General Chat

CC.
Stay with us in future, we may all be bonkers, but harmless.

Perse, As I live about 500yds from the beach, I do get a little apprehensive when we get a big tide combined with a gale. I expect eventually the sea will take this house, but hopefully I will be long gone, and all that DIY will have gone to waste - think I'll sell the drill LOL.

Well as it's gone midnight I must go to bed.

So enjoy your day Perse, and sleep well CC.

tEC

Since you have brought your books CC you will be required to share.

I am the keeper of a large collection of books - so much so I heard my youngest when she lived here say to a friend "yes we have that book somewhere, I will just go and ask the librarian"

Sue and Carole are both avid readers and Berona and myself belong to the Greaders so will welcome any good revues.

Persephone

Persey - just popped on for a minute to catch up. A good book? Balibo by Jill Jolliffe. It isn't a pretty story but once you've read it watch the movie Balibo which is of course about the Balibo 5 and the journalist Roger East played by Anthony LaPaglia. It is excellent and all the more interesting for us because my son was in East Timor and has met Jose Ramos-Horta - a man he admires.

Sue xx

Hello All:-))

Oh books, yep love em!!
Ive recently finished reading Bryce Courtney's 'Danny Dunn' a good story, I enjoyed it:-) Before that I read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, not my kind of book, too depressing.

Sue, Ive started reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, I can already feel I'm going to enjoy it:-))

My favorite books are the Cross stitch series by Diana Gabaldon, they are Historical Romance, set in the Scottish Highlands with the Scottish clans and the Culloden Uprising in 1745 with Bonny Prince Charles. I highly recommend them, though they are not for the prudish reader.

Belated Congratulations, Tec:-)) Triplets how wonderful, lucky you and the Duchess xx

Also a belated Happy Birthday to your Mrs Allan, Allan - bet you spoiled her, I hope you both had a lovely day:-))

Better go serve up dinner, lamb chops tonight:-))

Carole xx

CC - I'm a King and Koontz fan. My youngest son loves Stephen King too so we can share the books. I also love Ruth Rendall - Inspector Wrexford or otherwise.

Carole - I just know you'll enjoy the Girl with the..etc. etc:-)) The other two are good too. I've read Lovely Bones - I really loved it. I'm still waiting to read Memory Keeper's Daughter. My daughter's reading it. As my grand-daughter has Down's Syndrome we thought it would be a good book to read.

I notice Pat hasn't been around lately. If you're looking in I hope you are ok Pat. We miss you. We miss you too Diane - don't leave it too long before you come back.

Sue xx

Hi Sue..Who wrote The Memory Keeper Daughter?


CC, Ive also read a lot of Catherine Cookson, I have a few in my own collection and some I borrowed from the library. I like them mainly for the history.
Tell your friend in Canada, if she likes Diana Gabaldon, she may like to try Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness series, she's another of my favorites!!!!

Carole xx

Hi Sue again,Carole and hello CC. I have enjoyed reading your many posts on this and other threads, under both nicknames. I have a sister who is on the cusp. She admits to being a Capricorn.
Morning Tec, evening Persephone.
I sometimes get confused remembering where I saw an interesting post and reply on the wrong thread.
I also love reading. Buy too many and don't use the local library enough. My current read is humour/fantasy First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde. For at least the fourth time. A more serious one, from the library, was Dirt Music (Tim Winton) and The March of Patriots (Paul Kelly) which I got as a birthday present. It is about our last two Prime ministers: Keating and Howard. much more about Howard of course, because he became our second longest serving PM. He also became only the second to lose his own seat, but in fairness his electorate of Bennelong became more marginal over the 33 years he held it.

Hello Colin - you are getting around the board tonight:-))

Carole - The Memory Keeper's Daughter is by Kim Edwards. It's about a doctor who delivers his own twins but one of them - the little girl - has Down's Syndrome. He asks the nurse to take the baby away and she takes off with the little one so she can raise her as her own baby. I would love to read it although I think it will stir up some emotions. We knew before our grand-daughter was born that she had Down's so we were prepared and we are just grateful that she is healthy with none of the health problems a lot of Down's children have. I couldn't imagine not having her in our lives.

Sue xx

Looks like some of us have very similar tastes in reading! As Perse said, she and I are with the Greaders on General Topics. This is when I read some books which I would never choose to read and I get various reactions from them.
I'm also a regular member of one publisher - that's where I get my whodunnits from - Harlen Coben, James Patterson, J.D.Robb, Stephen King and Dean Koontz, etc. but when the Greaders vote, that particular publisher doesn't seem to stock the books that are chosen, so I have to order from A&R in Melbourne and quite often they are sent from Auckland! I have learned to check the availability before I nominate and again before I vote!
My favourite TV shows are Midsomer Murders, Dalziel & Pascoe, Silent Witness, Touch of Frost, Blue Murder, Inspector Lynley - and of course,the books that these are taken from. My daughter buys me true stories about child abuse and I get absorbed in them but they depress me and I need to follow them with a good whodunnit. Oh! forgot to mention The Last Detective in that lot - I just LOVE Dangerous Davies.

Colin - I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that. I replied to you last night to tell you I'm a 'Westie' and I thought I was talking to you on this thread.

Morning all you upside downies, and right way uppies:)) Not been on here for a while, so just popped in to say hello, and hope you are all well. I have a chest infection, and on jollop from the doctors, so hope to be back to "normal" within days if not sooner.

I've been out and about, and helping my daughter with the charity she works 'for, this week I'm off to a 14th century Country house to help out at a dinner party, really looking forward to that, all those antiques, and get to look around the mansion, the joys of living in England, all that history:)) On the downside it's been absolutely freezing here, so very jealous of you uppy downies:))

Have a good evening you lovely Aussie's and have a good day the rest of you :))))

Lynda x

Melbourne :)

Hello Lynda, Nice to see you here again. Sorry you have a chest infection - they're nasty - but please turn the other way when you cough, I haven't had my flu shot yet!

That would be great, looking through a 14th century Country house. We didn't have houses here until late in the 18th century - and then, of course, they were upside down!

One problem with being upside down - we are usually asleep when the 'fun' is on. Must have been some party last night for the norty step to be so crowded. How many sitting out there in the cold? I wish they would wait until we get here before they make their departure.

Hello Johanne. Welcome to the Aussie thread. You don't have to be an Aussie to join us - just be happy to talk to us. We say silly things as you can see - but we can be serious too - (both together at times, but that's what we are like).

hellooooooooo

Sue I have that book that you mentioned but have not read it yet, have not had the time :((

Linda that bottled rain ..where is it??? :)))


Hope everyone has had a good day...

xxx

Janet, I blame the upside down postal system because Berona hasn't got the flowers Allan posted months ago.

CC where are you - do not go reading today, stay here!

I meant reading the other threads CC, there has been some "nastiness" again this afternoon, now deleted.

I am shattered,I have decided that I am getting too old of physical work. I went to the literature exchange today. That sounds as if it should be to do with books, but it isn't. All of the tourist attractions in the whole extended area are brought together in one large hall. Any one who needs their leaflets for the new season,goes along and collects them. Obviously the tourist office needs a vast number,so I have been humping the things around all day. i helped to collect them up, then spent all afternoon unpacking them and putting them into our storage room. I wouldn't care, but I wasn't even supposed to be volunteering today.

hi everyone,
I'm sorry if I haven't been around lately but I've been busy reading. I can't read and use laptop at same time!
There's a footie match on later so i'll be watching that.
I hope everyone is ok
Pat x

Hello all - I'm up very early this morning. I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep so here I am.

Hi, Pat - glad you're ok. Reading anything good? We've been talking about books.

Lynda - nice to see you. Hope that cold gets better soon. Looking through a 14th century house sounds wonderful to me.

CC - Lynda drops in now and then to say hello 'cos she loves me:-))

Johanne - hope you call in again. We're a friendly mob - a bit crazy at times but harmless:-))

Linda - there are some things I was doing as a volunteer that I gave up because I would come home exhausted from lugging boxes etc. around. I just didn't think anyone should be doing it so I made sure the ladies had trollies to help with carting around market stall goods. We have a lot of older ladies and I worried about their backs.

I won't be on for long this morning as I have a meeting to go to. Hopefully I'll catch you all before I go.

Sue xx

Good to see you Pat, OH is watching the football later, i won't be lol

Greetings Everyone,

I don't know when you all find the time to do all this reading. I never seem to find time these days. I have hundreds of books, collected over many years. Many I've read, but can't bear to part with, and hope to re-read one day. Lots are waiting to be read, when I find time.
I rarely read fiction.
One favourite little book I have is "Corbett's Emigrants Guide" .
Published in London in 1828 by William Corbett.
Corbett gives advice to those thinking of emigrating to America.
I found a reprint of this book, but the publisher was not able to reprint the whole book, only about half, due to the condition of his original copy.
I have the complete book, in reasonable condition.
Corbett's lists of requirements is fascinating.

1. Chest, 3ft long,20 inches deep, 20 inches wide, strong and dovetailed, with iron cleets, and good lock and key.
2. Good, large, strong, decent, white linen shirts.
3 Good large checked shirts, well put together.
4. Pair of good long worsted stockings.
5. Pair of long cotton stockings.
6. 3 pair of shoes, two of them neatly made, and light.
7. White neckcloths, 1 black ditto.
8. Straw hat.
9. 2 Gingham short coats, good stuff for summer.
10. 6 Thin waistcoats, without sleeves.
11. Pair of thin striped trousers, made loose.
12. 2 Short coats for winter. Decent strong cloth, one of them blue, for Sundays, the other dark grey to work in.
13. 2 Winter waistcoats with sleeves, one for Sundays, one for work.
14. 2 Pair of cloth trowsers for winter, one better than the other.
15. Good, large, strong, decent, great coat, without great capes, and of a dark drab colour.
16. Good, strong, large brown towels, hemmed and with loops to them.
17. Emigrants Guide, to read before you go.
18. Advice To Young Men - to read always.

Stores For Passage...........
56lb of biscuit.
30lb of flour - fine.
4lb of plums.
1lb of tea.
6lb of moist sugar.
30lb of bacon, of home growth.
6lb of cheese, very good.
6lb of salt butter.
4lb of oatmeal.
1 bottle of wine for gruel.
2 quarts of vinegar.
Some ginger.
Some onions.
Some potatoes.
Mattress, blankets, sheets for ship board.
1 Gallon of brandy, to bribe cook with.
1 Tin thing to hold the butter.
1 Tin little cup or mug to drink out of.
1 Tin thing, about two quarts, with a lidto boil water or potatoes in, or gruel.
1 Tin tea pot.
1 Tin pint pot.
1 Good strong pocket knife.
2 Pewter spoons.
1 Small gridiron.
1 Gallon wooden barrel to hold the brandy.
1 Two quart wooden bottle to hold the vinegar.

The book also gives advice on the kind of vessel to sail in, and what to to upon arrival in New York. How to find work etc etc.
A little gem of a book.

Tec