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It's no secret that I like Turkish Delight but not this sort that came via a PM

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It says he's 41 and his avatar shows a hairy bare chest - I didn't dare click on his photo link

Another meme taken from here

1. With Friday the 13th on the horizon, do you have any superstitions?

Not really. I don't go out of my way to avoid going under ladders. I do say "touch wood" but think that's just force of habit.

2. Have you any phobias?

I dislike the thought of rats and mice but wouldn't say it was a phobia as such.

3. Do you believe in ghosts?

Yes - though I haven't had personal experience (yet!)

4. Do you believe in UFO's?

I've yet to make my mind up about this one.

5. If you could reincarnate, what would you come back as?

I think I'd like to be something like a dragonfly

6. Do you believe in past lives?

I'm not sure. I was once regressed and found it a strange experience

7. Have you a lucky number?

Not really but I like the shape and form of the number 8

8. Have you ever had your fortune told?

Yes - a few times with surprising results

9. Do you believe in Karma?

I'd like to think so

10. Has conventional religion had its day?

What do you call "conventional"?

I don't want to drag out the tagging debate but I thought it was worth posting a copy of a comment I've posted elsewhere:

It's comes back to that word RESPECT

I respect the fact that BCUK have to make decisions in order to run their business.

In return I feel that BCUK must have some respect for their users and treat them with respect.

I've no problem with the reduction in the length of tags - the issue is/was the way that it was handled. Give a little bit of notice (ie more than 2 days) I could have re-organised the few affected tags.

I enjoy being part of this community - long may it continue.

Right let's carry on with some RESPECTFUL, RESPONSIBLE BLOGGING

It started right here

1. Do you have a favourite part of autumn?

My favourite part is running through the fallen leaves – childish perhaps but a lovely experience

2. "It's too cold to snow!" Do you think it ever is?

Erm……….let me think ……. Erm ……. I don’t really know!

3. Do you feel there is still a place for British Summer Time or should we just stop changing the clocks?

Leave them alone

4. Are there certain meals you only eat in certain seasons (salad in summer, stew in winter)?

Stews are lovely in winter. Salads are great all year round. Curries work well winter and summer as do fish and chips. Some foods are obviously seasonal. Hot cross buns should be eaten at Easter but crumpets must be available all year round – I remember once being told that crumpets were out of season!!!!

5. Autumn is...?

A golden time to ease us gently into the harshness of winter.

Well not quite but almost

You know those not quite wide awake moments when you're still on automatic pilot? When you reach for the orange juice to pour on your breakfast cereal or something similar.

Well here I was, sat at my laptop catching up on the latest blog posts and email messages when I remembered the troublesome spot on the end of my nose. You know how it is ... you look down at the keyboard and you can just see something out of the corner of your eye. I was going to say a "blackspot" but that gives totally the wrong impression.

Anyway back to the spot ..... for the last few days I've kept a pot of ointment next to my laptop so that I'd remember to keep applying it liberally throughout the day. Last night, for some reason, I moved it. This morning I was sat here with coffee, toast and marmalade and a moment ago I reached out for the pot of ointment..... phew that was a close thing.

I'm sure you all wanted to hear this rubbish!!!!

Have a lovely day

Two days ago we were advised of "Improvements to the tag system". So much for it making things better!!!!!!

My poetry blog has suffered on two fronts - firstly my tag "poem" was deleted from over 260 posts. BCUK doesn't know how this happened

And now, according to the following message from BCUK, my Teddy Polar Bear (and other) poems have lost their title tags because they exceeded the five word limit.

The two actions have completely ruined my tagging system.

Hello la_spice,

in order to use your tags to improve the searchability of your blog posts, it has been necessary to make a few changes to the tag system.

The changes are as follows:

- tags will continue to be separated by a comma
- a tag must consist of between two and fifty characters
- a single tag can consist of up to five words
- almost all characters can be used as tags, except <, > and any other HTML code symbols

Unfortunately, these changes have caused some of your tags to be deleted.

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The following are your tags were deleted:

Post Tag: firmness-like-it-used-to-be | at-the-end-of-the-day | don’t-let-my-mother-on-the-stage-mr-sullivan | teddy-polar-bear-goes-to-school | teddy-polar-bear-goes-on-holiday | through-the-eyes-of-a-child | teddy-polar-bear-goes-to-the-beach | teddy-polar-bear-has-a-friend | i-do-but-thats-another-story | medicine-man-gives-heap-big-medicine! | teddy-polar-bear-–-gone-but-not-forgotten | i’m-a-celebrity-–-get-me-out-of-here | my-lover-has-a-red-red-nose

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The tags were deleted because of the following errors:

- Das Tag enthält zu viele Wörter. Ein Tag darf nur aus maximal 5 Wörtern bestehen. Bitte trenne Deine Tags mit Kommas und nicht mit Leerzeichen.

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Thank you for your understanding. We hope you enjoy the new improved tag system.

If you want to read more about the new tag system, or give us some feedback on the changes, please click here: The Blog

Your blog.de team

So "no" blog team I am not enjoying the "new improved tag system" one bit. I would have at least preferred some notice so that I could try and find a way around this rather than have a fait accompli.

Right then......

Name FIVE things that make you happy

Here's my "Happy List"

Babies
Sunshine
Laughter
Music
Fluffy white bath sheets

So ... tell everyone what makes you happy

This post concerns spammers and is primarily for group owners/moderators to be on their guard.

It seems that spammers have now latched onto group blogs and are signing themselves up as group members on group blogs that have open membership. Obviously once they're members they can post freely on that blog.

Yesterday a spammer joined the Blogship Group and so I deleted him/her immediately.

Please circulate this message so that we can help reduce the number of spam attacks here on BCUK.

Thank you.

I only popped out to buy some paraffin and look who I saw

Gerard Depardieu

I knew he was in the area last month to do some filming for a film called "Mammuth" but assumed it was all finished - obviously not!

This from the local press:

The Poitou-Charentes is rightly known for its beautiful countryside, great beaches, historic towns and food, wine, cognac and pineau. But it is increasingly being known, too, as a major venue for France’s film industry. While it may be a tad premature to talk about Poitou-Charentes rivalling Hollywood or Bollywood, the film industry has been increasingly keen to use this region to shoot movies and TV dramas.

During the summer of 2009 a number of major films have been shot in Poitou-Charentes, and have attracted some of the biggest names in cinema. The first to be shot was ‘Aux quatre vents’ by director Jacques Doillon which features Julie Depardieu, daughter of the French film great Gérard Depardieu.

Meanwhile director Benoît Delépine has been filming ‘Mammuth’ which is being made in both the Charente and the Charente-Maritime. The stars of this production are Gérard Depardieu himself plus another leading figure in French film, Isabelle Adjani.

Well if you believe what we've been bombarded with all this month you just might say "BMW" but I certainly hope not!

So, let's start again

Please complete the following sentence:

Joy is ........................................