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Mark , so what is the new link to both the Cap series and my beloved Grainger? are the two existing sites just to be left as is? sorry if this was covered elsewhere - due to complex reasons I have been only an infrequent reader the last month or so. As I mentioned elsewhere while the latest in teh CAP saga wasa great story the format sucked!! but if this is the only way we can get our sustenance, so be it! Regards C

Method.... your fantasies are priceless!!!

this is worthy of one of your story-lines. who would be so small minded as to sign up to GA specifically to drive down a completely artificial ranking. The person(s) concerned need real help really soon. I just hope they get it.

I whole heartedly agree!! what's with the double spaced, perhaps triple spaced type? I know "white space" is seen as god... but that's just weird!!! Please say it will be back........ also how do I access this apart from links in notes in the forum? sorry, 6:44a.m and no coffee yet..... grumpy!

you did and what a chapter..... nothing like a little voyeurism with one's breakfast!! (breakfast here in Oz, anyway).... glad Lark's not dead.....

mark , there is a real bastard streak in you, isn't there..... fancy after a week leaving us there...... good god, man, have you no heart?

so, Mark , if I understand correctly what you are saying is that all your sexual encounters are surprises.......ie no time to plan... I suppose there is something to be said for a completely spontaneous sex-life!

perhaps no hanky-panky, but have you seen the shower-on-deck scene.... Ioan Griffud is to bloody die for..... also there is a fair amount of fanfic about that puts the hanky-panky back where the BBC (and Forester!) obviously edited it out!

I am sorry, but no matter how poor I have been, I never got to the point of having to do a cost/benefit on the lube I use! (I suppose if one were poor enough one would make do with spit'n'passion - fortunately I never was that poor!!)

i think "refudiate" is a Palin-ism???? and that, for me, puts it out of contention as a word Oxford or no Oxford

"The elephant in the room had found a place to hide".......

editing George Grainger is my fantasy........

excellent points " you can only attempt to help someone so often before you just become a facilitator for their poor choices" is particularly valid in this instance. I suppose the ultimate question is how do you force a person to "know thyself"..... not possible, I fear

I agree with you ..... as I said elsewhere, punish the bastard for being the evil dickwit he is, but treating him worse than a dog...... not nice, not civilised and it just lowers you to his level.

not the feeling I was trying to express. There is no doubt that Bard et al are the victims of a truly screwed up Brian. The point I was trying to make was that by seeking physical revenge, the family show themselves to be little better than him. I was trying to suggest that by isolating Brian from the family, ensuring he has no ability to do further mischief, but ensuring his physical well-being (a Napoleon-at-StHelena scenario) they would show themselves to be bigger than he is.

Sorry, can't agree with the treatment of Brian. Yep he is evil, bad, wicked and deserves considerable time in purgatory /hell or where ever he feels least comfortable, but to deprive him of all human comforts and sustenance brings them all down to his level. By all means work out some level of separation from the family and deprivation of all the things he enjoys, but to tip him into the gutter and leave him there is small minded vindictiveness. I would have thought Brad and the rest of the family were bigger than that.

so Granger has a toy!!! the multilingual Carlos. jeez Mark all you do is play with our fantasies, but you do it soooooo well. I'm in lust:devil: All that said, I get the feeling that at some point in the future Grainger's luck is going to run out, or at least partially run out and it's going to take all the talents of his wonderful wife and political contacts to save him......

thank god it's oran, way more interesting than the sins of onan.......

if he looks half as good as Devlin, he'd do me (or vice versa, as the case and opportunity demands)

M'writer85, you're such a romantic!!!! Your comments on his chances at the winter olympics '02 are spot on. He's too young in his head when up against some of the hard'asses in competition ice

not sure the link works outside the US...... or is it just me?

The issue I have with statements made by Preachers such as those in the link is that the Preacher inserts the word "God" where he means "I". Reread with that change and the bigot really shines.....

unfortuantely I can't see the image.....

Awesome! bliss!!! many many thanks....

I think that one key is that children/young adults need to have an established relationship with a person (ideally their parent(s)) where there is a "tradition" of free, frank and open communication. then, should bullying (or anything else) occur there is already somewhere to go. If there is no established relationship, then trying to start one in the midst of a crisis is difficult-verging-on-impossible. I made it quite clear to my two boys that they could talk about ANYTHING with me and I repeated this again and again ad infinitum. I thought my eldest put it quite succinctly to a mate who had just crashed his father's car and they had come to me to work out what to do - my boy's comment was that the only thing worse than telling me what they had done would be not telling me! from a parents perspective it is impossible to protect your children from everything, but it is essential that you are there when they want you and they have to know that you will be there then.