We all fall down
I blame de mudder. Met her for lunch last week and she told me that pretty much the entire family had a cold last weekend. On Friday I had a bit...
20 February 2006
The Case of the Missing Books by Iain Sansom
blockquote>No. No, no, no, no, no. This was not what was supposed to happen
Israel Armstrong has left England, and a job in a discount bookshop, for a job as a librarian in Northern Ireland. Slightly overweight, Jewish and vegetarian, he really doesn’t seem to fit in. And lets not mention that the library job he was hired to fill doesn’t seem to exist any more as the library has been closed. Instead the council want him to run the mobile library. But there is problem there too; it seems that the stock of in and around fifteen thousand books has gone missing.
19 February 2006
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
ISBN: 0140316884 5 Vol.s in one Over Sea, Under Stone The Dark Is Rising Greenwitch The Grey King Silver On The Tree “Where is he?” Barney hopped from one foot to...
18 February 2006
pointless movie type thing
As I may not have mentioned I am away for the weekend. I’m heading up to Sligo and so will be offline till Monday. So to keep you all occupied over...
17 February 2006
The Shooting Party by Anton Chekov
Trans: A.E. Chamot It has take me quite a while to finish this short novel, still I would recommend it highly. Chekhov is famous for his plays, his Cherry Orchards and...
16 February 2006
Sometimes I, Sometimes I
As you can see I have unstickified that voting post. I was getting ever so bored of seeing the yellow banner everytime I visited, so I’m sure you were too. And...
16 February 2006
OMG, you killed Kenny!
Once more Joss posts on Whedonesque Since everyone’s all abuzz with the CW rumor, I have to get all official and say: WE’VE STARTED FILMING NEW EPISODES! See, that, the deliberate...
15 February 2006
A sound of fright or joy. Commonly used along with the following face: ^______^;
so there I was, making my usual round of blogs when I got to Whedonesque. I’d read last week about the rumours that a few of the Firefly actors had been...
14 February 2006
I don’t have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.
I was going to blog about this little, but very irritating, cut I have on my lip. But it is my own fault as I have a habit of biting my...
13 February 2006
Never can a team have lurched so violently from the ridiculous to the sublime as Ireland
I’ve become a bad player in two weeks according to a lot of people but there’s not much I can do about Saturday’s game now Poor Geordan. Don’t worry, we forgive...
13 February 2006
Munich dir. by Steven Spielberg
Based on the events that followed the terrorist attack on the Munich Olympic Games in 1972, this film has a lot of political baggage. There are those who see it as...
12 February 2006
May the cat eat you, and may the devil eat the cat
Talk about your bloody clichés. Was that game of rugby ever a game of two halves? My first half commentary could be summarised as “fucking, french fuckers, and fucking stupid silly...
11 February 2006
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