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Café Life is the Colony's main hangout, watering hole and meeting point.
This is a place where you'll meet and make writing friends, and indulge in stratospherically-elevated wit or barometrically low humour.
Some Colonists pop in religiously every day before or after work. Others we see here less regularly, but all are equally welcome. Two important grounds rules…
We now allow political discussion, but strongly suggest it takes place in the Steam Room, which is a private sub-forum within Café Life. It’s only accessible to Full Members.
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EEEEK, I hope they're not used ones.... .I'm all in favour of recycling, but what about this stool made of used face masks?!
This recycled stool is created from 4000 disinfected and hand-spun disposable face masks!
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What next...trampolines made of used condoms? Boing!EEEEK, I hope they're not used ones.... .
And almost every one has a dog. Except for the ones that have two.View attachment 9327
“It’s great that things are back to normal, except that there are people everywhere.”
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