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by DaisyNinjaGirl
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:33 am
Forum: Quizzes & Questions
Topic: Tough 2 (17 March)
Replies: 7
Views: 55

Tough 2 (17 March)

merry wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:23 am 15 Coffee plant; Dead Sea scrolls; Herrerasaurus dinosaur?[/b]
In honour of last week's quiz, herewith a Herrerasaurus fossil. (Went on a school trip today to see some Patagonian Dinosaur fossils.)

Image
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:14 am
Forum: Quizzes & Questions
Topic: Tough 2 (24 March)
Replies: 3
Views: 27

Tough 2 (24 March)

12 Katharine Hepburn; June Allyson; Winona Ryder; Saoirse Ronan?
They all played Jo March in adaptations of Little Women.

13 Blocky; dome; dry-dock; pinnacle; tabular; wedge?
Is this going to be something like golf clubs or some kind of hardware?
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:27 am
Forum: The Mill at Milton
Topic: Welcome to new members, please read!
Replies: 402
Views: 17413

Welcome to new members, please read!

Caesia390 wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:15 am Hello everyone!

Just thought I'd pop in and, well, say hello....
Hi Caesia, welcome to the forum!
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:30 pm
Forum: The Mill at Milton
Topic: Active Story Updates.
Replies: 720
Views: 31502

Active Story Updates.

My next chapter is up. (Giving a bit of airing time to my original characters.)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /138447097
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:52 am
Forum: Quizzes & Questions
Topic: Tough 2 (17 March)
Replies: 7
Views: 55

Tough 2 (17 March)

12 Marmaduke was a big dog in a newspaper cartoon. Marmaduke is a Great Dane, I remember. I think Astro is the dog from The Jetsons? 15 Coffee plant; Dead Sea scrolls; Herrerasaurus dinosaur? I'm going to go with: discovered by shepherds/goatherds. (But I had to do some reading on Wikipedia.)
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:35 am
Forum: Quizzes & Questions
Topic: Tough 1 (16 March)
Replies: 6
Views: 46

Tough 1 (16 March)

2 Which horror stories were first told at the Villa Diodati? One of them is Frankenstein which was Mary Shelley's contribution but I don't know the other one. The other one was The Vampyre by Dr John Polidori. 1 What did DB Cooper do in 1971, the only such unsolved crime in the US? He hijacked a pl...
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: The Mill at Milton
Topic: Active Story Updates.
Replies: 720
Views: 31502

Active Story Updates.

Here's my latest one of Break (quite short): https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /138000244
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:06 am
Forum: Quizzes & Questions
Topic: Tough 2 (10 Mar)
Replies: 5
Views: 48

Tough 2 (10 Mar)

14 Big Brother; Deal or No Deal; Splash!; The Traitors; The Voice?
Reality show formats that originated in the Netherlands?
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: The Mill at Milton
Topic: Active Story Updates.
Replies: 720
Views: 31502

Active Story Updates.

Here's my latest chapter of Break: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /137567701
It's so exciting seeing all the new stories coming out!
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: The Mill at Milton
Topic: #MargaretMonday 🌻
Replies: 163
Views: 6087

#MargaretMonday 🌻

So it's Tuesday now, but I finally found the picture I wanted to share yesterday. I don't know why but I'm drawn to this image over and over. I used this as the base to make a wallpaper aaaaages ago. (Which is why it took so long to dig it up. I had to find my external hard drive and sift through a...
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:53 am
Forum: Quizzes & Questions
Topic: Tough 2 (3 March)
Replies: 4
Views: 52

Tough 2 (3 March)

10 British Library (two); Lincoln Castle; Salisbury Cathedral?
Possess one of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta.
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:12 am
Forum: The Mill at Milton
Topic: Welcome to new members, please read!
Replies: 402
Views: 17413

Welcome to new members, please read!

Once a story surpasses a certain word count and complexity, it becomes harder and harder to get the imagination to kick in on how to fill the gaps between major plot point A and major plot point B without it being "They walked along a path from point A and aha! they've reached point B!" I...
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:54 pm
Forum: The Mill at Milton
Topic: Active Story Updates.
Replies: 720
Views: 31502

Active Story Updates.

I'm back from my (very short) hiatus!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /137132644

So many stories to read right now!
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:09 am
Forum: The Mill at Milton
Topic: Active Story Updates.
Replies: 720
Views: 31502

Active Story Updates.

anywhereis wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:11 pm I did it (aaaaa). my first story. let me know what do you think! :dunce
Congratulations on posting! It looks like you're heading into the fraught side of Gaskell ;-)
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:59 am
Forum: Quizzes & Questions
Topic: Tough 1 (24 Feb)
Replies: 6
Views: 62

Tough 1 (24 Feb)

Wildrover wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:55 pm 5. Slightly puzzled by this as I'm 99% certain it's a prison but it's hardly the only one in the USA. I think it's the one where Abu Hamza iis locked up so maybe it's specifically ffor terrorists???
Supermax prison?
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:22 am
Forum: The Mill at Milton
Topic: Where do we all live?
Replies: 351
Views: 17514

Where do we all live?

Those are some beautiful skies you've got there, Corbeau. Welcome to the Millers!
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:17 am
Forum: Quizzes & Questions
Topic: Tough 2 (25 Feb)
Replies: 7
Views: 83

Tough 2 (25 Feb)

12 APA; Chicago; MHRA; MLA?
Style guides: American Psychological Association, University of Chicago, Modern Humanities Research Association, Modern Language Association

14 Big Wednesday; Blue Crush; Blue Juice; Point Break?
Movies about surfers
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:36 am
Forum: The Mill at Milton
Topic: The Weavers and Spinners - our group collabs - all welcome!
Replies: 561
Views: 20903

The Weavers and Spinners - our group collabs - all welcome!

dianakc wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:36 am Yes, "Dear Miss Hale" is now complete ☺️
Yay! It was a really lovely story. :love
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:41 am
Forum: Quizzes & Questions
Topic: Tough 2 (17 Feb)
Replies: 7
Views: 74

Tough 2 (17 Feb)

OurCreature wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:52 am Marie Louise reigned as Duchess of Parma from a few days after Napoleon's abdication in April 1814 to her death in 1847.
So she did quite well out of the business then...
by DaisyNinjaGirl
Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: Quizzes & Questions
Topic: Tough 2 (17 Feb)
Replies: 7
Views: 74

Tough 2 (17 Feb)

15. The first location and date looks very like the birth of Josephine Beauharnais (Napoleon's Josephine) but I haven't got a clue about the second. Got it: Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, the second wife of Napoleon, was born in Hofburg Palace in 1791. (Thanks, Wikipedia!) She must have been t...