![]() Yesterday was the start of the areas move from black bin bag rubbish collection to householders sorting their rubbish for recycling, so just at the point where the bin lorry appeared to collect the paper and cardboard - for the first time - the drains people blocked the reoad with their works so the stuff couldn't be (easily) collected. Must make sure I keep an eye on the contents of those trollies!Īt the moment we are surrounded by works in progress - for the last 24 hours drains have been cleared - the lorry was there all night - and it is still going on. If you don’t believe me, try sampling some of rajm’s checkout experiences.Īh, further inspection (edit on 25 th Nov) reveals that the original was part of those rescued Why is that woman buying just two bottles of gin, a tin of shoe polish, and a toothbrush? What kind of party is that going to be, with the couple stocking up with a dozen loaves of white sliced bread, 2 dozen bananas and a packet of Alka-Seltzer? Their trolley contents are an endless source of fantasy and speculation - as I would like mine to be for them. Oh no, John! You may feel like that but I’m much more curious about what other people are buying at the supermarket than at Waterstones. Not so at the supermarket:Īt the Tesco or Safeways check-out line, you do not care in the slightest whether the person in front has smart organic baked beans or the supermarket’s own cheap brand, so long as their cart is not heaped so mountainously high that you will be waiting all day for the till. Hence, in the bookshop queue, everyone is curious about what other customers are buying. Was searching for citations of this blog and I found an entry from Storyteller's World that I missed the first time around and as that blog's archivers are currently in pieces on the floor, let me cite it here (oh for trackbacks, but I suppose as the cited page only exists in the google cache that wouldn't get me very far!)Īgain, Sutherland has a digression about the way your book buying makes a kind of statement about yourself. Need to finish the book for tomorrow's meeting!. ![]() Interesting that she describes the country then as being competed over by the US and the USSR. With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology but maybe she - Murphy - always yearned for the rural idyll. I was reading her account of Afghanistan a few weeks (!) ago when Blair was there and I found some of her insights very telling especially of their (then) rush to Westernisation Not exactly a chronological tale as the end of the first chapter finds her in Teheran but the telling is wonderful. For our book groups ( BATS) book of the month - actually my book of the month as we're all reading a different one this month as we have a box of travel books - I'm reading Dervla Murphy's Full Tilt, an intrepid Irish lady who cycled from the UK to India in 1963 (I remember that winter). Two rather different books but I suppose they're both American. Maybe there's a resemblance to Twain's Huckleberry Finn maybe it's just the rawness of the book. ![]() ![]() When I was given this book at the book group I was told I wouldn't like it - I had mixed feelings until I got to the story of the trip to Gone with the Wind (a film I've never seen) and I was hooked. A moment wonderfully captured (I see that she lives near Seattle). I know nothing but the smell of the sun hitting those countless needles from these old evergreens.įrom The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells. She looked around at the tall fir trees that surrounded the cabin. She looked out at the tall fir trees that surrounded the cabin. Then she stepped out on the deck into the warmth of a Pacific Northwest summer morning. Sidda grabbed an apple out of the wooden bowl on the counter. Richard Rohr again - yes we all have those mental ticklists we assess every thought by and group pressure is insidious even where your group is 'I am the cat who walks by himself' Group loyalty becomes the test rather than loyalty to God or the truth. The preoccupation with religion as an ideology leads to over-identification with the group, its language and symbols. Read these last night - current bedtime reading is only three books - but I'm gradually reducing the pile!
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