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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[rosathome]

Disappointing about Wendy Cope. I think she may be my favourite modern poet.

LOL on the Blackwell's rec. Though I think you may be missing an X. Unless Louis IV had an equally steamy lovelife, which is entirely possible.

[coughingbear]

You're quite right, I am. Have edited. I know nothing about Louis IV's love life (pause for Googling); hmm, he seems to have had eight children with Gerberga of Saxony and Wikipedia knows nothing of any mistresses. Which is not to say there weren't any, of course.

[rosathome]

Perhaps he was the only discreet king France has ever had?

[coughingbear]

I suppose there must have been one.

[clanwilliam]

You know, I didn't need another distraction. I'm already absorbed by the Mr Christie stuff - did the murderer have a brother?

[coughingbear]

I did start to wonder! And did you see the dressing-up-as-Charlie-Chaplin photos at the bottom of the first page of the blog?

[clanwilliam]

I've just looked it up, and Christie did have a brother called Percy, but he was a bank manager in Yorkshire, so unlikely to have been working in a TB san.

[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.

[callmemadam]

Fascinating stuff on the sanatorium. I heard a very interesting programme on R4 once with the voices of women who'd actually spent time in very similar places.

Wendy Cope :-( A rehash seems lazy but that's very churlish of me considering how much I've enjoyed the poems she has already written.

[coughingbear]

There are going to be some new ones, so that will be good.

[thistleingrey]

..."zombie mosquitoes"? (The post tag.)

[coughingbear]

There's a T-Rex icon which I once found in iconomicon and rashly passed on to frankie_ecap rather than keeping for myself, which is all about zombie mosquitoes.

[coughingbear]

O.M.G.