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[shark_hat]

Now I have my books on shelves (yay) I can do the books-read-in-a-month thing and have it make sense- I was going to leave this till tomorrow, but actually there's no way I'm gonna get through the last 150 pages of Life: an unauthorised biography tonight- I'm going to make popcorn and watch The Goblet of Fire. So this is April.
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer- series 1 scripts
Fry and Laurie Bit 4- scripts
Georgette Heyer, the Talisman Ring
L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz (rereading the series. Nice and gulpable)
Helene Hanff, Q's Legacy
Patricia Wentworth, The Case of William Smith
The Best of the Old Farmer's Almanac, ed. W. Forpe
Patricia Wentworth, Spotlight
Claire Rayner, Housework The Easy Way (price 2/6)
Mark Eberhardt, Why Things Break
L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
Monty Python's Big Red Book
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
L. Frank Baum, The Tin Woodman of Oz
Dylan Jones, iPod Therefore I Am
Gerard Macdonald, Once A Month Is Ample
L. Frank Baum, Glinda of Oz
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
Dell Shannon, Case Pending
Dell Shannon, Ace of Spades
Dell Shannon, Extra Kill
Agnes Jekyll, Kitchen Essays
Diana Wynne Jones, The Pinhoe Egg
Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades

I'm finding there are a few odd things missing from my shelves, like, I've got all the Sayerses except Gaudy Night. Birthday list opportunity! (Not that there's usually any great problem in finding shiny stuff for people to get me. The problem is that some of them have feeble excuses like "but I can't afford that!" and "how would I get it to you, anyway?" and "does it even exist?" and "plus, I'm not convinced you would use it for good" and "I'm worried about the look in your eye now." Psssh. So anyway, books are always a useful fallback present. Gaudy Night, for example, has quite a good description of how to strangle someone and... hey, come back!)

I've managed to give myself a sore arm from pulling up $#*!! dandelions. Next weekend the Weedkiller of Doom will be employed. Also I could do with some gardening gloves that are not extremely cheap and useless- oh, the endless traumas that go to make up life.

A Rail Replacement bus over to Leeds yesterday, very scenic, to go and see Punt and Dennis with J. from Leeds Uni library. They were, well, Punt-and-Dennis-y- if you like 'em in TMWE or The Now Show, they were much like that- except Steve was being a bit of a straight man to Hugh's mimes. (The walking-50K one was good. "This might take a while.") It was about Britishness, quite trad comedy but silly, fun, a couple of genuine mad-laugh punchlines. (Best line- England being the dunce of Europe, "they make us sit in the corner with Scotland on our head".)

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[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

No, it's another book- Marvellous Land is quite early in the series and Lost Princess is quite late. Ozma gets kidnapped and Dorothy and all the other hangers-on at court go out to find her. (I think it's a shame that after Marvellous Land, Gvc hggreyl inavfurf- Bmzn vf guvf fjrrg, qvtavsvrq, hggreyl srzvavar snvel ynff, V guvax n zvfpuvribhf gbzobl cevaprff jbhyq unir orra zber vagrerfgvat, ernyyl.)
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[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And for the cool cyphering thing too: very useful! Shame about Gvc.