Saw this in great_poets, and was reminded of the book of the same name by David Niven.
Which in turn reminded me of a conversation with wascally_weasel over the book buffet at the BC Convention ( Read more... )

Went to a barbecue at KB's sister  & Matt's place yesterday afternoon.  Or it would have been a barbecue if the rain hadn't been coming down stair-rods.  Ended up being an indoors party with lots of grilled food.  Had some of KB's mum's quite excellent curried goat.  Was also taught how to say the word "bacon" in Jamaican patois.  ( Like this )

Had a recorded delivery package yesterday (found the note about it when I got home in the evening).  Was very curious about what it could be.  Went to collect it from the post office this morning.  Turned out to be my degree certificate for the MA ( Read more... )

We were given yet more pointless tat from LexisNexis - how they think a bottle-opener keyring suggests "electronic legal resource provider", I don't know ( Read more... )