a few unconnected words

[coughingbear]

A website and a blog about children who were at a Welsh TB sanatorium in the 1920s to 1950s. Probably mostly for Chalet fans, but there are some good photographs.

Slightly disappointed to discover that although Wendy Cope has a new book coming out this year, it's an annotated selection mainly from the three previous Faber collections, rather than

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[oursin]

I'm unable to find a post I made about a Valentine rec in it might have been Camden Waterstones of Tracey Cox's book called something like How to have better sex, but I thought this was seriously off-message.

[ankaret]

Apparently one previous year a shop a friend works in was recommending books called things like Sexy Little Knits and Naughty Needles - considering the lead-time that knitted projects seem to take, this struck me as rather odd.

[coughingbear]

Certainly any knitting project I get involved in can take a very long time - perhaps it would be ready for Valentine's day the following year. And perhaps not.

[ankaret]

Amazon appear to be recommending this, to which I say a resounding WHUT.

[coughingbear]

I would fall over if I weren't already lying down. I can't imagine who would find that a suitable romantic offering!

[ankaret]

Maybe if it came with a note saying 'Whilst I have no idea why you decided to decorate our house in an Alice in Wonderland theme, I still love you, and I have hopes of sourcing a pig-shaped pepperpot in time for your birthday'?

All the other possible messages I can think of seem to come down to either 'On this mandated day of the year I thank you for all your otherwise thankless housework, as otherwise I would helplessly starve in the middle of my own filth' or 'I secretly find your eating disorder kind of sexy'.