watersprite

@watersprite (168)

Age 51

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How do I the screen on a Nokia Asha 300

watersprite @watersprite (168) 9 Nov 12

So I got a new phone with my contract, it's got a touchscreen as well as the number pad. To unlock it you simply press the power button the stroke the screen from left to right, but when I put it in my pocket I keep finding it on...

Movies too dreadful to watch

watersprite @watersprite (168) 31 Aug 12

So I have to admit to myself atleast, I'm not a connoisseur of films, I'll watch any old rubbish, but I do have some limits. Rather contentiously I'm sure, I cannot stand to watch ET,the whole syruppy sentimental mess just grates...

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Too much time do you spend watching movies

watersprite @watersprite (168) 24 Aug 12

I find I can normally fit one movie in each week between all the other things I have to do, yet I see other people seemingly watching many in a single day, perhaps it's the time of my life, when I was younger I watched more and I...

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Paralympics Opening Ceremony

watersprite @watersprite (168) 14 Aug 12

So we had two very interesting ceremonies for the able bodied olymipcs, the paralympic ceremonies have been prepared by different choreographers. So what do you think we'll get, the opening ceremony (29th Aug 8:30pm uk time) is...

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Blind men and elephants

watersprite @watersprite (168) 14 Aug 12

I have just stumbled across a fabulous poem called "The blind men and the elephant", go search for it if it's unfamilliar. It describes in verse how a number of blind men react differently to an elephant dependant on which part of...

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Doc Hollywood v Cars

watersprite @watersprite (168) 10 Aug 12

So call me synical, and I know there are only so many possible stories, but do you not think that a large chunk of the basic story line in Cars is the same as Doc Hollywood ? I mean I know the subject matter is different, but...

windows xp3 ish

watersprite @watersprite (168) 9 Jan 12

So I updated my old system from xp2 to xp3 (after doing a full backup of course) but something failed, so now I look at my system and it says XP3, but I keep getting offred the XP3 automatic update. Several of my USB devices...

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One by One or all together

watersprite @watersprite (168) 9 Jan 12

So I'm looking forward to The Hobbit a single story split in two (extra box office !!!), but should I wait until both are available before I watch one, or do I just watch them as they are released. I tried it both ways round when...

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Limericks are great

watersprite @watersprite (168) 9 Jan 12

I've just come second in a limerick writing contest (no prizes just for fun), if the judges though it was that good, I may as well share it. Hope you get a laugh from it. There was a young lady called Mae West Who was famed...

poem limerick success

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What is the Weird stone of brisingamen

watersprite @watersprite (168) 5 Jan 12

I'm no longer a child, when I was I read this book and it made such an impression on me that may many years later I spent quite some time searching for it, through the character names, the creature names etc. I couldn't rememebr...

c'thulu

watersprite @watersprite (168) 5 Jan 12

Anybody playing Call of C'thulu on line, I've played it in private with friends, but we've got a bit of a time / distance problem at the moment cant all seem to be in the same place at the same time. I don't have the time to build...

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Poetic challenges

watersprite @watersprite (168) 5 Jan 12

So I'm a member of a poetry writing website where we run simple contests, no prizes, just a winners list. One that caught my eye lately was to write a HEADLESS poem, a poem which does not use any of the leters in the word...

poem challenge

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To facebook or not to facebook

watersprite @watersprite (168) 4 Jan 12

So with more and more companies having facebook pages and more and more friends keeping in touch that way should I finally succumb to the temptation that is facebook. Now I'm sure it's way to easy to give away your location, your...

facebook information theft

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Funny Animal Poems - Work in progress....

watersprite @watersprite (168) 5 Jan 11

I'm in the process of trying to write some poems for children, though I'd try to do some funny animal poems, silly ones to make children laugh. There are some obvious candidates elephants with long noses, bats with bad eyesight,...

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Thoughts For The New Year

watersprite @watersprite (168) 31 Dec 10

Here's a little poem I wrote, while I was thinking about this time of year. Wasted Time? Another year passes, those days are all gone I think of time wasted, and know there was none For those moments I sat, idle and...

time new year poem

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What is the animatrix

watersprite @watersprite (168) 26 Nov 10

The Animatrix is a set of short animated films which form the pre-history for the file "The Matrix". Please do not confuse "animation" with "for kids", some of these film contain disturbing images depicting the escalating violence...

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Anticipating the hobbit

watersprite @watersprite (168) 26 Nov 10

I was just reading some stuff about JRR Tolkien, and remembered the there is supposed to be a film of the Hobbit being created. I've check across the 'net, found out that there is already a film of that title, looks like a cartoon...

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Missing post....

watersprite @watersprite (168) 25 Nov 10

Hi, I've only been here a couple of days, and I'm almost certain it's a case of user error, but I'm certain I started a discussion in one of my interests, and entered tags for it, but now I can't find it, or any sign of it in...

missing post discussion

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Avernum - single player RPG

watersprite @watersprite (168) 23 Nov 10

Avernum is a turn base RPG for MAC & PC, it's a single player game, but you control four characters, and it is very good it that's your game style. The games (I think they are up to Avernum 6 now) are and update of the Exile...

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Nursary Rhymes - with additional extras

watersprite @watersprite (168) 23 Nov 10

We all know "row row row your boat", but it must be said after the 14th repeated verse it gets a little dull. In the various child care groups we've been to some inventive people have added bits, verses and obvious actions which...

songs rhymes nursary actions

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