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Greenwood Hobbit
Doriath
Dec 19 2025, 7:39pm
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Good luck with your 'sunniest spot' claim!
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Our 2026 summer solstice sunrise and sunset times will be 4.43am BST to 9.45pm BST. It's quite a contrast! A long way off yet, but something to think about in the short, dark days. Enjoy the cricket - cheers!
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Greenwood Hobbit
Doriath
Dec 19 2025, 7:44pm
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Stew served at The Green Hobbit is always made from the finest ingredients, with named meat (by which I do not mean named 'Spot' or 'Ginger')   . Thanks to the late lamented Sir Terry Pratchett for that one! 
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Timbo_mbadil
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Dec 19 2025, 7:45pm
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I only worked Tuesday/Wednesday--both shifts were hellish. Which is good, but I'm getting too old for this s-word :-) 10 hours in a "smoky old bar room", to quote Willy Nelson, I don't handle that as well as I once did.
But there was a very nice guest on Wednesday, an Australian bloke from London, we got chatting about music and small venues for local bands (which have all but disappeared here in Berlin), and I got a chance to hand over my band's business card.
Later on it turned out he worked for a London record label, so: well done there :-)
I’ve lost my mood ring, and I really don’t know how to feel about this. -- "Tracy" Jordan, some episode from "30Rock"
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Annael
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Dec 19 2025, 7:47pm
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She still has to respond to quite a few queries from me, and then there's my least-favorite job, fixing the references, but we're easily going to make the deadline of March for the publisher, so happy days.
I'll miss working with her, but she's "ma copine" now - my gal pal - and I'm sure we'll keep emailing and maybe even having the occasional Zoom face-to-face.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words.
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Timbo_mbadil
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Dec 19 2025, 7:48pm
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My own fault entirely, of course!
And I just remembered the band I was looking for--just by chatting to you lot, so thanks for that :-)
(It was the Mannheim Steamroller)
I’ve lost my mood ring, and I really don’t know how to feel about this. -- "Tracy" Jordan, some episode from "30Rock"
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dernwyn
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Dec 19 2025, 8:00pm
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Ooh, one of my favorite bands!
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I love to blast their "Deck the Halls" all through the house.
What is the song you've been looking for? I've got two of their Christmas CDs, I might be able to find the title?
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dernwyn
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Dec 19 2025, 8:04pm
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But I hope you still got sufficient rains!
Is it just the All Blacks playing in the test matches?
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dernwyn
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Dec 19 2025, 8:07pm
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Well, I can definitely relate to the cookies fresh out of the oven!
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Greenwood Hobbit
Doriath
Dec 19 2025, 8:12pm
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Sometimes the memory just needs a little nudge.
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Dec 19 2025, 8:15pm
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The Aged and Decrepit laptop is getting a bit hot
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so talk amongst yourselves for a while - I'll be back later!
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cats16
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Dec 19 2025, 8:31pm
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Thanks to all of the bot-slayers, both seen and unseen.
Work has been more manageable this week. Not a complete standstill, but the chaos has mostly gone away and I'm just marching closer to my few days off.
We're looking at a wet Christmas in SoCal, with Christmas Eve appearing to be the rainiest. Thankfully we're staying very local, so not too much time on the roads when it'll be a mess. At the moment the sun is shining, so I'm planning to get some walking time in this afternoon.
At the moment I'm frowning at a bill from my urgent care visit (when I was sick, not the throat issue). They did a basic vital check, along with a Covid, flu and strep test, and after insurance they're claiming I owe over $200. Something seems off, so I'm going to try the mostly futile act of calling to see why it's so high.
Wishing everyone a happy pre-holiday weekend!
Join us every weekend in the Hobbit movie forum for this week's CHOW (Chapter of the Week) discussion!
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Dec 19 2025, 8:57pm
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Just not the same, is it? I hope it's a peaceful one, at least! Grab the sunshine when you can, at this time of the year; we had sun today and it was a delight after a low grey day yesterday. Enjoy your break!
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Timbo_mbadil
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Dec 19 2025, 9:08pm
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And just to celebrate the time of year
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(and the fact that he remembered the name of the band), he flicks a quarter into the jukebox for Bach's "Jauchzet, frohlocket"
(Sorry, it's been a while, I forgot how to make that clickable, and I need to switch to "horizontal mode" (ie: bed), so here's just the bare url.
Have a wonderful weekend + Holidays, everyone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QXME2o8Tlc
I’ve lost my mood ring, and I really don’t know how to feel about this. -- "Tracy" Jordan, some episode from "30Rock"
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cats16
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Dec 19 2025, 9:16pm
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I hope you have a great holiday season as well. 
Join us every weekend in the Hobbit movie forum for this week's CHOW (Chapter of the Week) discussion!
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dernwyn
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Dec 19 2025, 9:42pm
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Thank you for the music, Bach is perfect for the holiday!
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dernwyn
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Dec 19 2025, 9:46pm
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The days off will be here before you know it, hopefully next week's work keeps being manageable.
Have you ever had snow on Christmas there?
Hm, doctor facility bill, yes, always call about those, instead of just paying it. Might want to also call the insurance to make sure the charges are legit.
Enjoy the weekend! Got all the shopping finally done?
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Dec 19 2025, 10:00pm
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A chance meeting, and who knows what will come of it? May a Christmas miracle be coming your way! (And good luck with that loud, busy, smoky work environment - I'm thinking more kindly of my aircon open-plan office now.) 
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Fantasy novel - The Arcanist's Tattoo
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Ataahua
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Dec 19 2025, 10:04pm
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Blackcaps - it's a cricket test match (five days).
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We've gone overboard in our naming of national sports teams, IMO (Black Ferns, Black Sticks, Black Foils, Tall Blacks...), but then I am moving into the age bracket where having snippy opinions is practically mandatory. 
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Fantasy novel - The Arcanist's Tattoo
My LOTR fan-fiction
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Dec 19 2025, 11:59pm
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Further south that means a long day indeed, but up here it's sunrise a little before six and sunset around 8:45 pm.
I've been enjoying food for what feels like the first time in a while! Last weekend I mentioned I thought I had food poisoning - it turned out to be something more in the Norovirus family, and was decidedly unpleasant (don't worry, I'll spare you the gory details). Then just as mine was easing off, Mr Kimi caught it off me, so it's been quite a week. Even when the symptoms faded, it left us both feeling extremely weary, with lots of long daytime naps. I lost a kg, but it's really not a method I'd recommend.
Feeling more like myself again now, and I've been doing some Christmas baking (mince tarts and panforte), and since the oven was hot I made some sourdough discard crackers, which have become a regular treat - very nice with a cheese course.
It's been rainy this morning, which was welcome, as the garden is very thirsty - it's also topped up our water tank. The weeds are growing as if there's no tomorrow, even in the heavily mulched areas - I'm sure they'd be even worse otherwise, though. I'm watching over small green tomatoes and tiny cucumbers, while hovering over the courgettes before they turn into marrows while my gaze is briefly averted.
Wishing everyone a pleasant weekend without last-minute shopping hassles.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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diedye
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Dec 20 2025, 12:52am
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Heh, I try not to miss it at least once a year...
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... if only just to see grammaboodawg do her tabletop jig.
Blessed are the cracked,
For they are the ones who let in the light!
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dernwyn
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Dec 20 2025, 12:55am
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Friends have gotten it here. Yeah, not a great weight-loss method. Very happy you are both over it now.
Mmm, panforte! That must be so much fun to make.
It is appalling how weeds will come up through the mulch. What length do you let the zucchini grow to? Sometimes it seems like those pop out to baseball-bat size overnight!
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Ioreth
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Dec 20 2025, 10:53am
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these boards where not usable for me for like 3 weeks ...
either not loading at all or very very very slowly and then I could not log in either ...
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Ioreth
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Dec 20 2025, 11:05am
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Discovered Tommy Johansson just near the end of September.
FINALLY he did wonderful covers of two favourite Christmas songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqSFD1aKpo
(in swedish, but I think you can feel the Christmas Joy - the text is roughly about "light a candle for the children of the earth, even if it dark now it will get lighter again) - with lots of fhis family, friends and bandmembers from different bands (and some from Sabaton too!)
I have loved this song since I first heard it in the late 80s.
and the first cover he has done in German. This one is SO close to my heart since we always sang the German version when I was a kid here in the 70s in Sweden. My late mother played it on our piano and we children sang the German text (we all grew up with German and Swedish).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMbS5XJHxfg
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Ioreth
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Dec 20 2025, 11:11am
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we had less than one hour of sunshine in december so far according to our news service
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/inte-ens-en-timme-solljus-i-stockholm-i-december
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