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I saw this and it was great - I've been waiting for ages for something new featuring Stephen Fry.... I coud happily watch him hosting anything It was really great though because too many shows where people go to the USA are about how bad the country is or how stupid the people are etc etc. This was refreshing for showing the country and it's people in a positive light - I wonder if the Griff Rhys-Jones version of this which is starting on ITV will be anywhere near as good!

Confused.com ? No actually I'm off.com ....arghhhh

oh I envy you the first reading of The Stand ! It has to be one of my top 5 books ever and the best he's written too!

Ok. I've just finished Matt Haig's book The Last Family In England - a novel about modern family life told from the perspective of Prince a black labrador. I think this is a marmite book, you will either love it or hate it and to love it you probably need to be a dog lover too! We have a black lab which made this book more enjoyable and helped me continue after I got a bored in the early chapters. I found that if I read this book in large chunks then it continued to work for me but read slowly a few pages at a time ... it loses it's credibility. I did enjoy this book but it was infuriating, slow and depressing at times... but an interesting idea.

I love doing the bedtime stories - it's such a lovely time to share books and your little baby obviously agrees! We've read some really fun books like - The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business (the best book about poo ever ) Marvin The Sheep Who Wanted More and Cushie Butterfield - She's A Little Cow There are some great books out there to have fun with - I'm almost sad that our guys have now moved on to having chapters of full books instead.

The Hovis advert is great and I kind of like the really weird Cravendale adverts too - with the toy people fighting with cows who want their milk back....

salted pretzels or crackers dipped in chocolate mmmmmm and salt n vinegar crip sandwiches mmmmmm yesterday was an ultimate in guilty pleasures - chipshop battered sausage plus chips smothered in salad cream, followed by a bag of cola bottles whilst watching 3 hours worth of X-Factor.....

Hello ! Hope you enjoy the forum - have you tried BookMooch as an alternative source of EL books ?

rooster burgers and homemade chips yum !

Welcome aboard Sean - there are some great bookshops in Sheff !

Congratulations on finding your way back to books & to the forum welcome !!

- hope you've found some book suggestions !

Welcome to the forum - please can I come live with you ? I love the hebrides

I remember getting the first 2 books together as a birthday present when I was in my early teens - I was so annoyed as I thought my auntie chose them as a way of saying that I was an irritating teenager I really loved them though and have read the whole series - really great books and I love the way that Adrian's life has not turned out predictably * hated the tv series though!