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Thanks again! Alas, I hadn't made any photographs of that thing, as I hadn't expected to sell it. But I can send you a photo of several things that I made just for fun - I still have them, and made a photograph just several month before. I have usually photographed those that I made to sell -...

:) You know, when one is troubled by something - he sees that object everywhere he looks... You would not believe me, but then I even have carved our president Gorbachev out of a piece of boxwood in a very satirical way in the netsuke technique. Too bad the people who had taken the thing...

Too bad our Duma is too busy with Latvians and bees to give us some workable pet regulations. Yessss, that's not a dog fault. But surely the owner's. I do not think it's good. As to pheasants... One of my previous cats has caught a bird on our balcony one day. After that she naturally came...

Ha. Everybody knows that everything had been much better before than it is now. Our schools are mostly free. When I have tried to get my daughter into school she attends now (it has a good reputation as one of the best ordinary schools), they offered me to buy for the school two refrigerators...

Yep, I think you are right - there are breeders that systematically get the most aggressive dogs to get the puppies, and so on. But in any case that is what a man does to a dog, not what happens to dogs without any influence of men. Breeding essentially is about adjusting pets to what...

I see. Very logical approach. As to bad owners... I have an impression that people sometimes want from their pets much more than they are capable of giving. Sometimes people think of their dogs much better, than of other people. That would have been OK if that had been only the dog owners'...

But that's the truth - they really have the stable population grouth notwithstanding all the possible hardships they have there. That's another point in favour of an opinion that humans are very sturdy species. Yep, it is thought here that to get educated in the UK means a good start in life...

Thank you, that was a pleasure. :)

You are welcome any time - I love to give explanations. Sometimes for free even. :)

Thanks, dear Cabrasopa. I had not read much of Greene - but hope to catch on in future... So far I like him much.

Hi. Alas I cannot tell everything I would have liked here, but I hope some of you will donate in your opinions. (I have just spoken with a Lloyds person about our recent losses, and have something else to do...) What interests me most is: I remember that some time ago two dogs killed a...

There is more explanations where the Red Square comes from than one can imagine, but the red colour of contemporary Kremlin is absolutely out of the question, as the first time they called the square red, the Kremlin had been made of wood... Next version of Kremlin was made of white stone, but...

Ha. You mean The Red Square. Yep, that's the center of Moscow, and the most well known (but by far not the oldest) place in Russia. As to beautiful women in furs... I prefer them somewhat lighter dressed... But we have both aplenty.

My wife has taken our dog once with her on her trip by train to her parents in Ukraine. She said that would be never repeated. (By the way, our dog is a toy terrier - half the size of our last cat). Too much fuss.

= Thanks a lot Ashy, I like that very much. Thanks for reading my Introduction notes.= = You may remember from my Introduction our discussion of Solaris film. Have you seen it? = = Errr... I will try, but to do so I have to see a list of his works - you know, it is more than 15 years...

= That's not to say much about it. Not building on unspoilt land - that's the minor consideration here. Most of our people have no money to buy city apartments, and to get money from a bank is almost impossible or too expensive, so I had not heard of a problem you mentioned. But we have...

Wow... Too difficult for a PC illiterate person like me... But I will try sometime...

Ha. We are always drunk and arrogant. Or arrogantly drunk. Or drunkly arrogant. At least those of us who make money enough to buy Chelseys and islands in the Maldives. Others are drunk and illiterate. Of course if they had a chance to learn at least a tiny part of what had been written in...

First of all, I do not think that to set all the cats & dogs free to roam the forests at will is too good an idea. They will seriously damage the ecology, as all the minor forest beasts and birds could easily be eaten by our domesticated marvels. So... My own cat (he is draped across my...

Hi Ashy: it is great to see that I've already read both books that you are reading and plan to read - it shows that essentially there is very much the same all over our world. Have you read much by Lem?