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  1. Janet

    Happy birthday, Ann. :sign0072: Hope you have a great day. :)

  2. Janet
    It's great, isn't it!
  3. Janet

    Paula - I've sent a PM too but I just wanted to say thanks again for sending me The Old Man and the Sea. :)

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    That's okay - no problem. :)

     

    I will miss the pigs too - they're a great idea. So far, we've photographed about 89/100! We haven't got the ones from places like Wellow or the RUH yet and we're running out of time.

     

    I bought your book (one for my friend for her birthday and then I went and got one for me!) - I haven't read mine yet but my friend said it was great. It's nice to have a local author to look out for. :)

  5. Janet
    I made green tomato chutney a few years back when our tomatoes didn't ripen. It was lovely, if I say so myself. I gave three jars to my neighbour and she used it up within 2 weeks!
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    Merlin

    Janet replied to Mia's topic in Music / TV / Films

    It's not really not my thing. ... but I caught the last 15 minutes and thought it was wonderful! (The dragon sold it to me - how cute!). I managed to miss the repeat that was on yesterday so I'm going to watch the whole thing in iPlayer in readiness for next week. Perfect family viewing - it's not often that anything appeals to all four of us.
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    I'm really enjoying it, thanks. :)

     

    I guess one usually only hears one side of the story so it's good to hear it from the German perspective. It's not an awful lot different to the suffering the British soldiers went through and I think one doesn't often think that these were also young boys a long way from home wondering why they were there too.

     

    I'm about half way through it so far.

  8. Janet
    I listened again last night, but I'm not 100% sure. Like you, we decided it must have been 'maid' for the reason you pointed out.
  9. Janet

    I missed your birthday - I hope you had a good day. :)

  10. Janet

    I missed your birthday. I hope you had a good one. :)

  11. Janet

    I missed your birthday - I'm very sorry. I hope you had a good day. :)

  12. Janet
    I'm not reading it very quickly (due to other stuff going on, nothing to do with the book) but I'm really enjoying it so far.
  13. Janet
    We debated whether it was maid or name too. I'll stick iPlayer on and see if I can work it out. ETA: Or maybe the ITV equivalent!
  14. Janet

    Hope you had a lovely wedding day. :)

  15. Janet
    I took four books into Bath last week. I put them in sealed plastic bags and wrote "Free Book - Please See Inside Front Cover" on the outside and I left two on the Park and Ride bus, one on a bench outside Bath Abbey and one in a 'free' newspaper rack. I thought they might be really good, obvious places. However, no luck after one week. I know someone found the one by the Abbey, because Mum and I passed the plastic bag in the gutter of a road nearby (litter bugs! ) but nobody has been on Bookcrossing to say they've found them. I realise that they might not have the internet, but it's really disappointing. I've only had three 'caught' and two of those were in charity shops. The third was in a hotel (not where I left it) and the 'catcher' said she would release it in her native Canada after reading it, but that was back in January and she hasn't made any release notes. Has anyone here who participates had any luck recently? It's rather put me off trying again.
  16. Janet
    I'd love a proper book journal (whether I'd update it is another matter!). I love to record my feelings good or bad. I really like looking back at what I've read!
  17. Janet
    Aww, thanks!
  18. Janet
    I've not read many as an adult - Philip Pullman's Northern Lights is the only one I can think of off the top of my head, and I haven't read the final two of the trilogy. As a child, I read the Narnia Chronicles by CS Lewis and The Land of Far Beyond by Enid Blyton, which is based on The Pilgrim's Progress but I think the religious connotations went over my head! I noticed yesterday that the Christian shop in Bath are stocking something called The Shack. I thought that was a horror story!
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    Is anyone else reading this? I think 11 people voted for it but it hasn't generated much discussion.
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    Nope I'm still watching! It's alright I think, if you distance yourself from how good the 'real' story is. Hubby's enjoying it (although he wouldn't admit it in public! ) but he doesn't know the story so he's taking it at face value as a story unfolding, rather than one unfolding incorrectly.
  21. Janet
    I think it's standard practise - UKers can't watch the 'coming up on... ' Neighbours clips from the official Australian Neighbours site, so it's not just us stopping people from other countries.
  22. Janet
    1929 - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque In the trenches, one by one the boys begin to fall... Having read many books about WW1 for A Level English, I thought it would be good to see one written from the other side.
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    Do you work for the BBC? I have a 'friend' (from another forum) who tried watching in Australia and she got a message saying it was only available in the UK. Hopefully the BBC will get some kind of worldwide deal.
  24. Janet
    Yeah, Michelle's right - Iplayer is only available for viewing in the UK. I thought it was great. Darker than I was expecting. Alec is a real and gave me the creeps. Roll on next week.
  25. Janet
    Oh, me too!
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