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Craghyrax

I'm not a fan because I don't like the combination of black and gold. Or, in fact, black or gold. Also I don't think black is the best colour on you, although your hair colour and the gold can work. Shape wise, its fine. I wouldn't spend £17.50 on it though.

thanks. I actually quite like black with my pale skin, but only in a classic way, not a drained gothy way. its the gold i love though. I need to get a petticoat to go with it really, since the shape it has in the window is just beautiful...

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Craghyrax

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College hubby says the gold works with your hair.

scarlet ibis

thanks. I actually quite like black with my pale skin, but only in a classic way, not a drained gothy way. its the gold i love though. I need to get a petticoat to go with it really, since the shape it has in the window is just beautiful...

Yes, a petticoat would help.

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thefish_uk

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I don't suppose anyone on here uses journal websites etc a lot and is used to logging in using Athens?

I'm trying to get on a website linked to on the Cambridge UL website as an "e-resource" and which I've gotten on to fine before. This one, in fact. But I click Athens Login, Alternative login, find University of Cambridge and click on it, and I just get a contact details page rather than an option to "Continue to University of Cambridge login page" (ie. Raven) as I normally would. Maybe it's not giving me the option because it senses I'm not accessing from .cam.ac.uk but I'm pretty sure it's worked for me from home before.

And there's me trying to get ahead on my fourth year project by doing some reading from home... ah well!

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scarlet ibis

hmm, i wonder where in cambridge I can get a pouffy petticoat from?

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Craghyrax

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scarlet ibis

hmm, i wonder where in cambridge I ceh get a pouffy petticoat from?

Another charity shop? Or buy the one they used with the dress.

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scarlet ibis

Craghyrax

Another charity shop? Or buy the one they used with the dress.

the one that was used with the dress wasn't for sale, alas!

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Catsmeat

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smilepea

Don't you have to apply for a permit or something? I think there was an email from Russ around the end of last term saying something about it. No the the email only says something about the 3rd October, (I've just realised I'm having a conversation with myself...) Can't you just park in the lay-by opposite Caius?

Apparently you're a closed circuit ... the thing is, I remember mention of a permit, but browsing the council website the only reference is to a resident's permit for full-time parking. Bah. I've hard a word with the duty porter over the phone, and he suggested that I could either park at HC (hmm) and cart everything over, or somewhere in the vicinity of Caius while the bollards are down on Sunday (apparently the traffic wardens are paper tigers on Sunday; they'll turn a blind-eye to students parked illegally while moving in).

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Catsmeat

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thefish_uk

I don't suppose anyone on here uses journal websites etc a lot and is used to logging in using Athens?

I'm trying to get on a website linked to on the Cambridge UL website as an "e-resource" and which I've gotten on to fine before. This one, in fact. But I click Athens Login, Alternative login, find University of Cambridge and click on it, and I just get a contact details page rather than an option to "Continue to University of Cambridge login page" (ie. Raven) as I normally would. Maybe it's not giving me the option because it senses I'm not accessing from .cam.ac.uk but I'm pretty sure it's worked for me from home before.

And there's me trying to get ahead on my fourth year project by doing some reading from home... ah well!

I've had this problem before. For some reason I've logged onto journal websites that I know either the UL or a department library has a contract with*, I log on and am simply redirected to another log on page. Nominally, if you have an Athens/Shibboleth password and username then you should be able to log-on as simply as you would do if you were connecting from a Cambridge IP, but apparently it doesn't work like that. Gah. Much of my summer reading has died of that death.

* The UL does not have a central subscription to every journal that comes under Athens; rather, the UL derives access from a subscription owned directly by a college or departmental library. This is why the Journals Coordination Scheme exists, in part, and why logging in may be such a mess.

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Craghyrax

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See if you're me you just go and :flutter:

TSRers from other Universities and they download it for you :yep:

(PS tearoom a good place for that, Catsmeat)

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FadedJade

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You want to be careful with traffic wardens. They used to stand outside Pembroke and try and ticket everyone who stopped. We used to stand there arguing with them for ages.

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thegluups

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scarlet ibis

hmm, i wonder where in cambridge I can get a pouffy petticoat from?

It might be a long shot, but the new primark maybe?

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Craghyrax

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thegluups

It might be a long shot, but the new primark maybe?

You mean the Primark that's not scheduled to open until November according to fumblewomble's post yesterday? :p:

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thegluups

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Craghyrax

You mean the Primark that's not scheduled to open until November according to fumblewomble's post yesterday? :p:

Hum ...

yes ?

* makes a vow to read the last 10 pages of Camchat before she makes a post from now on * :ninja:

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Craghyrax

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thegluups

* makes a vow to read the last 10 pages of Camchat before she makes a post from now on * :ninja:

Although in this case its particularly amusing seeing as the whole discussion came up only a few posts after your last appearance on the thread.

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smilepea

It's cold.

I made pate today and can report that it's very tasty (but very bad for my parents' diet...)

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Craghyrax

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smilepea

It's cold.

Oh good

I got a bit... er... distracted when finding a birthday present for a friend on an outdoor gear website with a sale...
Bought a new merino wool Helly Hansen baselayer :coma:

Narrowly prevented myself from buying a beautiful Petzl ladies harness which was about £35 :eek:

- about a third of the typical full price!

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smilepea

Craghyrax

Oh good

I got a bit... er... distracted when finding a birthday present for a friend on an outdoor gear website with a sale...
Bought a new merino wool Helly Hansen baselayer :coma: