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I haven't read, nor have any particular desire to read any of them man, am I out of touch with the times!

Gammon joint glazed with honey, mustard and mixed herbs for us.

Hello peoples ! I'm pretty sure I never read Milly Molly Mandy as a child - I was obviously deprived I technically have a book on the go already but I was so zombified today as to make anything more complex than MMM seem out of my reach...!

I've personally never dared - my Nan's description of how it takes Proust eight pages to describe the main character dunking a buiscuit in a cuppa has put me off forever !

No such danger I'd borrowed it from a friend who'd bought it for laughs, so I never actually owned a copy to liberate...!

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I love the sound of The History of the World - thanks for clarifying the title Poppy, as funnily enough it probably would have made me leave the book on the shelf !

Coffee with Oscar sounds delightful, I might have to hunt that one down thanks for the heads up Noll.

I read Milly Molly Mandy Stories by [i Forget] today. A good, old-fashioned kid's read it was, like a Famous Five for younger 'uns.

Oooh, I like your thinking Chrissy maybe one of the local B&B's can give us a group discount...?! And, I empathise with why you refused your hubby's offer it's the same principle behind me turning down a 15 minute visit to the great W because just what would I achieve in so little time?

Oh dear, I'm not this much of a downer am I?

Jasper Fforde, wise as he is, lives there. I really want to go to the festival but apparently the accomodation is prohibitive so it'll probably have to wait until I have a job, and a good one at that *sigh*!

I can't believe I didn't think of this before - Gregory Maguire's Wicked, a retelling of The Wizard of Oz from the viewpoint of the Wicked Witch of the West, is quite magical and is for a large chunk set in a university. It's an absolutely beautiful book, there are a few adult moments but nothing worse than I was happily reading as a teenager.

... curse you Chrissy *drool*!

I've had Quorn pork-less bacon before (at one point back in Liverpool I was sharing a house with four vegeterians...!) and found it plasticky and inedible but then, I'm a bacon fiend. Chicken's easily the best in terms of reproduceability, I've been fed Quorn chicken curry before and only realised it wasn't actual chicken because my vegetarian friend was also tucking in.

... *eyes bulge* surely it can't still be cheese? That's, like, pork-less bacon !

Officially. Jealous. .

My copy of Montague's A Writer's Notes on His Trade dates back to 1946 I'm on the lookout for one in better shape or might get it rebound when I'm a bit richer though, as the cover's coming off at the spine .

Short answer: no - but I reckon that if anyone can make a decent film about Napoleon mit dragons, it's probably Peter Jackson.

My OH also cracks jokes, but isn't bothered really - to be honest, he spends gazillions on games which last him a lot less than books last me, so it would be kinda funny in an unfunny way if he did have a problem with it .

Had the Temeraire books highly recommended to me by my Mum and sister, it sounds like they were right as usual I'll get onto them as soon as I can 'cos I'd like to get through them before the film comes out.

In this and every other similar instance, I have always asked for help to people directly; the 'certain areas' dilemma didn't apply either - the example above happened in Milan's city centre, in a safe & sound university district with no gangs etc. It's just that, quite simply, people in big cities often are too self-focuses to give a about anybody else's pain.

Echo - that's horrific, I can't believe people were actually urging that poor distressed woman to end her life just so they could get to wherever it is they were going a bit faster talk about needing to get one's priorities in order. Vladd - I know there's scammers out there trying to take advantage of people's generosity, but in London there doesn't seem to be much generosity going 'round in the first place. Sadly, it doesn't take much convincing that people were ignoring and laughing at her; both here and in Milan I've grown used to the utter disregard of 90+% of people for the welfare of others. I could offer countless first-hand examples, consider the following. Back in Italy I once fell down half a flight of underground steps onto the platform. I couldn't move, let alone get up; I was lying flat, clutching my ankle, crying my eyes out [an ambulance later revealed a dislocation, I needed to borrow a wheelchair from A&E to get home], yet the only people who eventually stopped and struggled to get me to my feet were a middle-aged nun and an elderly couple. Literally hundreds of perfectly able-bodied students and city workers just looked past me and went on their ways.

Fontina. Heinz beans or supermarket brand?

Favoured. Snorkelling or diving?