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Oct 17, 2017 09:29PM
Nooooo! (Autocorrect tried to change that to "Booboo", by the way.)
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Oh Booboo, indeed! Haha! Well no worries, we have 2 other operational toilets in the house, so having one go wonky is just one of those 'first world problems'. I keep reminding everyone 'we have indoor plumbing, so all-in-all, it is not that desperate of a situation'.
As long as there's a way and water to flush, I'm happy!
Hope Ophelia spared everyone too much damage.SO grateful for toilets but also grateful for being the oldest child in my family, therefore having 2 siblings and sometimes 3 cousins to pass on the emptying the chamber pot duties (not having servants). At the museum where I work, the chamber pot always gets a chorus of "EWWWW gross!" from the student groups.
Definitely!!! An out house is bad enough, but chamber pots - aaargh!
My mother was very proud of the fact that she always had flushing toilets after she married!
Karlyne wrote: "My mother was very proud of the fact that she always had flushing toilets after she married!"The things we take for granted, eh?
Indoor plumbing is at the top of my list of things to be grateful for. Seriously. Right after books, of course.
Indoor plumbing can never be over-rated.
Speaking of tomatoes... we have bought our tomato plants this morning. & some lettuces.
I off topiced about scary books in the Frederica thread, so I am switching to this - Sorry!Two nights ago I fell asleep reading Amish Vampires in Space and had space nightmares!
It really is rather good, only I have a space phobia. And my brother is studying aerospace engineering at uni, with an internship set up for some stupid Mars space flight thing. I told him about space brain, but he just laughed. ><
Also, our tomatoes have finished for the year, but not before the dogs ate a few off of the vine...
I can actually join in here. Whoohoo! I have tomatoes! In Ireland I think that's quite an achievement. They're in my sunroom (we occasionally get sun in Ireland), and they are still growing. In October!! In Ireland!! I think they're from that film, Killer Tomatoes Eat France:):)
Amish Vampires in Space?!? I'm casting the movie in my brain now...
Wow, tomatoes in October- nice, Teresa! Good luck with your crops, Carol!
❇ Critterbee wrote: "I off topiced about scary books in the Frederica thread, so I am switching to this - Sorry!Two nights ago I fell asleep reading Amish Vampires in Space and had space nightmares!
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Ok, I’m a scaredy-cat, but I had to click on your link, and that Amish girl on the cover would give me nightmares!
Yippee!I participate in an online NZ book quiz. One person sets the quiz & provides the prize, the winner sets the next one. I've won 3 times. First time I won The Madwoman Upstairs which was a good idea squandered, next time I got a hardcover notebook. Was a bit annoyed about that. This time I got a $25 book voucher!!!! You are going to get no sense out of me at all till I make my mind up! Better still - the store is having a sale! :)
That’s wonderful!$25 for books and during a sale!
This is awesome.
Andrea (Catsos Person) is a Compulsive eBook Hoarder wrote: "That’s wonderful!$25 for books and during a sale!
This is awesome."
Ha! You know with NZ book prices you don't get many books. My front runner is The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici But there is also The Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield & I could get both as it is a buy one get the second one half price. I am gravitating towards that option.
The other participants must be getting pretty annoyed with you for winning so much, Carol! I’d be scared to compete!
Ha! No there is one who is better than me, but she forgot till about half way through this night.I probably shouldn't set any more Georgette Heyer questions though! ;)
How cool is that? Way to go, Carol!
Congrats, Carol, That sounds like a lot of fun!
Throw in a few questions from our Retro Reads?!
Carol ♔Type, Oh Queen!♕ wrote: "Yippee!I participate in an online NZ book quiz. One person sets the quiz & provides the prize, the winner sets the next one. I've won 3 times. First time I won [book:The Madwoman Upstairs|2924312..."
Isn’t that the best feeling? I’d rather have a gift certificate for a bookstore than clothes or shoe stores! And a sale? Fashions come and go, but books are forever...:D
Susan in NC wrote: "but books are forever...:DThat's just it. & I want to buy keeper books. The sale finishes Sunday so I have time to think it over.
But ...man. I entered an award for this book Fuzzy Doodle I have no grandchildren. It would make 0 sense to choose this one. But that cover is beyond cute!
Carol, I think that some of the best art being produced today is in the form of children's picture books. I love seeing them in the library everyday.
❇ Critterbee wrote: "Carol, I think that some of the best art being produced today is in the form of children's picture books. I love seeing them in the library everyday...."
I love the Tell Me a Dragon one!
Beatrix Potter was the first person to collect children’s-book illustrations as art! There are some lovely ones in her house in the Lake District, which has been kept pretty much as she left it (except for the gift shop, of course).
Abigail wrote: "Beatrix Potter was the first person to collect children’s-book illustrations as art! There are some lovely ones in her house in the Lake District, which has been kept pretty much as she left it (ex..."Abigail,
I didn’t know this, but it’s not surprising that as such an exquisite illustrator herself, was the first to collect children’s-book illustrations.
I only learned it when I visited her house back in 2008. It’s a worthwhile side trip for anyone visiting the Lake District!
Wouldn't it be fun to just travel around to all our favorite authors' homes? Not the live ones, of course - how boorish! (Come to think of it, all my favorites are long gone...)
The Lake District is still on my bucket list, as are homes of many authors. When we lived in the U.K., traveling with 3 kids was tricky. At least in fields with standing stones & castles, kids could run and wear off some energy. Home of an author, not so much...so if I went to someplace like that, it was with adult friends and rare. My kids were pretty well behaved, especially “for Americans”, as we heard in sotto voce pleased comments, but even the best have limits. They complained about our trips to cathedrals and castles and such, they wanted Disneyland and its equivalents, but now they casually drop references to having seen or been somewhere, and take trips to re-visit. It certainly has made them more open to the world.
My best friend's son complained mightily over our book club's reading Shakespeare, and howled about going to see the play we had read, but guess who won the contest about why Shakespeare is so wonderful, had his picture on the touring company's booking brochure and bragged to all of his friends about how much fun he had? Kids are a riot.
Only famous author's house I recall visiting is Katherine Mansfield's in Thorndon.Next time in Wellington I would like to go to the family holiday home at Days Bay. It is in private hands but the chap tried to keep some of the original features.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/hom...
Edit; wouldn't ask to go inside of course.
Double edit; NZ writer Lloyd Jones at one stage owned my husband's family home in Wellington. He was very nice & let us have a quick look through.
I just read an Isabelle Dalhousie book where the house where Orwell wrote 1984 was featured, on island of Jura. Whole section of book made me want to visit there.
I still want to go to Ngaio Marsh's home, Carol, just because the pictures look so pretty!I got to tour Bess Streeter Aldrich's home when I was in Nebraska a few years back (another modest, comfortable, pretty home) and I spent hours in Winchester Cathedral, mostly gazing at Jane Austen' s area and being amazed at it all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's home and museum are on my list, maybe next year!
Karlyne wrote: "I still want to go to Ngaio Marsh's home, Carol, just because the pictures look so pretty!I got to tour Bess Streeter Aldrich's home when I was in Nebraska a few years back (another modest, comfo..."
I'd like to as well, but I can't see me getting to Christchurch any time soon. I think seeing the Cathedral in ruins would just make me sad. :(
Karlyne wrote: "Wouldn't it be fun to just travel around to all our favorite authors' homes? Not the live ones, of course - how boorish! (Come to think of it, all my favorites are long gone...)"Yes! That would be so much fun!
I went to Poe's birth house and museum in Richmond last year, and was really impressed. He was a crazy guy.
The only one of these I've been to is Winchester Cathedral. I went to see Padraig Pearse's home in the West of Ireland some years ago and it was closed!!!!
Critterbee, did you visit Poe's grave and leave flowers?
The Careful Use of Compliments<-b>, Karlynne.
Susan in NC wrote: "Carol ♔Type, Oh Queen!♕ wrote: "Yippee!I participate in an online NZ book quiz. One person sets the quiz & provides the prize, the winner sets the next one. I've won 3 times. First time I won [bo..."
Susan, I agree wholeheartedly! I too would rather have a gift cert to a bookstore. Thankfully, my coworkers have caught on because one year for Admin Assistant's Day, they gave me a gift cert to booksamillion.
And brandy, don’t forget the brandy...that happens on January 19, Poe’s birthday, which my husband shares with him. But his grave is in Baltimore, not Richmond. Birthplace is Richmond, died in Baltimore.
I was looking for Fuzzy Doodle on Amazon to buy, read, & pass onto kids at our cathedral in SF, but apparently not available outside of NZ yet.
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