poppy
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One of my all time favorites!
Is this the first time reading it?
*whisper* Pontalba, I don't think I read this right ....thought we were supposed to be making recommendations for long books, I'm not actually reading it at the moment (but quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn). I've probably read it at least three times. It's luvvverly
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Oh thank you everyone. We are indeed very lucky to live in such beautiful surroundings, whenever I've lived in cities or towns I feel like I'm just biding my time to get out into the country again. However, it's looking much drier than this at the moment and most of the paddocks are looking very parched. Had rain today for the first time in ages but need a lot more yet.
Quite a few of the old roses have beautiful scents. I also grow David Austin roses, my favourite scented one is Cressida which smells like honey to me. It's a great blousey rose, like something you'd find decorating an old-fashioned picture hat.
Muggle, taking photos has the advantage of you being able to cut out the weeds
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Gone With the Wind - 1042 pages
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Oh Muggle
I grow old-fashioned roses, here's a few photos.
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Your 'Cooking With Wrath' stories are classic
Thought it was very brave to show us the contents of your fridge.
When you started talking about your Stanley Powerlock tape measure and the need for blenders etc , I seriously thought you were going to come out with a Tim the Tool-Man line "More power, arrh arrh arrh!"
Must have taken you ages to put these all together, but it was well worth it. Hope lots of other people read them. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for a good laugh (recipes a bonus)
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I have read and....well I can't really in all honesty say enjoyed, but was able to finish, Remains of the Day, which may be more of a compliment to Anthony Hopkins than Ishiguro.
Am so glad I'm not the only one, Pontalba Loved the movie and I usually really enjoy these kinds of books. But this one was sooooooooooooo slow and I just wanted to shake the butler....... so tightly reined in and unemotional.
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Books I've read a minimum of five times....
Does the Book of Romans or Ephesians count?
Definitely
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I read a book at school, a long time ago, about King Arthur and Merlin, that I'd like to find again. It doesn't appear to be T.H.Whites 'The Sword in the Stone'. It was humorous and had things out of time and place, anachronisms .... anyone got any ideas?
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A passage from 'Down Under' or 'A Sunburned Country', Bill Bryson's book about Australia, that had me in stitches. Some kind people were giving him a guided tour in their car when he fell asleep.
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I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention. I sleep as if injected with a powerful experimental muscle relaxant. My legs fall open in a grotesque come-hither manner; my knuckles brush the floor. Whatever is inside -- tongue, uvula, moist bubbles of intestinal air -- decides to leak out. From time to time, like one of those nodding-duck toys, my head tips forward to empty a quart or so of viscous drool onto my lap, then falls back to begin loading again with a noise like a toilet cistern filling. And I snore, hugely and helplessly, like a cartoon character, with rubbery flapping lips and prolonged steam-valve exhalations. For long periods I grow unnaturally still, in a way that inclines onlookers to exchange glances and lean forward in concern, then dramatically I stiffen and, after a tantalizing pause, begin to bounce and jostle in a series of whole-body spasms of the sort that bring to mind an electric chair when the switch is thrown. Then I shriek once or twice in a piercing and effeminate manner and wake up to find that all motion within five hundred feet has stopped and all children under eight are clutching their mothers' hems. It's a terrible burden to bear. -
Well I'd say you're pretty safe with the Bill Bryson books then ...just might mean frequent trips to the loo
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lol Icecream, no perhaps not at the moment ....and we don't want you going into premature labour
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Asterix!!!! Got introduced to these as a young teenager and been hooked ever since. They are a very clever form of comic, if you knew Latin, I'm sure they'd be even funnier. You've just got to love Asterix and his fellow villagers, Obilix, Dogmatix, Cacophonix, Chief Vitalstatistix and the crew.
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Don't read them in a public place though! :oops:Good advice wabbit' date=' there are parts to his books that do lead to loud noises![/quote']Yes and the more you try not to the worse it gets... :oops: lol
It wouldn't pay to have a weak bladder
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Ones that immediately come to mind are some of P.G.Wodehouse's characters. Bertie, Jeeves, Gussie Finknottle the newt fancier, Lord Emsworth owner of Empress the pig, Madeleine Bassett who is always wittering on about the stars being like God's little bunny rabbits in the sky or some such (enough to make poor Bertie shudder, especially when she decides she's going to marry him).
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Pontalba, if you liked God is an Englishman, I'm sure you'd love A Horseman Riding By. It has three volumes, so a longish read, but has some really wonderful characters in it. Sorry, I'm sure you don't need any more to add to your list
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A couple of CD's I've bought fairly recently, that had good reviews but which I'm a bit disappointed in are 'The Road to Escondido' by J.J.Cale and Eric Clapton, and 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan. I'm a fan of these guys from way back and like their laid-back style. But honestly, if JJ got any more laid back in this album, he'd be falling asleep and toppling off his stool. It just somehow lacks the toe-tapping rhythm of his earlier albums.
Bob Dylan sounds surprisingly like Willie Nelson in some of his songs and his usual grit seems to be missing.
Hear Tony Joe White is putting out a new one soon, so am hoping for a good swampy rock sound from him.
On a completely different note, acquired 'Light Grenades' by Incubus. A lot of their music is fairly heavy but 'Light Grenades' is a much softer sound and by far my favourite album.
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Read several Steinbecks many year ago Muggle, especially remember 'The Grapes of Wrath' as being very good. Have this and also 'Of Mice and Men' and 'The Pastures of Heaven'. On my 'to be re-read soon' list.
Rosie, have you read any of R.F.Delderfield? Particularly enjoyed 'A Horeseman Riding By' and 'To Serve Them All My Days'.
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Books that various people have mentioned which I've enjoyed are ....
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons is wonderfully funny in this "I saw something nasty in the woodshed" still stays with me.
The English Patient - one of my favourites
A Month in the Country - this is a beautifully written and crafted little book
Brideshead Revisited - excellent
A Traveller in Time - read this when quite young and it made a lasting impression on me, mean to read it again soon.
The only book that every one raves over which annoyed the living daylights out of me, was The Remains of the Day. It's very well written I know, but soooooo slooooow. I just want to shake the butler, he is so tightly reined in and unemotional. I found it pedantic in style and frustrating. However, very much enjoyed the movie with Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins.
No-one has mentioned any of E.M.Forster's books.
A Room With A view
Howard's End
A Passage to India
Anyone like these?
Funnily enough I have seen all the books, with the exception of A Traveller in Time, as films and enjoyed every one of them. The British do it so well
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lol PP. It's not that hard really, as Maori sounds stay constant. I memorised it once on a long car-trip for something to do.
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I believe we have one of the longest place-names in the world, if not the longest. It is a Maori name.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
There are two versions, one with the red and one without.
It means "The brow of the hill, where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, slid down, climbed up and swallowed mountains to travel the land, who is known as the land-eater,and played on his flute to his loved ones."
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lol PP. You'd have to be British to know that. I had a pen-friend from Staffordshire when I was young and the address was Staffs ...I thought that was the name of where she came from for ages, until my grandfather corrected me (he was British)
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I wouldn't like to hazard a guess
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Now, I've always said that wrong
Woo (as in cook) chester. Should I pronounce the sauce the same way? -
Yes nite-nite PP, make sure you go this time (not that I want to get rid of you or anything, but it's after 2 a.m for you, I'm sure)
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I love lilacs too. We have a very old white one that the original owner's grand-daughter of our house can always remember being here - the house was built in the late 1800's so it's pretty old. Also have a purple one that I grew from a cutting and want to get the really dark purple one too.