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    Five facts...

    in General Chat

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    I would love to be a storm-chaser

     

    I'm useless at mental arithmetic

     

    I spin and knit

     

    I wish I could whistle between my fingers

     

    I like most insects (but NOT The Beatles ...sorry Kylie B))

    Library Thing

    in General Book Discussions

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    Lol, I just saw that Rennie and I've replied and added you too. But Nici, it wasn't you I said hello to ...that was the other day. I said hi to Judy65 but called her Nici, so had to go back and change it ....I seriously think I'm losing the plot.;)

    Daphne du Maurier

    in The Classics

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    I read a lot of du Maurier years ago, and although the titles look familiar I don't remember the stories. Rebecca and Rule Britannia have certainly stuck in my head as excellent reads though.

    Favourite Foods

    in Food, Cooking & Recipes

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    1. what is your favourite meal? Anything involving shell-fish, home-made pizza

    2.what is your least favourite meal? Tripe in white-sauce, haven't eaten it since a child, but the smell of it cooking is enough to put you off.

    3. what is your favourite drink? Coffee

    4.what is your least favoourite drink? Coke, beer

    What films make you cry?

    in Music / TV / Films

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    I don't cry that easily either, but 'The Japanese Story', a lesser known Australian movie, starring Toni Collette and Gotaro Tsunashima, had me a tearful mess.

     

    'Shadowlands', the biographgy of C.S.Lewis, was another one and also 'V for Vendetta' when Natalie Portman was being tortured.

    Gardening

    in General Chat

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    We are going to Sissinghurst Castle tomorrow which is owned by the National Trust - they must have a trick or two..............

     

    Isn't that where Vita Sackville-West lived with her husband? I've read several books about her ....she was a very interesting lady. Also seen books with her gardens in it....absolutely beautiful. Do I remember rightly that they have restored Sissinghurst Castle's gardens to how she designed them?

    Gardening

    in General Chat

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    They are absolutely beautiful muggle. Don't think I've ever seen a pink one like that - it's huge. I love the bluey one....it's gorgeous. I even love the leaves of lilics. I want to get the very dark purple one.

    Gardening

    in General Chat

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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.

    Suggestions for the Doorstep Challenge

    in Reading Challenges

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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 :blush:

    Gardening

    in General Chat

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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.

     

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    Muggle, taking photos has the advantage of you being able to cut out the weeds :blush:

    All things sweet!

    in Food, Cooking & Recipes

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    Your 'Cooking With Wrath' stories are classic :blush:

    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)

    Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

    in Horror / Fantasy / SF

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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.

    Bill Bryson - which book to read first?

    in General Fiction

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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.

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