today i have handed over MY costume in which i have NO time to work on to my 16 year old daughter to finish.


all the teaching and the patients DOES pay off - proud moment! (and my son does all the small bits for his like hemming and cuting out the pattern after it has been laid out and checked - at 13!)

today brian fell alseep in RE and dreamed that he was in the classic verion of the pokemon game. his "inplay" pokemon was Wimpy McWhimp and he looked under a bush and out popper Pokemon Jesus! Whimpy told brian to look in his pokebag whare he found a Rick Astly tape. he swithche whimpy for the tape and Rcik Astly appeared and started to sing "Never gonna let you down.." and Pokemon Jesus' eyes exploded! whereupon he woke up.

regugitating rubbish facts is NOT a life skill - unless you plan on being a sicophant!
how is this helping me learn? how is conforming to an incredibly strict format designed to make markers lives easiser and designed to create 300 copies of the SAME essay accomplishing anything? it is a poor excuse to say that it is the same if you submit a paper to a journal because it isnt! I should bloody know i edit them!

HYPOCRITES!
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trust!

does anyone have expereince of installing and USING google web toolkit?
I have installed java runtime envionment 6.12...
unzipped the gwt folder
and...
what now? i cant seem to find the place to make it work...

*head desk*

i haz teh sick...

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.


1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them
[ I think this meme should also have included a method by which to note those books we started to read, but didn't want to finish, so I’m adding an * for that purpose.]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible * catholic school - we need say no more
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - borrrring
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -the bard rocks
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy*
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis same as 33
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy*
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune* - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - love this guy
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (what a tosser)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - same as complete works
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - not in french ;)

other books what i have read since getting my irex:

Candide - Voltaire
Dracula – Bram Stokers
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
The Call of Cthulhu – H.P. Lovecraft
The Lost Continent - C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne (half way)
Interview with a vampire
katherine kerr:
* Daggerspell
* Darkspell
* The Bristling Wood (Dawnspell)
* The Dragon Revenant (Dragonspell)
* A Time of Exile
* A Time of Omens
* Days of Blood and Fire (A Time of War)
* Days of Air and Darkness (A Time of Justice)
* The Red Wyvern
* The Black Raven
* The Fire Dragon
Jim Baker 1-10 Dresden Files


and a gazillion computer books

ok so now i can twitter with the best thanks to 1ngi...
tell me who i should follow!

become an organ donor - register online!
https://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/how_to_become_a_donor/registration/consent.jsp

last night B sat upon the throne and there was a thunderous CRACK of doooooom.



Today I have changed the toilet seat and it was a far more disgusting job than i ever hope to do again...

first they roast and grind the beans
then make coffee using heat and water in vast tanks that need to be cleaned and sterlisied
then it gets freeze dried to condense it removing the water
then placed in glass containers for sale

why not just drink real coffee?
it gets packed in paper/plastic less packaging - you heat smaller amounts of water and only use what you need.

this was not *just* a rant cause i hate nescafe...

i am going to go to tesco - wish me luck and if you dont hear from me in a few days... what am i thinking? i post erdaically...