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January 31st, 2009
06:41 pm - Bookish Babblings
So yesterday I spent some time with lycoris where we mostly babbled about books, which is always fun. I now owe her a terrific pile of things I want to let her borrow, I'm sure. She will no doubt end up having to remind me as my brain is that of a fried goldfish. I followed up this bookish talk with watching the first episode of a new series of The Book Quiz on BBC iplayer which made me feel, at turns, super-clever and very-stupid. I used to have a knack for the round in which they make cryptic titles for books so The Enquiring Moment regarding the nocturnal canines would be The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night Time and so on. Astoundingly I guessed two of the 'name the author by their voice' which is usually the place I am most awful.
I finished the double-book Chalet School (The School at the Chalet and Jo of the Chalet School) last night and started Stephen Fry's Making History today, though my inroads into it have been somewhat poor thus far. At present I am not keen on the chopping between timelines/scenarios but I am hopeful it might improve. I also made an expedition to the Loft, no mean feat in this weather I can tell you, and unearthed another hidden cache of random books. Some of which have immediately been placed on my account at swapshop (The Queen and I by Sue Townsend, and Nothing Ever Happens Here which was a book someone bought for me years ago which I summarily dismissed it being rather more action-adventurey and modern than I preferred) others were put aside ot re-read before I make a final decision (one of the sequels to Freaky Friday, for example, and several poetry books of dubious origins) and others were immediately grabbed up with enthusiasm, most notably my dogged old copy of The Queen's Nose one of the only Dick King-Smith books I really liked enough to have as my own (and far superior to the tv adaptation, a mon avis) and also, even more suprisingly the long-lost family copy of Coot Club. The latter had been missing for so long we had actually recently bought a green hardback copy from Lady Heyes published in 1949, but as our original was published in the previous run in 1948, pages permitting, it shall no doubt be the one kept. It even has a pull-out map! I also found another Mallory Towers one, proving my suspicion that those handful I found couldn't possibly be the sum of my collection. Of course there are still many more unaccounted for, but the Loft is not a place in which one can find everything in one trip. After winching those I had found down in a scrap of bin bag and clambering down myself my hands were numb with cold and I had to leave the books to 'thaw' a little.
Current Mood: oddly sleepy
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09:05 pm - Funny, but true.
I haz remembered what else I was going to say before getting distracted by bookness.
So, I was doing my practice driving theory test on the computer and I came up against this question:
You are driving at the speed limit for the road, as you approach a bend a car comes speeding behind you and flashes its lights at you do you:
A. Allow the car to overtake
B. Maintain your speed, thus preventing the car from overtaking
C. Touch lightly on your brakes to make the brakelights come on
D. Flash your own lights.
Now this was tricksy because the vast majority of people would actually do C but I already know that that is technically wrong. So on a choice between A and B I chose B because one would hope that this would prevent the Mad Person from causing a serious accident and also perhaps show to them, by example, what they should be doing. (Idealistic, but much of the test is.)
the answer? A. Allow the car to overtake (on a BEND!)
Is it only me who find it somewhat amusing that the Highway Code encourages you to Let the Stupid People Die? Darwinism in action?
lol.
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