Comments | desperance: In which luncheon is taken later than one might desire

desperance

In which luncheon is taken later than one might desire

Feb 16, 2009 14:38

The little fuzzbugs did it again overnight, that oh-so-clever trick with the binliner. I have explained to them - more than once, I swear it! - the difference between funny-once and funny-always, but they wilfully don't get it; they just look at me and giggle, catwise (we are srs cats, but our whiskers twitch: what a giveaway!), and then run off to ( Read more... )

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la_marquise_de_ February 16 2009, 15:17:42 UTC

Books are good, but do shops always mean spending? (I have days when I so don't feel like spending, though window-shopping is fine.)

desperance February 16 2009, 15:39:23 UTC

In theory, not at all: I really only wanted to look at HDD recorders and pick up a jar of marmalade. But if I'm queueing to pay for the marmalade, then I might as well remember that I need yeast; and if I'm around the yeast then by definition I'm around the flours. Oh, and look, there's a jar of blackstrap molasses; which I wanted last month and didn't have, and had to substitute with black treacle, so I might as well pick it up now. And of course I can't walk past a bookshop - 'specially a cheap bookshop - without going in, and did ever man go into a bookshop and not come out with a book? And...

Well. Like that, really.

shewhomust February 16 2009, 15:24:04 UTC

There is a serious shortage of fancy breads in Durham; do you work to commissions?

desperance February 16 2009, 15:39:56 UTC

I might. Next time we know I'm coming down, let me know what you'd like and I'll give it a shot.

durham_rambler February 16 2009, 17:23:11 UTC

Yes,
Tell me where is fancy bread ...

cdave February 16 2009, 15:29:12 UTC

On books today that I may in fact have already (but, hey, £2 each? Bargain. And I may not have them, y'know?)

This was why I catalogued my books on LibrayThing (a few at a time, while watching Babylon 5 on VHS). I can check from my phone.

Of course I haven't kept it up to date, and have a whole new stack to do.

desperance February 16 2009, 15:41:19 UTC

Yup. I think about this, often and often (except that I don't carry a phone, so that side of the equation would be wanting). I am sure I could be that organised, if I were NewChaz. (I also dream of indexing the recipes, book by book...)

cdave February 16 2009, 16:14:32 UTC

It's been a while since I've logged on, but they were just starting to add the ability to add more meta-data to books, such as short stories, or recipes. Should have been done quite a while ago.
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But having a look now, I can't see sign off it.

karenmiller February 16 2009, 19:37:45 UTC

It's wicked how cheap books are impossible to resist. Even when you don't want them.

anef February 17 2009, 22:37:42 UTC

Srsly impressed by the bin-liner trick.