Anyone for Coffee? (no boys allowed)

[dramasnot6]

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! 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.

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!

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

[Pendragon]

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...

[Scheherazade]

Something to keep in mind!

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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/6254763.stm

[Lily Adams]

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

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.)

[miss tenderness]

Hey Ladies


interesting Scher.

[LPRox015]

Cookies!!!!!!tea!!!!!!!!!!!coffee!!!!!!!!!!!yay!!! !!!!!!!!!!

[Niamh]

SO what kind of archeology, is like a special period or just anything??

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!)

[dramasnot6]

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!)

Wow, was it a very stressful job?

[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!

[grace86]

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.

[OZEED]

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!

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.
Funny enough I sometimes wish that my clients were dead

[Stanislaw]

Cookies!!!!!!tea!!!!!!!!!!!coffee!!!!!!!!!!!yay!!! !!!!!!!!!!

Finally someones who speaks me language!

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!)

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 ). It's awesome that you pursued that career field.

[Nightshade]

It is awesome 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) .

[Niamh]

It is awesome 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).

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! like Ozeed i sometimes wish they were dead too! i still love watching programmes on tv about archaeology. its my nostalgia!

[Niamh]

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.

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!

Btw- anthropology is harder to study than archaeology. you cover the basics in your course. Most Anthropologists become archaeologists.