woooooooo hoooooooooooo are you off out to celebrate?!

If it was any bloody good I would!

ha! a quiet commiseration then....*passes biscuits*

Just had a few crackers.

that bloody Hypnos dude has turned up unexpectedly....can't ge rid f him tonight.....sleep well when you do night :sleep:

And you, about to crash.

some of the most terrible first sentences in literature

...for your reading pleasure

Were any of these published? Remind me of a match report that started: Went the day well?

i'm not entirely sure the introduction is ambiguous....went the day well? for a match report????

Absolutely true!

Remembered some other authors you might be interested in: Lesley Grant-Adamson, slim Faber volumes of finely crafted crime, and Susan Hill, whose recent cop Serrailler series is top drawer.

did he give a listing of all the players killed in the match at the end?

thanks for that my list is growing the time is approaching for the Great One Click Extravaganza.....

Mr H has to argue every time he gets any but his usual nurse taking blood; it's impossible to get it from his inner elbow or hand, but easy to get it from his outer elbow. They always think they know best!

Match report as in the sound of a gun!


The thought gives me pins and needles!

it's so frustrating my gp does it every fortnight and never hurts me always gets it first go....i even pointed out the best vein!!! i once had an F1 try for 2 hours to fit a cannula: he was hopeless i was covered in massive bruises and looked like i'd been beaten up, eventually the ct department rang and asked where i was they inserted first go even though he had ruined all my veins

All in vein.

Something else to add to my reading list?
I have just finished Neverwhere and I am about to start reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell...

definitely add to your reading list!!!

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is great!!!! i'm almost jealous you are reading it for the first time!! Neil Gaiman was very supportive of Susanna Clarke apparently

have you tried any Jo Nesbo, Fink?

Little Swiss flags were waving happily next to me

I have one book, not read yet. Any good?



We are on a roll!

My visiting daughter is eyeing my bookshelves and making remarks along the lines of "My orange bookshelf has still got 18" to fill, so if I load the titles on your kindle, you won't really miss these, will you....?"

yes i enjoyed them, i started with The Redbreast which was the first one (well first one translated into english they have gone back and translated some earlier ones) and i think they got better and better as the series went on.

BOOK THIEF!!!!
did you let her take them? or electrify them ?

She must be after the Orange Prize!


Have to dig out the one I have; clocked it not too long ago.

My copy of My Man Jeeves is from 1973. I can't remember where I got it, but all the page bottoms are serrated as if cut with pinking shears, and the first dozen or so are about an inch shorter than all the rest. It may well have been a reject that found its way to my shelves via my friend Barbara who's father worked for Allen Lane