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Where is our Christmas lunch?!
Dec. 26th, 2015 11:47 amAh, this is sweet. One of Mike's cats is looking for lunch lol.
Dec. 26th, 2015
Good Morning Charmed People
Dec. 26th, 2015 11:55 amHad a nice cup of breakfast tea this morning and then listened to Radio 4 about the core of the Earth, the core of the universe and the core of stellar formation which was fascinating.
After lunch i had some Xmas pudding whilst cousin was around his girlfriend's place and her kids having their Xmas dinner. I was listening to some jazz of course, and nursing this cold with a hot toddy, that is a whisky based one. Then later on, cheese and biscuits with some Taylor's port.
Last night i watched the Doctor Who Xmas special which i thought was quite entertaining and then a few couple of episodes from Agents of SHIELD second season, which i have seen before, and completely finished watching the fifth season of True Blood.
Today i might just watch some episodes of Charmed or complete that seventh season of Buffy again. For now i will do some reading.
Meanwhile i have been watching these two links to Shannen Doherty's FB page and her family dinging - with a few quick scenes of the beauty that is formerly known as Prue halliwell.
https://www.facebook.com/341362821729/videos/10153769529701730/
https://www.facebook.com/341362821729/videos/10153769523661730/
After lunch i had some Xmas pudding whilst cousin was around his girlfriend's place and her kids having their Xmas dinner. I was listening to some jazz of course, and nursing this cold with a hot toddy, that is a whisky based one. Then later on, cheese and biscuits with some Taylor's port.
Last night i watched the Doctor Who Xmas special which i thought was quite entertaining and then a few couple of episodes from Agents of SHIELD second season, which i have seen before, and completely finished watching the fifth season of True Blood.
Today i might just watch some episodes of Charmed or complete that seventh season of Buffy again. For now i will do some reading.
Meanwhile i have been watching these two links to Shannen Doherty's FB page and her family dinging - with a few quick scenes of the beauty that is formerly known as Prue halliwell.
https://www.facebook.com/341362821729/videos/10153769529701730/
https://www.facebook.com/341362821729/videos/10153769523661730/
Answer for question 4579.
Dec. 26th, 2015 01:34 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]I don't tend to watch any Xmas specials apart from Doctor Who , and that is it really. Too pooped for much else normally.
Bill Bryson "One Summer: America 1927" ((Doubleday)
It concentrates on the summer of 1927, and seems to imply that the events of this summer changed America for ever. It's the summer that Lindburg flew the Atlantic, then spent the next few months travelling around America in state. The only trouble being that it doesn't progress in a logical order, either entirely chronologically, or thematically.
Your return several times to the matter of baseball - a subject on which I know little and care less - on more than one occasion, and it wasn't always clear how we ended up on the topic. It covers the weather, crime, politics, entertainment, writing and any number of other topics. What it didn't do was clearly define how this year changed America. I suspect you could make that kind of statement about any number of seasons, and put together a book to support the thesis. It was an entertaining enough read, although with Bryson reading I found a number of quirks somewhat annoying. The faux surprise, s indicated by tone and rising pitch, was amusing the first few times, but got wearing after hearing it several times per chapter.Frequently the end of a chapter would leave a fact dangling, wanting to carry on, and yet you'd disappear into another subject entirely, only to return and collect the dangler later. I suspect this reads better to an American than to a Brit. Still, despite the caveat, he is a very entertaining writer.
This is about the third of Mr. Bryson’s books that I have read and let me tell you, it will definitely not be last. He brings these events together in a smooth narrative that is entertaining and informative. Not only does Mr. Bryson write a marvelous glimpse into One Summer of history but narrates it superbly.
I look forward to reading his latest book on the UK that i received from my cousin.
It concentrates on the summer of 1927, and seems to imply that the events of this summer changed America for ever. It's the summer that Lindburg flew the Atlantic, then spent the next few months travelling around America in state. The only trouble being that it doesn't progress in a logical order, either entirely chronologically, or thematically.
Your return several times to the matter of baseball - a subject on which I know little and care less - on more than one occasion, and it wasn't always clear how we ended up on the topic. It covers the weather, crime, politics, entertainment, writing and any number of other topics. What it didn't do was clearly define how this year changed America. I suspect you could make that kind of statement about any number of seasons, and put together a book to support the thesis. It was an entertaining enough read, although with Bryson reading I found a number of quirks somewhat annoying. The faux surprise, s indicated by tone and rising pitch, was amusing the first few times, but got wearing after hearing it several times per chapter.Frequently the end of a chapter would leave a fact dangling, wanting to carry on, and yet you'd disappear into another subject entirely, only to return and collect the dangler later. I suspect this reads better to an American than to a Brit. Still, despite the caveat, he is a very entertaining writer.
This is about the third of Mr. Bryson’s books that I have read and let me tell you, it will definitely not be last. He brings these events together in a smooth narrative that is entertaining and informative. Not only does Mr. Bryson write a marvelous glimpse into One Summer of history but narrates it superbly.
I look forward to reading his latest book on the UK that i received from my cousin.
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