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neither a borrower nor a lenter be
I am not giving anything up for Lent, but I am going to take up something I meant to do as a New Year's Resolution. I am going to learn how to hack the internet so that every time someone prefaces a statement, whinge or question with "I know it's only a first world problem, but..." fifty quid automatically disappears from their bank account and ( Read more... ) -
Auntie Oxidant
So, should I do another problem page thingy? You know, in a bit of an effort to commentwhore revive the LJ?
The last one is here. -
January's Books
I am sure I read another novel but I have no idea what it was. I read most of this lot before I started working full time.
The Time of the Angels, Iris Murdoch JJJJ A weird little novel about the sinisterly eccentric vicar of a non-existent City church (it was destroyed in the war). The setting is foggy and claustrophobic and the seven ( Read more... ) -
chewing gum for the eyes
Clive James used to front a TV programme in the eighties that was all about how peculiar and inferior foreign TV was at the time. Those crazy Japs, allowing themselves to be tortured with scorpions and publically humiliated to win a tiny prize! Those racy Scandiwegians, getting their knobs out in adverts for margarine ( Read more... ) -
don't plague a rise or take on loan
Arsebiscuits. I thought the lovely Richmond Library website was going to record all my books, but it only records the most recent, so I can't presently remember/record all the book I read since I last posted a book doodad.
Ragtime, E L Doctorow JJJJI read this ages ago and loved it, so bought the tatty old copy that being junked for pennies by ( Read more... ) -
codswallop
I didn't mean to watch Dr Who. I meant to watch El Cid. I'd have enjoyed that as much as I enjoyed The Gruffalo's Child. The latter was more sophisticated than Dr Who.
I loved Dr Who when I was a kid. I didn't take to the Christopher Ecclestone one, because I didn't like the earth-centric family drama cheesy schmalz, and that has got worse ( Read more... ) -
oh dear
Dr Who (the atheist Jesus) contains Narnia, Dents (those tree things from Lord of the Rings), Bill Bailey and an ecological message. I fear the imminent outpouring of geekwank and may have to runs screaming from the internet. -
my favourite school dinner
I've only received three Christmas cards so far this year. This is rather saddening, because it's a very visible reminder that I'm not teaching. If I were I'd have had loads by now from colleagues and pupils, as for most places it's the last week of term. My last job was in a tiny, crappy independent stage school and I got deluged by my pupils ( Read more... )