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I agree Gyre I think what I like about his books are that his characters are so alive and you really get to like them. The movies of these books were just so high-class too, with such great actors as Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anthony Hopkins ...you just can't go wrong.

I loved this book, although there was quite a lot of tragedy in it, EM Forster manages to infuse humour into it as well. If you enjoyed this, I'm sure you would enjoy Room With A View, quite light-hearted and funny but again dealing with the interaction between the different classes in England in the early 20th century.

Lol Charm, I'm the same. We do have a record player but it is not playing at the correct speed and it sounds terrible. My most rare LP (or so I've been informed) is Procol Harum Live In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra recorded in 1971. They were the band that sang A Whiter Shade of Pale.

College Major: History Something You Keep Hidden: Hickies Something Sticky: Hokey-Pokey Famous Duos or Trios: Hepburn and Tracey Hobby: Hot-air ballooning Things Found in a Purse: Hankie Things With Spots: Hives Part of the Body: Head Things Found in the Kitchen: Hot-plate Type of Clothing: Hoodie Type of Beer: Heineken Athlete: Murray Helberg Historical Figure: Hitler Type of Tool: Hammer Appliance: Heater Things Found in a Classroom: High spirits Sport: Hockey Music Artist: Hendrix TV Show: Home Improvement Junk Food: Hot-dog Types of Candy: Hershey's Chocolate Store/Company: Hallensteins Brand Name:Hugo Boss Something With a Tail: Horse

I haven't watched Emmerdale for about 3 years now but I used to be a big fan. Once I joined forums I no longer had time I thought the characters were great (with a few exceptions), I loved the Dingle family especially. And there was always humour running through the whole thing. It is the only soap opera that I've ever become addicted to. We are way behind with our episodes in NZ though.

I loved 'Brideshead Revisited', both the book and the TV series. I haven't read anything else by him but maybe I should. I was reminded very much of his writing when I read 'The Remains of the Day' by Kazuo Ishiguro.

We don't have an Easter meal either, but I always make home-made hot cross buns and we have lots of chocolate easter eggs. I love the marshmallow ones by Cadbury's but everyone else seems to prefer the hollow chocolate ones and creme eggs.

Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin

Awwww ...in that case Pont, maybe not It's a long time since I read it, but I think I cried too, and I don't cry all that easily. Wind in the Willows should be OK though, it's funny and delightful

Knowing your love of animals Pont, I think you would enjoy Watership Down, although keep the hanky handy. And The Wind in the Willows is absolutely delightful if you want to revisit childhood ....I read it for the first time as an adult.

Hi Gillian and welcome

Homemade Macaroni and Cheese with heaps of cheese in the sauce, bacon and raw tomato on top.

Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

Hi Kate and a big welcome

I loved this book and loved the movie (the one I watched had Mia Farrow and Robert Redford acting) I generally like this type of book but would not recommend it if you are feeling depressed. I reread it again recently and can't quite pinpoint what moves me so much about it. I think F.Scott Fitzgerald does an amazingly good job of capturing the spirit of the time and the book seems to have an undertone of inevitable tragedy about to happen. It's certainly a very interesting observation of life in the 20's and the division between the rather immoral and materialistic rich and the working classes.

It's not even as if I don't like Kate Winslet or Leonardo DiCaprio. I was very impressed with Leonardo's acting in The Aviator (film about Howard Hughes) and Kate has done some fine acting. That one just wasn't believable.

Wow, those soup recipes sound absolutely fantastic Kell, I'm not waiting for a dislocated jaw to try those! Bookjumper I've just read your other thread and hope you get it sorted soon, you poor thing, it sounds awful. I've had a clicky jaw at times which is painful enough but that sounds gruesome

I'm glad I'm not the only one, I sometimes fear I'm becoming over-cynical in my old age. It's not that I don't like romantic movies (I loved Love Actually and Gone With the Wind amongst many others) but Titanic was just too sickly-sentimental.

Ophelia, I so have to agree. That was truly an eye-rolling. finger down the throat type movie (my apologies to those who loved it)

I have these on a playlist which I haven't got sick of yet. Desert Rose - Sting Session - Linkin Park Private Investigations - Dire Straits Down to Zero - Joan Armatrading Now and Always - David Gray Freestyler - Bomfunk Spark - Over the Rhine December - Collective Soul Green River - CCR Angel - Sarah McLachlin Walk and Talk Like Angels - Toni Childs and that's just a few

And then's there's my motorbike riding, but we're not going to mention that again are we Charm? Oil change instructions for women: 1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000 miles since the last oil change. 2) Drink a cup of coffee. Read free newspaper. 3) 15 minutes later, write a cheque and leave with a properly maintained vehicle. Money spent: Oil Change $40.00 Coffee $2.00 Total $42.00 Oil change instructions for men: 1) Wait until Saturday, drive to auto parts store and buy a case of oil, filter, kitty litter, and cleaner and a scented tree, write a cheque for $50.00. 2) Stop by 7-11 and buy a case of beer, write a cheque for $20, Drive home. 3) Open a beer and drink it. 4) Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands. 5) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car. 6) In frustration, open another beer and drink it. 7) Place drain pan under engine. 8) Look for 9/16-box end wrench 9) Give up and use crescent wrench. 10) Unscrew drain plug. 11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: splash hot oil on you. 12) Crawl out from under car to wipe hot oil off of face and arms. Throw kitty litter on spilled oil. 13) Have another beer while watching oil drain. 14) Spend 30 minutes looking for oil filter wrench. 15) Give up; crawl under car and hammer a screwdriver through oil filter and twist off. 16) Crawl out from under car with dripping oil filter splashing oil everywhere from holes. Cleverly hide old oil filter among trash in trashcan to avoid environmental penalties. Drink a beer. 17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Decide to finish oil change tomorrow so you can go see his new garage door opener. 18) Sunday: Skip church because "I gotta finish the oil change." Drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car. Cleverly dump oil in hole in back yard instead of taking it back to Kragen to recycle. 19) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18. 20) Beer? No, drank it all yesterday. 21) Walk to 7-11; buy beer. 22) Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface. 23) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine. 24) Remember drain plug from step 11. 25) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan. 26) Remember that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard, along with drain plug. 27) Drink beer. 28) Shovel out hole and sift oily mud for drain plug. Re-shovel oily dirt into hole. Steal sand from kid

Dire Straits Joni Mitchell Toni Childs Incubus Pink Floyd

Thank you so much you two for introducing me to this poet. Both these are wonderful

Hi Binary Digit and welcome Mwahaha .... another poor lurker gets trapped

Novalee Nation, seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight - and superstitious about hte number seven - shifted uncomfortably in the seat of the old Plymouth and ran her hands over the curve of her belly. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts