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Terry Pratchett at the Cheltenham Festival (October 15th)

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Postby Buckjump » Sun Oct 16, 2005 01:03 pm

Many thanks from me too - some great stuff there.
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Re: Terry Pratchett at the Cheltenham Festival (October 15th

Postby nevermind » Sun Oct 16, 2005 03:31 pm

Pat wrote:
Grunthos wrote:apparently walking on Lego that's been left on the carpet is agonising)
Lego bad. Duplo - 1000 times worse. I speak from experience...


Marbles............bare feet ouch!
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Postby Cara » Sun Oct 16, 2005 03:43 pm

nevermind wrote:Marbles............bare feet ouch!

At college when we were being taught to use various different types of walking aids, we had to put a marble under our foot in our shoe.
Darn right about the ouch bit!
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Postby Silmaril » Sun Oct 16, 2005 03:47 pm

Thanks!:D

I'm determined that one day I'll actually get to hear him speak.
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Postby Mooresey » Sun Oct 16, 2005 04:04 pm

I have, and he is very funny.
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Postby Tonyblack » Sun Oct 16, 2005 06:29 pm

Silmaril wrote:Thanks!:D

I'm determined that one day I'll actually get to hear him speak.
You'll find that once you have heard him speak, you'll hear his voice when you read the books. It's spooky! :shock:
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Postby Catch-up » Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:05 pm

Tonyblack wrote:
Silmaril wrote:Thanks!:D

I'm determined that one day I'll actually get to hear him speak.
You'll find that once you have heard him speak, you'll hear his voice when you read the books. It's spooky! :shock:


Very true!
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Postby swreader » Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:32 pm

That was an excellent summary of an hour plus talk & questions. If only reporters or reviewers could do as well. And the idea of Granny Weatherwax and You is hilarious. Could you manage to attend everything in Britian that Pratchett speaks at--at least those of us in other parts of the world could count on your reports. :D
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Postby Catch-up » Mon Oct 17, 2005 03:14 am

Grunthos wrote:Poppadoms are something you get with Indian food. Not sure exactly what they are (I don't like Indian food) but they're round, and that was apparently enough for someone to think they were an appropriate thing to link to Discworld.


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Postby Alt.unohoo » Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:52 am

Brilliant review, thanks so much for the time and effort. It is very much appreciated. :D
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Postby rentawitch » Mon Oct 17, 2005 02:41 pm

great report.
Silmaril, you can still listen to the Orangeword archives to hear Terry if you have not done so.
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Postby Dawn » Mon Oct 17, 2005 06:06 pm

:thumbl:

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Postby Pat » Mon Oct 17, 2005 06:23 pm

Execllent report (unless of course you're making it all up and Terry wasn't there - in which case even excellenter!)
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Postby Tonyblack » Tue Oct 18, 2005 08:57 am

rentawitch wrote:great report.
Silmaril, you can still listen to the Orangeword archives to hear Terry if you have not done so.
I was there! What a great day that was. My first meeting with the great man and quite a few of you lot as well. :)

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