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Santillana is one of my favourite places too, I have particularly happy memories of a VERY LONG breakfast in the parador with that glass-covered courtyard (we stayed at the smaller hotel opposite - paradors have got seriously expensive since the 70s)

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I don't know why, but I keep typing 'google' where one is meant to type, 'colour;' I suspect indoctrination.

Aw; he's hijacking your birthday? Birthdays are supposed be sacred ground; it should be about YOU. Still, you have my best wishes and hopes for a wonderful day and year. What was your best Christmas?

I love it there, and I had breakfast in the parador too! I decided that this morning, I would treat myself. Of course, people rushed me (we had to get to Bilbao) but I have fond memories of the whole thing. The paradores are very expensive; I stayed up in the Camping on the top of the hill. For how long did you stay in Santillana, Clary?

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What are the 'Christmas revels?'

A Christmas show with a twist...every year is different, but all involve audience participation, singing and dancing. Puget Sound Revels

£40 to walk down a street??? Yikes! I've never heard of such a thing.

The Comedy Underground in Seattle brings only NPR (National Public Radio) comedians in --- A guy named Bill Radke was the headliner. The two opening acts were funnier. Bill Radke was OK but too intellectual and couldn't contain the crowd which had become... in a word, drunk.

Santillana sounds wonderful, I love old small towns. They make more sense to me. I've never stayed at a parador either, but I've been to a few for breakfast, lunch and the odd coffee.

You should write a story about your Spanish teacher... What a life! I'm not sure I'd want to live it, but I'd want to hear about it!

Clary -- I'll be 53, but I don't look a day over 47 and 3/4. Very Happy

I'm sorry that your estranged husband is hijacking your birthday. Perhaps he thinks he is giving himself back to you as a present? I hope that the celebration will be more fun that you think. Maybe he is sincerely sorry and comes bearing large & expensive gifts. Very large, very expensive... and he is very contrite, but not so sadsack that you feel sorry for him. Argggggggggh.

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Piffka: Yes, well, contrite would be good!
I think he may bear loads of gifts but you are right, he thinks of himself as the best present under the sun. Les hommes!

I shall be 57 but I don't look a day over 48 5/8. I only looked 36 before he gave me this stress.

A friend has offered me her house nr Barcelona for a couple of weeks - tempting.

Merry Birthday anyway!

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Can someone do the honors for me ? Libra ??

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Libra - always trying to charm the bloody birds off the trees, and with a roving eye, Mr Libra is anybody's if they flatter him enough.
Sharp legal mind, and desire for intellectual balance, but often an emotional roller-coaster.

Get your reading at Free Will Astrology!

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Clary -- and a Very Merry Birthday to you!! (Totally envious about the house in Barcelona...)

from Astrocenter.com straight to one of my favorite Librans:

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A large weight should get lifted off your shoulders today, dear Libra. The air has started to clear, and the winds of communication and exploration have started blowing again. Listen closely to the buzz in the air. You can learn a great deal by tuning into other people's fantasies. Make sure you keep an open mind and an open heart. Join with others and discuss your latest achievements. You will all have something important to learn.

Dang, G, that sounds good for the job difficulties you've experienced.

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The revels sound good... were it not for my inability to dance anything apart from traditional dances, I might try to start something like that over here.

Yep, £40 to walk down Broad Steet. It was £50 or so to walk down there on Millenium night (it's the street where ALL the venues are,) but they benevolently Rolling Eyes

reduced costs over the last few years. Out of the people with whom I was walking today, only one intends to go to Broad Street; I'm going up to Edinburgh with someone for Hogmanay, the others are having house parties.

Agh, I know the kind of guy about whom you talk... a few years ago, Tony Law (brilliant) and some other guy (headliner) were there. Tony Law was his usual natural-seeming self (have you heard of him? He's a Canadian guy. I'm going to see him (again- he must consider me a stalker) on the 10th Jan in Oxford), but the headliner made unfortunate jokes about Iran. There is a time and a place for wordplay with the word 'Ayatollah,' and then wasn't it.

Me too... here's a few pictures by some other person. I should post mine, when I have my site up and running (I was using 50megs, and my site just mysteriously deleted. No-one ever reinstated it.) Santillana pictures. Sometimes, small towns can be miserable, but this sure isn't a miserable small town. Sartre even called it the prettiest town in Spain.

I will! I'll post it in the Original Writing forum. Considering my perfectionism, it will be on there before 2004. It is an amazing life. I still call her sometimes, even though calling to Mexico from England isn't the best idea money-wise.

Wow, Clary; you should go for the free trip to Barcelona! Do you have any interests that might conflict against this though?

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Ooooooooooh. Edinburgh. What exactly is Hogmanay? I'd like to spend Christmas in Scotland, probably on the west coast though.

The photos of Santillana look very nice but I was surprised that it is so different from the white villages in Andalucia.

(I'll look forward to the story of the Spanish teacher... whenever it comes out!)

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Clary wrote:

Thanks, MsO
Say hi to Albert Park for me!

What's your association with Albert Park, Clary? Do tell!

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Clary wrote:

Well Olga, since I am having to make decisions concerning whether or not to stay married - this is really appropriate!
SAGITTARIUS for the week starting 11th Dec
I saw the Acura commercial on TV tonight. The car was driving through a remote high desert. Through the magic of computer graphics, it seemed to be creating the road as it moved, laying down paved blacktop where before there was only dirt. I thought of you immediately, Sagittarius. You're in a comparable situation, right? There's no path where you're going, so you'll have to make it for yourself as you proceed.

That's a beaut!

Oh, Clary, how difficult for you! Good luck!

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Piffka

The 17th of December! That's tomorrow, just over 3 hours away, Oz time.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Very Happy

(pst .... Make sure you send your birthday horoscope!)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CLARY, TOO!
Very Happy

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Yeah; I have friends studying up in Edinburgh U, and they give me somewhere to crash. Hogmanay's basically the name of New Year's Eve in Scotland (especially Edinburgh) and the name of the best New Year's Party in the country... there's lots of singing and dancing; most people come in kilts, even if they usually would not; there's traditional music, comedy, everything... and unlike most parties, it doesn't die down after 3 am; some people carry on having fun until the 3rd January. Edinburgh (and Scotland itself) is a wonderful place in which to spend the New Year. Ooh the West Coast; that would be a dream. I can imagine some old house on a moor with Regency red walls and swaying trees...

That's the wonderful thing about Spain; the variation. If you go out Casa Güela way, there are lots of Andalucían style houses, but they're mostly new, for the incoming. My friend says that they're mostly for Madrileños and French people looking for holiday homes.

I'll get onto writing that story about my old Spanish teacher-- I could submit that as the second story in this Storytelling competition, if I'm not completely butchered in the first round Very Happy

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I'm off to go shopping now Very Happy

In case I don't get back to you two sooner, have wonderful birthdays! I hope that everything goes your ways.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH WELL WISHERS, IN PARTICULAR MS OLGA! So I'm already 57 in Oz, yayyyay. The great thing for me is that my 2 younger sons are back, they are as good as a tonic!

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Olga, just seen the posts on the previous page. Albert Park, yes, I was walking a big friendly dog there on many an occasion this May. Favourite niece lives nearby and is getting married in 3 mths, so was contemplating coming over again. Thinking of a house swap - know anyone in the Melbourne area who wants a pretty house in beautiful Totnes for a month?

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Hey, thanks for the birthday wishes!

Here's the horoscope for the 16th:

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Spare no expense in your day, PIFFKA (& Clary!), both emotionally and monetarily. Whatever you put into this day will come back to you tenfold. Feel free to indulge and delight in your fun loving nature. This day speaks of freedom from restraint of all kinds. Break the chains and explore new worlds - in your mind and in your physical surroundings. Don't turn away when the adventure bus comes around to pick you up.

Now who wouldn't want to get on that "adventure bus" with us???

Clary -- Good luck with your decision! If you're like me, you'll be quick to make it. I guess you have to decide if this is the adventure bus or not.

Drom -- Is this the kind of Western Highland house you were thinking of? These are the new house and the old ruins on the land where Mr.P's family came from. There is an old folktale about the Witch of Leanachan and his Great-Grandpa. (You don't happen to read Gaelic, do you?)

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Clary -- Here's something I found. I can't remember where I got it, but thought you'd like it. Try to do one of these things on your birthday!

Things for Sagittarians to do:
Go barefoot on the beach and skip with the waves.
Teach puppies how to howl at the moon by singing the blues.
Have a contest to find the funniest looking clouds.
Make up new words and use them on serious Capricorns.
Collect strange things on the street and mail them away.
Dance with horses.
Play scrabble, give extra points for bad words.
Don't even consider talking about world news.
Read poetry for two voices together.
Sing songs using funny voices and accents.

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Piffka wrote:

Drom -- Is this the kind of Western Highland house you were thinking of? These are the new house and the old ruins on the land where Mr.P's family came from. There is an old folktale about the Witch of Leanachan and his Great-Grandpa. (You don't happen to read Gaelic, do you?)

Yes, that's exactly the kind of thing about which I was thinking! It looks wonderful; does Mr. P's family still own it? As for Gaelic, well when much younger, my Grandmother and cousin Conor took me to the Aran Islands every year, and I soon spoke Gaelic as fluently as English. Unfortunately, there was a death and a bust-up over inheritance, and I never went there again, so my Gaelic waned. However, I've got' it back up to the stage of being able to read it (rather than speak it, which I will work upon when I go up to Newcastle/down to Oxford), so yes. It's an amazing language; so different from everything else. The folk tale sounds interesting.

You bona fide Sags have all the fun! I would do everything on that list, apart from dancing with horses... well, I did something incredibly Sag-like today, in blowing £29.96 capriciously on books. Still, I don't regret going over budget!

'On the Road,' Jack Keroac
'Dirty Havana trilogy,' Gutiérrez
'The Unconsoled,' Ishiguro
'Norwegian wood,' Murakami.

£30 ($42-3?) could buy only four books...

[quote]What you see now in someone else could also be within yourself. Old habits or past programming may subtly be running your life. Memories or feelings that were suppressed might come to light now. You might meet someone who helps you let go of a painful memory. Now you could be more self-less or compassionate with those who are not like you. Any romance begun now would be unusually intense or have a powerful effect on you. You might see that your real needs are not what you thought you needed[/quote]

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Hey Piffka, your list of Saggy things to do could havebeen MADE for me, I love it!!! Copying it as I write to my Saggy son who is getting flu and being overworked poor lad.

Husband nice today, but tomorrow, who knows? I think this decision is too hard, I usually decide quickly but this time my Libra moon is trying hard to find a balance...

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