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I saw this in Chichester Harbour whilst rowing back from the pub to a friend's sail-boat. You could see the sea flash with every splash, so I started to hit the water with the flat of an oar - the brightly lit ripples of pressure were amongst the most beautiful things I have ever seen!

Hi @DLC, and welcome from me. I am in the UK where we tend to rely more heavily on tartan paint, but also -- because of deforestation -- need apprentices to bring a ready supply of sky-hooks.

It's a good and valid question! Having discovered how to lose a whole folder completely and irreversibly whilst working as an IT "professional" I should probably be more careful; I tend to rely on Dropbox being properly maintained, but as I access it from two computers, there will also be local...

Sounds like you're writing it as a "Q&A"

Dogma - the dog's mum

Watched threads that have "and send emails" checked from before you uncheck it in your settings continue to send emails. Changing your settings will affect subsequent threads. You need to go to the individual thread and click "unwatch" You can always then click "watch" again and make sure...

Failing that put them on Imgur?

That would make sense! I can see them, but I see that Rath has mentioned that he can't... I guess the same would apply if they were in a thread that was public but deleted?

I think it largely depends on where you are - in the UK we tend to use single quotes for speech, in the US it seems to be more doubles, but as @Naomasa298 says, I would differentiate it, so either "The last thing she ever said to me was, 'You suck!'" or 'The last thing she ever said to me...

Bless her! Older cats have a certain dignity. I had one that lived to 23 or 24. She clicked when she walked, she could only eat on one side of her mouth, and could be either cantankerous or loving depending on her mood, but she knew exactly where to go at any time of day to find a warm spot...

Excellent work! Well done!!

I saved a bee. I took my housemate to the doctor for a routine appointment and was waiting outside, sitting on a tree-stump, enjoying a bit of sunshine, when I saw a bee walking along the footpath. I picked some daisies and a dandelion and strew them in her path. She buried herself in the...

I have a few favourite Winston Churchill ones - this one springs to mind "a modest man, with much to be modest about"

Whenever I have referred to it, strangely, it's always been "the writing forum" Even more strangely perhaps, when I click on a link in my browser, to myself I call it writing frog.