What do you "assign" to the Shire? - Page 26 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mithalwen · 11-27-2007, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Finduilas

I assign still getting lettuce from your garden after Thanksgiving. Sadly, I don't think that will last long.

I would assign getting lettuce at any time of the year - any attempt to grow salad leaves or hostas results simply in providing a soup kitchen for slugs (since I try to garden organically and am rather fond of hedgepigs slug pellets are a no no.. and the eco friendly alternatives require a degree of vigilance I am not always able to maintain). I do have some roses still in the front garden which is rather fab - and I hope due to the sheltered south facing site rather than global warming.

Orominuialwen · 12-02-2007, 10:33 PM

The solution for slugs is to put out a saucer of beer! No joke! The slugs end up drinking themselves to death and don't bother your plants nearly as much.

Thinlómien · 12-03-2007, 09:02 AM

I assign horrible weather, singing when no one's listening and filming silly scenes in a church.

Oddwen · 12-03-2007, 11:08 AM

I assign bowls of free beer!!

j/k.

I assign stripes - I love stripes. Striped clothes, striped cars, striped carpet, striped graphix...plaid...they're just so cool. And they go places.

McCaber · 12-03-2007, 04:02 PM

I assign hard packed snow you can slide on without a sled. It rocks.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 12-03-2007, 04:49 PM

Adoption and happy families.

Doing work you love.

Oil paint.

Naps.

Kath · 12-03-2007, 07:59 PM

Getting your last piece of coursework for the term in.

Spending an evening watching films with friends.

Planning Christmas activities.

Brinniel · 12-13-2007, 01:04 PM

I assign snowstorms that cancel all classes after 2pm on a day you really don't feel like going to class.

Finally, a snow day (err...rather, a half-day).

Rikae · 12-13-2007, 01:42 PM

I assign winter vacation, and the things that follow from it:
-Taking long, hot baths in the middle of the day, while reading a book of one's own choice.
- Resting one's feet on the radiator and watching the spruce outside the window gradually droop under the weight of the snow.
- Banishing all textbooks, notebooks, etc. to a dark corner, out of sight, out of mind.

Kath · 12-13-2007, 01:44 PM

Somebody thinking enough to offer you a lift on what is really a freezing cold night. Restores your faith.

THE Ka · 12-16-2007, 04:07 PM

Going up farther north than north, even though it's amazingly windy out and the sea breeze is freezing you beyond recognition... Then to turn up in an obscure little coffee house (ex-boiler room), with many complete strangers.
Only to end up consuming large quantities of warm coffee, accordion and many more sounds and dancing with those complete strangers as if they are your kif and kin.

In short, having a bloody good time with Jason Webley and complete strangers.

It made the otherwise annoying trip through such weather all the more better.

~ Zima Ka

Kath · 12-16-2007, 04:09 PM

Getting back home after a very long term and decorating the house ready for Christmas! It's all so sparkly now. Also, rediscovering that houses are supposed to be warm! And of course, having food cooked for you completely free of charge (unless it be setting the table or washing up

).

Lalwendë · 12-24-2007, 12:16 PM

I assign having a nipper in the house at Christmas - it can only get better when I can start telling him about Father Christmas and how he much prefers a can of Guinness to a glass of sherry, how he won't leave any presents unless you keep your eyes closed tight shut all night and how the reindeer are powered by the magic of good girls and boys, so you need to be good to make sure the reindeers (sic) can get here...

...though I'm not looking forwards to being woken up at dawn and not being able to have a bacon sandwich before we open what Father Christmas has left...

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 12-24-2007, 01:47 PM

I assign the Great Alaska Pizza Co. because it's wonderful pizza, almost no crust(we hates the crusssst). And sledding down a nice huge hill, steep and long, not tiny hills, sledding down the deck is pretty boring!

Going on the downs all day with the parents at work and no one to boss you around!

littlemanpoet · 12-26-2007, 01:20 PM

Fondu after the Chrismas Eve service with 80 proof Armangac (whew!) and Chardonnay .... and Pinot Noir (14%)

on Christmas Day. Makes the cold feel not so ughy.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 12-26-2007, 01:49 PM

What I got for Christmas!

Aganzir · 12-26-2007, 01:59 PM

Ubuntu Linux.

Every problem I've ever had with Windows - all gone.

Kath · 12-26-2007, 04:27 PM

Having a family willing to do bizarre things such as sit round a table and ring bells when your number is called out. Where my mother finds these things I will never know but it was fun.

Nogrod · 12-26-2007, 04:37 PM

Not caring for any Christmas preparations but only sitting in tables already made...

Sitting down with people you don't sit down with everyday and eating well, drinking well, chatting well... feeling the belonging together of us, the generations together.

That's something I really love and honour.

The next year I have promised to hold the feast as my mom and her "boyfriend" (79 years) are getting a bit too old to organize these things (she refused my offer this year).

So the next Christmas I'm assigning to Shire making up the party for all others to enjoy.

Lalaith · 12-26-2007, 06:40 PM

My cousin, who lent me her pretty green dress to wear on Christmas Day (for reason why, see Mordor thread)

My bag, which finally turned up this evening after (probably) many adventures. We all sat round looking at it, wishing it could talk to tell us all the places it had been, and how it had spent Christmas...

Volo · 12-28-2007, 11:13 AM

The coming back to life -feeling you get after having been sick and hopeless.

Mithalwen · 12-29-2007, 04:10 PM

I heartily second Volo's .

And add finding something pretty and frivolous you coveted full price while Christmas shopping and absolute snip in the sales.

Lalwendë · 12-31-2007, 09:50 AM

Immodium.

Thinlómien · 01-01-2008, 05:50 AM

My almost-ready and very pretty green ball gown...

Lhunardawen · 01-03-2008, 05:30 AM

Lysol 99% disinfectant. Beats the Mordor out of nauseating formalin...a bit.

McCaber · 01-06-2008, 03:42 PM

Watching two of my very good friends finally get married yesterday.

Thinlómien · 01-07-2008, 10:53 AM

Friends who bring you flowers when you're ill.

Thinlómien · 01-14-2008, 01:32 PM

Realising that a huge work you've left to the last moment and you don't feel like doing at all isn't huge at all.

Nogrod · 01-14-2008, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Realising that a huge work you've left to the last moment and you don't feel like doing at all isn't huge at all.

Realising or deciding?

Groin Redbeard · 01-14-2008, 02:54 PM

A bunch of peeping tom neighbors who won't leave me alone!

littlemanpoet · 01-14-2008, 09:05 PM

Er, Groin, maybe a Dwarf wants to banish things he doesn't like to the Shire, but most folks around here generally assign things they like. Things they don't like tend to get assigned to Mordor.

Mithalwen · 01-15-2008, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Er, Groin, maybe a Dwarf wants to banish things he doesn't like to the Shire, but most folks around here generally assign things they like. Things they don't like tend to get assigned to Mordor.

Maybe he likes it

And Nogrod it is not fair to go parental on the Downs

I assign (for only about the third time in my life) having a hairstyle rather than just hair..

Thinlómien · 01-15-2008, 02:34 PM

All the four posters above me really amuse me.

Anyway, I'd like to assign friends who send you snail mail (and if it features a penguin article, even better

).

Groin Redbeard · 01-17-2008, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Er, Groin, maybe a Dwarf wants to banish things he doesn't like to the Shire, but most folks around here generally assign things they like. Things they don't like tend to get assigned to Mordor.

I don't think my neighbors are as bad as all that. I'd just like them anywhere but next to my home!

Maybe they could move in with the Sacksville-Baggins!

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 01-21-2008, 02:47 AM

I assign Laurinque!(she is my friend from school) and a boy I nicknamed Beautiful!

Kath · 01-21-2008, 10:32 AM

Things just ... working. Getting work in in plenty of time, having a bus that drops you off at just exactly the right time, wandering around campus for a couple of hours doing everything you needed to get done and having friends who will do that with you and then agree to go to a new exercise class with you so you don't have to go on your own for the first time.

I like second year!

Aganzir · 01-21-2008, 11:19 AM

My little brothers (I have three of them), who have been unusually nice today.

One went to buy me some lemonade when I asked him. Another made me ice cream when I asked him. And the youngest took my dog for a walk when I complained it's too cold and dark and damp outside.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 01-21-2008, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aganzir

My little brothers (I have three of them), who have been unusually nice today.

One went to buy me some lemonade when I asked him. Another made me ice cream when I asked him. And the youngest took my dog for a walk when I complained it's too cold and dark and damp outside.

Whoa! That must be strange, I have a six year old little brother and he is a little terrorist! I can't believe what he does! I should assign him to Mordor!

Finduilas · 01-21-2008, 04:19 PM

Running water! How I miss it.

please thaw pipes, please thaw pipes, please thaw....

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 01-22-2008, 07:52 PM

Well I suppose you could pray about it!!!!!!!! (that usually works for me!)

But on the subject! My director for the last play I was in! He is so awesome!

12-02-2007, 10:33 PM	#1002
Orominuialwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Umbar, but before the corsairs took over. (Ave Maria University, FL, USA) Posts: 632	The solution for slugs is to put out a saucer of beer! No joke! The slugs end up drinking themselves to death and don't bother your plants nearly as much. __________________ Gone for lentSeeyou at Easter! (And on Sundays too, maybe.)

12-03-2007, 09:02 AM	#1003
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	I assign horrible weather, singing when no one's listening and filming silly scenes in a church. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

12-03-2007, 11:08 AM	#1004
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	I assign bowls of free beer!! j/k. I assign stripes - I love stripes. Striped clothes, striped cars, striped carpet, striped graphix...plaid...they're just so cool. And they go places. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

12-03-2007, 04:49 PM	#1006
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Adoption and happy families. Doing work you love. Oil paint. Naps. __________________ peace

12-03-2007, 07:59 PM	#1007
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Getting your last piece of coursework for the term in. Spending an evening watching films with friends. Planning Christmas activities. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

12-03-2007, 04:02 PM	#1005
McCaber Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Skyrim, again. Posts: 820	I assign hard packed snow you can slide on without a sled. It rocks.

12-13-2007, 01:04 PM	#1008
Brinniel Reflection of Darkness Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull. Posts: 2,983	I assign snowstorms that cancel all classes after 2pm on a day you really don't feel like going to class. Finally, a snow day (err...rather, a half-day). __________________ Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

12-13-2007, 01:42 PM	#1009
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	I assign winter vacation, and the things that follow from it: -Taking long, hot baths in the middle of the day, while reading a book of one's own choice. - Resting one's feet on the radiator and watching the spruce outside the window gradually droop under the weight of the snow. - Banishing all textbooks, notebooks, etc. to a dark corner, out of sight, out of mind.

12-13-2007, 01:44 PM	#1010
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Somebody thinking enough to offer you a lift on what is really a freezing cold night. Restores your faith. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

12-16-2007, 04:07 PM	#1011
THE Ka Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: As with the flygja Posts: 1,403	Going up farther north than north, even though it's amazingly windy out and the sea breeze is freezing you beyond recognition... Then to turn up in an obscure little coffee house (ex-boiler room), with many complete strangers. Only to end up consuming large quantities of warm coffee, accordion and many more sounds and dancing with those complete strangers as if they are your kif and kin. In short, having a bloody good time with Jason Webley and complete strangers. It made the otherwise annoying trip through such weather all the more better. ~ Zima Ka __________________ Vinur, vinur skilur tú meg? Veitst tú ongan loyniveg? Hevur tú reikað líka sum eg, í endaleysu tokuni?

12-16-2007, 04:09 PM	#1012
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Getting back home after a very long term and decorating the house ready for Christmas! It's all so sparkly now. Also, rediscovering that houses are supposed to be warm! And of course, having food cooked for you completely free of charge (unless it be setting the table or washing up ). __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

12-24-2007, 12:16 PM	#1013
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I assign having a nipper in the house at Christmas - it can only get better when I can start telling him about Father Christmas and how he much prefers a can of Guinness to a glass of sherry, how he won't leave any presents unless you keep your eyes closed tight shut all night and how the reindeer are powered by the magic of good girls and boys, so you need to be good to make sure the reindeers (sic) can get here... ...though I'm not looking forwards to being woken up at dawn and not being able to have a bacon sandwich before we open what Father Christmas has left... __________________ Gordon's alive!

12-24-2007, 01:47 PM	#1014
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	I assign the Great Alaska Pizza Co. because it's wonderful pizza, almost no crust(we hates the crusssst). And sledding down a nice huge hill, steep and long, not tiny hills, sledding down the deck is pretty boring! Going on the downs all day with the parents at work and no one to boss you around! __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.

12-26-2007, 01:20 PM	#1015
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Fondu after the Chrismas Eve service with 80 proof Armangac (whew!) and Chardonnay .... and Pinot Noir (14%) on Christmas Day. Makes the cold feel not so ughy.

12-26-2007, 01:49 PM	#1016
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	What I got for Christmas! __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.

12-26-2007, 01:59 PM	#1017
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	Ubuntu Linux. Every problem I've ever had with Windows - all gone. __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.

12-26-2007, 04:27 PM	#1018
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Having a family willing to do bizarre things such as sit round a table and ring bells when your number is called out. Where my mother finds these things I will never know but it was fun. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

12-26-2007, 04:37 PM	#1019
Nogrod Flame of the Ainulindalë Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wearing rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves Posts: 9,308	I assign to Shire Not caring for any Christmas preparations but only sitting in tables already made... Sitting down with people you don't sit down with everyday and eating well, drinking well, chatting well... feeling the belonging together of us, the generations together. That's something I really love and honour. The next year I have promised to hold the feast as my mom and her "boyfriend" (79 years) are getting a bit too old to organize these things (she refused my offer this year). So the next Christmas I'm assigning to Shire making up the party for all others to enjoy. __________________ Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet...

12-26-2007, 06:40 PM	#1020
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	My cousin, who lent me her pretty green dress to wear on Christmas Day (for reason why, see Mordor thread) My bag, which finally turned up this evening after (probably) many adventures. We all sat round looking at it, wishing it could talk to tell us all the places it had been, and how it had spent Christmas... __________________ Out went the candle, and we were left darkling

12-28-2007, 11:13 AM	#1021
Volo Silver in My Silent Heart Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: the great beauty Posts: 1,611	The coming back to life -feeling you get after having been sick and hopeless. __________________ Fenris Wolf The EVEN NEWER Barrow-Downs Photo Page

12-29-2007, 04:10 PM	#1022
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	I heartily second Volo's . And add finding something pretty and frivolous you coveted full price while Christmas shopping and absolute snip in the sales. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

12-31-2007, 09:50 AM	#1023
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Immodium. __________________ Gordon's alive!

01-01-2008, 05:50 AM	#1024
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	My almost-ready and very pretty green ball gown... __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

01-03-2008, 05:30 AM	#1025
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	Lysol 99% disinfectant. Beats the Mordor out of nauseating formalin...a bit.

01-06-2008, 03:42 PM	#1026
McCaber Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Skyrim, again. Posts: 820	Watching two of my very good friends finally get married yesterday. __________________ Werewolves vs. Fishmen. The battle of the century.

01-07-2008, 10:53 AM	#1027
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Friends who bring you flowers when you're ill. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

01-14-2008, 01:32 PM	#1028
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Realising that a huge work you've left to the last moment and you don't feel like doing at all isn't huge at all. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

01-14-2008, 02:54 PM	#1030
Groin Redbeard Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Facing the world's troubles with Christ's hope! Posts: 1,635	A bunch of peeping tom neighbors who won't leave me alone! __________________ I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeatof peace on earth, good-will to men! ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

01-14-2008, 09:05 PM	#1031
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Er, Groin, maybe a Dwarf wants to banish things he doesn't like to the Shire, but most folks around here generally assign things they like. Things they don't like tend to get assigned to Mordor.

01-15-2008, 02:34 PM	#1033
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	All the four posters above me really amuse me. Anyway, I'd like to assign friends who send you snail mail (and if it features a penguin article, even better ). __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

01-21-2008, 02:47 AM	#1035
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	I assign Laurinque!(she is my friend from school) and a boy I nicknamed Beautiful! __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.

01-21-2008, 10:32 AM	#1036
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Things just ... working. Getting work in in plenty of time, having a bus that drops you off at just exactly the right time, wandering around campus for a couple of hours doing everything you needed to get done and having friends who will do that with you and then agree to go to a new exercise class with you so you don't have to go on your own for the first time. I like second year! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

01-21-2008, 11:19 AM	#1037
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	My little brothers (I have three of them), who have been unusually nice today. One went to buy me some lemonade when I asked him. Another made me ice cream when I asked him. And the youngest took my dog for a walk when I complained it's too cold and dark and damp outside. __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.

01-21-2008, 04:19 PM	#1039
Finduilas Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Home. Where rolling green hills and clear rivers are practically my backyard. Posts: 595	Running water! How I miss it. please thaw pipes, please thaw pipes, please thaw.... __________________ One (1) book of rules and traffic regulations, which may not be bent or broken. ~ The Phantom Tollbooth

01-22-2008, 07:52 PM	#1040
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	Well I suppose you could pray about it!!!!!!!! (that usually works for me!) But on the subject! My director for the last play I was in! He is so awesome! __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.