The Guardian for this meeting was Agatha Macbeth. The comments are by Agatha Macbeth.

Korel Laloix: Heya
Bruce Mowbray: afk -- brb
Korel Laloix: ok
Korel Laloix: going to reboot.. see if this helps my hyberlag
   --BELL--1300
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, aggers~
Agatha Macbeth: Hello brucie
Bruce Mowbray: Pardon me just a sec. . . Aph just gave me an incorrect email address . . . and I need to tell her that.
Agatha Macbeth: How are things?
Agatha Macbeth: Oh right
Bruce Mowbray: Things are good. . . but just a sec, OK?
Bruce Mowbray: kk. I'm back.
Agatha Macbeth: Everything in order?
Bruce Mowbray: Ha!
Agatha Macbeth: Is Aph on? I don't see her
Bruce Mowbray: Aph wanted me to send a notice of the Original Face's group's Open House to arisia. . . but the email address she gave me for him was not valid.
Agatha Macbeth: ohh
Bruce Mowbray: She sent it to me via email -- not in SL.
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Bruce Mowbray: yeppers.
Bruce Mowbray: And how are you this fine evening?
Bruce Mowbray: wb, Kori!
Agatha Macbeth: Not very warm to be honest :(
Agatha Macbeth: Hello K
Korel Laloix: Heya
Bruce Mowbray: I'm warm -- it is 90 Fahrenheit here....
Agatha Macbeth: Was hoping I wouldn't have to start wrapping up before september
Bruce Mowbray checks cell phone to find that in C.
Agatha Macbeth: About 30?
Bruce Mowbray: yeah....
Agatha Macbeth: 12C here :(
Agatha Macbeth: What an awful summer
Korel Laloix: It is a lovely clear 95 with a stiff breeze.. like living in a hair dryer.... love it.
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Bruce Mowbray: 32.2 actually.
Korel Laloix: Can't wait to get off work and go run.
Agatha Macbeth: Well I was close eh? :p
Bruce Mowbray: yepper, close.
Alfred Kelberry: hi :0
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Boxy!
Agatha Macbeth: Yo Boxy
Alfred Kelberry: aga, hi cat woman
Agatha Macbeth: Meeow
Korel Laloix: So that is 35C.
Alfred Kelberry: oh, so hot, kori
Alfred Kelberry: poor you
Bruce Mowbray: Too hot even to walk, let alone run!
Korel Laloix: Yes.. want to be out in it not in here in teh cold.
Korel Laloix: wow.. laggy...
Korel Laloix: test
Alfred Kelberry: ping
Agatha Macbeth: I'm ok lag-wise atm
Bruce Mowbray: lag-wise, I'm cool as well.
Korel Laloix: 20 second lag between enter and showing up.
Bruce Mowbray: Whoa!
Agatha Macbeth: I banged a couple more RAM simms in which seems to have speeded things up
Alfred Kelberry: how much you got now?
Agatha Macbeth: Oh, dunno
Bruce Mowbray: Oh yeah, RAM simms help a lot -- as does a whole new video cArd.
Bruce Mowbray: I have 6 gigs.
Agatha Macbeth: more than before anyway :p
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Agatha Macbeth: I found I only had ONE on the mobo
Korel Laloix: I just need a new computer at home.
Bruce Mowbray ponders gig envy.
Agatha Macbeth: now have 3
Alfred Kelberry: aga :)
Korel Laloix: We have good computers at work, but everything is put throuhg a proxy.
Agatha Macbeth: W7 works a lot better with more memory
Bruce Mowbray: I only use proxies when I'm downloading stuff illegally.
Alfred Kelberry: w7?
Agatha Macbeth: Windoze
Bruce Mowbray: Windows 7
Alfred Kelberry: oh
Korel Laloix: We use one because the boss is paranoid... lol
Bruce Mowbray: That's when I upped my gigs to 6 RAM-wise.
Agatha Macbeth: The NSA again?
Bruce Mowbray: when I got W7.
   --BELL--1315
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
Korel Laloix: Paparazzi.
Alfred Kelberry: actually, w7 is less demanding than vista
Korel Laloix: We have a few celebrity clients that attract attention.
Korel Laloix: No idea how accurate that is though.
Alfred Kelberry: kori, like?
Agatha Macbeth: That rapper guy?
Korel Laloix: Pro atheletes and music stars mostly.
Alfred Kelberry: what services do you provide?
Bruce Mowbray: No celebrity hermits, I suppose.
Agatha Macbeth grins
Korel Laloix: Finanical services.
Korel Laloix: Well.. you would be surprized.
Korel Laloix: Some very rich people live on very large ranches and don't see people often.
Alfred Kelberry: kori is almost a pro athlete celebrity
Bruce Mowbray ponders Kori rapping while running.
Agatha Macbeth: Keeps her fit
Agatha Macbeth: Wol is talking to Liz and Kire atm
Korel Laloix: I really don't care for rap.
Agatha Macbeth: she'll be here shortly
Korel Laloix: But we do have some rapstar clients.
Alfred Kelberry: aga, shhh... it's a private conversation
Agatha Macbeth: Me either K
Alfred Kelberry: we're not supposed to talk about la sakura
Agatha Macbeth: I never mentioned La sakura!
Alfred Kelberry: oh, right...
Bruce Mowbray: This is probably a crude and inappropriate time/method to do this, but would any of you care to join the group of San and me on the next Art as Being project?
Korel Laloix: I am moving into a dubstep phase and away from metal.. not sure why.
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, sorry, i'm already teamed up with kori
Korel Laloix: Am I?
Bruce Mowbray: kk. Best wishes to you both.
Agatha Macbeth: I'm still not really sure what the teams are suposed to be doing
Alfred Kelberry: kori, you are?
Bruce Mowbray: me neither, actually.
Bruce Mowbray: But I'm a "team leader" so I'd best be figuring that out soon.
Alfred Kelberry: aga, laboratory at pab is the theme (science talk inspired)
Korel Laloix: I thought I was with Bruce and Santo... did someone volunteer me?
Agatha Macbeth: Man at top of tree feel strongest wind
Bruce Mowbray: yes yes yes! PLEEEEEEZE join San and me!
Bruce Mowbray: yes yes.
Alfred Kelberry: kori, thought you were with me
Bruce Mowbray: Heavy the head that wears the crown.
Agatha Macbeth: Well this all seems pretty well worked out...
Korel Laloix: lol... umm.. how the least creative member of PaB can be on two art teams is really a funny thought.
Bruce Mowbray: You could come aboard our team, Alfred!!! (more yesses).
Agatha Macbeth: Who, me? :p
Bruce Mowbray: You can also come aboard, aggers!
Bruce Mowbray: (even more yesses).
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, i already have a project ready :)
Agatha Macbeth: Mm, I'll consider
Bruce Mowbray: kk. sry.
Agatha Macbeth: (He would)
Korel Laloix: Would anyone care for some nice dubstep videos?
Alfred Kelberry: no
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Bruce Mowbray: what is dubstep?
Agatha Macbeth: What's dubstep
Agatha Macbeth: Snap
Bruce Mowbray: Is that like GW step?
Bruce Mowbray: as in Bushy step.
Agatha Macbeth: If it's anything later than the 70s include me out
Korel Laloix: Better than BOstep for sure.
Korel Laloix: lol
Korel Laloix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8XnWUmxczs
Bruce Mowbray ponders waltzing. . .
Alfred Kelberry: lots of bass
Agatha Macbeth: BOstep??
Korel Laloix: A nice controersial video
Korel Laloix: BracakOstep
Agatha Macbeth: Sounds smelly
Bruce Mowbray: DON'T SCREW AROUND WITH SLENDER MAN
Agatha Macbeth: I never touched him
Alfred Kelberry: who is the slender man?
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe the fat man went on a diet
Bruce Mowbray: Someone mentioned in the comments.
Alfred Kelberry: oh
Alfred Kelberry: must be another meme
Bruce Mowbray: I think we all learned something from this:DON'T SCREW AROUND WITH SLENDER MAN
Agatha Macbeth: We learned your caps work
Korel Laloix: NOt sure.
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Bruce Mowbray: just copy/pasted it.
Agatha Macbeth: When in doubt c&p...
Bruce Mowbray: Whoa! That little girl is spoooooooky!
Agatha Macbeth: Little girls often are
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: you should have me as a kid :p
Korel Laloix: Very creapy video.. wish I could listen to it.
Bruce Mowbray: I will send it to telepathically, Kori.
Bruce Mowbray: to you*
Agatha Macbeth: Is it BOstep?
Agatha Macbeth: Or doorstep?
Agatha Macbeth: Goose step?
Korel Laloix: Thanks.
Korel Laloix: Dubstep silly.
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Agatha Macbeth: Three steps to heaven
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, what's your favorite part of ohio?
Bruce Mowbray: Aint no favorite part.
Agatha Macbeth: The part where they make beer?
Bruce Mowbray: Although flying above it at 30,000 ft is cool.
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Bruce Mowbray: They make a lot of beer in Columbus.
Korel Laloix: More of a wino.. they make wine in Ohio?
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Bruce Mowbray: Anhouser Busch.
Bruce Mowbray: Anhauser Busch.
Agatha Macbeth: GW's brother?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, they also make wine in Ohio...
Bruce Mowbray: but I prefer gin, actually.
   --BELL--1330
Bruce Mowbray: or scotch.
Agatha Macbeth: In vino veritas
Bruce Mowbray: si!
Agatha Macbeth: (hic)
Bruce Mowbray: Now, perhaps you'll ask what is my favorite part of Scotland?
Bruce Mowbray: Inverness. . . just east of there, actually.
Agatha Macbeth: Brucie, what is your favourite part of Scotland?
Korel Laloix: Bruce, what is your favorite part of Ireland?
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Along the Firth of Moray.
Agatha Macbeth: Or Wales?
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, how about nature landmarks? anything special in ohio for you?
Bruce Mowbray: Never been to the Emerald Isle, unfortunately.
Bruce Mowbray: Well, actually, I do enjoy the terminal moraine. . . which is visible from the farm.
Bruce Mowbray: That's where the glaciers stopped....
Agatha Macbeth: Evening Mick :)
Bruce Mowbray: Hey there, Micko!
Agatha Macbeth: Or should I say Ruth? :p
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, lovely. did you ever take a pic of it?
Alfred Kelberry: mr mick :)
Bruce Mowbray: Not intentionally.
Mickorod Renard: hi all
Bruce Mowbray: It is a line of hills -- perhaps a hundred miles long.
Agatha Macbeth: How's Mick?
Bruce Mowbray: Pushed up by the glaciers.
Bruce Mowbray: not you, Mick!
Mickorod Renard: ok ta, and you all?
Bruce Mowbray ponders: Look what the glaciers pushed up!
Agatha Macbeth: Warming up, or tryin to
Mickorod Renard: :)
Bruce Mowbray dies from laughing....
Mickorod Renard: cooling down here too
Agatha Macbeth: Indeed
Bruce Mowbray: We got up to 90 F here today (32.2 C) -- and there are frost warnings in Anchorage.
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Zen!
Mickorod Renard: what range are tose bruce?
Zen Arado: Hi all
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Zen :)
Bruce Mowbray: They are sort of the foothills to the Appalachians.
Mickorod Renard: ahh ok
Bruce Mowbray: which start in the next state to the south.
Mickorod Renard: hi zen
Agatha Macbeth: Thought Anchorage is in Alaska?
Mickorod Renard: ty
Bruce Mowbray: Last time I check it was in Alaska, yes.
Bruce Mowbray: checked*
Agatha Macbeth: But you're in Ohio?
Mickorod Renard: I have been to Alaska
Agatha Macbeth is confused
Mickorod Renard: funny place,,the roads stop nowhere
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, last time I checked I was in Ohio -- although in Oregon, Washington, and Texas last week.
Alfred Kelberry: mick, what did you do there? vacation?
Agatha Macbeth: Riiiight
Mickorod Renard: yes, sort of
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, oh! exciting trip :)
Mickorod Renard: lifes a vacation really
Bruce Mowbray watched Boxy's tail wagging and feels some tail evny.
Bruce Mowbray: also tail envy.
Agatha Macbeth: Thereby hangs a tail
Bruce Mowbray looks for tal.
Bruce Mowbray: also tail.
Mickorod Renard: I also manages the inside passage
Alfred Kelberry: mick, did you like alaska?
Agatha Macbeth: Mikhail?
Mickorod Renard: I did in a way, but I think I may have gotten bored after a while
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Mickorod Renard: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Ooh look, a green thing
Alfred Kelberry: not enough sightseeing? :)
Agatha Macbeth: Is it radioactive?
Mickorod Renard: I did enough,,but sadly didnt see one Bear
Agatha Macbeth: Ahh...it's a tail

                                     
Alfred Kelberry: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ePanorama2.jpg
Alfred Kelberry: mick, haven't been out in the wild?
Mickorod Renard: yea, lots of floating iceburgs
Agatha Macbeth: The wild west?
Bruce Mowbray: That's the inland passage, right Mick?
Alfred Kelberry: or maybe it was the sleep season for bears
Mickorod Renard: yes, still on water though
Zen Arado: what were you doing in Alaska Mick
Zen Arado: ?
Bruce Mowbray: absolutely beautiful country up there -- I've been in Alaska twice.
Agatha Macbeth: Drilling for oil maybe
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, agreed
Bruce Mowbray: Did you get to Denali, Mick?
Mickorod Renard: I dont think so
Agatha Macbeth: That's an anagram of denial
Bruce Mowbray: It's the National Park where Mt. McKinley is.
Mickorod Renard: I was thinking that,,,I think I reached a point of denial
Bruce Mowbray: except they call it Denali.
Alfred Kelberry: oh, denali is awesome
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, it is indeed.
Zen Arado: they were dyslexic?
Bruce Mowbray: The bears?
Agatha Macbeth: Or just weren't denying anything
Mickorod Renard: I am having dificulties remembering where I went
Alfred Kelberry: mick :)
Alfred Kelberry: how long was it?
Bruce Mowbray: My experience is that Alaskas seldom deny much.
Mickorod Renard: no
Agatha Macbeth: Now there's a question
Alfred Kelberry: ago :)
Mickorod Renard: I saw lots of bald eagles
Zen Arado: it's harsh place
Zen Arado: in winter anyway
Zen Arado: I would think
Mickorod Renard: and a big military base
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, harsh. . . 60 below zero is normal for winters in Fairbanks.
Zen Arado: can't imagine that
Bruce Mowbray: My brain freezes simply trying to imagine it.
Bruce Mowbray: afk for a sec, brb.
Agatha Macbeth: Must be fun for the Inuit
   --BELL--1345
Agatha Macbeth: Bye K
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Arababe :)
Alfred Kelberry: mick, any trips this fall?
Bruce Mowbray: [back-a-roos]
Alfred Kelberry: ms ara :)
Zen Arado: Hi Ara
Mickorod Renard: bye K
Agatha Macbeth: A rose with a rose :)
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, ara!
Mickorod Renard: Hi A
arabella Ella: Hiya everyone!
Mickorod Renard: I have no trips planed so far
Zen Arado: we had the wettest summer for 100 years
Agatha Macbeth: And still are
Bruce Mowbray: For moi: Chicago at the end of September and the New York the second week in October.
Bruce Mowbray: then*
Agatha Macbeth: You get about for a hermit Brucie
Bruce Mowbray: We had the driest summer in almost that long.
Zen Arado: yep
Alfred Kelberry: mick, hope you will. you and morgano work a lot. deserve a good vacation :)
Zen Arado: I don't go anywhere
Bruce Mowbray: !
Zen Arado: about 15 miles away as as far as I get
arabella Ella: i just got bacck from a day swimming at the beach
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, leisure trips?
arabella Ella: warmest sommer
Mickorod Renard: I may try and manage a weekend or something
Agatha Macbeth: You must have had ours Ara
Zen Arado: kids not back at school yet?
Zen Arado: they are in N.Ireland
Alfred Kelberry: next week
Mickorod Renard: next week Zen
Agatha Macbeth: Usually first week in september here I think
Mickorod Renard: I go back wednesday
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Mickorod Renard: :((
Alfred Kelberry: 1st grade? :)
Zen Arado: some started today
Zen Arado: reast next week
Mickorod Renard: he he
Bruce Mowbray -- whilst ponders referents to subjects mentioned, replies, Yes -- leisure trips.
Mickorod Renard: yes, I keep having to repeat
Alfred Kelberry: bruce, cool. planes and buses or you rent a car?
Bruce Mowbray: Repetition is the soul of learning -- someone supposedly said... although I disagree.
arabella Ella: have you been anywhere Alfie?
Bruce Mowbray: I will be flying to both.
arabella Ella: or any Plans?
Agatha Macbeth: Some things bear repetition
Agatha Macbeth: WB K
Bruce Mowbray bares all his repetitions.
Zen Arado: French learning sure needs repetition for me
Bruce Mowbray: wb, Kori!
Agatha Macbeth: Mon dieu
Zen Arado: forgets adverbs again :(
Alfred Kelberry: ara, yes, various places, but not further than 700 km :)
Korel Laloix: SL is veing very strange today for me.
Agatha Macbeth: That's far enough surely?
Alfred Kelberry: *hugs kori*
arabella Ella: 700 km is very far by my standards Alfie
Bruce Mowbray: (((Empathetic hugs to Kori)))
arabella Ella being hugged by Kori?  

Sounds good ;-)
Zen Arado: I am saving the planet by not travelling
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Zen Arado: he said smugly
Agatha Macbeth: Hopefully the planet is grateful
Zen Arado: ungrateful planet
Bruce Mowbray: I have sworn off lighting candles - - to prevent global warming.
Zen Arado: after my sacrifice too
arabella Ella: why is that bruce?
arabella Ella: not lighting candles?
Bruce Mowbray: It's HOT enough already!
Alfred Kelberry: zen, i've seen a guy doing bangee jumping in a wheelchair. there are no boundaries for human spirit :)
arabella Ella: he he
Zen Arado: I don't drive a car either...further smugness
Agatha Macbeth: Green Zen
Zen Arado: think I'll give the bungee jumping a miss
Bruce Mowbray: Zen's smugness is cool . . . and not really smugness . . . at least not the un-cool kind.
Mickorod Renard: what happened to the storm in the gulf of mexico,,I was concerned for everyone and all I found on us tv was election rubbish
arabella Ella: Hey Brucie ... lets play ... the heat here is worse than yours ... he he
Bruce Mowbray: Isaac is coming our way now.

Never did find out who Isaac is...
Alfred Kelberry: mick :)
Mickorod Renard: :)
Zen Arado: Ireland's climate is cool
Agatha Macbeth: Speaking of sacrifices
Alfred Kelberry: sir isaac
Bruce Mowbray prefers hurricanes to political rubbish.
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: It's a tough call Brucie
Agatha Macbeth: WB x 3 K
Mickorod Renard: I can remember sitting here when Obama got in,,there was much excitement at great deeds he may do
Korel Laloix: grrrr
Zen Arado: it wasn't strong enough and they lost interest in it Mick
Bruce Mowbray: Is Kori pretending to be a bear?
Agatha Macbeth: At the end of the day he's only another politician
Korel Laloix: I don't have to pretend... smiles
arabella Ella: she sounded a bit like the Essex lion to me?
Alfred Kelberry: mick, yes. a lot of positive spirit back then.
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Rampant lions, indeed.... I love em.
arabella Ella smiles ... me too!
Zen Arado: just a big pussy cat
arabella Ella: no one really knows
Agatha Macbeth ponders a big pussy
Zen Arado: true
Mickorod Renard: no,,please dont
Agatha Macbeth: Ok
Alfred Kelberry: aga's from essex?
Zen Arado: don't go there
Bruce Mowbray hides his eyes.
Agatha Macbeth: I am?
Alfred Kelberry: she's from manchester
Agatha Macbeth: Manchester, essex
Alfred Kelberry: but she's a welsh girl
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Zen Arado: an Essex girl?
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Bruce Mowbray: The one who was arrested in Russia?
Mickorod Renard: manchester must be a rainier place than Ireland
Agatha Macbeth: No, that was Trotsky
Zen Arado: possible Mick
Bruce Mowbray: ok.
Agatha Macbeth: (huh)
Zen Arado: but difficult :)
arabella Ella: Pussy Riot anyone?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes! v THAT's the one!
Zen Arado: supports Man U
Alfred Kelberry: aga, your session?
Zen Arado: Van Persie Yay
arabella Ella supports United too!
Agatha Macbeth: Oui oui
Alfred Kelberry: cool
Mickorod Renard: Van Pussy
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Zen Arado: oh
Agatha Macbeth: Van Morrison
Alfred Kelberry: or pussy united
Bruce Mowbray: Van Halen
Zen Arado: a Belfast boy
Agatha Macbeth: Van Rentals
Mickorod Renard: Van basten
Bruce Mowbray loves Van Morrison.
Alfred Kelberry: man vorrison
Bruce Mowbray: What a wonderful night for a moon dance....
Agatha Macbeth: He's getting on a bit now
Agatha Macbeth: Van the man
Alfred Kelberry: man the van
   --BELL--1400
Zen Arado: lives in USA?
arabella Ella: did any of you see the nearly full moon tonight?
arabella Ella: glorious
Agatha Macbeth: Yes! Beautiful
Alfred Kelberry: i have, ara
Korel Laloix: Take care all.. back to RL... smiles
Zen Arado: byee K
Alfred Kelberry: perfectly full and plumpy
Agatha Macbeth: To think Neil Armstrong was on there once
Zen Arado: ah yes
Zen Arado: one small step
Zen Arado: a modest man apparently
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce6Nwt0CP6A
Mickorod Renard: I saw the moon Ara,,lovely
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: I remember those old black and white pictures
arabella Ella: i think tomorrow is really full moon but it seems full enough and mysterious enough to me today
Alfred Kelberry: ara, is it your usual day: work, beach, home? :)
arabella Ella: so spiritual
Mickorod Renard: they should take his body back and bury him there,,it wud be a great mark of respect
arabella Ella: he he
Agatha Macbeth: I love the moon
Bruce Mowbray: Ahhh! Let's dance,m then!
arabella Ella: August is meant to be vacation for me Alfie
arabella Ella: so today was beach day
arabella Ella: enjoying last couple of days
Zen Arado: moondance
Agatha Macbeth notes 'meant to be'
arabella Ella: but then september is half days ... meant to be
arabella Ella: meant to be - i dont believe in the concept of work life balance any more
Alfred Kelberry: thought maybe it's how it is on malta :)
arabella Ella: and work gets to you (me) during vacation too at times
arabella Ella: it is that way for many people alfie
arabella Ella: really
Alfred Kelberry: neat
arabella Ella: only around 35% of females work here
arabella Ella: the others ... take care of family, kids, whatever
arabella Ella: old style
Bruce Mowbray: Must be away. THANKS everyone!
Alfred Kelberry: not your style?
Zen Arado: byee bruce
Alfred Kelberry: be good, bruce
arabella Ella: bye Brucie
Agatha Macbeth: Now *that's* real work!
Mickorod Renard: bye bruse
Agatha Macbeth: Take care Brucie
arabella Ella: i like to keep busy with work too at times
arabella Ella: but the way things are today, as i said, work often tends to encroach on free time
Zen Arado: hwo does one not work?
arabella Ella: the hubbie would work Zen
arabella Ella: old style
Zen Arado: I retired years ago and still work at things
Mickorod Renard: if they sent all the women back home there would be lots of work available for everyone else
Alfred Kelberry: ara, how is malta doing financially?
Mickorod Renard: he he
Zen Arado: he heh
arabella Ella: Micko! WHAT!
Zen Arado: I used to work with a guy had similar views
Mickorod Renard: I was thinking statistically of course
arabella Ella: ah Alfie that is a difficult question for my little brain at this time of night!
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: hope you won't get bitten by the greece bug
arabella Ella: and especially after having spent so many hours on the beach just getting sun tanned
arabella Ella: i hope so too!
Mickorod Renard: whats the grease bug?
arabella Ella: but we are not yet on any critical list
Alfred Kelberry: tanned well? :)
arabella Ella: yes nice tan this year!
Alfred Kelberry: hehe
Alfred Kelberry: good :)
Agatha Macbeth: You turn into John Travolta
arabella Ella feels i need a bit of after sun tonight
Zen Arado: :)
arabella Ella: actually i went with friends to a place called Paradise Bay a small sandy beach and it was like ... well ... paradise
Agatha Macbeth: Well named
Zen Arado: stop making me jealous Ara
Zen Arado: :)
Alfred Kelberry: ara, so the traditional family values still prevail on the island?
Zen Arado: haven't even got to sit in the sun much this year
Agatha Macbeth: We haven't seen any!
arabella Ella: well Zen and all ... you are welcome to visit anytime!
arabella Ella: and yes Alfie traditional values to a great extent at least externally
Alfred Kelberry: ara, thank you. i am not a beach person though.
Zen Arado: I don't travel easily now
Zen Arado: too much hassle
Agatha Macbeth: True Zen
arabella Ella: Zen travelling cannot be too bad ... one can make all sorts of arrangements and it only takes 3 to 4 hours flight
arabella Ella: and Alfie you could visit in spring to go trekking
Alfred Kelberry: yay! trekking is cool
Zen Arado: it's the accomodation when I get there that gives problems
arabella Ella: combine trekking and swimming when it is cooler
Agatha Macbeth: Alf trekking across the universe...
arabella Ella: well Zen thanks to the EU most accommodation is now friendly for all, busses too
Alfred Kelberry: aga, huh? oh... right
Zen Arado: if I had a nice little apartment fitted out for disabled access
Zen Arado: ...
Alfred Kelberry: ms woly! :)
Wol Euler: evening all, sorry I'm late
Agatha Macbeth: Evening Wollie
Zen Arado: Hi Wol
arabella Ella: not so difficult to find Zen believe me
Mickorod Renard: its an interesting point,,maybe there is a place like that Zen,,in Malta
Alfred Kelberry: graciously arrives to our little circle
arabella Ella: Hiya Wol!
Agatha Macbeth: You must be on Boxy time :p
Wol Euler: hehehehehe
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Wol Euler falls asleep immediately
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
arabella Ella: Zen i think the transport issue may be more of a problem than accommodation
Mickorod Renard: Zen, you could dry your bones out in a dryer climate
Alfred Kelberry: *curls up in woly's lap*
Mickorod Renard: Hi Wol
Zen Arado: oh I went to London no problem
Agatha Macbeth: Most people want to get away from it :p
Zen Arado: but I need a LOT of facilities for toilets and showers etc
Alfred Kelberry: aga, i sense you don't like london much? :)
Zen Arado: anyway
Zen Arado: that's boring
Mickorod Renard: I like London
Zen Arado: me too
Agatha Macbeth: I like it's cosmopolitan nature but little else
Zen Arado: love London
Zen Arado: thought it would be nice to have one of thoses Olympic village apartments
Mickorod Renard: Have you been to London lately Ara?
Agatha Macbeth: I don't like cities much, period
Alfred Kelberry: woly? what's your attitude towards london?
Zen Arado: after they finish
Zen Arado: ideal for disabled
Alfred Kelberry: aga, but... but... you live in manchester!
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Agatha Macbeth: I do?
arabella Ella loves London and the buzz one feels there!
Alfred Kelberry: aga, um... i like to think that you do
Zen Arado: love the warm Cotswold stone
Agatha Macbeth: Must be why it never stops raining
arabella Ella whispers ... me too
Mickorod Renard: thats the vibration of the underground Ara
arabella Ella: oh ... disappointment!
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Another illusion shattered
arabella Ella: mmm
Mickorod Renard: got a bit of warm cotswold stone here
Alfred Kelberry: what do you like about london, mick?
arabella Ella: very warm stone here you could fry eggs on our stone
Alfred Kelberry: ara, cool :)
Agatha Macbeth: I prefer to use a stove
Zen Arado: :)
Mickorod Renard: I like the Londishness of it
Wol Euler: London is like Manhattan, a wonderful place to visit but I'm glad I don't live there
Alfred Kelberry: woly :)
Zen Arado: yes exactly Wol
arabella Ella: Zen i know about most of the facilities you may need ... maybe not all ... and believe me you could get them most places in Europe today with a bit of research beforehand
Agatha Macbeth: Sounds about right
Zen Arado: everywhere so crowded
Mickorod Renard: things like the Queen and all her soldiers hanging out
Alfred Kelberry: ara, i think so too. eu did a lot in this respect.
arabella Ella: and the new cable cars across the thames!
Agatha Macbeth: Her soldiers what hanging out?
Mickorod Renard: the clatter of horses passing by
Mickorod Renard: the friendliness
Zen Arado: the...what is that new building?
Mickorod Renard: shard
Wol Euler: the dirt, the pollution
arabella Ella: Shard?
Zen Arado: ah yes
Alfred Kelberry: mick, you're a royalist! :)
Wol Euler: the crowds
arabella Ella: and Gherkin
Mickorod Renard: :)
Wol Euler: the traffic chaos
Mickorod Renard: traffic chaos seems over now Wol
Zen Arado: the mad taxi drivers
Wol Euler: at least the bloody pubs don't close whenever you want a drink now
arabella Ella: the olympic missiles on the destroyer on the thames
arabella Ella: pub food ... roast with yorkshire pudding
Mickorod Renard: helicopter gunships passing overhead
Mickorod Renard: a fast clipper down the river
Zen Arado: looked clean for Olympics
arabella Ella: London was really efficient during the Olympics and no chaos at all
arabella Ella: everything ran on time
Zen Arado: amazed me
Mickorod Renard: even the tube wasnt crouded
Alfred Kelberry: very german of them
arabella Ella smiles
Zen Arado: how they coped with traffic
Mickorod Renard: they closed all the roads,,that sorted it out
arabella Ella: yes and one could only use public transport which was 100 percent efficient
Zen Arado: lots on holidays too
Zen Arado: great to wander around galleries
Zen Arado: Tate Modern
arabella Ella: oh and many museums are free in london too!
Zen Arado: didn't get to walk across Millenium bridge yet
Zen Arado: yep
arabella Ella: where you in London recently Zen?
Zen Arado: 2009
arabella Ella: ah ok
Mickorod Renard: and there are some wonderful lil places that noone notices,,like the grewich maritime buildings
Mickorod Renard: Grenwich*
arabella Ella: and the Cutty Sark in all its glory after the terrible fire
Wol Euler: **Greenwich
Zen Arado: have to go
Zen Arado: byee all
Wol Euler: goodnight zen, take care
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Zenny, have fun
Mickorod Renard: yeh, but u pronounce it Grenwich
arabella Ella: goodnight Zen nice seeing you here briefly
Wol Euler: sure :)
Mickorod Renard: nite Zen
Mickorod Renard: :))
arabella Ella: Micko ... pron ... Gren ... itch
Mickorod Renard: true ara
Wol Euler: :)
Wol Euler: "plough through tough dough"
arabella Ella: owwwww
arabella Ella: so many more
Wol Euler: try explaining that to a foreigner
arabella Ella: difficult
Mickorod Renard: I tell u what no one goes to see,,the Temple
arabella Ella: the Temple?
Wol Euler: well, for certain values of "no one"
Mickorod Renard: yes, a funky medievel place right at Temple near St Pauls
Wol Euler: probably the majority don't, though
Mickorod Renard: he he
arabella Ella: what is it then Mick?
arabella Ella: never heard of it
Mickorod Renard: Its like a crypt..its got tombs of Templars in it
Agatha Macbeth: I know it
arabella Ella: is it open to the public?
Mickorod Renard: yes?
Mickorod Renard: yes
Agatha Macbeth: Been there, yes
Mickorod Renard: its hexagonal I think
Mickorod Renard: or octagonal
Agatha Macbeth: Octagonal
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
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arabella Ella: well could those of you who know this place please tell us more about it please?
Mickorod Renard: well,,I think its a mystery
Agatha Macbeth: It's been a long time since I was there: it's a church built by the Knights Templar
Agatha Macbeth: Must be about 13th century
Mickorod Renard: you get the tube to Temple of all places
Mickorod Renard: oddly enough
Wol Euler: my dears, I'm sorry but I need to get to bed.
Wol Euler: goodnight, take care, be cheerful
Mickorod Renard: nite nite Wol
Agatha Macbeth: Sleep well
Mickorod Renard: take care
Wol Euler: you too ♥
arabella Ella: nite Wol!
Agatha Macbeth: I still can't think of the actual name of it tho
Mickorod Renard: its one of those places that You think,,'what is this doing here'
Agatha Macbeth: Amazing it has survived
Mickorod Renard: yes
Mickorod Renard: it was mentioned in holy blood holy grail
Mickorod Renard: many years ago
Agatha Macbeth: Yes I think there's a pic
Agatha Macbeth: Probably Dan Brown got in there somewhere too :p
Mickorod Renard: I think Dan may have adopted the original holy blood book
Mickorod Renard: for some background info
Agatha Macbeth: Leigh and Baigent actually sued him
arabella Ella: oh
arabella Ella: any outcome?
Agatha Macbeth: Don't think they won tho, sadly
arabella Ella: mmm
Mickorod Renard: I actually did the whole trip following the holy blood book trail
Agatha Macbeth: Plagiarism is the hardest thing on earth to prove conclusively
Mickorod Renard: just for fun
arabella Ella: today it is easy to prove plagiarism
arabella Ella: you did Mick?
Mickorod Renard: pretty well yes
arabella Ella: cool
arabella Ella: recently?
Agatha Macbeth: How do you prove what's in another person's mind tho?
Mickorod Renard: from scotland to jerusalem
Agatha Macbeth: You can't
arabella Ella: today plagiarism is proven through web programs that check text to see whether it has previously been published and the web software provides all results and percentages
Agatha Macbeth: Is Alf still awake?
arabella Ella: Alfie must be either AFK or in IM or resting
Agatha Macbeth: Ahh yes, but that's just actual text
arabella Ella: yes it is only actual text you can check ... not intentions
Agatha Macbeth: Intellectual property is a whole other can of worms
arabella Ella: oh yes
Alfred Kelberry: ara, hold on :)
Agatha Macbeth: Yay, he's back
Mickorod Renard: I havnt got any intellectual property
arabella Ella holding on ....
Alfred Kelberry: i think i may have something for you :)
arabella Ella: really?
Agatha Macbeth: Just as well Mick :p
arabella Ella: for me?
Mickorod Renard: :))
Agatha Macbeth: Another rose?
arabella Ella smiles
Mickorod Renard: ok,,I must go home now
arabella Ella thinks ... maybe some after sun lotion to cool off?
Mickorod Renard: put Micko to bed
Mickorod Renard: nite nite all
arabella Ella: good night mick
Agatha Macbeth waves
arabella Ella: sweet dreams
Agatha Macbeth: Dream well Mick
Mickorod Renard: nite nite
arabella Ella: Alfie i got to go too
Agatha Macbeth: Was it something nice?
Agatha Macbeth: (probably lost in his inventory)
arabella Ella still patiently waiting
arabella Ella: he he
arabella Ella: or in cyberspace
arabella Ella: on the web
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
arabella Ella whispers ... Alfie?
arabella Ella: got to go
Agatha Macbeth: Has he gone again?
arabella Ella: think so
Agatha Macbeth: Haha
Alfred Kelberry: gah, can't find one thing... ok, next time :)
Agatha Macbeth: Rip van Boxy
arabella Ella: owwwww
arabella Ella: can you say what it was Alfie?
Alfred Kelberry: no, it's a surprise :)
arabella Ella: ok ok
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe it's lingerie ;-)
arabella Ella: next time then
arabella Ella: mmmmmm nice
Alfred Kelberry: aga, you wish!
Agatha Macbeth: Indeed
arabella Ella: he he
arabella Ella: good night to both of you!
arabella Ella: lovely to see you here!
Agatha Macbeth: Night babe, sweet dreams
Agatha Macbeth: What a lovely girl
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Agatha Macbeth: Looks like that's it then
Agatha Macbeth: No pics of my cleavage before I go?
Alfred Kelberry: or not
Alfred Kelberry: next time :)
Agatha Macbeth: I'll remind you :p
Agatha Macbeth: Back to your kennel then
Agatha Macbeth waves