Pun: Prizes... High tea? I had a sudden craving on the weekend.. But that's really more of a prize for me hey :)
Ronni: Yeah concert was good, it was acoustic and they mainly played new songs to promote their new album but the songs were pretty good and they did do 'My Happiness' which was good :) Would like to see them properly in concert now.
From my little black book. Sign outside Branxton: "Drive carefully, we have two cemetaries, no hospital" Tombstone, Tilba cemetary: "Whiffo gone fishing A free spirited man who is forever in our hearts" "Heinz tomato ketchup makes food taste KETCHUPPY" - tomato sauce bottle "I was just wondering how I ever could have laughed at you" "I hope you'll always laugh at me" The Day Will Dawn, cheesy movie from 1942 "Each man kills the thing he loves" The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde Ad outside Japanese restaurant in Sydney city "Sexy chicken on rice" "I don't own a house or a car, all I have is a borrowed tv, but that's what you get when you take off and travel." Random bus stop conversation “She had a voice with hormones” ‘A Woman’s Secret’, 1949 movie “Oolong Imperial: A work of tea art” Tea rooms in the city “The burdens and the joys of being chosen to be more than a flu...
Skimming through the internet the other day I came across a reference to a line of startling familiarity, a line that made me realise some first lines stick in your head forever: "Sing Goddess, the rage of Peleus' son Achilles" (funnily enough, I can never remember the first line proper until I see it, as my friend and I spent much of year 12 Ancient History misquoting it as "rage Achilles, rage on Agamemnon". We were also amused by the fact that 'Xerxes' backwards spelt 'Sexrex'. Yeah, mature I know.) From Homer, The Illiad Ironically, a first line that I find impossible to remember is one of the most recognisable for me. I'm not usually very good at first lines, but there are a few I'd know anywhere... "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote" My English classes at university drummed this one into me- the first line of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'. I think Chaucer is a genius, but this first line is not quite ...
Happy new year! As is tradition, my round up of reading for the year that was. In total, the number of (new to me) books that I read in 2024 was 83, up again on last year. When I was doing my 20 year book stats I got curious about re-reads- what would be my most re-read book? So for this year I can tell you I also reread 9 books, these were mainly childhood favourites that I read to the kids, as well as the complete Scott Pilgrim and Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers , which I just read last year but saw in the library and thought "why not read it in physical copy, since I read it in eBook form last time?" But as usual my list will not include rereads. And I got to read my kids The Railway Children , which was a joy for all of us and also made me cry. Anyway, let's get into it! Shortest book was The Great British Bump-Off by John Allison at 112 pages- I have been reading his comics since I discovered Scary-Go-Round in my uni days and they are always a t...
I found you! 1/4 down the photo, 1/5 across from the left.
ReplyDeleteDo I get a prize??
I see you! In the back, on the left, sort of next to a woman in black! Was the concert good?
ReplyDeleteGood work! :)
ReplyDeletePun: Prizes... High tea? I had a sudden craving on the weekend.. But that's really more of a prize for me hey :)
Ronni: Yeah concert was good, it was acoustic and they mainly played new songs to promote their new album but the songs were pretty good and they did do 'My Happiness' which was good :) Would like to see them properly in concert now.
I'm up for it, when when?
ReplyDeleteI see you! You are the only one looking directly at the camera, so you are the easiest to find.
ReplyDeleteWhen are you free for high tea? Any other correct guessers are welcome to join, but I'm not going to pay for you all... :)
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