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OK, I guess I have. I thought you were pulling my leg. But I liked the story that I told you. By the way, there are people who collect counterfeits only. I found a good shop at Hillgate street - not too far from the Grisham Hyde Park, where we lived then. And there was a street with several...

Everything is. Except the bees, of course. (From a Russian anecdote).

Errr... I think yes - just getting to our dacha and back again is about 80 km a day... And my wife really likes to drive - she spends much time every day behind the wheel. So... I think that the Suzuki is up to 200.000 and we have it for three years or so, if I remember correctly. And there are...

Privet Ebolamonkey. Kak dela? Poka, bud' zdorov.

Yeah, you are right - I have several phonies, one of them bought in our Arbat street. It was a beautiful German silver coin, I've known its cost, and when they asked for a tenth of that - I'd been so shocked that immediately grabbed it. My wife has gone ahead while I made the buy, so I spent...

I do not know for others, but please imagine a teenagers fresh from school: we had two alternatives then - to continue learning at an institute, or go to the Army. I feared the latter and liked to construct etc. - so I tried the Engineering Institute. And the picture of course had not been only...

Thanks, I already have - I was planning for some time to try myself experiments with photographing sky - it seems that you master this technique pretty well. I have never been to Korea - so I would have appreciated if you send me more - what you think the most characteristic... You know, I've...

Wow... That's really a strange story... So, did they succeed against Valentina after all? (And I expect one of the two girls was really daughter of a person who had been killed by the father, or something like that... )

Yep, sure, that was the same with us - if I decided that anything was wrong, I surely had the workers redo it. As their safety was on me too - I could stop the work anytime I thought that needed, or not allow a drunk worker to get to work. But as I was also responsible for the work being done...

Thank you, it is a pleasure to hear such words about my country. You know, I just returned from a small trip through several old cities of Russia, so I can mail you some digital photos that I had time to make there before the memory card was filled... Of course churches there are not cared...

Wow, that's really amazed me: "A Short History of tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka" What's this??? Too bad I can read only in metro, app. 2 hours a day...

So it was Beth who made this thread go up in the first place.

Yep, this place is FUN really. :)

That's easy - I've done that myself: got to Tania's profile and asked to show me all her posts. Hop-la, and Clueless enters it, dragging it to the top.

Hi Tania! SPb is OK city, but I like Moscow better.

Thanks, at least I try to be. I've sent you a photo of most of my netsuke - alas, the quality is not too good, as while trying to make it smaller I seem to damage something... And I attached two photos out of several GBs that I made last year on the Maldives before the earthquake. I liked it...

Hi Beth: Thank you for kind words! Whom of our authors do you like? Where in Russia have you been? We have much to show... What you liked most? To save up for five years - you must have liked Russia really very much. It is good you liked it here. But - I like it very much myself and do...

You know, my attitude to that is much the same as yours to consular people. Of course I do not know what you know about our Socilalistic days, and it seems that most of our people older'n me have already forgot that themselves, and those much younger have too tender beliefs about our...

Yes, we do - we have books of them. Alas, I do not know French. It seems many people in England do know it... Our people seemed to believe that the only labour that should be paid well was hard hand labour, what the "Men's Power" is about. And, for example, engineers were considered by the...

Yep, I had that one in mind too. That means the elders are the same too - cannot ajust to fact that the younger are not much different from them, and sometimes even better... Yep, my days too... Though sometimes it is too difficult to believe... I cannot remember much in the way of presents...