Just read a chapter of the Mobile Homes Act 1983
Riveting
quote:Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:
Just read a chapter of the Mobile Homes Act 1983
Riveting
Does it say that Ms Beckett can claim for hers BDO?
We didn't mean to go to sea by Arthur Ransome
quote:Originally posted by Kaytee:quote:Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:
Just read a chapter of the Mobile Homes Act 1983
Riveting
Does it say that Ms Beckett can claim for hers BDO?
Naw. I'm coming at it from another angle.
Seeing whether a few Romany travelling folk can be gently persuaded to, er, travel
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill, which I lent out never to be returned 
quote:Originally posted by funkyjunky:
We didn't mean to go to sea by Arthur Ransome
I loved all those as a kid. Peter Duck was my favourite.
quote:Pies & Prejudice by Stuart Maconie!
that's the cookie....thanks Devil....
Slight diversion here but for those of you who are interested in history, particularly personality based history, and strong female figures, I can recommend that you read about two English queens - Queens Emma & Edith. Both are early medieval, Emma was married to Kings Aethelred the Unready and Cnut and was mother to Harthacanute and Edward the Confessor who was in turn married to Edith. Honestly, their stories are fascinating reading and are a perfect example of backstage political intrigue dominated by powerful and highly intelligent women.
quote:Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:quote:Originally posted by Kaytee:quote:Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:
Just read a chapter of the Mobile Homes Act 1983
Riveting
Does it say that Ms Beckett can claim for hers BDO?
Naw. I'm coming at it from another angle.
Seeing whether a few Romany travelling folk can be gently persuaded to, er, travel
quote:Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:
Slight diversion here but for those of you who are interested in history, particularly personality based history, and strong female figures, I can recommend that you read about two English queens - Queens Emma & Edith. Both are early medieval, Emma was married to Kings Aethelred the Unready and Cnut and was mother to Harthacanute and Edward the Confessor who was in turn married to Edith. Honestly, their stories are fascinating reading and are a perfect example of backstage political intrigue dominated by powerful and highly intelligent women.
Ooh that sounds right up my street
Any recommendations?
Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor, Have re-read it since I was a teenager, fabulous book.
quote:Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:
Slight diversion here but for those of you who are interested in history, particularly personality based history, and strong female figures, I can recommend that you read about two English queens - Queens Emma & Edith. Both are early medieval, Emma was married to Kings Aethelred the Unready and Cnut and was mother to Harthacanute and Edward the Confessor who was in turn married to Edith. Honestly, their stories are fascinating reading and are a perfect example of backstage political intrigue dominated by powerful and highly intelligent women.
Am I alone in finding 'King Cnut' whimsically amusing?
quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:Pies & Prejudice by Stuart Maconie!
that's the cookie....thanks Devil....
I just googled a review of that, I want it!
quote:Originally posted by Essex Angel:
Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor, Have re-read it since I was a teenager, fabulous book.
Oooh thats a corker
quote:Originally posted by electric6:quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:Pies & Prejudice by Stuart Maconie!
that's the cookie....thanks Devil....
I just googled a review of that, I want it!
It's really good! 
Paul O'Grady's autobiography, i loved it.
quote:Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:quote:Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:
Slight diversion here but for those of you who are interested in history, particularly personality based history, and strong female figures, I can recommend that you read about two English queens - Queens Emma & Edith. Both are early medieval, Emma was married to Kings Aethelred the Unready and Cnut and was mother to Harthacanute and Edward the Confessor who was in turn married to Edith. Honestly, their stories are fascinating reading and are a perfect example of backstage political intrigue dominated by powerful and highly intelligent women.
Am I alone in finding 'King Cnut' whimsically amusing?
I wrote my 13000 word thesis on this stuff. I had to be VERY careful every time I typed the word Cnut.
quote:Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:quote:Originally posted by Bigdaddyostrich:
Am I alone in finding 'King Cnut' whimsically amusing?
I wrote my 13000 word thesis on this stuff. I had to be VERY careful every time I typed the word Cnut.
Anyone know whether he was bearded, or clean shaven?
I've just been for a scavenge in the garage and found:-
6 Georgette Heyers
The King Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell
Lady of Hay...by Barbara Erskine and my absolute favourite of all time:-
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantell...thought I'd lost it
6 Georgette Heyers
The King Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell
Lady of Hay...by Barbara Erskine and my absolute favourite of all time:-
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantell...thought I'd lost it
quote:Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:quote:Originally posted by electric6:quote:Originally posted by RZB:quote:Pies & Prejudice by Stuart Maconie!
that's the cookie....thanks Devil....
I just googled a review of that, I want it!
I read that one too, but it didn't pay much attention to Geordieland
Did it not Kaytee, the right-up implied it did 
We still have Bill Bryson on our side but.
We still have Bill Bryson on our side but.
Another good read, âThe Empty Hearthâ by Kitty Neale, set in Battersea in the 50âs & 60âs a lovely book and only 352 pages.
quote:Originally posted by electric6:
Did it not Kaytee, the right-up implied it did
We still have Bill Bryson on our side but.
Most of it concerned the NW Leccie, but it's still a good read.....I lurve the Bryson's books. I remember reading 'Notes on a Small Island' on a flight once, got told off by the OH for PMSL
I havent read a book in ages i used to read like a demon. I blame my mental year, i will get back into reading
i used to read like a demon. I blame my mental year, i will get back into reading quote:Originally posted by china:quote:Originally posted by Trix-ster:
Just finished Breaking Dawn by S. Meyer again
And am now reading Pillow Talk- Freya North
oi!
put that book down and do some housework
idle sod
No I'm on strike
My Family And Other Animals.
I love him, his books are very funny
quote:I blame my mental age
quote:Originally posted by electric6:
I love him, his books are very funny
Gerald Durrell?
quote:Originally posted by Kaytee:quote:Originally posted by electric6:
Did it not Kaytee, the right-up implied it did
We still have Bill Bryson on our side but.
Most of it concerned the NW Leccie, but it's still a good read.....I lurve the Bryson's books. I remember reading 'Notes on a Small Island' on a flight once, got told off by the OH for PMSL
My favourite quote from 'Notes on a Small Island' when he gets off the ferry was it and checks in at this guesthouse and the ferocious landlady says to him "keep your feet off the counterpane" and he thinks to himself "what the **** is a counterpane" Cracks me up.
my family and other animals was indeed a very funny book when I read it at age 10! And indeed as fabulous a person as Gerald Durrel is, he was never the greatest author in the world... I hav read other stuff too by him, and whilst his stuff bobs along okay, an is certainly set in his times.. still not the greatest author in the world, far from it.
quote:Originally posted by squiggle:quote:Originally posted by Kaytee:quote:Originally posted by electric6:
Did it not Kaytee, the right-up implied it did
We still have Bill Bryson on our side but.
Most of it concerned the NW Leccie, but it's still a good read.....I lurve the Bryson's books. I remember reading 'Notes on a Small Island' on a flight once, got told off by the OH for PMSL
My favourite quote from 'Notes on a Small Island' when he gets off the ferry was it and checks in at this guesthouse and the ferocious landlady says to him "keep your feet off the counterpane" and he thinks to himself "what the **** is a counterpane" Cracks me up.
Just don't read him on a plane...I was crying with laughing
Pets with Tourettes, bought these books for my sister at christmas, they are very very naughty but very funny.
quote:Originally posted by Gel:
my family and other animals was indeed a very funny book when I read it at age 10! And indeed as fabulous a person as Gerald Durrel is, he was never the greatest author in the world... I hav read other stuff too by him, and whilst his stuff bobs along okay, an is certainly set in his times.. still not the greatest author in the world, far from it.
A friend gave it to me, I have never read any of his other stuff, but I loved that particular novel. It made me smile a lot!
quote:Originally posted by *Clunt*:quote:Originally posted by Gel:
my family and other animals was indeed a very funny book when I read it at age 10! And indeed as fabulous a person as Gerald Durrel is, he was never the greatest author in the world... I hav read other stuff too by him, and whilst his stuff bobs along okay, an is certainly set in his times.. still not the greatest author in the world, far from it.
A friend gave it to me, I have never read any of his other stuff, but I loved that particular novel. It made me smile a lot!
It does
I think becase it concentrates on his childhood and of course ALL his pets
his other stuff is more his explorations around the world.
quote:Originally posted by Kaytee:
For those who are interested, and SQUIGGLE. I appear only to be a member of two of them ( I thought I'd joined them all)
1) I *heart* Tudor History
2) If only I was born in 1530 (this one has the letters)
Search...Tudor History or the people you are interested in...you should get plenty of choices
i can never get ahead with books about henrys 6 wives
I`ve been having one of those for the last few months, read all the Philipa Gregory`s one after the other, couple of old Jean Plaidy and couple of Alison Weir and am just finishing Elizabeth and Leicester by Sara Gristwood. I need a different subject now for diversion.quote:Originally posted by squiggle:
The King's Secret Matter by Jean Plaidy about Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII. Am reading The King's Pleasure now by Norah Lofts, same story from a different perspective (I am having a Tudor interval!)
quote:Originally posted by jeppa:I`ve been having one of those for the last few months, read all the Philipa Gregory`s one after the other, couple of old Jean Plaidy and couple of Alison Weir and am just finishing Elizabeth and Leicester by Sara Gristwood. I need a different subject now for diversion.quote:Originally posted by squiggle:
The King's Secret Matter by Jean Plaidy about Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII. Am reading The King's Pleasure now by Norah Lofts, same story from a different perspective (I am having a Tudor interval!
There is something fascinating about that period. I haven't read any about Elizabeth yet, have you?
quote:Originally posted by china:quote:Originally posted by Kaytee:
For those who are interested, and SQUIGGLE. I appear only to be a member of two of them ( I thought I'd joined them all)
1) I *heart* Tudor History
2) If only I was born in 1530 (this one has the letters)
Search...Tudor History or the people you are interested in...you should get plenty of choices
i can never get ahead with books about henrys 6 wives
You'd better not meet my daughter then China, she'd lamp you
I`ve just jumped to the end of the thread after posting and seen yours above, I shall now have to go back through the thread to see which books you are talking about - teach me to post without reading the whole thread firstquote:Originally posted by china:quote:Originally posted by Kaytee:
For those who are interested, and SQUIGGLE. I appear only to be a member of two of them ( I thought I'd joined them all)
1) I *heart* Tudor History
2) If only I was born in 1530 (this one has the letters)
Search...Tudor History or the people you are interested in...you should get plenty of choices
i can never get ahead with books about henrys 6 wives