A friend of mine discovered this place last week and deliriously described it to me over the phone today. I am now desperate to go – books and coffee. I am wondering if nirvana can be this easy. Barter Books, Alnwick UK Continue reading Barter Books
Really, I ought to be grateful for the past 36 hours of rain as it has made it almost impossible for the snow to lie. Last week I inadvertently watched the movie The Day After Tomorrow and am now terrified when I see large blocks of cloud forming. Living in the UK it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between large blocks of cloud heralding catastrophic shifts in weather conditions and a new ice age, and plain old large blocks of cloud. Although I am leaving it until tomorrow to be unspeakably fatal, I achieved a few things today which, really … Continue reading Research and Evil Dolls
When my 80-year-old mother tells me she has been the victim of a scam … or even bad service, I have a tendency to overreact. This week my mother received a telephone call from a bastard trying to get her bank and debit card details. He got pretty far before she twigged and she had the nous to put down everything else she was doing that day to go to her bank and sort it all out. So far so good. I of course, being incensed that someone tried to hurt my mother, went into full overreaction mode. When I … Continue reading This Charming Man – more deviant behaviour
The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt. Continue reading Currently Reading…
There is one book in my to-read list which has been relegated to the end of the queue as I am currently using it as a wrist rest for my mouse. The volume in question is Dramatic Romances,Volume 5 in a series of 11 ‘uniform editions of the works of Robert Browning’ published by Smith, Elder & Co in 1889. So that is the wrist; for the mouse … well I am using a collection of 8 uncirculated coins sponsored by Benson & Hedges cleverly called ‘Pieces of Eight’. I won’t bore you with why I had to throw out … Continue reading Childe Roland to the Mousemat Came
Writing the Long Way Around 