I Started Pumpkin I Couldn't Finish - 10 / 10 club

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Oh dear TooT perhaps you're right. I think I might be a sensualist though, so I love all sorts of things because they taste nice, like brie and coffee and bad cocktails. I also have a thing for fabrics, especially expensive ones. I'm a lost cause generally speaking, I think.

I can't bear to give up on them. I feel so bad for the person who tried so hard, if they have tried hard, but I don't tend to read quick books, and so then I keep going, gritting my teeth.

I might be an empathetic sensualist actually. I couldn't bear to put a mobile over my dc's crib, in case they hated it, and then I thought how awful if you hate these penguins and ducks and you can't get away from them.

God, I sound drunk. I'm REALLY NOT. I am tired though. I have to clear up the kitchen too. It is covered in plates of tomato and cheese rice and pine cones.

Mmmm yes please

Peppermint is perfect

You just keep on sippping the fun, 100x

we have tea NOW, we did wait a bit

I am fond of fabric too

I like a sneaky hour in the haberdashery

100x, I know what you mean but don't feel bad. They will have been chuffed enough to get published, more so when people bought the book. And they will never know if you read it all

I worked in a fabric shop.

I'll have a cupp of anything that's going.

I can think of nothing more to say to the pumpkin so the thread title is strangely apposite.

*too many pees in tea

you can't take that responsibility on though surely, feeling bad for all the writers?

How can it help them, if you finish if when you don't want to? You won't buy the next one will you, regardless of ploughing on?

Well MrsC I do wish you'd roll yourself up in some vast piece of thick silk with velvet embroidery and jump over here and we'll make our way through the cocktail book together . . .

I must go and do the kitchen. Night all.

No it's a fair point MrsC, but then I start thinking, what did they want to do? How did it all go wrong, and on and on I go.

It is ABSURD, because I used to work in literary publishing and used to read things and turn them down ALL THE TIME, and was terribly heartless. Now, I feel their PAIN.

What a nice image Night, 100x

Toot - where did you work, did you spend all day feeling all the rolls, and laying your face down on the best bits?

I just came for tea and everyone is going to bed.

oh, you are still here

lucky you, I used to want to do that, took publshing modules on my MA, did work experience etc, not really possible for me now though.

you helped them when you bought it, reading it won't do any good

I am not in bed, Lion, what tea do you want?

Whatcha got?

We have fennel, peppermint, white with a hint of pomegranate and some throat comfort

Pom--e wotsit sounds lovely. Thanks.

You're right about the books. There are so many that aren't good.

had a good day, Lionhart?

DS2 has been pretending to be Fireman Sam for half the day.

I have joined in with blazing rescues and siren noises but worry that I am cultivating latent pyromania in us both.

Fireworks may just be the spark it all needs.

How was your day?

It was rather uninspiringly called a Fabric Warehouse. A real hotchpotch of cheapo and really rather nice. I did used to come home with bags of stuff. Staff discount is a great lubricant.