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Status Updates posted by Janet
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Hehe! Wouldn't it be great if one could click a button on a computer screen and get a nice glass of wine!!
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Ah no - I can see where you're coming from but it's actually Jason Merrells (Cutting It/Waterloo Road/Lark Rise to Candleford).
I'm into 'Lark Rise...' in a big way and JD (his character) and Dorcas (Julia Sawalha's character, who is also in my avie) are my big 'Ship/Fandom (whatever you care to call it) of the moment. They need to get together, dammit!
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Ah, sad won't turn me off. I read the blurb this morning and thought it sounded lovelyand thanks to Amazon's search inside I read the first couple of pages and I love the writing style.
Was this made into a film will Gillian Anderson in it a few years ago? I've not seen it but it seems to be ringing bells.
I've got a 'book spa' treatment coming up soon where they recommend books (and I have
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Aww - I didn't mean to make you apologise - I've just missed 'reading' you! Hope things calm down a bit for you so you have more time.
I'm good, thanks. Have been enjoying some unseasonably good weather (apart from on Saturday) - it's so lovely to see some sunshine.
How are you - apart from manically busy?!
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Bonsoir mon amie! (bet I've spelt friend wrong!)
Anyway, I wondered whether you'd found your novel by a French author published in 1924. Not sure how reliable it is, but I found the following on Ebay, of all places!
ht tp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/THE-SORROWS-OF-A-FAT-MAN.Henri-Beraud.French-Novel.1924_W0QQitemZ220344973859QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090115?IMSfp=TL090115121002r22366
(Take the gap out between the ht and the tp at the start as you can't post URLs into profile messages.
Voila!
ETA: Damn - scrap that - it says "The original French version was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1922" at the bottom of the listing.
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Good, thanks. I've just made bubble-and-squeak for our lunch out of yesterday's leftovers - it was rather yummy! Apart from that, I've done nothing really. I ought to go and do some ironing or something...!
How are you. Are you having a good day?