January 18, 2007
A Rather Blustery Day…
Of all the blog posts I’ve written, ranting about the striking inefficiency of the C1 bus service, you would think that today Cambridgeshire bus services would have used the severe weather warning as an excuse to give up altogether.
So I woke up, at 5.45am to the sound of the C1 slowing down to tackle the speed bumps at the end of my block, quite happy to contend with the wind that was tearing through my pipes.
At 5.55am, as I was sipping upon my first cup of coffee and booting up the computer - there it was again.
At 6.05 as I was fighting with a particularly embarrassing paragraph of the novel - well blow me if the C1 didn’t come chugging happily past my window once more.
Needless to say, 500 words, an hour and six buses later, I finally had to accept that I wasn’t going to get out of work today.
I even got there EARLY.
I wouldn’t mind but in a week’s time when the weather is back to normal again and I come stumbling through the doors 20 minutes late, cursing and swearing about the bus service in this city, who is going to believe me?
Posted by purple elephant at 08:16 PM |
January 15, 2007
In case you didn't know..
| What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Dedicated Reader You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced that the world would be a much better place if only everyone read more. | |
| Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm | |
| Book Snob | |
| Literate Good Citizen | |
| Fad Reader | |
| Non-Reader | |
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Posted by purple elephant at 07:34 PM |
January 11, 2007
Waking the Dead
Yay! It’s back!
But despite looking forward to this for ooooh about a year, I still missed the first 8 minutes of the first part on Sunday night. So, can anyone answer,
1) How did Spence come back from the brink of death so quickly?
2) And where is Felix? Is her job so taxing that she has to be replaced every series, or is she just making enough money from the BT adverts, so that she doesn’t have to whore herself by associating with such a fine TV programme anymore?
I know that these characters and their resulting stories are marginally peripheral and really we’d pay double the licence fee just to stare at Trevor Eve for an hour BUT I do lie my loose ends to be well and truly tied.
Posted by purple elephant at 07:33 AM |
January 07, 2007
Today's Thoughts
1) If it is unlucky to still have your Christmas decorations up after twelth night, then is it unlucky for the Co-op to still be using Christmas carrier bags?
2) Can someone else please tell me that they see the irony in a packet of disgusting sweets, containing mainly sugar with a hell of a lot of sweetners and e numbers thrown in for extra nutrition, shaped like lots of little sets of teeth and toothbrushes.
3)If Gordon Brown and John Prescot think that Saddam's execution was such a bad thing, then why did they not speak up before the event when they could have done something about it?
Posted by purple elephant at 05:17 PM |
January 06, 2007
Recycled Post Alert!
I've just posted a review of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold over at Overdue Books. Feel free to pop over and join in the debate.
Posted by purple elephant at 10:03 AM |
January 01, 2007
So remind me, what year is it again?
Ah well, I have only just got used to writing '2006' on cheques* and now it seems that 2007 has crept up on me. Where did that come from?
Just popping in to wish all my ever-suffering readers a happy new year and I really will post more often in 2007. That is not to mention all the reading at commenting I've been missing out on over at your blogs. I won't make that a New Year's Resolution because then it would be destined to fail. Take it as my promise to you from a friend to her trusting friend and then maybe I can guilt myself into doing it.
Elsewhere I have also vowed to learn to knit. In the past people have struggled to teach a clumsy left-hander like me and I have been sitting around waiting for a willing left-handed knitter to fall into my lap. Sadly he or she never came (are we really that freaky?) but my prayers were answered by way of this site and this book.
I am now half way down my first scarf and while it's certainly not perfect, it's a hell of a lot better than I thought it would be, especially as I've only been knitting four days.
Proud pictures to be posted soon, if you are not a knitter be prepared to be very bored.
Which reminds me, I really must update my Flickr account, when was the last time I posted a photo?
No that is NOT a resolution.
*Who actually writes cheques these days? Perhaps that's why.
Posted by purple elephant at 09:44 AM |