Oh you!

Bibwit: Is an amazing site.... :D

$5 for a newish book?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Returning to the Anne of Green Gables storyline from months ago, I see that a prequel is to be published -- Before Green Gables. There's an extract here:

[www.canada.com]

<presses palms to temples and chants "I shalt not look">

Look over there- a pony...

Is the prequel - not too bad a neologism (for the 20th Century) - mean 'Anne of Yellow Gables' thinking chromatically, or 'Anne of the house which will eventually have green gables' when thinking chronometrically?

Jasper Fforde, Antonia Forest, Elinor Brent- Dyer, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Dorita Fairlie Bruce, L. M. Montgomery, Gwendoline Courtney... Actually I re- read books far more often than I read new ones.

David Eddings, Jasper Fforde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Terry Pratchett, Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'.

Don't forget the long dark teatime of the soul!

I didn't like 'The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul' as much as 'Dirk Gently'. One book I do re-read annually is 'The Seven Percent Solution', which is a matchless Holmes story and one of the very few good non-Doyle penned tales.

I've just finished reasding a book titled: 'The Nine Mile Walk' which is actually a set of short stories set in the north eastern US post WW2. Stories are clever little logic puzzles in essence. It about a two hour read for the 10 or so stories in the book. Occupies an afternoon otherwise spent doing profitable things quite nicely.

By a bloke named Harvey Kellerman (I think) the books gone back into packing.



*****Edit 'reasding' to 'reading'. It's going to be 40C here today and I was thinking a good tall cold riesling would do a treat with lunch as there's no beer in the refrigerator. Now 44 days without rain.



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40! No wonder I got so hot coming home today.
I found the animals in the house so that they can survive the heat, I so don't like rabbits in the bathrooms (well, one). If you walk in, he comes up and digs his claws into your feet and ankles. He would have made a good Monty Python character.

I'll see your rabbit, raise you 10 pedigree cats of various breeds, chuck in three dogs and a teenage daughter.

And it's going to be 39C today.

Tomorrow a cold snap at 30C.

I am looking for a job at either Spitzbergen or Macquarie Island.

Luck we're not all Adelaideans.

You like a feisty rabbit then?



I found a copy of FAS in the school fete book section for $1 AU! I now own two copies...

I had a hot cross bunny here for a while.

It has delusions of grandeur/is psychotic/normal for a rabbit in that it waits for the Birman cats to approach then it charges them.

Did you know cats can jump backwards and up about three metres? I didn't until one of them did it from sitting on my stomach. It was another interesting set of scars for the dermatologist to ask me about.

A good conversation starter!

That reminds me of a joke that's far too crude for a ffamily fforum.
You would have loved it though.

Robert,

If deemed appropriate but not publishable in open fforum please send to all those whom you think would appreciate it by private email.

You may put me on the list, you may put me on the list,
for I know its not to be missed........



****edited to remove dyslexic finger actions****



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2008 11:42PM by bunyip.

I'm always interested in colourful funnies!

My sister used to have a rabbit that had free rein of the back garden, he used to see all of the neighbouring cats off without any problem. Oh and mum wasn't too impressed either - he used to see her off if she left her ankles uncovered! Vicious bunny.

Going back to thread topic I have been slowly going back to thread 1 and reading through. Some of the stuff there is quite re-readable.


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