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Talisman - congratulations to you and Coran on your radio piece - I went and listened to the one you posted the link to and it's wonderful.

Mine are... January: Point Break The Revenant February: Deadpool Beauty and the Beast Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Zoolander 2 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Hail, Caesar! March: Ben Hur Allegiant Part 1 Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice Grimsby April: The Jungle Book The Brontes May: Friday 13th X-Men: Apocalypse Alice Through the Looking Glass June: Now You See Me: The Second Act Independence Day: Resurgance The Secret Life of Pets July: Star Trek Beyond Tarzan Knight of the Roundtable: King Arthur The BFG August: Pete's DragonOctober: GambitNovember: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ThemDecember: Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One Dance of the Goblins That's just for starters though - I've not had a chance to really look at what else is coming and see what they're all about.

Thank you, Garcia. I really appreciate it.

Congratulations! I am SO jealous!

I signed up for Brave The Shave in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support today. On 2nd August next year, I will be shaving my head. All money raised in sponsorship will go to Macmillan Cancer Support, and my hair will be donated to the Little Princess Trust which makes wigs for children who have lost their hair through cancer treatment. That's the reason I'll be shaving it off NEXT August - I want my hair to grow as long as possible between now and then. I feel really good about this.

Lots of good things happening today, including: It's my twelfth wedding anniversary. My sister has come to visit for the weekend (we haven't seen each other since Easter) The sun is shining. After today, hubby will be on holiday from work for two whole weeks, so we have loads of lovely day trips planned with the boys.

I totally forgot to mention these arrived the other day (sorry - very remiss of me - I thought I HAD come back and posted, but obviously I was wrong about that - LOL!). They are absolutely stunning and I can hardly wait to start colouring! Just waiting for a rainy day when I have finished the housework so I can sit the kids down and we can all colour together - they with their colouring books, and I with mine!

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I ADORE Chris Riddell - he's one of my favourite artists and illustrators! I have all The Edge Chronicles which he did with Paul Stewart, and which I adore and have kept, ostensibly for my boys, but really just because I love looking at the artwork in them. I also love the Ottoline books and The Graveyard Book, which he did with Neil Gaiman. The Barnaby Grimes books (again, with Paul Stewart) are also awesome. I also recently read The Sleeper and the Spindle, a graphic novel collaboration with Gaiman, which was absolutely stunning. I just love, love LOVE his work! <3

Ooooooh! I'm chuffed to bits!!! Thank you!

Don't be daft - LOL! I'm sure Ill think of something!

I was totally just thinking of building a book throne in the garden tomorrow to take a pic, and here you are you've already done the book throne idea!!! Excellent pic! I shall have to go back to the drawing board...

Here's mine all coloured in:

I'm still trying to think of an interesting reading situation!

I went to Turkey just before my 23rd birthday and almost didn't come back. I got engaged to a guy out there and almost threw away my plane ticket home. In the end, though, I decided I was more in love with the country than with the guy and broke it off. A good thing, too, as a few months later, I met Dale and the rest is history!

A downloadable bookmark to commemorate the forum's tenth birthday: You can use them separately, or put them back to back for a double-sided bookmark. You can colour them or leave them black and white.

My Hubby joined a band a couple of months ago (as lead vocalist) and they have their first gig this coming Saturday night - it's a wedding evening do. So excited for him, and super excited because I've been invited along too, so I can see his first gig. They were already an established band before he joined, but they had lost their vocalist and needed someone who could step in and be gig-ready quickly - and he fit the bill.

A long, luxurious soak in a hot bubble bath with a glass of wine... and a good book, of course! Candles, low lighting, soft music playing, and the door locked - no kids coming in and screaming for Mummy, no hubby asking where something is... ... Yeah, one can dream - LOL! I actually go to the gym to relax. I know that sounds weird, but I go to the gym, work out like a beast, go for a swim, then I treat myself to a few minutes each in the jacuzzi and sauna to finish off. It's the only place where I don't have to talk to anyone or be anything to anyone - I can just be me and do something for me. It's my bliss!

= DO NOT DISTURB!!! = Caffeine hype = Has anyone seen PacMan? = Overentusiastic = British Summer Time

The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett comes out in August. It's the 41st Discworld novel and the fifth and final in the Tiffany Aching series. It's also the last Discworld novel completed by Pratchett before he died. It's sad to think there will be no more new Discworld books. At least, none written by him. I don't know if there are any unfinished manuscripts that will be finished by someone else. I kind of hope not, to be honest - it just wouldn't be the same. The Taming of the Queen by Phillipa Gregory is also out this August. It follows the fate of Catherine Parr, sixth and final wife of Henry VIII, and looks rather interesting. I love her historical novels, and I'm especially fond of the Tudor period, so I'm really looking forward to this one. Brothers In Blood by Simon Scarrow, the thirteenth book in his Romans series, is out next week - I love this series, although I haven't yet read the 12th book (I have it on Mount To Be Read). He also has Britannia coming out in October, which follows the same characters from the Roman series (Cato and Macro), although I don't know if it's officially canon, or if it's a side story. Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre is out next January. There's not a lot of info on it, but I think it's a stand-alone novel - it doesn't seem to be attached to any of his established series. Driving Heat by Richard Castle, the seventh Nikki Heat novel, is out in September, nicely in time for my birthday. Diana Gabaldon is busily writing the ninth book in the Outlander series, but I don't know if there's an expected publication date for that yet. That's only seven books, so three authors I wish would write some more are: Brom - I want another beautifully illustrated novel, full of surreal, dark beauty. Suzanne Collins - more in the vein of The Hunger Games would be awesome, please! Stuart MacBride - some more Logan McRae books, please, and also some more sci-fi crime thrillers in the vein of Halfhead would be excellent!

My top ten favourite authors, in no particutlar order, are: Terry Pratchett Simon Scarrow Christopher Brookmyre Philippa Gregory Brom Stuart MacBride Jane Austen Richard Castle Charlotte Bronte C S Lewis

In ten years time I will be approaching my 49th birthday (how weird does that sound?!). Xan will be 16 (almost 17!) and only a couple of years off finishing school - he will have just finished his exams, and Josh will be 11 (coming up on his 12th birthday!) and almost finished his final year of primary school. By then, I would love to be a teaching assistant. I plan to retrain once Josh is in full time education, and it'll take a couple of years to complete the courses. I'd love to get a position at the school Xan is at (I'm a parent governor there at the moment). Of course, before i do that, I will have to learn to drive, or I won't be able to actually get to my classes to retrain. I would like to have several foreign holidays with the kids under our belts by that point too. Dale has never yet left the UK, and I haven't been abroad since the September before we got together (which will be 16 years this September - OMGs!). I really miss the adventure of exploring different countries and cultures, and hope my kids will have the opportunity to develop that same love for discovery and experiences. I've shed 40lbs this year so far, and have another 50 or so I want shot of. Obviously, I would prefer it didn't take 10 years to get there, and I hope I will have kept the weight off. When I hit my goal weight, I intend to look into the possibility of getting a tummy tuck, as the overhang from my two emergency c-sections is one thing I cannot get rid of with diet and exercise. I might even have had laser eye surgery by then to do away with the necessity of glasses or contact lenses. By that time, the house will be almost half paid off, and the solar panels will have been paid off so we'll be actually making money off them. And with me in work again, we'll have a bit more cash to spare for little luxuries and holidays. All told, I think ten years from now will be pretty rosy.

I'm a singer, but I really wish I could play an instrument - and preferably be able to sing at the same time. you know, like play the guitar and sing along? Or the violin or something like that. I did learn to play the violin when I was a kid, but when we moved, they didn't teach it at my school, so I didn't do it any more. I can Zentangle, but I wish I could actually paint and draw. I'd love to be able to create pieces that actually look like the thing they're supposed to be! I'd love to be able to write. I have a million and one ideas in my head, but I have the most terrible time translating them to the page. They're a tangle of half ideas and none of them connect or have an ending to them. I'd dearly love to have that talent to bring them all together and be able to get them on the page. I used to dance and am now taking a beginner's class in Ballroom and Latin American dancing, which is fun, but I would love to be able to dance like the folks on Strictly Ballroom - that would be awesome! They look so elegant.

Good luck, everyone!

Well, as I love the film Starship Troopers (it was one of the first blue ray discs we bought when we switched to a blue ray player - we already had it on DVD, but when you're upgrading, your favourites get upgraded first!), I'd read that one first. I never even realised it was adapted from a book till I read this thread (terrible, I know!), and now I really want to read it!