It’s my London day today, and today i quite enjoyed the train ride. the book really came into its own.  Now i need another one.

There is always s satisfaction after finishing a book, followed by sadness and then – for me – apprehension.  I find it so very hard to ‘get into’ a new book. i have oodles of books i start and can’t be bothered with.

i have been feeling really down these last two days.  i have no idea why. just bereft and lonley. i am sick of asking everyone to chip in help out and a whole 5 other adults and practicallly adults just don’t pitch in.  But its more than that, i don’t feel this pants becuase of chores not being done.

So i bought this from the new bookstore – spurred on by  liking the occasional sex – i thought why not. Its not porn lit for girls – its just a grown up book.

as with the last one, i am thinking its kind of cheating to base a book on a small number of main charaters and then write a whole chapter or two about each and the story from each perspective… i sooooo reckon i could do that. if i could spell and had any  form of punctuation – other – than – the  - Dickinson – dash!

twins have got GCSEs after the hols. ds not studying as he wants to get an apprenticeship at college as a mechanic – no he isn’t the stereotype of which you think  ( that would be my eldest) he is very bright – just a thorough prat. truly.  to actually get this apprenticeship he needs a job – it so happens we have a BIL who is a mechanic – and he owes us big time. so we go to sunday dinner today and ds does nothing but insult him in a purile way that 10 year old boys do…. but he is 16! and its not impressive. even after i took him to one side and told him to zip it – he couldnt. he is one of those annoying boys that all us girls had to put up with at school – junior school – those boys who would say “ginger ginger ha ha ha”

DD is studying – briefly. i don’t know what she is expecting but i see re-sits in her future.

its a book – easy read. crap ending – enkoyed it for the trash it was

quite explicit sex – which was a nice change

Quite fortunate in that a new bookstore opened across the road..ish, well its not so much second hand – but brand new – must – be a job – lot kind of store – some good books in there

so i bought The Bitch Posse and DH bought….. Xenophon

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/terence-blacker/terence-blacker-why-do-they-all-fawn-over-saint-max-1638457.html

Satire is alive and well – on Twitter

Satire can be such a complex business that sometimes one needs a codebook to differentiate between the acceptably barbed and the merely silly. The veteran humorist John O’Farrell has haughtily rebuked a woman called Lisa Valentine for impersonating David Tennant on the Twitter social network. Satire “needs to be aimed at the powerful and pompous,” O’Farrell said.

Valentine’s joke was, in fact, an excellent one. Sending out Twitter messages under the name of THE David Tennant, she had the actor, ridiculing his Doctor Who successor, being close friends with Paul Daniels and writing a book called “David Tennant, Bigger on the Inside”.

Satire? Of course. Even when told it was a trick, Tennant’s fans twittered on. Some actually wanted Lisa Valentine’s autograph; being an impersonator had made her semi-famous herself. O’Farrell is quite wrong. This excellent Twitter joke (possibly the only Twitter joke) is not at the expense of Tennant but of his celebrity-struck fans – and of powerful, pompous satirists.

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bloody brilliant