Assorted Things

[bunn]

A duck egg in a fried egg and black pudding bap is an egg too far.  I had to take a shower afterwards to get the yolk off.

Tommy Shortlegs still has a limp.  To vet tomorrow.  Still no enquiries for him!  We have asked Corgi Rescue if they might know of a suitable home, since he is more or less corgiform.  Apparently they have 140 people waiting for corgis, and no corgis! 

Terry Pratchett's 'Nation' is sadder than I expected.  Not sure why I didn't expect this, given that the 'entire people being wiped out' aspect is trailered on the back of the book. 

Channing Tatum has ridiculously small eyes and a quite absurd amount of forehead.

Despite this I am having fun illustrating the Eagle Big Bang story I volunteered for, as it is well written and has huge amounts of landscape in it.  Plus, the next picture doesn't feature CT and his tiny eyes at all, but Cottia!  With a knife!   Need to find someone to draw as Cottia. 

Mollydog is *almost* 100% again, and has become loud and importunate.  I shall start her on her painkillers again tomorrow as I think the arthritis is getting to her. 

Rosemary Sutcliff's Simon is very much a local book (for local people?)    Very definitely grounded in Torrington, right down to the individual fields and the river.  Less sad than I had expected, given the whole Civil War setting, though the internal angst of best friends on opposite sides is quite well handled, the ending is perhaps a bit too happy to feel real. 

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[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Ah, Simon, my First Ever Rosemary Sutcliff, which kicked off a train of reading which resulted in my 11th birthday party having an English Civil War theme, much to the bafflement of all the other guests. (Sadly, "Pin the ear on the cavalier" is the only themed game I can remember, though I know I came up with Civil War versions of all the normal children's party games.) I don't think I've read it since, and probably should, for old times' sake.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

It's not easy to get hold of, if you see a copy, grab it! I hadn't read it before ( I am finding, re-reading old Sutcliff, that I had read rather a lot of them but they had sort of slipped into that part of my mind that you don't remember but sort of colours all the rest.)

I wish I'd read it before, I always thought of the Civil War as rather dull and confusing, but she has sold me on it, and I'm pretty sure would have done so even more effectively if I'd read it at 11!

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I've got it on a shelf at work, along with most of her other books. I sometimes feel faintly guilty about that. A few years ago, when moving premises, I had to shrink the children's library stack by half. I tried not to be biased... yet somehow managed to end up with an entire shelf of Rosemary Sutcliffs, loads of Treeces and Treases and Garners and Coopers and the like, and far fewer contemporary-set novels than we used to have.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I used to rely on books that were in the library staying in the library, but after finding that a number of beloved favorites disappeared on me, no longer! I guess if you work there it's a bit more reliable though...

I'm glad to hear that one library at least has a set of Sutcliffs: most of the ones I've picked up recently have been retired library copies.