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Eyes Wide Open ~ Gotye

Hello again Catwoman! Good to see you back

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Bush

Red Eyes ~ Switchfoot

Sweet Hitchhiker ~ CCR

Little Green ~ Joni Mitchell

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Bird On the Wire ~ Leonard Cohen

Those look very yummy Pont .......our donuts look like this http://www.canvass.co.nz/gallery/Alistair%20Guthrie/CNV-AG-0000146.JPG. They are filled with fresh whipped cream. I can't speak for Poppyshake, but I have NEVER eaten waffles or pancakes with bacon, ham or sausages. Waffles come with maple syrup (if you're lucky) and fresh whipped cream and pancakes (pikelets) with jam and cream.

No this one's manual. Here's a photo. An old lady I used to visit with my grandparents when I was little had one and she let us play with it. I can remember one time when we visited, we discovered her half way up a pine tree, pruning it ....she was well into her 80's. http://www.soulcity.be/wallpapers/gramophone.jpg A fishing line (now that Hugh's joining me, he can do the fish dispatching. I love fishing but can't kill anything bigger than a fly or wasp) Tell him to buck up before he arrives will you, can't be doing with mopey males I hope he doesn't have a milk allergy. A swiss army knife (I'm feeling practical this time) A thermette ( a nifty little contraption for those who haven't seen one. Great for camping, you light a little fire with twigs at the bottom and you have boiling water in no time. Tea made with the water has the most delightful smokey flavour.) Drats, I've used up my three choices for this time .....I so wanted fruit cake to go with my billy tea!! http://www.kiwiingenuity.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/magnum_thermette.gif

Thanks GG, I'll add that to my BTR As far as I can gather she was English, but they spent a lot of time in America and she certainly liked a very social life. This book doesn't make her out as unpleasant, but it wasn't really one of those tell-all type books. One thing I thought was rather funny was that she redecorated this very fancy library type room for Plum to write in. He commended her on her taste, then picked up his old beloved typewriter along with a small table and took them up to a little room upstairs, and proceeded to do all his writing from there. Also when she was throwing another one of her parties, Plum couldn't wait to sneak away to write or go for a walk. But it sounded like they got on together very well. She was very good at finding accommodation for them and organising everything, they were quite nomadic. I love his books too GG, they are amongst my favourites

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Times Like These ~ Foo Fighters

The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year by Sue Townsend This is the first book I've read by this author. A fairly light, easy read, funny and satirical. The ending made a strong point. Townsend writes well and I would read more of her books. **

PG Wodehouse. A Portrait of a Master by David A Jasen. At times this seemed to just be a list of Wodehouse's extensive works (I didn't realise he wrote so many musicals and plays as well as all his books), but at other times Jasen made some very witty observations. Commenting on the birth of Plum's second grandchild, he writes 'And Plum, perhaps inured by now to the general appearance of newly minted offspring and their aptitude to look like old Chinese gangsters, neglected to make a pithy comment.' I thought that was worthy of Wodehouse himself (or Plum as he was known to everyone). But what came through strongly, was that PG was a thoroughly nice person, very generous, extremely hard working, with not a nasty bone in his body. He got some very bad press during WW2 when he made a series of radio talks from a German POW camp where he was incarcerated. Although probably a misguided decision, to be accused of being a traitor did him a huge injustice. A fellow writer Denis Mackail defended him saying, 'But the war couldn't go on without hatred, and Plum hated no one. That was his crime.' For any Wodehouse fans who would like more insight into this amazingly prolific and very funny author, this is probably the definitive book. **

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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? ~ The Clash

A Guide to Identifying Desert Island Flora and Fauna An old-fashioned wind-up gramophone (so romantic) A huge pile of records

Back Down South ~ Kings of Leon

Poppyshake, I've never heard that before, it's absolutely lovely, made me quite emotional Another by Sting and Cheb Mami that affects me similarly for some reason. Apparently the lyrics to this song were inspired by Frank Herbert's novel Dune.

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Beth Hart and Jeff Beck performing Etta James's 'I'd Rather Go Blind', makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

Of course you can! Thank goodness for that! I was wondering what ever to do with all this milk I've got left over. I've made yoghurt, cottage cheese, milkshakes and still there's more....... Ok, I think I'd like an old-fashioned canvas tent, the sort you can roll the sides up on. A tilly lamp A voluminous mosquito net to keep all the bugs out at night when I'm reading by my tilly lamp.