Books and other lovely things

My recent lack of blogging can largely be summed up as “where the hell did November go and why is it December 6th already?”. Sorry about that.
(ETA: For further examples of how quickly time has gone, witness my conviction (above) all day that today is December 6th rather than 7th. No wonder so many things [...]

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Agatha Christie binge

I’m on an Agatha Christie kick. One might even call it a binge. I blame it all on netgirl_y2k, who mentioned The Body in the Library in a recent post and got me thinking Christie-ish thoughts.
I’m currently on my fourth Christie in three weeks. My sister enabled it by presenting me with four more (that [...]

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A post of many things

After 3 months of fog, apparently summer has decided to appear. The temps are in the high twenties with humidex taking it to the low thirties at the shore (where my house is). The humidex even two kilometers inland is taking it to the high thirties.
Yes, this does feel a wee bit extreme.
Still, I’m feeling [...]

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Day trip fun

Today I decided to haul my aunt along on a bit of a road trip. It’s quite horrifying to think about how long it’s been since I went beyond the city limits – when did I become such a home bod?
The plan was to do my chores, pick up my aunt and get to Mahone [...]

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Lazy plans and socks

I have Plans for Saturday. To be precise, my plans for Saturday involve doing very little other than some laundry and cleaning the cat litter tray. I shall be turning off my alarm and sleeping until I wake up naturally, because I need to catch up on my sleep before I fall over.
At some stage, [...]

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The side-effects of the book diet

Last night I finished the book I was reading (Cast in Courtlight by Michelle Sagara, enjoyed it muchly thank you) and therefore needed a new book to read.
Now, when I went on this book diet it was largely because I needed to curb the number of books entering my house. 23 in three months? Not [...]

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Book stash

This evening I decided that it would be a good idea to enter all the books sitting on my coffee table into LibraryThing. These are all the books that have entered this house on or since Christmas Day and I’ve been looking at the piles feeling slightly worried for a while.
Er, it turns out that [...]

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I aten’t dead

Last night I went out for Greek food with the knitters, which was fabulous fun with delicious food. Yay. At some stage in my life, I won’t be knitting blanket patches while I’m there. That will be awesome indeed.
Today my body dislikes me intensely, but I’m saying ‘neener neener’ to it and going out again [...]

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Buttered eggs – help needed

I’ve been dipping into the Girls Own mailing list a bit lately and someone mentioned buttered eggs. It’s something that’s also mentioned in the Box of Delights: “Time and tide and buttered eggs wait for no man”.
As an aside, I love that book and the BBC adaptation. They’re perfect pre-Christmas reading or watching, although the [...]

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Fifty pence coins in 1940? Epic fail!

I have a copy of The Naughtiest Girl in School that I decided to bring as my lunchtime read today. It was bought second hand and, according to the copyright information, this edition was published in 1999.
There is a distinct lack of slang – strange in a naughty girl – but I assumed that the [...]

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