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Lyn W

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I have recently made friends with a couple of very nice young mothers in Canada who go fossil collecting with their young daughters. They have been kind enough to send me lots of Canadian Ordovician fossils and slightly younger Devonian ones.View attachment 247287
Here are just a few plus some they collected in New York.
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These next ones were a prize for a competition i won.
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And from the other lady :
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And a piece of rare and valuable ammolite (a unique mineral replacing the shell of an ammonite) With some Canadian candies.
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The ammolite is beautiful, love the colours in that,
 

Lyn W

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How odd.
No mention of England's loss to Belgium in the Third place play off.
Virtually no mention of the final.
Congratulations to France.
(a little grudgingly) .
England's future looks bright. :)
Also , no one seemed to notice or celebrate the three year Roomiversary!
Three years of the Cold Dark Room!
Thanks everyone for making it such a very special community of very special people.
The personnel may change a bit over the years, but the heart, kindness and silly fun of the place remains always intact.
Bless you all. :<3::<3::<3::<3:
Gosh! Is that long since we banned ourselves from punning in Pretend Chat because we were getting on people's nerves?:oops:
Thanks to you for giving us we have this lovely, chilly dark room to do what we want.....within the rules of course!:)
 

Lyn W

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Well, the comments seem to have just petered out, rather.
But thank you, carol for organizing the World Cup thingy, it was great fun. :<3:
And congratulations to Todd for being so good at his predictions to win the thing. :)
I operated a thread over on the Fossil Forum with a person representing each country in the competition and getting points for the results, predictions and games and quizzes and questions about football, fossils and even a few on tortoises.
I had thirty two players, one representing each country, a mix of males and females from about twenty countries with an age range from teenage to late sixties. Much more cosmopolitan than the real world cup! Lots of other people joined in too!
It received 4.658 posts and was viewed 41,622 times, the biggest thread in Fossil Forum history!
Here is the Tidgy emoji they made for me.
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And :

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Great, hey?
That's brilliant!
 

Kristoff

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Gosh! Is that long since we banned ourselves from punning in Pretend Chat because we were getting on people's nerves?:oops:
Thanks to you for giving us we have this lovely, chilly dark room to do what we want.....within the rules of course!:)

Yes, people often used to poop down to Barry for the day - usually people from the effluent society.:D


Rules? What rules? :confused:
 

Tidgy's Dad

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I think it makes it not Halaal. If my understanding is correct you have to use utensils and meat that has not had any contact with pork products.
The animal must be killed by having it's throat cut with a very sharp knife whilst appropriate prayers of thanks are made. The animal is then strung up so as much blood as possible can drain from the carcass. That's it in a nutshell, at least here.
A friend of mine is a British Muslim from Leeds. She came to Morocco and tasted her first ever McDonalds as thy're Halal here, but aren't in most of the UK so she'd never been able to have one. Travel to Morocco to have a burger!
Leeds United are playing their first game of the new football season this afternoon. We will both be watching with interest.
 

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