Hey Etoile, no not heard of NPR, I don't think we can get it over here.I'm afraid some of our friends across the pond and elsewhere may not know of any of the NPR (National Public Radio) shows we're all chatting about! Curious to know if any of them are broadcast elsewhere.
Posting these cartoons that I snapped pics of, while waiting at my chiropractor's office a few weeks ago!
Both from The New Yorker.
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Same to you dear!Hey Xiang, good to see you in Cafe again.
Sending hugs your way.
Hey all, Sorry for the spate of posting ladies, I have been IT less for a couple of weeks now and have wrestled DH for his iPad tonight so am catching up.
Big sports day here so I am good for a bit, Isle of Man TT has started today and MotoGP from Mugello.
I am making the most whilst he is otherwise engaged.
Big sports day here so I am good for a bit, Isle of Man TT has started today and MotoGP from Mugello.
I am making the most whilst he is otherwise engaged.
Honey, good to see you here! So you are a sports widow for a bit? I get it too every now and then.Hey all, Sorry for the spate of posting ladies, I have been IT less for a couple of weeks now and have wrestled DH for his iPad tonight so am catching up.
Big sports day here so I am good for a bit, Isle of Man TT has started today and MotoGP from Mugello.
I am making the most whilst he is otherwise engaged.
Capri, thank you! I so miss British tv (and theater and radio and pubs and the Tube and and and)!
Honey, you are a true anglophile! Hee hee!
Yes, exactly. A good time to fully control the remote. I will have to look into these programs. I need a new series soon. Thank you.
Anyone else re-watching the old Twin Peaks? I'm doing this before I watch the new thing. It's every bit as baffling and brilliant as the first time, which I was trying to watch while pregnant and then nursing a newborn, but I am no longer expecting anything to make sense, so enjoying it more, LOL.
I am television illiterate. I have never seen it. Treadmill worthy? If you can do all that and follow the plot I think I can probably manage it. [emoji23]
Hi prepster, thank you!
I wish I could share a simple paint chip number. I'm afraid the info below may to sound like gibberish, as I custom mixed it! And my room photo is making it look a bit darker than it really is. But as I know you paint, and probably enjoy this type of challenge, here goes:
Do you by chance have the Maratha Stewart Fine Paints of Europe paint chips from the 90s? The colors were formulated for Schreuder paints, but back when we chose this color for our dining room (late 90s), we asked our local paint store to color match using Benjamin Moore Regal Wall Satin. We chose the Martha Stewart chip called Porcelain Green from the Araucana collection. (Unfortunately I can't find the formula they used to recreate it in Ben Moore!)
So that was the starting point. But as we started painting, it felt too cool and dark for our north facing dining room. So I started mixing in small amounts of a slightly, creamy white shade of Benjamin Moore Regal Wall Satin into the green until it felt right. We used Ben Moore PO-49.
So the recipe ended up being:
1 gallon + 1 quart of the porcelain green
+ 7 3/4 cups of the white, PO-49
Thankfully we have a small bucket for touch-ups, but as it's older it's not a great match now. I really like the color, but I've dreaded trying to recreate it! Assuming they can still make it, I'd likely start with the green from Fine Paints, and then lighten/warm it up with one of their whites.
Photo below shows front and back of the Porcelain Green chip, reverse of the creamy white chip, and at the bottom, a chip I'd made of the resulting color.
So, I'm not sure if this was at all helpful, it's likely easier to just go find a nice shade of celadon green!
PS - Sorry everyone else if you slogged through this, and it was like watching paint dry!
I love this sort of thing, but not everyone does!
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Like to watch this one too. We usually wait till the end of the season then we watch several episodes together...
Hey mistikat, I am also a needlepointer!
I find that I listen to things rather than watch when I am doing a complicated pattern.
My DH is always saying, that I "see" a completely different story to him when I am stitching.
Another couple of Brit drama's which are good:-
Ripper Street
Peaky Blinders
Line of Duty
I haven't heard of any of these, will investigate, thank you!
Hey all, Sorry for the spate of posting ladies, I have been IT less for a couple of weeks now and have wrestled DH for his iPad tonight so am catching up.
Big sports day here so I am good for a bit, Isle of Man TT has started today and MotoGP from Mugello.
I am making the most whilst he is otherwise engaged.
Good to see you again. [emoji1]
Same here. Busy catching up way too many emails at work after vacation.
xiangxiang, I loved your description of listening to this!
I've never heard of him, sounds very funny! I've just found the podcasts and look forward to listening! 
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MOMA has nice jewelry? Must check that out when I'm next there. Ever hear of Macklowe gallery? Apparently the jewelry group, ASJRA, that I sometimes hang with, goes on field trip visits to it when they do something in NY.