Recent content by Catrin Lewis

Counting down, eh? Guess my original perception was correct.

But was the murder victim (whom the defense, I presume, was going to argue was a low, mean character Who Was Asking for It), the one who burglarized your property? What a good joke it they'd got you on the stand and you'd had to tell the honest truth that you knew nothing whatever about it!

Just ordered a 16 GB RAM kit for my ancient Windows 7 laptop. Just in time, maybe, because apparently they don't make the kind I need anymore. Hopefully--- hopefully--- maxing out the RAM on the ThinkPad will give it a few more months of effective life. If I had to replace what I have on this...

Oh, really! I'll have to look into that. We should all look into that.

How funny! I thought you were way younger than me. Were you Class of '72 as well? But everyone is young here. I'm glad your enjoyment of good food and drink is increasing. That's the way to think of it, focus on what you're gaining by quitting and will continue to gain.

And writing things?

Which screwed up the whole succession, giving us Matilda vs. Stephen and all the rest of it.

With a sprinkling of cinnamon.

Happy New Year, fellow Forumites! If I have any sense, I'll start 2026 by not staying up till five in the morning.

Southern Hemisphere? Or just farther south in the Northern?

Can't really say this lowers to unhappiness, but here I am, still dealing with the respiratory crap/bronchitis/whatever that hit me on the 10th. Funny thing, I'm fine for fetching and carrying and running around and doing anything physical I have to do. But my chest hurts and I feel very, very...

I believe that particular farm had an arrangement where all its onions went to Chipotle. It wasn't so much that people were pooping on the onions, but they were pooping in the irrigation ditches.

Or the farm workers who aren't provided a proper place to go to the bathroom? I think that's what happened with the Chipotle onion outbreak.

My inspirations are Jane Austen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dame Mary Stewart, and Ellis Peters. Don't know if that kills my sales. Could be my lack of marketing.

I thought it was always "Luxembourg, null point." 😆