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DianneAscroft Posted on: 17-Sep-2008, 01:54 AM

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Thanks for the welcomes from everyone! I'm sure I'm going to enjoy it here. I don't get in as often as I like as there are some computer glitches on the computer I use most often and it is just about impossible to post from it. So I have to wait until I can use another computer in the building. But I will get here as often as possible.

Camac, I see you are in Oakville. I'm originally from Toronto - and I used to go to Sheridan College for the summer piping school (I'm sure I don't have to tell people on this board that's bagpipes!). I played pipes for about 20 odd years.

Lady Of Avalon, Hope you get back to visit your friends in Donegal soon. My husband and I like Donegal. We are only about an hour from Bundoran so we sometimes go there for Sunday lunch. I know it's a tacky seaside town but the walk along the shore is lovely. I like to hear country music bands there at the Allingham Arms Hotel but my husband isn't a country fan so that doesn't happen often.

Leenie, the first thing I always think of when I think of missing things in Canada is the summer! I wish we had warmer summers here. This year was awful with almost constant rainy days since mid-June. May was the only nice month all year and now we're into autumn. I live in the country now so I miss all the activities close at hand - I used to be in Toronto. I also miss good public transport - even when something is on here it can be difficult to get to...At the same time there's just something I like about here and don't want to go back to Canada. The people are friendly - that's partly a small town thing too. I've always loved the music so it's great to be able to find it anywhere around here. My husband is Irish so thats another reason to stay. There's just a different atmosphere here that I like - I can't pin it down.

Look forward to getting to know all of you!

Dianne

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DianneAscroft Posted on: 09-Sep-2008, 09:29 AM

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Just about a year until the (possibly) last book in the series is released?! I guess I will have to get reading then...I got a copy of the trade paperback of Breath of Snow and Ashes when it first came out and it is too big to lug around so I keep starting and stopping it. I do most of my reading when I'm away from home so it's hard to make much progress on it. As others have mentioned, she is getting into more and more detail as the series rolls along. From writing historical fiction myself, I know it's hard to decide which neat facts to include and which to leave out. Sometimes she seems to want to include them all and that does make it hard to wade through it. But I intend to plod on. I am really looking forward to the last book to see how everything turns out - I don't want anything ghastly to happen to Jamie and Claire (can she manage to keep them from getting old too?!).

Dianne
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DianneAscroft Posted on: 09-Sep-2008, 08:05 AM

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Hi Michael,

Glad to 'meet' you! Good to see fellow Canadians here (I'm from Toronto despite the British tag on my messages - been in Britain for a long time now). I was intrigued to hear that you are a guitarist - I'm just learning to play and am especially interested in bluegrass. I will have to check out your guitar website.

Dianne
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DianneAscroft Posted on: 09-Sep-2008, 07:56 AM

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Welcome - a little late...I just joined today...It's great to see so many other Canadians here. I guess I always notice fellow countrymen as I've been away for a long while. Looking forward to getting to know everyone.

Dianne
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DianneAscroft Posted on: 09-Sep-2008, 06:05 AM

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Hi everyone,

I just joined the community this morning and thought I'd say hello. I'm a Canadian woman but I've been living in Northern Ireland for almost 2 decades now. My interest in Irish music originally drew me here (and my ancestry) and I stayed...I met my husband a few years after I arrived and I guess I'm truly settled here now. I love a wide variety of Celtic music. I've played Scottish pipes and uilleann pipes but haven't touched either for several years now. I recently started to explore fingerstyle guitar and bluegrass - maybe I'm missing home a bit...I also write and Irish history and historical fiction are both topics I've explored - and will continue to research. I've had historical articles published in Canadian and Irish newspapers and magazines and recently released an Irish historical fiction novel - set in 1940s and 50s Ireland. Hope to get to know people in the coming days.

Dianne
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