through a beginning awareness of "who am I" to naming things like its head and the wind. It is very excited about its existence:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name--ground!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I wonder if it will be friends with me?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence." [Chapter 18]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just a tad gruesome. Sometimes Adams has a very dark sense of humour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My first offering is about what is often created from whales. Ambergris is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">'secreted from the intestines of a sperm whale and is found floating</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> in tropical seas and used in perfume manufacture' [google]. Funny that something so beautiful comes from something just a little bit gross. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So here is my favourite perfume -- Channel No. 19. It can be difficult to find because it us not as popular as Channel No. 5. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And my quilled whale:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Enjoy your week and watch out for falling whales.</span></div>
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