After work on Friday, we were in t'pub. I mentioned something about wanting to catch up on some reading I'd been meaning to do, and my third-line manager enthused wildly about his Kindle. I quite like mine too. I mentioned, however, that I don't get as much chance to read as I want because I spend quite a bit of time driving these days. (The ( Read more... )

I'm listening to an unabridged audiobook of the Lord of the Rings.

Tom Bombadil is even more annoying when he actually sings than I thought possible.

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Oh you naughty willow.

Dear Very Lovely Debbie McGee ( Read more... )

Seen all over the shop.

Don't take too long to think about it. 15 books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The International Popular Tale and Early Welsh Tradition
3. Flowers ( Read more... )

I'm being stalked by someone. Unfortunately, it's the long-dead poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

I finally started reading/listening to The Ode Less Travelled, by Stephen Fry. ( A brief review )

Stolen from offensive_mango and burkesworks.

Four jobs I didn't getI've only applied for three jobs. One was technical author at another company back in, erm, June 2004. I never heard back, and after a week or so thought "Bugger that. If they're this rubbish, do I want to work for them?" One was a random civil service thing. The job I really wanted to apply for, but ( Read more... )

j4 has posted about 'Humiliation', a game I was introduced to in the same place she was. 'Humiliation', as played in Changing Places: what's the most famous book you haven't read?
In the book, you score points for every person in the group who has read it. This leads to a fight where an English lecturer claims never to have read something ( Read more... )

1) Last night, I dreamt I sent chiller a card with a chocolate heart and a proposal of marriage in it. I find this disturbing in several ways:

• I have never met chiller
• I have recently had a dream of offensive_mango getting married.
• What the crap was I doing giving chocolate away?

2) A friend WINOLJ sent me the following: From the Breakfast News: "Friends are trying to coax ( Read more... )

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