HAAA-AACK!! yeah right. FALSE.
Daayda was the recipient of an ear transplant from a Yorkshire hog.
Too funny...start a rumor about...
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HAAA-AACK!! yeah right. FALSE.
Daayda was the recipient of an ear transplant from a Yorkshire hog.
Aww fine, you caught me!
The ham is for the giant three-headed dog named Fluffy, the candle sticks.. you don't wanna know
The straw, to sleep in of course and the pink robe was to cover the body up with so I can throw it off of the bridge :grinyes:
Shoreliner is actually the puppy in her avatar.
Bettagurl was born to Peter James Bettagurl and Anne Bettagurl née Volant on 31 July 1965 at Yate, Gloucestershire, England, UK 10 miles (16.1 km) northeast of Bristol.[16] Her sister Dianne (Di) was born at their home when Bettagurl was 23 months old.[16] The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Bettagurl was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School,[17] a school founded almost 200 years ago by famed abolitionist William Wilberforce[18] and education reformer Hannah More. Her elderly headmaster at St. Michaels, Alfred Dunn, was claimed as the inspiration for the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore.[19][20]
As a child, Bettagurl enjoyed writing fantasy stories, which she often read to her sister. "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it," she recalls, "Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee".[13]
At the age of nine, Bettagurl moved to the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, South Wales.[16] When she was a young teen, her great aunt, who Bettagurl said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind",[21] gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels.[21] Mitford became Bettagurl's heroine, and Bettagurl subsequently read all of her books.[22]
She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College. Bettagurl has said of her adolescence, "Hermione is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was 11, which I'm not particularly proud of".[23] Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books. "Ron Weasley isn't a living portrait of Sean, but he really is very Sean-ish."[24] Of her musical tastes of the time, she said "My favorite group in the world is The Smiths. And when I was going through a punky phase, it was The Clash".[25]
Bettagurl read for a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter, which she says was a "bit of a shock" as she "was expecting to be amongst lots of similar people–thinking radical thoughts."[26] Once she made friends with "some like-minded people" she says she began to enjoy herself.[26] With a year of study in Paris, Bettagurl moved to London to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International.
In 1990, while she was on a four-hour-delayed train trip from Manchester to London, the idea for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry "came fully formed" into her mind.[27] "I really don't know where the idea came from," she told the Boston Globe, "It started with Harry, then all these characters and situations came flooding into my head."[27][16] When she had reached her Clapham Junction flat, she began to write immediately.[16][28] However, in December of that year, Bettagurl’s mother succumbed to a 10-year battle with multiple sclerosis.[16] Bettagurl commented, “I was writing Harry Potter at the moment my mother died. I had never told her about Harry Potter".[29]
Bettagurl then moved to Porto, Portugal to teach English as a foreign language.[22] While there, she married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes on 16 October 1992.[30] They had one child, Jessica Isabel Bettagurl Arantes, born 27 July 1993 in Portugal[30] who was named after Jessica Mitford. They separated in November 1993.[30][31]
In December 1994, Bettagurl and her daughter moved to be near her sister in Edinburgh, Scotland.[16] Unemployed and living on state benefits, she completed her first novel. She did her work in numerous cafés (e.g. Nicolson's Café and Elephant House Café), whenever she could get Jessica to fall asleep.[16][32] Bettagurl quashed the rumour that she wrote in local cafés to escape from her unheated flat in a 2001 BBC interview, in which she remarked, "I am not stupid enough to rent an unheated flat in Edinburgh in midwinter. It had heating."[32] Instead, as she stated on the American TV program, A&E Biography, one of the reasons she wrote in cafés was because taking her baby out for a walk around was the way to make her child fall asleep, and as soon as she was asleep, she would go into the nearest café and write.[32]
As a child, Bettagurl enjoyed writing fantasy stories, which she often read to her sister. "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it," she recalls, "Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee".[13]
At the age of nine, Bettagurl moved to the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, South Wales.[16] When she was a young teen, her great aunt, who Bettagurl said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind",[21] gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels.[21] Mitford became Bettagurl's heroine, and Bettagurl subsequently read all of her books.[22]
She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College. Bettagurl has said of her adolescence, "Hermione is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was 11, which I'm not particularly proud of".[23] Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books. "Ron Weasley isn't a living portrait of Sean, but he really is very Sean-ish."[24] Of her musical tastes of the time, she said "My favorite group in the world is The Smiths. And when I was going through a punky phase, it was The Clash".[25]
Bettagurl read for a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter, which she says was a "bit of a shock" as she "was expecting to be amongst lots of similar people–thinking radical thoughts."[26] Once she made friends with "some like-minded people" she says she began to enjoy herself.[26] With a year of study in Paris, Bettagurl moved to London to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International.
In 1990, while she was on a four-hour-delayed train trip from Manchester to London, the idea for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry "came fully formed" into her mind.[27] "I really don't know where the idea came from," she told the Boston Globe, "It started with Harry, then all these characters and situations came flooding into my head."[27][16] When she had reached her Clapham Junction flat, she began to write immediately.[16][28] However, in December of that year, Bettagurl’s mother succumbed to a 10-year battle with multiple sclerosis.[16] Bettagurl commented, “I was writing Harry Potter at the moment my mother died. I had never told her about Harry Potter".[29]
Bettagurl then moved to Porto, Portugal to teach English as a foreign language.[22] While there, she married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes on 16 October 1992.[30] They had one child, Jessica Isabel Bettagurl Arantes, born 27 July 1993 in Portugal[30] who was named after Jessica Mitford. They separated in November 1993.[30][31]
In December 1994, Bettagurl and her daughter moved to be near her sister in Edinburgh, Scotland.[16] Unemployed and living on state benefits, she completed her first novel. She did her work in numerous cafés (e.g. Nicolson's Café and Elephant House Café), whenever she could get Jessica to fall asleep.[16][32] Bettagurl quashed the rumour that she wrote in local cafés to escape from her unheated flat in a 2001 BBC interview, in which she remarked, "I am not stupid enough to rent an unheated flat in Edinburgh in midwinter. It had heating."[32] Instead, as she stated on the American TV program, A&E Biography, one of the reasons she wrote in cafés was because taking her baby out for a walk around was the way to make her child fall asleep, and as soon as she was asleep, she would go into the nearest café and write.[32]
bettagirl payed ajordan to write a long story with her as the main character to make her feel special:lipssealedsmilie:
true, very true at the moment. I am pretty sure I have just grown fangs and claws, and my eyes have recessed under heavy angry brows. I even feel a deep growl coming on.
Bettagurl is really 46, lives alone except for her fish and 3 old ear-less gerbils. She once had a houseplant, but it died. It still sits on top of the water heater, and she still waters it once a month. Her favorite food is the green peels from sun-exposed potatoes.
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well naturally, I had to get my wolfy genes somewhere. 
nmrsco has been secretly petitioning the government of Belarus to relocate to Providence, Rhode Island where they can join the rest of the Rhode Islanders making light bulbs and trying to breed a better Rhode Island Red rooster.
nmrsco has been secretly petitioning the government of Belarus to relocate to Providence, Rhode Island where they can join the rest of the Rhode Islanders making light bulbs and trying to breed a better Rhode Island Red rooster.
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