December the seventh.

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• 1. At 10:14am on 07 Dec 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  Lovely photo, GM, though it looks about as cold as it was last night when SO and I missed the last train from London and were wandering around the freezing streets .....
  
  Long story as to how we managed to get home, but suffice it to say that we finally hit the hay at 2.30 a.m. I anticipate a suitably relaxed day ahead while we recover.

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• 2. At 10:29am on 07 Dec 2008, Gillianian wrote:

  Beautiful pic, GMx ;o)
  It's a beautiful day here - thick frost, clear blue sky and glorious sunshine.
  (I hope my window cleaner comes soon!)

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• 3. At 10:37am on 07 Dec 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  Your window cleaner works on a Sunday, Gill? There's dedication ;o)

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• 4. At 11:13am on 07 Dec 2008, jonnie wrote:

  Wow, I bet that looked even more stunning in real life GM.
  
  It reminds me a little of Highcliffe castle in Dorset.
  
  http://tinyurl.com/5hjwdy

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• 5. At 3:17pm on 07 Dec 2008, ValeryP wrote:

  Another lovely photo. I'm thinking, belatedly, that my offering was a tad on the silly side...
  
  Should I send another or are you snowed up with them?

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• 6. At 4:08pm on 07 Dec 2008, annasee wrote:

  GM - let's just go over the score of how many photos of yours have been used lately, shall we? That Autumn one, me in my apron, and now this. What are you bribing The Boss with - bottles of fizzy wine? ;-)
  
  I remember Waddesdon Manor from when we used to do summer concerts on the lawn. It was beautiful. Glorious gardens too.
  
  Gillian - I know what you mean about the windows. That low-lying winter sun is cruelly revealing isn't it? Ours are so filthy they are almost opaque. We got next-door's to sack the window cleaner for us, so now we have no-one to blame but ourselves!

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• 7. At 4:54pm on 07 Dec 2008, jonnie wrote:

  Re; Anna
  
  "jealous" !
  
  Think of Sebastian and Michael in the PM Little Britain sketch

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• 8. At 5:43pm on 07 Dec 2008, Piper wrote:

  Interesting. December 07 and "we" still don't know.
  
  The article's conclusion is possibly correct.
  
  But then, if the Birth Certificate's worded a certain way, so are are the comments - especially that from Pheffler
  
  http://www.theweek.com/article/index/91389/3/Obamas_birth_certificate
  
  

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• 9. At 6:58pm on 07 Dec 2008, U13717586 wrote:

  7th and 6th Dec
  
  So, for a few brief weeks these Christian buildings, domestic and public, are allowed a spire shape or two, the trees, in front of them to offset the dome and the rectangular facades.
  
  But the world's great mosques have minarets offsetting the exquisite domes all the year round. It was an invention of Sinan's, from whom Palladio and correspondingly Wren, learnt so much.
  
  Even dull photos like these, of a design idea carried out badly, suggest the potential of the patterning.
  
  Check the Blue Mosque for an exquisite rendition of the notion.
  

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• 10. At 10:28pm on 07 Dec 2008, jonnie wrote:

  PML: You must have liked the 'bright' trees
  
  They bring to mind 'imhoteps' wonderful primordial mounds from which the Egyptians believed the earth was created.

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• 11. At 11:00pm on 07 Dec 2008, annasee wrote:

  jonnie. You can be so cruel sometimes.
  
  Anyway - I'm not jealous! I haven't even sent in a photo, So there. Nyah nyah. (I don't have to - GM sends them in for me)
  
  Sebastian and Michael? I simply have NO idea to whom you are referring... ;-)

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• 12. At 11:40pm on 07 Dec 2008, jonnie wrote:

  Oh sorry annasee - all meant in the best possible taste.
  
  If you are curious - here are some clips from the programme - if you spool through to 6 mins in - you'll get the picture if you see what I mean ;-
  
  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yYhw_hBmmEQ&fmt=18

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• 13. At 00:19am on 08 Dec 2008, gossipmistress wrote:

  Oooo - Haven't got on the blog all weekend and look what I missed!
  
  Annasee - you're lucky I didn't paste you in playing in your dressing gown!
  
  My sister had a predictive text mishap this morning. Intending to warn our Mum that it was very icy in the village, she sent her a text which erroneously read:
  
  'Watch out walking to church this morning Mum - it's very gay outside'
  
  I'm happy to report, my mum survived the experience!

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• 14. At 00:38am on 08 Dec 2008, jonnie wrote:

  Re GM
  
  ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..............
  
  That's the funniest thing I've read and heard all day!
  
  Ironically my Mother got up to go to church this morning - turned the ignition on her Yaris - and the rear wiper popped off with a bang - dangling limply above the rear bumper. The rubber had stuck to the rear windscreen and a spring came off.
  
  She also had to walk the icy roads to the Church - though I suspect the gay crowds would all be tucked up in bed at that hour ;-)

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• 15. At 09:45am on 08 Dec 2008, annasee wrote:

  GM - that is funny. Precisely why I don't use predictive text. I'd be forever embarrassing myself.
  
  Jonnie - of COURSE I know who they are! I just didn't want to give you the satisfaction of thinking what a clever comparison you'd made.
  
  Been to 2 carol concerts at the weekend. Think I'm all carolled out already. Yesterday's was mpb playing with local Youth Orchestra. They were very good. But the concert was 2 1/2 hours long - just the first half was the 9 Lessons and Carols business, over an hour... Almost past my bedtime by the time we got to the interval!
  
  Depressing to look at the orchestra and realise that quite a few of the children are the offspring of various other musicians I know, and that the kids are now teenagers. Then I look round at the parents and think they all look a bit old and cold and faded and careworn, then I realise WE DO TOO! When did all that happen???
  
  

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• 16. At 09:57am on 08 Dec 2008, David_McNickle wrote:

  annasee 15, I attend the 9 Lessons and Carols at St Albans Cathedral and it is a bit long. I only go to bring home the half-burned candles. I get hundreds of them.

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• 17. At 10:46am on 08 Dec 2008, U13717586 wrote:

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  It's very generous of them to pass you that plate full of money, too.
  
  Though the next person on, must have wondered why it was only nickels and dimes, there, by then.

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• 18. At 10:49am on 08 Dec 2008, David_McNickle wrote:

  pmL 17, Talking to yourself?

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• 19. At 10:49am on 08 Dec 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  pmL: You're talking to yourself ;o)

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• 20. At 10:52am on 08 Dec 2008, David_McNickle wrote:

  pmL (any number will do), You're not Robert Lindsay, are you? "Up the revolution, bro!"

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• 21. At 10:52am on 08 Dec 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  David McN: SNAP!

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• 22. At 10:52am on 08 Dec 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  Ahh, Citizen Smith, what memories that evokes!

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• 23. At 10:53am on 08 Dec 2008, David_McNickle wrote:

  pmL 17, My wife helps take up the collection.

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• 24. At 10:55am on 08 Dec 2008, David_McNickle wrote:

  BS 22, I'll bet pmL wears a beret and Che badge.

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• 25. At 11:21am on 08 Dec 2008, Big Sister wrote:

  .... and calls himself Wolfie? ;o)

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• 26. At 5:15pm on 08 Dec 2008, David_McNickle wrote:

  BS 25, He is now grown up and is a dentist.

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