I have a shelf of Doctor Who novelisations, pretty well all Target editions, presumably numbering somewhere in the region of a hundred, and stretching up to the end of Peter Davison's period, possibly including the odd Colin Baker. At one point it would have been complete, at least in the sense that I had all the novelisations available at that ( Read more... )

As far as I can tell, I have now got all the Shakespeare titles in Arden 2 -- having recently found a Love's Labour's Lost and now a Pericles and assuming there is no separate edition of The Sonnets. If I want The Two Noble Kinsmen I need to turn to Arden 3 (or possibly 4 ( Read more... )

I used to buy the Grauniad on Mondays (Media), Fridays (Film and music), Saturday (tv listings, books, old habits). Then I realised I had a pile of Meedja Grauniads I hadn't read. So I stopped Mondays. Then I stopped Fridays, for similar reasons.

I've not read the last five Saturday Grauniads. Tomorrow is a busy day. H'mmm.

There had been a plan for a two-pronged expotite on Maidstone, but that's been postponed for logistics reasons, so I thought, good, I can stay at home and watch season two of Survivors and write. So far today has been noticeable for the failure to do so.

Now I find I need a) a copy of Camera Lucida and b) to order stuff from Amazon which results ( Read more... )

I am struck today that many businesses - especially artisan businesses - do not have websites. It might be that your business does not suit mail order - bottles and the post are no doubt expensive. But maybe a website that shows me a bit of ankle so I try to track down your farm shop would be kewl ( Read more... )

Last night I bought a rover ticket to go and see David O'Doherty. I think I bought the wrong one. I bought a Megarider when I should have bought a Unirider. My four trips to Britain's European campus will break even, and I don't have to scrabble for change. Just not lose the ticket ( Read more... )

... there was that moment of bowel unclenching and reaching into my pocket to discover that there is a lighter, but no memory stick - indeed said memory stick is in the side of the laptop at home. Fortunately I did have earlier versions of the lecture and had printed it out, so in tne minutes I was able to reconstruct what it looked like, minus a ( Read more... )

( Although I won't make a habit of it )

The King's Mile is a stretch of the city that begins at the High Street - although it might not be called the High Street at that point - moves on past two parts of Debenhams and the site of the first film screening in the city, crosses and incorporates Sun Street and then shoots down to the King's School. I suspect about a third of it is cathedral ( Read more... )

Yesterday I wanted to go out - although I should have stayed in to a) mark, b) tidy, c) research the conference paper. But sometimes getting out is what's needed ( Read more... )