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For the third time I read my brothers note. ''Come quickly my brother I need you.'' Several points concerning this short note placed worrying thoughts in my mind....
Now! if I you had said to me then… That "46 years later I would be enjoying my Scorpio pal's biography The Prince of Wales by Jonathan Dimbleby esq. It really beggars my belief, but he will, one day,...
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Pi**st! "The closer 'he gets to Christmas, the more silly he becomes and far too excited for his own health, it's a 'mental childish thing .
"trust me I'm his friend, and I'm his Doctor…. :cool:
This large expanse of sand and silt, created over millennia, always looking the same, yet always changing with the incoming and outgoing tides. When the moon says it is...
You have probably already read this By Elizabeth Peters a Yank written about 1980. It's quite good, it should be a film, she 'nicked Carter's discovery plus she has H Rider Haggard and an amazing...
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An excellent series. I've read most of them, but to me the annoying thing is that the covers never say No 1, No 2 etc, as they are consecutive - one has Ramses as a baby, the next one I bought had...
Hello Pink Magic, my name is Doreen and I have to say that I am very impressed with your level of honesty and bravery. You seem to come over as a very strong person, the opposite to myself I have to...
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It has just been pointed out to me that Pink Magic is the user name of a member on here. I did not intend this to be connected with this member as the term Pink Magic has a past connection to me...
Nothing has changed. Would I expect it to have done, I ask myself. No, my day is the same as the last, my life never altering. I sit here, looking out of this grimy and...
The computer swallowed Grandma,
Yes, honestly it’s true!
She pressed 'control and 'enter'
And disappeared from view.
It devoured her completely,
The thought just makes me...
Can anyone recommend a decent French-English / English-French dictionary that I can download to my Kindle and/or my phone (Galaxy Ace). A free download would be preferable but prepared to pay if it's...
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Can't recommend one, but Google App's will have loads of free ones.. You more or less have to sign up for that with Android.. :cg
I guess by best, you mean Accurate. . . :tk :tk
Only one way to...
By any chance, has anyone got this book tucked away in a corner of their bookcase and would be willing to lend or sell it???????
Egyptian civilization. John Wilson. Translated by Ahmed Fakhry...
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If he wants to do a master's degree he should learn English, French and German and read the books in their original languages. You can't be competent and have a master's degree in Egyptology if you...
A very talented and clever Glaswegian friend posted this on FB, I thought I would share it with you, as I was there, he is writing a book, a vignette of what is to follow, oh and it is true, well it...
Nb: This story relates to the shooting of a lady in Turkey by her hill farming gardener. Once upon a time...... I used to be a fighter...... My 2 sensei were Bobby Bream & Geoff Britton, both...
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Iv'e been watching the making of Master and Commander it's as clever as the film.
The Making of 'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'
That's why I love film, and film making people...
Like many, I'm so very sad to learn of the passing of great Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, whose creativity has enriched the world for half a century. You'll be sadly missed, Seamus, but the fruits of...
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"Mid Term Break"Jewel.
I'm sure I remember this from school!Think we studied it for our "Higher English."
I loved English..I still love poetry.
But I'm sure some on forum will tell me that my...
I have many books and films regarding my local River. It's one of the reasons for me being where I am. Robert or 'Twiggers as he is affectionally known writes many books usually about things he does,...
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Newdigate! :))) The politician was probably Anthony Weiner who IS a US politician who seems most impressed with his OWN weiner as he keeps textings photos of it to mega women AND he IS still a viable...
I wondered if anyone had read any of these books, which are on the reading list for a short course I am on.
Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street and Benito...
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I have just started reading 'The Marsh Arabs' by Wilfred Thesiger and am finding it interesting. I have been trying to find a copy of his 'Arabian Sands' but I think I will probably have to put a...
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