Cross-posted to What was that book?

Do you know a book in which two children go to Russia?
There are references to the METPO, to parachuting from a tower, and to eating Eskimos, which are either ice lollies or ice creams on a stick.
I think that I read it some time in the 1950s.

About ten years ago, someone posted a photograph of me on the internet as a picture of herself. I found this rather flattering, since she was ten years younger than I, and yet clearly thought that the photograph was, in some way, more flattering than her own ( Read more... )

 It's becoming clear to me that I have really lost the impetus for writing here, but that I still enjoy reading LJ ( Read more... )

i have most of my Christmas Day stash ( Read more... )

This was 2006 ( Read more... )

People keep asking me what I'm reading.
What people don't understand is that, if I'm writing, I can't read - and, if what I'm writing turns out to be rubbish, I dont want to talk or write about it

Since February - hunting out from diaries (mine and owner of computers' and DD (M) 1's ) references to DD (M) 2 aka Abingdon.
In that process, delightedly ( Read more... )

Today I missed the bus - and, it being Sunday service, there was a two-hour interval ( Read more... )

Why have my moody mice disappeared ( Read more... )