~*sneaks in for cookies, since this is the only place I am allowed to eat them*~
hola amigas!
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~*sneaks in for cookies, since this is the only place I am allowed to eat them*~
hola amigas!
That would be great! You wouldn't have to worry about spilling it yourself and one could make a game of catching flyijng cookies in the mouth! :p I am hoping Pendragon the vampire does not bring blood cookies though...:sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Ah tea in a graveyard...! it's been a while!:lol:
you kind of cant help drinking tea in a cemetry if your tea hut is in the middle of it! Well... even the skulls on the table didnt make me flinch:D
(Note to everyone, i'm not crazy, just used to be an Archaeologist! well then again... you need to have some screws loose to be an archaeologist!:lol:
You were an archaeologist? That is too cool Niamh! :D Please tell us a fantastic story about Egyptian mummies or meeting Indiana Jones :p But really, it must have been a fascinating job.
Most of the time you were knee deep in mud! it was good craic. I met some of the greatest friends i've ever known while digging. They were all from different countries, (well bar Malachy, hes from Offaly but now lives in scotland) which means i get to travel a bit, but i dont get to see them that often.:( My friend Jen had a baby in Nov and i still havent gotten over to see baby Kaia.
I worked on a site in Cavan for four weeks, and there were patches of pure smooth clay around the site. So one day, slightly board, i decided to mess around with the clay and made a little bowl. note i left it on the site over the weekend. On the monday following my site director got this phone call from the cavan county council saying that they had recieved a phone call from a farmer who had been walking his dog across our site and that he had come across what he believed to be prehistoric pottery, and had put a plastic cup over it for protection.:blush: The director laughed at me over it and took it home as a reminder.:lol: Oops!!!
:lol: That's a great story! I guess you were just too keen to make your own history rather then discover it:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
A tea party in a graveyard?! This has made my day! We could party with all the dead people and dance to Danse Macabre! Gosh, I love that song, by the way! I adore ancient graveyards. Tea and a graveyard...my two favorite things! Sorry, I'm rambling...
Speaking of tea parties, my English teacher says we are going to have a "tea party" tomorrow with no tea. It's just for ettiquite practice. Girls get extra credit if they wear a hat and gloves and boys get extra credit if they wear a collared shirt and tie! :lol: I can't wait...I love my English teacher. Her class is such a pleasure to be in.
Hey, I found this brand that sells lotion and powder. It's called Laura Ashley. I really like the Norfolk Lavender powder so far. Anyone else heard of it? I highly reccomend it. :thumbs_up
Ha ha, what an entertaining story, Niamh! Who needs clay bowls thousands of years old when you can make oe yourself!
Oh, hello, Mrs. Cranch, haven't seen you in a while! Would you like to have some tea with us living folk? How's your sister Mrs. Adams and everyone else? I hear Mr. Adams has a problem with visitors stopping by his tomb. I hear they keep waking him up. Dear, dear... they must wake up Mrs. Adams, Quincy, and Louisa Catherine as well! :D
well if we ar going to graveyeards Ill want A3 or maybe A2 sheets of tracingpaper, charcol pencils , a note book, is this at night?? if so flashlights.... oh and dont forget the flowers it never does to upset the dead.
:p
Heres another one for you, and this one involves a cemetry!
I was working on a site in Mullingar in co. westmeath. it was a 14th cent cemetry situated in the town centre. My Friend Mikaela and her friend Annie were leaving the site, and seeing as i was also their house mate they let me in on their plan. on their last day they were going to bury some items in some loose soil beside one of the graves. So while nobody was looking during lunch, they snuck out on to the site, quickly burying their treasure.
After lunch we all returned to the site and returned to working on what ever we had been doing. With one look to me Mikaela indicated with her head where they had buried their items. They were hidden in the soil right beside our supervisor Ed, who i think was talking the the director Rob at the time. If i can recall both of the girls left early. Suddenly Ed spots some plastic sticking out of the little heap of soil. It was then that he realised that that little heap of soil wasn't there when we'd all gone in for break. bending down, he starts to dig at the soil, pulling out the plastic bag the girls had put there. Low and behold in the bag with some biscuits and wine gums is a huge Trowel with the words 'What ever you do, dont under excavate!' written in permenent marker. our Director Rob, who was famous on site for saying this and under excavating, amused by what the girls did brought the trowel in the the finds office and framed it in a finds tray, and placed it on the fireplace for all to see! ( He also ate all the wine gums!)
nightshade-Yes i think we should bring flowers, maybe white lilies. We could even invite a few residents to tea!
SO what kind of archeology, is like a special period or just anything??
Greetings Miss Lily! Nice to see you around again :) I wish we had tea parties at my school! You ought to wear the Regency outfit you made to it! I can see straight A's coming from that:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lily Adams
And why should I bring blood cook-iees? Sounds as if there will be plen-ty of fresh blood there anyway...Maybe I bring friends... http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/figuren/e035.gif http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/figuren/c015.gif http://www.industreal.spb.ru/smiles/scull.gif http://www.industreal.spb.ru/smiles/ghost.gif
Something to keep in mind! ;)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/6254763.stmQuote:
China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women by 2020, making it difficult for them to find wives, according to a national report. The gender imbalance could lead to social instability, the report by the State Population and Family Planning Commission warned.
It found that around 118 boys were born to every 100 girls in 2005.
A traditional preference for boys, in a country with a one-child policy, is the root of the problem, the report says.
Abortions on female foetuses are believed to be widespread as couples, particularly in rural areas, hope for a son who will look after them in their old age.
There is also suspected under-reporting of female births.
'Embrace girls'
The report said the 118 to 100 ratio of newborn boys to girls had jumped from 110 to 100 recorded in 2000.
In some areas of southern China, such as Guangdong and Hainan, the figure was 130 boys to 100 girls in 2005.
Nationwide this means there will be 30 million more men than women by 2020, making it difficult for those particularly with low income or little education to find a wife, the report said.
"The increasing difficulties men face finding wives may lead to social instability," the report said.
The report went on: "We need to develop a 'movement to embrace girls'... and effectively contain the trend towards greater gender imbalances."
The report also said that China's current 1.3 billion population would grow by 200 million by 2033.
And the number of 60-year-olds and over will jump from the current 143 million to 430 million by 2040, 30% of the total population.
The country will need to improve its social security and retirement system, as well as its family planning policies and education and health services, the report concludes.
The BBC's Daniel Griffiths, in BBC, says the one-child policy has already led to other major problems, with many single children facing the prospect of supporting two parents and four grandparents well into their old age.
Yeah, I've been busy, unfortunately. I'm not done with it! I've barely started! If only the party was at the end of the year! I wore my bonnet and my mom's 80's Mondonna gloves, though. (Wow. What a combo.)Quote:
Originally Posted by dramasnot6
Hey Ladies:)
interesting Scher.
Cookies!!!!!!tea!!!!!!!!!!!coffee!!!!!!!!!!!yay!!! !!!!!!!!!! :)
I've excavated early neolithic, to medieval, to modern field boundaries.You kind of generally do a bit of everything, but it depends on the site. One month you could be excavating burials, the next you could be planning recording and demolishing cobbled court yards. (all because of bad routing of new roads!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
Wow, was it a very stressful job?Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Yes it could be very stressful. especially when there is this voice in your head screaming 'what are you doing! stop desicrating the past!' But if i didnt do it, and if it wasnt recorded all would have been lost as everything would have been buldozed and distroyed and never recorded. All would have been forgotten. its sad to think that most of my sites have become roads, and underground carparks for buildings. thats stress to the head. but They were the best two years of my life. Met so many nice people. Also no customers to wreak your head. most of the time the people you inreacted with were dead for a few hundred to a thousand years!
When did your interest in archaeology start Niamh? I'm going into anthropology, but not necessarily archaeology until I have some field opportunities. Right now it is physical anthro - osteology. But I would really love to learn more about the archaeological side from someone who has actually experienced it.
Very interesting vocation you're involved with Niamh. I'm sure passion entails a huge part of what you do. My mother often reminds me that archaeology was one of the careers as a kids that I wanted to pursue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Funny enough I sometimes wish that my clients were dead:lol: :lol: :lol:
Finally someones who speaks me language! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by LPRox015
Wow! That's an awesome career, I had originally studied to be a forensic Archeologist, but I switched over to the world of IT (my other passion :rolleyes: ). It's awesome that you pursued that career field.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
It is awesome:nod: I wish somtimes I hadt been talked out of archeology/arthapology, but on the bright side I do lOOOVE libraries.....ooh maybe I can get a job in a specialist folklore/ myths library....( I was always more intrrested in the shared social anthropolgy and common tales).
Course you cant go to live in Egypt and see the pyramids out of your classroomm window and be exposed to 'westernised' ideas of whats under the pyramids without at least thinking of going into egyptology or archiology....I think Iwas going to find the lost burial chamber of Khufu ( cant remebr his roman name) .:D :rolleyes:
I loved working in Archaeology, but when i couldn't find work, like you i ended up in the book side of things! I now supervise book shops! I miss digging sometimes though, especially when i'm dealing with crabby customers!:bawling: like Ozeed i sometimes wish they were dead too! i still love watching programmes on tv about archaeology. its my nostalgia!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
i'd wanted to be an archaeolgist since i saw my first programme on tv about Egypt! I was eight then. I came across a copy book from school afew years back from when i was eight and in it was a list of what i wanted to be when i grew up. Archaeologist was there, circled a few times with lots of stars around it!:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86
Btw- anthropology is harder to study than archaeology. you cover the basics in your course. Most Anthropologists become archaeologists.
but I thought you were in airports?! Yes but the no job thing is why my mum said I wasnt going and if I did she wouldnt pay the school fees as I would be 'wasting my time and money'Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Hey Niamh:
An archeologist was slowly digging his way into a recently discovered tomb in the Valley of the Kings. As the digging was producing results, he grew excited, and worked long into the night by torchlight. Finally the batteries on his torch ran out, just as he found the entrance to the tomb. Spotting an old wooden torch by moonlight, he dug through his pockets for a match. Suddenly a hand appeared and lit the torch for him. “Gee, thank you, buddy. I couldn’t see anything in here!” “No problem.” The Mummy said. “You woke me up with your confounded digging anyway!” http://www.industreal.spb.ru/smiles/scull.gif :lol: :lol:
I am in the airport. I now supervise 5 bookshops in the Airport in dublin. I took the job because i needed money badly! was unemployed for three months by that point. Here almost two years now. It's not wasting time though. In Britain the archaeology structure is different to here. Over here your contract ends with a company if they have no work for you and you end up unemployed until you find another company to hire you. In britain most of the time they'll keep you on but sub hire you to another company until they get more work of you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
Pendragon thats a funny joke. never heard that one before. here another archaeology joke (a very lame one though!)
there were two archaeology features on a site. one turned to the other and cried ' Here comes an Archaeolgist! Act natural!':D
I have always wanted to work in a bookshop! It is certainly the best place to get discounts :)
I get a 30% discount. Bye bye wages!
:lol: 30% is great! But I can imagine how one's wallet could be drained by the other 70% if a bibliophile :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Well i've certainly up'd my personal library at home since i started working there! I even have some books that i bought that i havent read yet!:blush:
Puh-lease, Drama, don't take my name in vain! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by dramasnot6
:lol: I do the same, I do the same! It's very naughty really but probably my greatest guilty pleasure :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
haha sorry about that Pen!
This is also one of my vices. I'm addicted to buying books, even though I know I won't have time to read them. There is only so much that one can read, but a good book makes one salivate and desire it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I have PILES of books that I bought to read 'one day'...I'm starting to prevent myself from buying them though.
I always end up picking up the books i've already read instead of the ones i bought hadnt read yet. I think its a sickness!:sick:
No, I do the same thing, niamh! :p
Maybe i should make it my new years resolution: Read the books i spent well earned money on and never read!
:bawling: I wish I had your problems (or all your unread books :p). I'm almost always so short of money that I depend on the books library has to offer (read: none published after WWII) :rolleyes:.