@gillyL.. yes i agree.. they stick them on everything.. dvd covers for instance.. bought one for my bro in law at weekend for birthday the the label came off taking some of the cover print with it.. so annoying
another rant i have this week is.. shops who cram so much in you cant walk round the stands without knocking stuff off.. sports direct for instance.. my god!! so cramped in there and you need a sat nav to find the tills.. then when you do they have no queueing line.. just stand amoungst the racks of items for sales.. while a large banner over the till states.. go on and line and tell us what you think of our queueing.. "i can tell ya.. get some space and make a single line up system.. as that lady over there has just got served there while we are all stood here waiting for you to get going serving us.." i announced along with some "yeah get it together girl" and "come on have not got all day love" from in front and behind me.
SPorts Direct is not a shop. It is an overcrowded warehouse staffed by unpleasnat youths smelling of cheap perfume and testesterone. I am 66 yrs old ex military and I am NOT their "Mate" as "Can I help you MATE"
As for books- their are no boring books- only books that you are not stimulated or captured by. I enjoy reading SF Anne Mcaffery-great- but it would bore me to death to stick to one genre.
The most moving and capturing book recently read was SKALLARIGG- sadly now out of print. It is funny and very sad and very uplifting I recommend that to everyone.
Geoffrey Archer books are good for compost they are rot as they leave his pen and decay quickly.
CharlieN, I watched that link and knew I was old! Just didn't get it! Sorry!
Enjoyed reading all the stuff about books. Love whodunnits written by women myself, from Marjorie Allingham to the modern day, especially funny ones. (I just don't think like a man, I suppose.)
I see April Jones' alleged killer was convicted today. Such a sad story. Hope life improsonment really means life - these sexually-motivated people kill again too often. Now that so many psychiatric hospitals have closed down and personality disorders are regarded as untreatable, there are too many psychopaths free to kill, even though it is often clear that they are dangerous.
GG- I have to say I feel sorry for his family. Can you imagine the grief they will get just because they're related. Desperate.
I've always been under the impression the life sentence replaced the death penalty- in other words you're life was still taken but in a different way. How can it be justice if people only serve ten years or whatever for a deliberate act of murder.
Like you , I like a good whodunnit. Barbara Vine, PD James, Val McD, Geoffrey Deaver etc but my all time fave book is still Brideshead Revisited. Still cry every time I read it.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gilly, That book would be a biography as if written by another person as that is how it seems to me looking back, as If I was outside looking in, snooping would be a good word. My reading seems archaic when I look at the Authors you all name, of course Miss English, my English Tutor (yes that was her name) dragged me kicking and screaming into the classics. Homer when we were still doing Greek and Latin, the Elizabethan Poet George Chapman, Alexander Pope, Andrew Lang, W B Yeats, Ezra Pound and not to be missed Daniel Defoe. I did like all the Smiley books nothing like a good spy novel. Does Readers Digest count I ask?
Sometimes I feel so sad Gilly when you see people's lives utterly destroyed like that. The Sarah Payne family - it broke my heart watching the parents on those hideous press things - the father becoming more broken with every day that went by. The Russell family who had moved to get a better life only for some maniac to kill the mother and one daughter and leave the other battered. I don't condone it, but I do understand why people feel they have to take action because the justice system seems woefully inadequate on so many occasions. I'm old enough to remember the Moors murders and that poor woman (Keith Bennett's mother)is dead never knowing where her little boy was left. Life sentences must mean that.
I also feel that reading is what matters rather than a particular type of book. My older daughter was an avid reader at an early age whereas the younger one wasn't interested other than magazines. She now reads a lot - it was just a question of encouragement and finding the right book to spark her. Good old Harry Potter!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
What I find really sad about April Jones' murder, is her body is still missing, and the evil scum that did it, won't say where the body is. At least if her parents had her back, even just to bury, they would know where she was, and hopefully it would give them some sort of closure. In these cases, I believe that the victims should have some sort of say in if/when he gets out (I hope never), what sort of torment has he thoughtlessly inflicted on her parents? Every day of their life they will have pain, and a huge hole where their daughter once was. I just hope what he said about running her over is true (which I doubt), and that she didn't know fear or pain before she died.
MMP - agree. It was the same with the moors murders. He taunted that poor woman pretending to know where her son was. Doesn't get much worse than that. my sister lost her first child at 10 months but at least it was peaceful and they were with her.
Cuddle them tight.x
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I agree too, MMP, and, gruesome as it sounds, would add that in this particular case torture should be used to extricate what he did with that child. I bet if they pulled out his fingernails one by one he's soon remember!
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@gillyL.. yes i agree.. they stick them on everything.. dvd covers for instance.. bought one for my bro in law at weekend for birthday the the label came off taking some of the cover print with it.. so annoying
another rant i have this week is.. shops who cram so much in you cant walk round the stands without knocking stuff off.. sports direct for instance.. my god!! so cramped in there and you need a sat nav to find the tills.. then when you do they have no queueing line.. just stand amoungst the racks of items for sales.. while a large banner over the till states.. go on and line and tell us what you think of our queueing.. "i can tell ya.. get some space and make a single line up system.. as that lady over there has just got served there while we are all stood here waiting for you to get going serving us.." i announced along with some "yeah get it together girl" and "come on have not got all day love" from in front and behind me.
and breath....
rant over.
SPorts Direct is not a shop. It is an overcrowded warehouse staffed by unpleasnat youths smelling of cheap perfume and testesterone. I am 66 yrs old ex military and I am NOT their "Mate" as "Can I help you MATE"
As for books- their are no boring books- only books that you are not stimulated or captured by. I enjoy reading SF Anne Mcaffery-great- but it would bore me to death to stick to one genre.
The most moving and capturing book recently read was SKALLARIGG- sadly now out of print. It is funny and very sad and very uplifting I recommend that to everyone.
Geoffrey Archer books are good for compost they are rot as they leave his pen and decay quickly.
CharlieN, I watched that link and knew I was old!
Just didn't get it! Sorry!
Enjoyed reading all the stuff about books. Love whodunnits written by women myself, from Marjorie Allingham to the modern day, especially funny ones. (I just don't think like a man, I suppose.)
I see April Jones' alleged killer was convicted today. Such a sad story. Hope life improsonment really means life - these sexually-motivated people kill again too often. Now that so many psychiatric hospitals have closed down and personality disorders are regarded as untreatable, there are too many psychopaths free to kill, even though it is often clear that they are dangerous.
GG- I have to say I feel sorry for his family. Can you imagine the grief they will get just because they're related. Desperate.
I've always been under the impression the life sentence replaced the death penalty- in other words you're life was still taken but in a different way. How can it be justice if people only serve ten years or whatever for a deliberate act of murder.
Like you , I like a good whodunnit. Barbara Vine, PD James, Val McD, Geoffrey Deaver etc but my all time fave book is still Brideshead Revisited. Still cry every time I read it.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gilly, That book would be a biography as if written by another person as that is how it seems to me looking back, as If I was outside looking in, snooping would be a good word.
My reading seems archaic when I look at the Authors you all name, of course Miss English, my English Tutor (yes that was her name) dragged me kicking and screaming into the classics.
Homer when we were still doing Greek and Latin, the Elizabethan Poet George Chapman, Alexander Pope, Andrew Lang, W B Yeats, Ezra Pound and not to be missed Daniel Defoe. I did like all the Smiley books nothing like a good spy novel.
Does Readers Digest count I ask?
Frank.
Nothing wrong with Readers Digest Frank,
Type of reading material is immaterial,its the fact that a person reads that is important.
GG & Fairygirl,.Agree with your comments about the April Jones killer,Hope He never sees life from out behind bars again.
Sometimes I feel so sad Gilly when you see people's lives utterly destroyed like that. The Sarah Payne family - it broke my heart watching the parents on those hideous press things - the father becoming more broken with every day that went by. The Russell family who had moved to get a better life only for some maniac to kill the mother and one daughter and leave the other battered. I don't condone it, but I do understand why people feel they have to take action because the justice system seems woefully inadequate on so many occasions. I'm old enough to remember the Moors murders and that poor woman (Keith Bennett's mother)is dead never knowing where her little boy was left. Life sentences must mean that.
I also feel that reading is what matters rather than a particular type of book. My older daughter was an avid reader at an early age whereas the younger one wasn't interested other than magazines. She now reads a lot - it was just a question of encouragement and finding the right book to spark her. Good old Harry Potter!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
What I find really sad about April Jones' murder, is her body is still missing, and the evil scum that did it, won't say where the body is. At least if her parents had her back, even just to bury, they would know where she was, and hopefully it would give them some sort of closure. In these cases, I believe that the victims should have some sort of say in if/when he gets out (I hope never), what sort of torment has he thoughtlessly inflicted on her parents? Every day of their life they will have pain, and a huge hole where their daughter once was. I just hope what he said about running her over is true (which I doubt), and that she didn't know fear or pain before she died.
Off now to give my little ones a cuddle.
MMP - agree. It was the same with the moors murders. He taunted that poor woman pretending to know where her son was. Doesn't get much worse than that. my sister lost her first child at 10 months but at least it was peaceful and they were with her.
Cuddle them tight.x
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I agree too, MMP, and, gruesome as it sounds, would add that in this particular case torture should be used to extricate what he did with that child. I bet if they pulled out his fingernails one by one he's soon remember!