The Nicholas Higgins Library at the University of Milton North

[Theresahollyinyourmind]

Welcome to our new facility, Please enjoy

BTW - our screen is 72"

72"?! That's obscene :)

Venetia is ready for collection at the library. Whats the odds on it being read by A.N Other?

Morning, ladies. Goodness, Oyster wot a whopper!

I think you have hit the nail on the head, MrsLN, when you say Bond is a caricature. he hasn't any emotional depth, which I think is absolutely right for Bond as Fleming conceived him. Cool, sophisicated, love 'em and leave 'em.

Anything more layered would detract from the appeal. Although it would be interesting to see Mr A. having a go at being one-dimensional, I am sure there are better things out there for him

Stripey, fingers crossed for you. re Venetia. Couldn't you specify the reader --without ofcourse 'making a cake of yourself' as they say in Heyer country.?

I was trying not to look too obvious Theresa

Stripeyboy 2 starts pre school today, I am off to collect him shortly. I bet he hasn't even notcied me gone.

Morning all.

Crikey. So much diversity in telly size. Am having to rethink here but am absolutely determined not to have one that is so big it has to hang on the wall (just bought a new painting so have no wallspace) so that will help refine our choices.

Twiggy - does 32 inches really seem too small? Are you staying in one of the Disney hotels? We have done Disneyland Paris but not the hotels there.

Stripey - Good luck with Venetia.

I'll just mention that A Single man is £4.49 today on Amazon. I agree that Bond is a caricature. The reason I like Mr Craig in the role so much is that I felt that his relationship with Vesper Lynd was the only time (although admittedly there are quite a few Bond films I haven't seen) that Bond had formed any sort of emotional connection to a woman rather than just bonking her senseless and departing.

Aww at StripeyBoyMinimus starting pre-school. I remember that distant day.

Oh, Stripey, how poignant for you, I remember the Berries' first days. Little did they realise they were at the beginning of a long and winding road, poor things. But it does make a bit more time for mummies to have a bathroom break in peace, if nothing else.

Meanwhile, I am both shaken and stirred at the thought of being bonked senseless by Mr Bond, if that's all he's offering. He's gotta have twigletty ears though, else I'm not playing.

Oh yes, the long and winding road that leads to a mountain of student debt. Am grateful to be old enough to have received my university education at the taxpayers' expense.

Well, the emotional connection with Mr Bond seems to be (t best) optional and (at worst) not on offer.

Wielding a large weapon but is he sufficiently twigletty?

Golly, that is quite a bazooka! But sorry, the ears are not quite twigletty enough. Maybe I should find myself a different spy man, after all.

Has anybody received any goodies from Amazon recently? I am wondering how long mine will take to reach these great grey-green greasy shores.

Hope all well with LittleStripey!

My TV is a fairly teeny 37" - tbh I was horrified when DH started looking at the bigger ones, even though we've got a fairly large living room. I would probably go up a notch next time though.

That said the bedroom TV is only 19" and I'm equally happy watching my DVDs on the portable in the bath so I guess you could say that as far as I'm concerned size really doesn't matter!

Have just realised that that sounds like I'm being snooty about big screens. Don't et me wrong, if I had a room just for viewing I'd happily have something enormous but as we don't (and as ours is mostly used for DH to indulge his passion for Sky Sports)I'm quite happy with what we'e got!

I looked at the Sony website and they were saying with the modern flat-screen you can go as big as you like without damaging your sight. But that may be just them wanting to flog bigger tellys. I know friends back in the UK have huge great screens in the standard Uk semi-detached sized room and they have no complaints.

I think Flowers' idea is great, you could then gauge it in situ. Now there is a business opportunity, you could sell collapsible cardboard mock-ups to the shops so their customers could take one home to try things out, and all that dithering time would be saved.

Afternoon! StripeyBoyMinimus ( ) was very pouty when he came out stating that noone was very nice to him (read: I didn't get as much attention as I thought I deserved) and also that all the children where punching each other out in the playground . Apparently they didn't punch him though, probably because he's built like a brick outhouse it was his first day.

We have a 32" flat screen. DH keeps trying to upgrade but it's only 3 years old and theres nothing wrong with it so I refuse.

were not where!

Aw, hope little Stripey gets on ok! My DS has his first visit tomorrow.

Re. our 32" - it doesn't actually seem too small but it feels like it could be bigger.

Theresa, DH had something delivered from amazon this morning but not sure when he ordered it. So that's probably no help :)

Flowers, yes we're staying at a Disney hotel. We've been there quite a few times now and onsite is the only way to do it, for me! We only do the 'cheap' (ha!) hotels though, apart from when we had a weekend at the Disneyland Hotel for our Part 1 of our honeymoon :)

I think Mr Craig's ears were just big, rather than twigletty... good try though!

at the punching!!! OK, now I am terrified about my DS tomorrow! Glad he managed to avoid it! Will he be going full-time? I'm only going to send DS twice a week at the moment (though can't actually find two suitable days at the moment, what with DD coming home for lunch and then his groups and so on).

Twigs I imagine that maybe one boy hit another boy lightly on the arm and my drama queen of a son turned this into all the children in a big brawl! He will be going 4 days a week (as that's all they have spare at the moment), I waited til the term after he was three so I didn't have to pay

It's not cheapsakte, it makes perfect sense! Our nursery is attached to the school (literally physically attached!) so at least I can do both DCs at once.

Yes ours is too , dropped DS1 then DS2 straight after.

I am going to the library in a bit. I am uncomfortably nervous .

It will be okay Stripes, they'll soon be so sophisticated and blase about it all. Fingers crossed that your library comes up trumps for you.

Oh dear, Stripey - sounds like an 'interesting' start for miniStripes, although I know what you mean about dramatic tendencies - some of the stuff my DD has come out with over the years defies even the most willing suspension of disbelief!

Have your boys (Stripey & Twiggy) had plenty of settling in sessions or is that what they're doing this week?

There is a God! . Have picked up my audio book and it is RA. Had to refrain from doing a danc around the library!!

Stripeyboy only had one, one hour trial session Mrs LN but as it's attached to the after school club it's familiar from picking up SB 1 so he was ok about it.

Oh lovely, Stripey, all the finger-crossing must have worked.

Did you mention ever so casually, to the library people that it was RA?
"Good, I see it's the superior version"