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Your last day there already?! That's gone so quickly. I refuse to believe your mother is 78, she doesn't look a day over 60!

You, spammable? Yes. Yes you are. That's what you were always known for, but at least you always have a sunny disposition and something interesting to say in your spam! You could say I have lots of customer service experience, yes. Technically even now, it's just 'internal' customers. Does sitting behind the checkout when I was about 4, messing with the grocery scale and smiling at people count as customer service? Or apparently sitting in the dog basket behind the counter with 2 alsations when my parents ran a post office, does that count? If so then I've had about 40 years of practice! If we go from when I was gainfully employed though, then it's more like 27 years of experience. Not bad eh? Meanwhile our weather has chilled off again. It's hitting 0 or 1 overnight, but then coming up to about 8 during the day and remaining dry. I've spent the last couple of days sorting my balcony out. Throwing out old, crap compost and dead plants and potting on a few I bought last weekend. The strawberry plants are starting to put out new leaves as well, and the birds I feed are merrily getting through tons of seed and fat balls on a daily basis.

Yeah get rid of all those buildings and I'll be agreeing with you how pretty that is! I hate that in between moment, as you say with things thawing yet then refreezing, very dangerous. I have some grips I can put on the bottom of my shoes for whenever it's like that, which isn't often here, but I'm still very grateful when I need them.

Precisely my reasoning. I can only remove so much, but I can always pile more on! I'm loving today though. 12 degrees at 11am, a slight breeze and blue skies. Perfect for me. I'm slightly more heat-tolerant and feel the cold a little more these days since some hormonal issues a few years back, so I do appreciate some sun but I still think anything over 20 degrees needs to be banned That's so interesting about the queens Chattius. I was aware there are certain other insects that can devastate a hive but I had no clue there were such clever ways to simply stop them getting in. Thank you for sharing that little snippet

Only you could wax lyrical about opening a tin of sardines Gogo, what a wonderful image you do paint! Do you know, I don't think I've ever had sardines, and certainly not opened a tin, yet everyone knows how they look don't they? I think it's Tom and Jerry's fault, I'm sure Tom was always being fed on sardines, usually with some hilarious mishap as his owner was opening the tin for him! I've never been to Portugal. As a kid we didn't holiday much due to owning the village shop until I was 10, and after that we mainly just did self-catering holidays around the UK, with a couple of trips to France (also self catering). I'm not one for crowds, heat, sunbathing so all these mediterranean beach holidays have never appealed to me in the slightest. Once I moved out of my parents I couldn't afford holidays at all for years and still don't really bother; my holidays are visiting my parents. So yeah, this year is a year of doing new, scary, exciting things. The flights are paid for, I'm not sure if I have to pay to get down to Heathrow or not, but we're all flying over together, the hotel and meals are paid for. I don't know about drinks, but I suspect not (boo!) and if we want to do any activities we have to pay for those ourselves. The hotel is a 5 star one with a fancy spa and some things like cycling, golf and boat trips. I'm not one for lying in the sun; I burn like a crisp as I'm paper white, so it'll be lots of sun cream for me and finding somewhere shady to hang out. And that's assuming the weather is what you'd expect. The whole of Europe has been very unpredictable for a few years now. Just last year supermarkets were restricting sales of cucumbers and lettuce because we get a lot of them from Spain, and the weather conditions had been so abnormal that there was a shortage! The weather the past few days has been rather nice here. Whilst I hate the heat, I do like a sunny day and it's been sunny but cold since Saturday. Although saying cold, it's been starting around 3c in the morning and going up to 11c which is pleasant. On Saturday I went for a nice walk around the arboretum in it and saw a carpet of beautiful purple crocuses. Sunday I just wandered around town and did some shopping (it was my birthday, that is not a treat for me but I got suckered into it with the need for things) and it was really pleasant weather to be out in. Even today it's nice to sit here, working away on my laptop, just seeing the sun come streaming in through the windows. It always lifts the spirits.

I'm with you SacredEagle, I hate hot and humid! My ideal summer temp is about 16c. I can stretch to 20c if needed. It's gorgeous where I am today, and was yesterday too. Blue skies, sunshine, a slight breeze and about 10c. Perfect I've just been shopping coz it's my birthday and I needed clothes for a work trip I won, to Portugal in June. I'm gonna melt and die

Meanwhile in England it just can't make its mind up. Earlier in the week it was 13c, the last couple of days 3c. We've had torrential rain, high winds and glorious sunshine, and all 3 at the same time!

Oh yes I know there's a difference in the spellings, namely the country of origin. If I try it, it'll be whatever my friend has in his house. I'm not buying a bottle just on the off chance I like it!

Disgraceful Gogo, really not good enough... I'll take that poutine thank you. That banner is still fine. On the actual page (https://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred:Pevil's_Place) about my fansite though it goes to my old domain, which I still use but for my random personal blog these days. The actual fansite is still up here: http://pctalk.info/Games/Sacred2/PevilsPlace/index.php

Which did you find of mine, the old Sacred site that's hosted by Spock these days? The link in the first post isn't working for me

Oh is Schot stealing your ideas Gogo? Now I see why you keep him locked away! I've never tried scotch or brandy. I'm not a big alcohol person; I tend to hate the smell of it. I do partake in some vodka, and occasionally a gin. I'm intending to try whiskey at some point as a friend rather loves it. Guess it's a trip to see you guys and give it a try!

Thank you Schot! I'm amazed at the detail I did include to be honest. Most of my art is quick pencil sketches and mainly just outlines with the odd extra line to hint at musculature so this was quite a learning curve for me What a compliment; maybe I should get a shirt printed. It's nice to 'see' you out in the wild! Hope you manage a few hours of freedom before Gogo stuffs you back in that dark basement

Incredible pictures! I miss snow like this. When I lived near the North Yorkshire Moors, the side roads would get like this once ploughed. We did a lot of walking and I'd be walking down a perfectly clear road with snow towering above me on either side. It's quite different out there than in the centre of a city though!

Yeah grumpy ginger cat I think she had, but Krank was really sweet, you're right I remember you guys having your other D.A.R.K games. DA also had other games. I used to play Guild Wars 2 with them. I'm actually still in the guild, but very few of us ever log on there now. It's sad, they were a wonderful bunch of people. I particularly remember Dags and his crazy bush stories, particularly a very touching one about a rat (kangaroo rat maybe?) that befriended him. I've never looked in the digital manuals, nor paid attention to the in-game credits. I would assume the digital manuals are the same as the printed ones. I do love that my name is in there, it feels special. I know most people don't look at credits (me included), but for me it was just lovely to be recognised and acknowledged by the devs, and makes me miss the old days of the internet where you got involved in things because you were known, and were useful, not because you paid £5 for 'early access' or were a streamer giving them free advertising! I was talking to my friend a little while ago, who is a gamer. I can't remember how we got onto it but I mentioned I had my grave in a game from back before streamers etc and he was really impressed by it! I didn't see it as such a big deal but he was genuinely star struck

Yes, EU version. Hmm, well I dug mine out and while I could've sworn I was in it, no, not credited in the Underworld manual. There's a generic line of "thank you to all our beta testers". Looking through the names though... memories. Torsten Allard was the guy I dealt with for all the testing duties. And Krank! I forgot about beloved mod Krank! I'm credited in the Sacred 2 manual under Moderators, along with dear DarkEagle, erialc, FrostElfGuard, Knuckles, Nightwolfe and ThorinOakshield I might have to dust the old discs off and go grave hunting again. Keep notes who is in what games!