Member: Seanie

Happy birthday! Hope it's a great one!

posted by cmbohn at 12:11 pm (EST) on Mar 17, 2013

This cat is so gorgeous. I hope he has found a good home by now. If I lived in your hemisphere I would have been sorely tempted in spite of already having three.

posted by anna_in_pdx at 11:41 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2012

Hi Seanie

Pica has been suggested to me at other times and Parsifal's habit of eating shoelaces probably is a form of pica. However, pica is usually caused by an iron deficiency and it seems to be something inherent in Oriental cats. The Siamese cats were kept in the temples to kill snakes and most Oriental breeds are developed from Siamese cats. I sometimes wonder if there is some atavistic urge to kill long, thin things.

However, it can be managed; I was talking to someone else with a shoelace eater yesterday and she said that if the laces are left tied into bows they are not as tempting. I'm not holding my breath, though ... I haven't many laces left to tie into bows. My female Burmese, who died a couple of years ago, did the same thing and I found that tucking the laces into my shoes was enough to put her off but Parsifal is not discourged that easily.

Their breeder, who regularly reads my blog, seems neither fussed nor surprised.

Cheers - minnie

posted by pinkozcat at 8:26 pm (EST) on Aug 10, 2012

Happy Easter 2 u.

In your capacity as The Person Most Likely To Know, may I please pick your brains?

We were watching the news on TV, and the weekend's top sports story was the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town. So called because of the misconception that the Indian Ocean wraps round to Cape Point, when in fact the boundary between the Indian and Atlantic is at Cape Agulhas, some 150-200 km to the east. So Melissa started wondering ...

Where in Australia is the boundary between the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean considered to be? And that between the Indian and Southern Oceans? And Southern Ocean and Tasman Sea?

Thanks a million
h

posted by hfglen at 2:23 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2012

Did you know Robin Hobb's new book is out? It's the third book following up on Dragon Keeper and Dragon Haven, called City of Dragons. I just found out and ordered it straight away. I think it only came out a fortnight ago.

I'm excited! I like this series much better than the Soldier Son trilogy. I just can't get enough of the Elderling universe.

posted by Choreocrat at 11:06 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2012

Hi Seanie,

Just responding

What sort of DSLR camera are you thinking of getting?
Sorry I'm old enough to remember "film" very well. Even B/W :-)

And I did like most of your pictures of the shelter "kids".
A 10 to 1 ratio of taken to acceptible photos is rather good.

DO keep taking many, many more pics of the cats.
And do post each (distinct) cat on the group!
ANY publicity is good... for the Cats.

Which shelter are you associated with?
I support (money only) the "Blue Cross" the one in Wonga Park, here in Melbourne.

Guido.

posted by guido47 at 3:28 am (EST) on Feb 8, 2012

Miss Tilly & Taji Boy :)

posted by Seanie at 5:17 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2011

Hope you weren't in a hurry for the cheesecake recipe? Sorry. It's been hectic here. I have just finished my post-grad study which meant life is beginning to turn into something resmbling normal. I'll drag out the recipe when I have remembered where it is. In the meantime I offer. Freezes really well too!

Coconut and white chocolate

Preheat the oven to 180oC (350F/gas 4). Grease and line slice tin. Melt 125g (4 ½ oz) unsalted butter and 150g (5 1/2oz) white eating chocolate in a saucepan over low heat. Add 175g (6 oz ¾ cup) caster sugar and stir to combine. Pour into a large bowl and add 125g (4 1/2oz 1 cup) SR flour and 90g (3 ¼ oz 1 cup) desiccated coconut. Stir to combine, then add 2 beaten eggs. Stir lightly to just combine, then fold in 150g (5 ½ oz 1 ¼ cups) fresh raspberries (I use frozen…quite ok!). Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40 mins, or until firm. Cool in the tin. Cut into pieces and dust with icing sugar.

posted by nitnat at 12:34 am (EST) on Jul 23, 2011

No worries about Lord of the Fries! I can happily be vegetarian for one meal! Especially since I consider one of the best parts of a Hindu wedding to be the vegetarian breyani that is standard issue to all guests. -- h

posted by hfglen at 3:04 pm (EST) on Jul 14, 2011

Oh, sure! There isn't a pattern for the dress itself; I made a tube-type bodice sized for 0-3 months and attached a bunch of roses to that. The pattern for the roses was found on Ravelry.com, but it's also on the author's private blog. The link is here: http://hookhound.blogspot.com/p/rosa-crochet-flower.html

Now, a fair warning - this project will take some time to complete, and if she wants it to be worn she should get started soon and plan to make it bigger than the baby is now. Each rose took me about 50 minutes to make and there are about 90 roses in the dress. I almost didn't finish it in time for her to wear it; it just fits her and I expect we have another month of use before she outgrows it and it gets put in a storage box for safekeeping till she has her own daughter. It may go faster if she uses yarn instead of thread, but that's entirely up to her.

posted by RandomActofMuse at 6:46 am (EST) on Jun 7, 2011

Great idea! Go for it! -- h

posted by hfglen at 7:32 am (EST) on May 16, 2011

Haven't contacted Will; better leave that for tonight. The first week is plant nomenclature, held in one of the Uni. Melbourne buildings. The main body of the do -- 4000 botanists in a confined space (AAAACCKK!) is in the Conference Centre which I gather is a new building on South Wharf, sort-of SE corner of the city centre if I've read the map correctly. I still need to figure out where the Uni. campus is in relation to the rest of the world, and how to get there. Or from there to anywhere useful.

Used-book stores: you must have been reading my mind. I particularly want to look for a copy of Let Stalk Strine and see if I can add to my collection of Footrot Flats (though I know that's Kiwi not Wallaby).

Where in Melbourne: Near the Uni or near the conference centre if it's lunch time. I'm hoping to stay with a cousin in Toorak, so that area (Google Earth suggests it's not 100% residential) might answer for an after-work meet-up.

posted by hfglen at 3:38 am (EST) on Apr 14, 2011

Seanie, good luck to you and your kitties in the cat show. I am very impressed you are doing this! I would be so nervous to start out in that field. I'll be waiting to hear your results, and perhaps see a photograph or two, taken with the new camera! Congrats on that, too.

posted by maggie1944 at 9:05 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2011

Hi,

I read your topic in the Fantasy-Group where you're searching for Fantasy literature featuring cats, and then I saw that you apparently don't own "Kafka on the shore" by japanese author Haruki Murakami. It's not a fantasy-book but rather "Magical Realism", but I thought maybe you could nevertheless like it. One of the main characters is a guy named Nakata, who, after a mysterious incident in his childhood, is mentally disabled but earned the ability to talk to cats. Alongside with them he searches for a lost cat and meets "Johny Walker, the famous cat-murderer".
As I said, the novel contains many fantastical features without really being fantasy; it seems maybe a bit strange first, but it's definetively worth reading!

Regards,
Alex

posted by Schizophrenia86 at 7:30 am (EST) on Mar 7, 2011

Hope all well with you and the kitties and your folks. Miss you at Green Dragon!

posted by Esta1923 at 1:03 am (EST) on Dec 17, 2010

Sure. I will type it up and send it through.

All good here. How is your new home going? It must be pretty close to a year since you moved in now; so maybe not quite so new anymore!

Natalie

posted by nitnat at 10:41 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2010

Oh. I signed in and then it told me I wasn't allowed to view the page anymore. Um...I will leave it for now and hope you can enlighten me!

posted by Severn at 5:04 am (EST) on Mar 10, 2010

Seanie, that site looks wonderful, so I joined up!

Thanks for sharing Harvey's story. I'll come post on the thread you made.

posted by Severn at 5:02 am (EST) on Mar 10, 2010

(7:50 pm on Tuesday, South African time)

Tonight's TV news had an insert to the effect that last night it was 37°C at midnight in Melbourne -- which is about 10 degrees hotter than our daily maximum right now! Hope you and the kitties are at least surviving, preferably well.

All best
Hugh

posted by hfglen at 12:49 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2010

I do thank you for the suggestion (to find the "method") but I simply cannot decode!! Oh well, folks will have a Happy New Year without seeing it. . . but I'm glad you did see it on Flickr!

posted by Esta1923 at 2:42 pm (EST) on Dec 31, 2009

I have finally posted a picture of my Himalayan kitty on my profile. Princess would send you some purrs and meows, if she paid any attention at all to the computer, LOL. She likes being appreciated, though.

posted by littleshell at 7:25 pm (EST) on Dec 27, 2009

Will do!!

posted by AnjilaG at 2:59 am (EST) on Dec 17, 2009

Thank you! Esta

posted by Esta1923 at 8:33 pm (EST) on Dec 3, 2009

sure, will get the recipe typed up and posted to you :)

posted by RuneFirestar at 5:18 am (EST) on Oct 28, 2009

HI Seanie,

Thank you! I'm so thrilled you liked the book! I have great fun with the pirates, and it's lovely to know others enjoy them, too. I've just finished the sequel (tentatively titled "Kestrel's Dance") and I'm working on a short story featuring Kestrel and her crew for an upcoming anthology. Kestrel's a busy girl!

Fair winds!
Misty Massey

posted by MistyMassey at 9:03 am (EST) on Sep 24, 2009

Seanie,

I know you're probably busy with packing ;-) but I'm trying to raise a bit of LT cricket awareness. I'm not sure GD is the place to do it but you're very welcome here http://www.librarything.com/topic/4134 as long as you're a good loser!

posted by Barry at 10:46 am (EST) on Jul 8, 2009

Hi Seanie, I am just pleased to know they were handed on. They have plenty to do so am not worried that I didn't hear from them.

Natalie

posted by nitnat at 4:30 am (EST) on May 14, 2009

Best wishes for your new home!! When ours was at that stage (many years ago) we went out to see it by moonlight: it looked so beautiful that my husband said, "Tell them to stop right there! We'll build another next to it!!" ~~~ Of course we didn't, but we know how exciting building can be. (We had designed it ourselves, and it sat on 10 wooded acres of an 80-acre tract.) We were the first people. Later others came, some on 5-acres, some on 10. (We did sell it and moved after retirement.)

posted by Esta1923 at 12:15 am (EST) on May 14, 2009

Hi Seanie, I just wanted to say congratulations, again, on finding a new home. Be patient with the paperwork. If your community is anything like mine, it just takes time. But it feels so wonderful to have a home where you can do whatever you want. No more "Mr Landlord, please". Keep us informed on your progress. - Karen, aka Maggie1944

posted by maggie1944 at 4:28 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2009

Seanie
Hello! :) This is my first series of Robin Hobb's so it is my maiden voyage into her writing. Glad to know I picked a popular one! I just finished the first book in the Liveships set and am working on the second. So far I'm liking them quite a bit - her characters are quite good and the story clips along. I kept running into her name here and there on LT and finally got around to reading a trilogy. So far I'm not disappointed :) and am rapidly becoming a fan.

- Evedeve

posted by evedeve at 9:17 am (EST) on Mar 24, 2009

Seanie,

Keen to know what you think of weatherwitch when you finish it. I keep looking at Cecelia Dart-Thornton books and wondering... read the crowthistle chronicles - book 1 - whatever it was called.

You never seem to hear of her outside Aus. but she has beook in all the bookstores where I go to sign my small literary offering.

Dave

posted by DavidHWebb at 4:59 am (EST) on Mar 23, 2009

Thank you. I hope she likes them, or at least will get some use out of them. You can never have enough warm stuff for little ones in winter!

posted by nitnat at 4:37 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2009

So, I've washed the cardigans and will post them on Monday! At long last. It took a bit longer than I wanted, but such is life!

Natalie

posted by nitnat at 7:10 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2009

Nearly finished the cardis. Took a bit longer than I hoped, but there will be three there soon....

posted by nitnat at 6:27 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2009

Cool. What I'll do it knit another one this week and then early next week, having washed them up so they don't have to fuss, I'll post them to you. I will let you know when I am sending them so you can keep a look out.

posted by nitnat at 6:15 pm (EST) on Feb 15, 2009

Cardigan no 1 is almost done. We need to come up with a solution to be able to get them to your sister's friend. Open to suggestions. Can we get it to her parents? Would it be easy to get it to your sister and get her to pass them on?

posted by nitnat at 9:47 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2009

Got the wool and am about to start on some unisex garments for the baby! Will let you know when I am ready to post them.

posted by nitnat at 8:39 pm (EST) on Feb 11, 2009

I am a mum to three children. I don't think I need to say anymore really. My youngest is 8 months old and to have your children left with nothing, and to have been in danger is something I can't really begin to comprehend. If you can find out then do so. I am in the middle of a little vest thing for Meredith at present, so there is some time before I will begin it. If I haven't heard anything from you by then, I'll do something simple and plain. Cheers Nat

posted by nitnat at 3:06 am (EST) on Feb 9, 2009

Seanie, was your sisters friends baby a boy or girl? I really want to knit he/she a nice 'something' for winter. Also, would you be prepared to give me an address so I can get it to you to get to her?

posted by nitnat at 3:54 am (EST) on Feb 8, 2009

~wave~

posted by Severn at 6:36 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2009

Merry Christmas, Seanie! Been great hanging about with you in the GD this past year. Hope the holiday season is a good one for you. ~hugs~

K

posted by Severn at 12:38 am (EST) on Dec 23, 2008

Hi to a fellow aussie!

posted by nitnat at 10:36 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2008

Hi!
I just saw your post about Camber of Culdi. I hope you find book one soon. I really did love those books.
Maybe you can cheat and borrow book one and continue to look? :)
I first read it years ago, and those characters have stayed with me. Now I continued to read
the next three Deryni books.. and did not like those nearly as well..but thats me.

Whenever you do read them, I am betting that you will love those characters

kath.

posted by mckait at 8:29 am (EST) on Aug 5, 2008

Hey, just me again
You asked a while ago for my thoughts on Kingmaker / Kingbreaker.
I finished it a few weeks ago, but just haven't got round to reviewing it until a few days ago.
My reviews are now up on the books pages. I'll put a brief summary for you here though.

Overall they were enjoyable, if a little slow to get started. Once the pace increased though it didn't let you go until the end. Which, paradoxically, I found slightly rushed - almost as if she was trying to meet the deadline for her publisher. I felt that there could have been some more meat in the ending, rather than it being over fairly fast. The rest of the book was very good though - so don't let that put you off!

So yes - that's my thoughts, Still need to pick up Assassin's Apprentice though hehe.

03Swalker

posted by lambada at 6:00 pm (EST) on Jul 2, 2008

Hey, Seanie -

I know you were up in the air about your first review. Well, it looks like you got 5 thumbs up on it and it's now showing up on home pages as one of the ot reviews. Congrats! And keeping reviewing!

Jim

posted by drneutron at 8:17 am (EST) on Jun 25, 2008

Hello,
Thanks for the recommendation - I'll certainly pick up Assassin's Apprentice next time I go to a bookshop so I can see what the actual writing is like. I usually stand in the shop and read the first few pages anyway!

I hacve only recently bought Kingmaker and i'm planning to start reading it soon - I'll let you know how it turns out =]

Thanks again for the recommendations

posted by lambada at 10:10 am (EST) on Jun 7, 2008

Hi! While I have read Vincalis, I have not read The Secret Texts trilogy. I read Vincalis first because I had never read anything by the author before, and I had been told it was her best work to date -- I didn't even know it was related to one of her other series until I after I started reading it.

Though I don't think it matters too much which way one reads it, I'd recommend reading the Secret Texts first. Vincalis is probably a more compelling book if you're already familiar with the world and curious about how it got to be the way it is in the Secret Texts.

posted by saturnine13 at 11:36 am (EST) on Jun 4, 2008

Thanks Seanie, that's really interesting to know.

posted by reading_fox at 5:19 am (EST) on May 12, 2008

HI
I note you've got "The Accidental Sorcerer" by KE Mills, who has been combined with Karen Miller, I don't believe they are the same person? but before I seperate them I thought I'd check it wasn't a psuedoname.

thanks for your help with this.

Fox.

posted by reading_fox at 6:32 am (EST) on Apr 30, 2008

No, there is no one website. But I try adding words to my google images searches, like "pretty cake" or "book cake" or "fairy cake."

Good luck! There are some wonderful cakes out there!!!

posted by clamairy at 10:33 am (EST) on Jan 14, 2008

Group = joined. Huzzah!

You know, I think you're right -- I don't believe I posted about my own dragons. I must go back and find that thread later.

posted by buchleser at 1:32 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2007

No, no sarcasm intended, mon ami. The pictures really did spruce up the thread -- in fact, it would have been nice to have seen a few more peoples' pictures. They are worth a thousand words each, you know. :)

-Danny

posted by buchleser at 8:59 am (EST) on Nov 23, 2007

Thanks for posting pictures in "Dragons at Home," Seanie!

posted by buchleser at 9:11 am (EST) on Nov 19, 2007

Well, I joined! I left a post full of attitude too. ;) You need to get some Terry Pratchett books so we have some books in common, or what books should I get? I'm not a huge fantasy fan. LOtR, Pratchett, some of the classic ones, that's about all I have.

posted by MrsLee at 4:43 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2007