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  1. A lot of people have been making a mound of money out of this - tour companies taking people to Mexico; people renting out bunkers - they're laughing all the way to the bank. My daughter's future mother in law has been stocking up tins of food in her larder - it's absolutely stocked floor to ceiling. If the world ended what would happen to the tins and, more importantly, did she remember the tin opener :smile:

  2. I got given a Kindle Fire HD as an early Christmas pressie and I love it. I've downloaded iPlayer app and have watched some programmes - very clear it is.

     

    Does anyone know how I sync book locations with my Kindle keyboard. I know there is a way to be able to read the same book either on Fire and Keyboard and you can ask it it to go to the same page - but not sure how to do it. Very grateful for advice from any techie peeps. :smile:

  3. This is one of my favourite books of all time! I think a lot of course depends on the translation and the Hayward/Harari one of 1958 is reckon to be the best. Some other translations are very clunky and don't do justice to Pasternak's poetic style of writing.

  4. :giggle: I don't think my kids would be very impressed with slow cooked mice!

     

    Ooh I don't know .... bung a bit of ketchup on them and serve with a few chips, they won't know! :D

     

    Seriously, I've never owned a slow cooker, as I'm not sure about temperatures whilst I was out at work. I like to know that my casserole is bubbling up before I turn down to simmer. Can you do that with a slow cooker?

  5. If you're ever near Hastings get some fish and chips from The Blue Dolphin, I have never had fish and chips that taste better... Though watch out for the seagulls, they stole my sons battered sausage.... :D

     

    We're not a million miles from Hastings and we always have fish and chips at the Blue Dolphin. You are absolutely right, they are the best in the area.

  6. I don't think Barbara Erskine writes in an historically chronological timeline. For instance Hiding from the Light deals with Matthew Hopkins (Witchfinder General) in Cromwellian times, to Jesus' time in Times Legacy and her latest deals with Saxon times in River of Destiny. The link Chesilbeach provides is her publishing timeline.

  7. I was very sad to hear this yesterday. I've grown up with Dad's Army and I still watch the repeats on BBC 2 on Saturdays - they still make me chuckle.

     

    Don't panic ..........................

     

    RIP Jonesy xx

  8. Good for you June, I'll keep my fingers crossed that you are successful.

     

    I've enjoyed working 4 days a week since the beginning of the year now. My company are making up to 1,800 people redundant over Europe but my boss has just told me that my job is safe. So I'm very pleased to hear that. I could retire but I don't want to just yet - especially as my daughter is getting married next year and we all know how much a wedding costs!! :blush2:

  9. The Girl At The Lion D'Or is one of my favourite of his books I've read, and I'm glad we seem to be on the same wavelength Sue! I know so many people who loved Birdsong that I thought I might be a lone voice. .

     

    Yes, and what was even better was I picked up that book for 50p in the Oxfam and raved about how I'd got such a lovely bargain. :smile:

     

    You might like "The Return of Capt John Emmett" by Elisabeth Speller, if you like evocative World War I books.

  10. I'm after the Fire too. But mostly for reading as it's backlit, unlike the present Kindle where I need to have a small torch perched over it for reading in bed/low lighting etc. It doesn't have as many apps as say the iPad but then there are only so many you would want anyway in my opinion.

     

    I had thought about the Paperwhite but feel there are too many mixed reviews.

  11. I tend to agree with you Claire. I find that Faulks unwittingly puts a distance between his characters and his readers. I felt no great empathy for Stephen or Charlotte Grey for that matter. However, I thought the second in the Birdsong trilogy, The Girl at the Lion D'or to be exactly the opposite and I felt very deeply for the heroine in that one - it's only a small book but very well written. I have tried reading some of his books since but haven't felt the same about them and "One Week in December" I gave away without finishing it.

  12. Definitely a Kindle convert. The problem is that I have still hundreds of "real" books to get through so I try to read one e-book followed by one real book, otherwise I will be neglecting them. I still love the feel of a real book and you can't beat the coloured glossy pics in coffee table type books. I'm thinking of upgrading to the Kindle FIre HD around Christmas time too. Another plus for Kindle is, for example, today Amazon are running an Autumn Book Harvest and you can pick up some great stuff from 99p.

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