chesilbeach

Happy birthday - hope you have a great day!

Hi Inver - thanks for the comments on my photos. Unfortunately, the Roses tin is long empty of chocolates, and now contains packets of seeds, and the sparkly lights were put up for Christmas in 2002 and haven't been taken down since!

Don't worry, I'm not really that surprised I guessed after last year she might have had enough, and she's opened her own London studio now, so that must take up most of her time. I hope she still comes on It Takes Two or BBC Breakfast as a correspondent though, as I respect what she has to say about dancing.

Hi Ben, I'm good thanks. I picked up you message earlier, but was reading it on my phone and it was too tricky to type a reply, and only just remembered it now! I noticed you said you'd been poorly, so hope you're starting to feel a bit better now.

I'm loving all the Christmas threads that have started today - I'm starting to get the Christmas feeling now, and will be in full swing by the 1st Dec!

She's 39 years old, and the amount of stress it puts on your body during the training for Strictly is immense. I hate this agism slant the papers have put on the recent news. Arlene was the weakest link of the judges, and Karen retired from professional competition years ago, so to still be dancing at that level was a great achievement.

Hi Roxi,

That's lovely, thanks. I'm intending to update my own blog links at some point, as I've found so many great book blogs since joining the forum, including yours!

Hi! Saw this press release on the BBC website today and thought I'd let you know ... "Following the huge success of his first series, Russell Howard will be returning to BBC Three with two more helpings of his topical news show. Series one was the best performing studio-based entertainment show BBC Three has ever launched. Series two will hit our screens next month, with a third series planned for later this year."

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day

Merry Christmas, Ben! Hope you're having a good day x

Glad to be of service

Hi Janet, just wanted to let you know I did enjoy The Post Office Girl and I'm going to write a full review (probably tomorrow!), but thought it would be better to let you know direct rather than reply in that specific thread

Hi pickle! Just popping in to say I've finished "The Carbon Diaries 2015" and posted a review in the Childrens/YA section and in my reading blog, if you want to have a look. I enjoyed it a lot

Happy Birthday Laura! Hope you're having a fabulous day x

I'm doing ok, thanks

The redhead is Karen Gillan, and she's going to the be new companion to Matt Smith's eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who. Yes, I'm a Doctor Who fangirl

Hiya! I'm good thanks. How are you? Glad you liked The Declaration. I'll get round to getting it at some point xxx

That's a good idea! I'm going to try and get some this afternoon, as I'm going to be trying my first bit of quilting, and the top of my index finger is already full of little nicks from the sewing needle, so need to try and prevent them getting too sore. I'll let you know how I get on.

Hey, just popping in to say hello, and I'm glad I've made you laugh - I always wanted to be a comedian Anyway, hope you have a good evening

Hi Charm and a very happy new year to you and yours! Let's hope we manage to find some great books to enjoy in 2010 after our successes of this year

:smile2:Hey Mac. Glad you've got your reading mojo back - always worth going back to a favourite.

Hi! Thanks for the friend invite

Just popping by to let you know the library have already got in City of Ashes for me, but City of Bones shouldn't be too far away so I'm hoping I'll have it by the weekend and can start reading them then.

Your new blog looks so pretty! Can't wait to read your (caffeine fuelled) reviews

Came across a new Groucho Marx quote and couldn't resist it for my signature

I'll definitely let you know! I've only read Star Gazing so far, which I did enjoy but thought it had some faults, but I've borrowed both Lifetime Burning and Emotional Geology from the library, so I've got them both to read in the next couple of weeks.

Happy Birthday! Hope you're having a lovely day

Hi Lexie, just wanted to pop in and thank you for recommending the Sookie Stackhouse series to me - I think they're fantastic escapist fun! My library hasn't got all of them though, but at least with the TV series coming out they've reprinted the books and the shops seem to have them in stock again, so I'll be out getting them all soon

Happy Birthday, Charm! Hope you have a lovely day