Happy Birthday - Hogwarts Express - Hearing/Seeing Word

[Rita Winston]

Dee wrote:

> Thanks Amy!  I'll try.  I get to spend it from 2:45 
> to 10:15 pm in class, grins.  I awoke at 9:20 or so, 
> eastern, and sat down (like usual, lol!) to read email. 
>  My main goals today are to simply clean house! (snip)
> Can't I be a kid again?  I miss the cake!

Happy Birthday, Dee! If you check your e-mail when you get home from
school, the birthday won't be quite over yet. I hope you got a decent
piece of cake (not made of styrofoam or iced with shaving cream) at the
school cafeteria.

Nick Mitchell wrote:

> For those of you in the UK at the moment with 
> nothing to do... the Hogwarts Express is currently
> at the Severn Valley Railway (www.svr.co.uk).   

> I was lucky enough to go there today, (snip) and
>  got to spend most of the day travelling on it 
> (snip)  I (and the kids) were lucky  enough to 
> get a seat in a compartment... like the one Harry 
> and Ron would have been in on their first trip. 

Lucky you! I'm envious, but glad I at least got hear about it.

Amanda wrote:

> (don't even start me on oxymoron or epitome)

Epitome damn well SHOULD be epi-tome. Then it could be a BOOK that
contained ALL knowledge on some subject.
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