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I'd try and look at pirate copies . Maybe see if it ever appears on here. http://www.ninjavideo.net/cat/202 I take it that you can't watch 4oD - they block you for geographical reasons?

Watching an interesting programme with my brother - called the Untold Battle of Trafalgar. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-untold-battle-of-trafalgar

haha, thanks. inventive.

thanks again

Thanks guys! I have had a good day. I'm absolutely shattered now though. Went out last night, didn't get much sleep (saw the sun rise ), then onto family stuff in a beer garden followed by friends bbq and a film. Quite perfect. Just so so sleepy. hope you all had a good weekend too! night celia

yeah I know, not my idea of fun. But he seems very up for it . Hopefully he won't get too seasick.

hey mark I'm still enjoying the series! I've been reading it quietly. My brother's going on the ship STS Mir this summer for a race in the north sea - he's quite excited about climbing the rigging or whatever the name is . http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/STS_Mir

it's a shame. when I was in Slovakia I found them to be one of the nicest and friendliest groups of people I'd met.

and it starts a fresh. Expected UK closures. This is just after the Spanish, Portuguese, and Moroccan closures. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8684540.stm

Happy Birthday!!!! :D

Cancellations are beginning again. At least in Scotland and Ireland.

Hi all I was wondering whether some of you with knowledge of open office would be able to help me. I am working for a small non-profit at the moment, and they need a better method of accessing their emails. On my laptop I have Outlook that I have used for the first time to access their emails. However they don't have the software, and anyway I quite like the idea of supporting things that have an open copyright or whatever particular one they use. Does Open Office have an email system that I can download for them? Also I need to change their email system, because at the moment they are using Hotmail, and frankly it does not meet their needs at all, especially since the amount of contacts they are receiving is through the roof at the moment. Is there any in particular that you can recommend. The same for mailing list software, and Discuss lists. I know of two that are used by groups that I am apart of, and at the moment I have set up a free account with MailChimp for them, but I think we are likely to meet the free capacity very soon, so an alternative needs to be found. http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html http://riseup.net/ If you guys know of other things that maybe useful I'd very much appreciate the help. Thanks Celia

Flights are back, or some of them are as the air is labelled safe. After BA sort of blackmailed the air authorities by just setting off. Put there is still pandemonium. I've just heard the airlines are charging about

The airlines are fluttering about losing money while they are grounded, with some of the smaller ones claiming they could go bankrupt. And Eric, I think everyone else is still discussing whether insurance will have to pay out for the losses and extra accommodation as well. I also know there is or will be a rail strike in France that will compound some of the problems as people travel by land and sea.

Our flights are still grounded. I flew the weekend before they were all stopped, so glad that I managed to miss this mess. The shop I semi-working from at the moment - their outside windowsill is covered in this dirt/dust - that must have come from it because it's not usually there. That's the midlands. It's quite comical all the people stranded, or certain people that are that can't carry out appearances for example. The radio to work just really comments on performers. And one of the big drive time DJs is stuck in New York - think he's broadcasting from there tomorrow instead. And our navy/ government/mandelson has decided to get people back using boats or whatever in a 'rescue' mission. A bit ludicrous maybe.

Just a quick note to say that I'm still enjoying the series. It's been a nice light read in the sudden madness of my life.

I say try Fiction Press, though finding stuff is hard. Once you do they often link to loads of similar ones. And of course there is varying quality, but a lot is very good. http://www.fictionpress.com/ Also there is this: http://www.shybi.com/ They have lots of links, and I haven't really delved into it, but I am sure they could probably help you look. It's quite a big community. Bigger than here it seems.

I just see it as, even if Jervis liked men and was therefore eligible for the Brotherhood, it would seem like it is an antithesis of his general attitude. And so unlikely to be approached to be a member I presume.

Wouldn't others notice those brands and wonder what they are? Jervis if he doesn't like people being there because of status I would have thought may have been against the principles of the Brotherhood in that it's high ranking or elites protecting each other. Or maybe not . I don't see him being one though.

, like Nephy said, go with it. I've been thinking recently about my own grandfather, and well that I haven't wanted to know him. I knew he existed, but there wasn't really anything there. He left the family when my mum was at uni, and he was a drunk and abusive husband and father. And basically let my mum down on so many occasions, including with money. The story or assumption was that he was somewhere in Africa and I could well have half aunts and uncles younger than me. Turns out that's true, but they've moved to the SW of england now. He died about 6 or so years ago. I did ask a few questions about family history, and that's how my mum ended up getting in touch with his sisters (on her own, she was then interested, even if she does blame me). But it wasn't about him, more that I was asking in general family history. It was always known to be a blackspot, and if my gran ever knew that my mum had seen him again then we're expecting an explosion. But I've thought about how I haven't wanted to meet him and in no-way do I miss not having a grandfather, because that guy was never considered to be one. On the other hand, there was a guy who I met on a plane when I was 16, and I so want to meet him again. It's a what if. I felt a big connection with him, and disastrously we managed to mess up meeting up in the city we flew to, and I never knew his surname. I didn't really know him, but I wish I did. And data protection will stop me ever finding out . Good-luck with it though.

I remember going to watch those plays that travelled around to help you with exams. They were good

Eh what? I hope not to the extent it was. Just been watching Titanic again, and it's sad how much the class divisions are there. Even once the survivors were on the rescue boat they were separated again. The whole thing is stupid. And living in the UK now. Tiger I would not stand for it anywhere that I saw it. Class lines, I don't care what they are they have no place in my life. But yeah sadly, there is divisions. And maybe not for my mum if I was to bring somebody home who was from say Bootle and 'scum' she probably wouldn't be bothered on appearances. Everybody is welcome, that's just her and her home. My dad on the other hand he can be a bit funnier. Some of the other people I went to school with though, I can imagine what their parents would look like if they brought home some different types of people into their 'posh' homes. But screw it. Overall it really really has no place. They are not rules any more and can be broken. Anyway, I thought Winkler had the boat guy, damn it I've forgotten his name.

It's a huge huge huge chunk that I'd need to look up. Context being key at times . But yeah, I do. I just wish at times that I had learnt some of this in school so I'd have some kind of background knowledge or outline. I stopped taking history when I was 16, but really wanted to continue, it was just we had to specialise then and I had no room left for it. Though now with foresight I would have taken it over Biology for my A level, which I never did end up needing like I was speculating as I haven't gone to med school. But then again my favourite teacher had been replaced by this idiot who couldn't teach (and who favoured doing the Tudors) - he was the subject of rumours that he liked the boys on the yr7 football team he coached a bit too much. Why the hell school management managed to pick several idiots for teachers, that's Subject Heads, from a good lot it's hard to understand. He ruined the subject. The furthest I really learnt from those times was the Tudors and a tiny bit on the Stuarts, but I've essentially forgotten them. The Tudors it was like we overdosed on them. It's not really surprising how so many people don't know our own history when they were only taught snippets of it.

How do you guys know so much of my history when I don't