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I am celebrating the Queen's accession by reading the 1992 novel The Queen and I, which is a very amusing fantasy about the Queen being deposed upon the UK becoming a republic, when she and the royal family are relocated to a council estate:)http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Queen-and...
This Guardian article on non-PC speech, prompted by Prince Philip's many gaffes, also took my eye:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfr...
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I've only read a couple of the Wycliffe novels, but they were really enjoyable.
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Put a leash and harness on her (which she hates). She keeps laying down and rolling over trying to get it off of her, but it did allow her to do a little exploring. She, once again, headed for the woods. While we stopped a good distance away, I ended up with a tick on my leg. A baby one. Luckily I was in light colored trousers so it showed up pretty quickly. I'm somewhat afraid of them as my sister has Lyme's disease.
There are also wagons with mesh enclosures. I don't know how well they work.
Proud Nana over here - my eldest grand-daughter, Gemma, has just heard she has graduated with a 1st in Politics and International Development and will get a Bursary of £3000 towards her MA.
MadgeUK wrote: "Proud Nana over here - my eldest grand-daughter, Gemma, has just heard she has graduated with a 1st in Politics and International Development and will get a Bursary of £3000 towards her MA."Neat! Congrats for the support and encouragement I am certain you have given her.
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Yes, there is a new MA at Sussex University, near Brighton and she has been accepted on that course:-http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/pg/2013...
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Congrats.
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Congratulations to Gemma - sounds like she takes after her grandmother!And I'm glad to hear that Madison kitty is doing better!
Deborah wrote: "... On a really fun positive note, I have taken up kayaking..."I had a Folbot kayak when I was a gel and did a lot of canoeing, shooting weirs etc, on the River Trent and up to the North Sea - it is a fun sport.
Good to hear that Madison is enjoying the great outdoors - do you take her out of the garden?
Deborah wrote: "A Madison note - she's doing much better walking on her leash."Take her kayaking. ;-)
I wish I could take my cats out on a leash, but I'm on the 6th floor, on a very busy, traffic-filled street. They need quieter places.
Yes, I think we are becoming too complacent about Big Brother watching us. Orwell thought differently and the writer of this article thinks movies have had a malign influence:-http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmbl...
Very scary story Rochelle.......are we complacent? Or do we already feel that this is unstoppable so we carry on and hope nothing like that will happen to anyone we know?
I am finding it impossible to use my tablet for Goodreads because it links to the beginning of a thread and it then takes me ages to scroll to the latest comments. Any ideas how to fix this so that last comments come up first, as on my puter??
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Take her kayaking. ;-)"
Madison and I stay in our yard. She's tried to go into the woods several times, but it's not safe for her. We primarily stay in the garden. Our garden is large so there's plenty of room for her.
I bet she would love to kayak. She's not afraid of water, and actually puts her paws into her water dish and drinks the water off of her paw.
@Madge - I don't like to use my tablet for goodreads either. I've tried it, and it just seems like it doesn't work that well.
Lucy drinks off her paws too - funny habit! And she goes out in showers. She has a very thick coat which means it is 'water off a duck's back':) There has just been a documentary here tracking the journeys of domestic cats when they go through the cat door. Some stay close to home (like Lucy) and others wander for miles:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetec...
I am pleased it isn't me misusing the tablet - perhaps Rochelle can throw some light on this?
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Absolutely fascinating article. Thanks for sharing it. Madison had her morning garden walk this a.m. A friend who is helping in the garden came out from under some trees and she got very skittish. She's happy to be back in the house at the moment. We'll take her out again this evening if she seems to want to go.
Madge...I use an ipad mini...yes it does take you to the very start of a thread.....but there is an arrow on the far right which you press and it reverses the order of the messages with the result that the most recent message will appear at top, the second most recent just below it and so on...in complete reverse order....so you can find the last one you read and update easily....then to add your comment you simply scroll down to the bottom of this most recent page. The next time you come in you will have to press that arrow again...but it's a very useful one....especially on threads that have been running a long time.
MadgeUK wrote: "I am finding it impossible to use my tablet for Goodreads because it links to the beginning of a thread and it then takes me ages to scroll to the latest comments. Any ideas how to fix this so that last comments come up first, as on my puter?? "It's not connected to your tablet or a specific browser, but a setting you can make in your GR profile. I've chosen to have oldest first and newest last, but I also bookmark the current page so I don't have to scroll through all the posts.
I can't find the page where you choose the order of posts. Anyone?
If you click on either 'post a comment' or 'newest' at the top of a page it will take you to the latest one, although it doesn't work on my tablet where there are no arrows or other indications. I am uninstalling GR on my tablet and will only respond on my PC, unless I am on hols.
BBC Radio 4 have start a daily reading of George Eliiot's Middlemarch which folks here might like to listen to:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008sbsg
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Oh, thanks! How delightful!
Madge...look at the top right hand corner of your screen when you arrive at your chosen thread. Do you see an arrow pointing up or down? Press the arrow to reverse the order or comments....thus making the most recent appear at the top of the page....I just realised I'm assuming you have the ipad app for Goodreads....of course you may have a different tablet... And maybe you don't have the Goodreads app. These instructions are valid for the Goodreads app on ipad.....and I don't know what you are using....
I have a Samsung Galaxy with the Goodreads app Jan and no such arrow appears:(
What a bother! The little arrow makes all the difference! You can be at the start of a three year old thread and instantly arrive at the latest comment! That would be so annoying not to have that feature. Loving my ipad mini. If apple would only keep up with their competition price wise, they could totally dominate the market....they have always stuck with their higher pricing which allows competitors to undercut, cutting off their nose to spite their face. They do have the best apps however, which is why people stay with them.I'll have my ipad mini with me on our holiday so perhaps I'll bring it along to the Sidmouth folk festival....yes we're coming!
Jan wrote: "...they have always stuck with their higher pricing which allows competitors to undercut, cutting off their nose to spite their face. ..."Well, additional market share isn't always profitable. Apple's market value as a corporation hasn't fared too badly.
The Samsung Galaxy is rated by many to be better than the Ipad, more responsive, and a lot cheaper. Apple's laurels are slipping:)
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I have heard nothing but very good things about Samsung's Galaxy. Several of my friends love it immensely, and a couple of them even ditched their iPads. I definitely think that tablet technology has caught up with, and perhaps even surpassed, Apple. Have fun with your tablet, Madge!
Thanks Christopher - I love my tablet immensely too!
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Just a note to let you know, but my grandkids will finally be retrieved by their parents in early July, and then the Lady-wife and I are off to the Bahamas for a well-deserved two weeks of sun, sand, alcoholic refreshments and trunk-loads of reading at a resort.
Once back, I do plan on reengaging with 'The RR'. I have been revisiting many of Eliot's novels of late, and have just started a personal summer reading project to reread much of Henry James's canon. I read much of his works in my early twenties, but found him rather impenetrable, but I am of the mind that I am a much better reader these days. I'm interested to see if my largely negative opinion of him changes after this summer.
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Please do check out the second edition of Sandra Gilbert's and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Yale University Press, 2000). This collection of essays is 'off-the-hook' good! There are some really interesting insights and perspectives into the works of the Brontes, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, and Christina Rossetti. As I slowly make my way through these fascinating essays, I find myself constantly pulling down the books/poetry referenced and rereading. A marvelous experience all the way around!
Christopher wrote: "For all of you looking for some feminist lit-crit to dive into this summer, have I a recommendation for you--Please do check out the second edition of Sandra Gilbert's and Susan Gubar's The Madwo..."
This looks fascinating! Thanks for sharing! Incidentally, I felt the same way about Henry James when I read "The Turn of the Screw" a few years ago. I hope that you are able to find some positive aspects in his writing!
I have posted this on the Dombey thread but will repeat it here because it is so good - a Radio 4 potted biography of Dickens, written by Peter Ackroyd and read by Simon Callow, characterisations and all:-http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jvp1
A reading of Alcott's Good Wives is also starting on Radio 7:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f84wz
Lots of goodies on BBC Radio at the moment!
Folks might like to see these photos of the 'wedding of the year' of the Duke of Northumberland's daughter at Alnwick Castle aka Hogwarts Academy:-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/art...
'Jane Percy' is the Duchess of Northumberland who runs The Alnwick Garden in the grounds of the castle:-
http://www.visitnorthumberland.com/ga...
My friends, who own nearby Barter Books, were there and the bookshop did well that day:)
http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/html/Abo...
http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/
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Please do check out the second edition of Sandra Gilbert's and Susan Gubar's The Madwo..."
It's on my TBR shelf. I actually looked for a copy of this book for 3 years and found it at a flea market in Tenn. for about $2.
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What a steal!
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"Barter Books" looks like a spot that I could get lost in for years. What a convivial environment for a bibliophile!
Yes it is a super place, especially in the winter, with log fires blazing and comfy sofas to laze upon:).
Is anyone besides me having difficulty with messages continuing to be marked "new" even after having read them on this thread?
Lily wrote: "Is anyone besides me having difficulty with messages continuing to be marked "new" even after having read them on this thread?"Yes!!! It's been going on for a while now, and I haven't seen that happen with any other thread, in any group.
Lily wrote: "Is anyone besides me having difficulty with messages continuing to be marked "new" even after having read them on this thread?"Yes, it has been going on for more than a month. It is just this thread in this group as far as I can tell.
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Hi Madge - looks good! I just checked it out on Amazon, and next time I am at the bookstore, I will look for it.
I love my itinerary in England, but I am a bit bummed that I'm not going to Cornwall. I always wanted to see Cornwall since I watched the Poldark series when I was in my late teens/early 20s.
Next time though.