Lauren's Lair: Here be dragons...

[tgirlamg]

I am really glad you're back, if only for a while. I've missed you, girl! <3 *extra huge hug* If grace and wisdom were a stream, Cindy, you'd be a reservoir! <3

Amen! 😀👍 So good to see you Cindy!

Hugs!

Ashley 💕

[KathyLauren]

The only theatrical stuff I ever did was a school pantomime back in infant school. Um... not sure what the Canadian equivalent is. I think I was about 6 years old. Landed the part of Jack's mother in a star studded production of "Jack and the Beanstalk". You know, the one with a hatred of magic beans, lol. Replete with volleyballs for breasts, a horribly garish dress, and makeup that looked like it had been applied via The Simpsons makeup shotgun. One of my friends got cast as Jack. The second we saw each other we corpsed like you wouldn't believe. I almost tripped over the dress twice during rehearsal. But on the night, we killed it!

There is no Canadian (or other nationality) equivalent: British pantomime is a unique theatrical art form.  One of our local theatre groups put on one that was billed as a "genuine British pantomime".  It was not bad.

I did see a couple of real pantomimes as a kid in Glasgow, at the St. Andrew's Hall (before it burned down).  Ali Baba was one, I think, and the other actually might have been Jack and the Beanstalk.  I remember that the genie appeared and disappeared, with the requisite puff of smoke, through a trapdoor in the stage floor. 

[Sephirah]

I am alive. I need a lot of care at the moment, and privacy is kind of a fleeting thing. It'll be okay. I hate being so weak. But I guess better that than nothing. Was in the ICU over Christmas. Being held together with duct tape sometimes isn't so strong, lol.

I am sorry I haven't been here before now. I hope you all had a great festive period and I hope you have a great new year. I don't know how often I will be here in the near future. Lot of stuff going on. I'll deal with it.

All my love to you all.

Lauren. <3

[Pema]

Lauren, thank you for popping in to let us know. I'm sorry it's so consuming for you. Know that we are thinking of you and sending you love and healing energy.

Pema

[ChrissyRyan]

Happy new year Lauren!

Chrissy

[Sephirah]

Thank you. It'll be fine. Happy new year to you both! <3

[Sephirah]

I just saw this and I thought it was awesome.

🔗

People in Britain don't think everyone is part of the Cult of the Orange Messiah. We are just waiting until he's a footnote in history, and we can go back to being best buds with our friends across the pond.

[Paulie]

Thank you. It'll be fine.

Glad to hear you're okay.  Still, you're in our prayers.

I hope the new year starts out better than how the old one ended.

Paulie.

[Sephirah]

Glad to hear you're okay.  Still, you're in our prayers.

I hope the new year starts out better than how the old one ended.

Paulie.

Thank you, Paulie. I'll feel better knowing you folks are all here, keeping this place going. <3

[Lori Dee ✅]

Happy New Year, Lauren.

Thanks for stopping by with an update. We think about you often.
Sending lots of love, peace, and happiness your way.

Stop in when you are up to it. We love seeing you here.

Big Hugs!

[Sephirah]

Love you, Lori. You know that. <3 It'll be fine. Have a massively awesome new year okay?

[tgirlamg]

💕Love, Light and Healing Beautiful Sister and May Your Year Ahead Be Blessed!💕✨💛✨

Hugs!

A💕

[Dances With Trees]

So good to see you, Sephirah. Susan's hasn't been the same without you. Happy New Year!

[davina61]

Duct tape, wot no cable ties!!! You take care my dear, best wishes for the new year XXXXX

[KathyLauren]

Happy New Year, Lauren!  Thanks for checking in.  I hope things get less stressful for you soon.

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

I am alive. I need a lot of care at the moment, and privacy is kind of a fleeting thing. It'll be okay. I hate being so weak. But I guess better that than nothing. Was in the ICU over Christmas. Being held together with duct tape sometimes isn't so strong, lol.

I am sorry I haven't been here before now. I hope you all had a great festive period and I hope you have a great new year. I don't know how often I will be here in the near future. Lot of stuff going on. I'll deal with it.

All my love to you all.

Lauren. <3

Lauren, I have a special one-foot wide roll of duct tape called 'The Big Fix'. Let me know if I should send it your way.

I hope this new year is less eventful than the last few weeks have been for you. Whether or not you have the ability to post here, please know that we are thinking of you. A beautiful soul shining in the darkness. I hope you have a fabulous year.

Love always -- Jess

[Sephirah]

Thank you very much. I really don't deserve you folks. You are all incredible. <3

Finally had some snow here. With the latest named storm. Well, quite a lot of snow as I live on top of a very big hill. It's really nice to see. Was a bit of a blizzard last night. Well, by UK standards anyway. Not like your Russia or US standards where you have to hire heavy machinery to clear it out... but... it looked peaceful.

I don't often take pictures, of anything. Least of all me. But... this was the scene at about 2am last night...



Need to look at getting spikes for my tires, haha.

[Lori Dee ✅]

That does look peaceful. There is always something about midnight snow. I don't know what it is, but it is pretty.

We got about six inches here last night. Now the roads are clear, not due to machinery, but because it melted. It's like snow that falls in the desert doesn't stay long. It just gives up due to a lack of interest.

😁

[Sephirah]

That does look peaceful. There is always something about midnight snow. I don't know what it is, but it is pretty.

We got about six inches here last night. Now the roads are clear, not due to machinery, but because it melted. It's like snow that falls in the desert doesn't stay long. It just gives up due to a lack of interest.

😁

See, that's what I mean. Six inches in the UK would be a literal catastrophe. If we have half an inch the country shuts down. I think the culmination of Storm Goretti (that's what they are calling it) was about 2 inches where I live. And it shut down everything.

To be fair, where I live is very peaceful. There are more horses than people, and lots of woodland. If I can get out, I'll try to post more stuff since I have a new-fangled phone with a decent camera now and I've worked out where the "any" key is. It's all very "green and pleasant land" deal. I don't do cities. They make me claustrophobic... and this is coming from someone who served in a literal metal tube underwater, lol.

[Lori Dee ✅]

To be fair, where I live is very peaceful. There are more horses than people, and lots of woodland. If I can get out, I'll try to post more stuff since I have a new-fangled phone with a decent camera now and I've worked out where the "any" key is. It's all very "green and pleasant land" deal. I don't do cities. They make me claustrophobic... and this is coming from someone who served in a literal metal tube underwater, lol.

When I was researching my family history, I found a valley in Yorkshire that bears our family name. I met a guy from there, same last name but no relation, whose nephew is a photographer. He sent me several black and white photos of the valley and the hills. He said it didn't matter to him that it bears our name; he just thinks it is the most beautiful place in the world.

I wish the photos had been in color because the green hills and valley do look beautiful there.