Berrie, Lyra, Oggs and Zeb chat thread

[ProfessorCalculus]

How many threads is this now?

That's good. No way can I sleep in the middle. I need to hang my foot out of the side at night .

Started watching Blackpool the other night and was a little disappointed.
I've decided I don't like David Morrisey and I'm guessing that he's a major part of it . He's very hammy.
Hasn't been much DT yet so I may change my opinion

Just been to the doc and it seems the lump in my leg isn't anything sinister and I'm not likely to die from it. Phew. I've been worrying about it for weeks, especially with all the Jade Goody stuff in the news.

Back to my old (and best) name.

That's good news.
Don't think we ever stopped calling you Lyra anyway!

Stick with it Oggs. And if you still don't like it, I'll buy it off you.

Good news about the leg, that's an awful thing to have to worry about. Who are LinneyTuckandMingMing anyway?

Zeb, see beginning of thread for explanation. You've obviously never been forced to sit through Wonderpets

Have y'all had a look at this? I scored a measly 17 out of 100

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Why those 100?

I've never even heard of wonderpets.

Oh, and 60 of those books.

I need to read more classics.

20 something read (can't remember as it was a couple of days ago that I checked) - although I have listened to the audio book versions of about a dozen more.

I haven't forgotten copying Blackpool - will attempt it tomorrow hopefully.

Wonderpets for Zeb

But why Lyra?

I read something because I enjoy it not because I feel I ought to. A lot of the ones on that list would never appeal to me in a month of Sundays.

Just because a book is a classic doesn't mean it's everybody's cup of tea or even any good at all. It's all subjective.

No, but the reason they're classics is (usually) because a lot of people enjoyed them and therefore must be worth reading. No? I wouldn't read all of them, just the ones that look interesting.
I'm reading Slumdog Millionaire at the moment and it's pretty good so far.

Middlemarch always comes top of these lists as the best novel, I know two people who've consequently tried to read it and have given up.

Morning

Still got this shitty cold. My throat feels like sandpaper and my asthma has kicked up a notch.

Anyone got any exciting plans for the weekend that I can live vicariously?

Oggs, go to the flippin' Doctors before you go down with pneumonia or have a very nasty asthma attack. If it's a long way to the Doctors, I bet it's a long way to the hospital too!

Er...exciting plans...I'm going to plant some currant bushes on the allotment and harvest some purple sprouting broccoli (at long last)The chickens could do with a clean out...does this do it for you?

I second that Oggs. Go and get some drugs. [stern, mummy, I'm not arguing about it look]

Berrie, I'm rather hoping you'll be sending us our jars of blackcurrant jam come harvest time.

And I'm also proud to say that I've probably read Middlemarch at least 4 times, and it really is one of my favourite books, with P&P, Persuasion and Jane Eyre. If you can't handle the thought, watch the dvd, which is also great (Rufus Sewell, no less ). And at risk of sounding even more pretentious, I read most of those classics when I was doing A Level English, and at university. However, this early precocious pretentiousness hasn't lasted, having now also read Harry Potter, HDM and Bridget Jones, and probably everything by Georgette Heyer!

Georgette Heyer?

Can't do Dr's today as dh's truck is knackered (I had to make a mercy dash day before yesterday and rescue him) so he's been going to work in the car. So I am stranded here.

Could always take a pony or harness up the chickens . Maybe not.

I too have a stinking chicken house to clean out and it's raining. Bah!

Have been drinking hot Ribena all morning and have just heated up a bowl of semolina in the microwave...

Damn you Zeb, you have outsmarted us! I shall have to borrow my Mother's disguarded Middlemarch to see what all the fuss is about. I also fall down on the Jane Austen, I have only every read Mansfield Park and that put me off the rest. My Hardy is not too hot either.

Semolina? Yuck!

And there ain't nothing wrong with Georgette Heyer. They're good bath & early night comfort food sorts of books.

Do you read Mills and Boon too?

Semolina... I know, I know. Please make allowances for the sick lady.

Do you read Mills and Boon too?

Semolina... I know, I know. Please make allowances for the sick lady.

Do you read Mills and Boon too?

Semolina... I know, I know. Please make allowances for the sick lady.