Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Movies, Music and Dance, News, Politics, Reading on June 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I love movies. I don’t do TV, not much. I enjoy political shows, comedies and nature programmes but I have zero tolerance for stuff like reality TV, tiresome soaps and those live chat shows where Average Joe goes on TV and exposes all his private business to the world. I have to confess though that for the first time [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Poetry, Reading on April 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Misslionheart has tagged me and and the idea is to list 5 things I wish to achieve during the week ahead and hopefully get motivated! Well I am a great one for making lists but getting motivated to actually carry out the itemised tasks usually requires a blunt kick up the backside. I’ve been having a look at some of [...]
Posted in Mother Earth, Movies, News, Reading on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Preview is a Christian website that reviews films for Christian would-be movie goers in order to give them some guidance, in a Christian context, as to the suitability of movies. It gives each film a morality rating and informs people of anything that might be offensive to their religious beliefs. I dare say it probably also weeds out any messages that [...]
Posted in Moments, Reading on February 27, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I’ve been tagged by the lovely Helen (thanks Helen) so here goes . . .
(actually, I think I’ve done this one before and if I remember rightly, I did it wrong so this is my chance to prove I’m not always such a twerp!)
. . .
How to play:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Moments, Reading on February 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I know I’m repeating myself but I have this dirty little double standard about books. When my kids have done with their books I pass them on or take them to the charity shop because I feel strongly that books are meant to be read over and over … shared and enjoyed by as many children as possible, [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, News, Politics, Reading on December 20, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Banksy is another artist with a message. And his work tells a story. Matt from the Coffee House introduced me to his work.
As Christmas gifts for my two brothers-in-law, I bought copies of the book Wall and Piece by the truly brilliant aforementioned Banksy and on the back cover is the following quote . . .
There’s no [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Moments, Movies, Reading on December 20, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I have been noting that some bloggers have been sharing their Best Of lists - or their Christmas Faves. If there’s one thing I do enjoy, it’s reading or watching those Top 100 lists and end-of-year reviews.
Well seeing as I can’t find the inspiration to write anything of notable worth . . . and such is [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Poetry, Reading on December 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, on our way back home from a Christmas meal somewhere in the Midlands, we paid a random visit to Anne Hathaway’s cottage in Shakespeare country. And we couldn’t have picked a better day because the weather was fresh and crisp and we were just in time for the roasted chestnuts and mulled wine. And the tour guides were dressed up [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Moments, Mother Earth, News, Poetry, Reading on November 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Writer and poet Margaret Atwood is also the inventor of LongPen, an innovation that allows people to carry out booksignings without flying around the world thus saving co2 emissions. Click on the picture to find out more about LongPen.
Margaret has been talking to Friends of the Earth about her carbon-saving invention which you can read here.
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Moments, News, Offload, Politics, Reading on November 5, 2007 | 10 Comments »
My most wonderful friend Bumblebee lent me a book. Not just any book but an extra-special book. A biography of one John Christopher Depp II better known as Earthpal’s boyfriend Johnny Depp.
And it has pictures in - of Johnny D looking very fine and handsome. It also has a picture of him with his arm [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Poetry, Pondering, Reading on July 12, 2007 | 8 Comments »
On Dalekophobia: Yikes! Ye great gods of terror! My lovely little boy, fully aware that I’ve never grown out of my irrational childhood fear of Daleks, thought it would be fun to surprise me at bedtime last night so he did this:
Yes, I realise it’s not real . . . that it’s just a teeny tiny replicated [...]
Posted in Reading on June 19, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Today I bought a book from the local library and it was all of 10 pence. I don’t know why I do this when I have an ever-lengthening long list of books-to-read. I just can’t resist the Sale trolley at the library. No book is ever more than 50 pence so even if it’s a [...]
Posted in Humanity, Moments, Reading on May 7, 2007 | 8 Comments »
A Man Without A Country: Kurt Vonnegut
Encouraged by MrZ, this is the first book I’ve read by Vonnegut and whether self-intentionally or not, it’s actually turned out to be his swan song because he died a few weeks ago.
When I was reading the book, I had the feeling throughout that he reminded me of someone. I’ve no idea who. [...]
Posted in Moments, Reading on March 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Well, I’ve only managed to read two books so far and I’m thinking I should pen out a quick blog because I’m getting nervous that you guys will forget about me. My stats have halved these last few days and I’m not even getting spammed much now!!
Anyway, my two books:
When The Angels Have Risen by Andrew Feder: I was drawn [...]
Posted in Female Issues, Moments, Reading on February 23, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I just uploaded this photo onto my flickr and when I clicked to save it, it had already recieved three views and a comment. How did that work?
Anyway, this is one of my bookshelves. I’ve read most of the books here, including that Bible - in its entirety! But I have many more books around the [...]
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