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Book review: Queen Camilla
By Sue Townsend.
I loved her Adrian Mole books. Queen Camilla didn't make me laugh despite interesting premises: ( Spoilers ) -
Book review: At The World's End
by Ken Follett ( Read more... ) -
Question
After a wedding, when the couple comes home, the bridegroom carries the bride over his doorstep (and usually, straight into their bed). Is that customary in Britain too? Does it have a specific name? -
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Happy birthday, littlelizzyann!
I hope that Severus and Remus - who obviously aren't dead and disappeared from the HP books just to sneak away to the other side of the Atlantic - finally find their way to a certain bookstore in order to present you with their best wishes in person. -
For the French-speaking Brits among you...
http://www.canalplus.fr/c-humour/pid1787-c-groland.html
Please don't be offended - the theme of this show is "bad taste", various kinds of excrement usually guest star. But I had to admit that this episode had me shrieking with laughter. -
Funny - or at least remotely amusing - link
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
From copperbadgeIt's supposed to be for charity somehow, but the adds aren't bothersome and it's free. They give you a word and four (approximate) synonyms. If you pick three right answers in a row, you get up a level. A wrong answer gets you down a level. It ( Read more... ) -
Meme-fics, 7/7
Pour Duniazade.
Prompt: How about a cross-over between HP and Largo Winch? Let’s suppose Ovronnaz discovers, late in life, that he has magic. And that he’s a distant cousin of a certain lean, dark, disreputable wizard.
Gen, NC-17, 6000 words.
Warnings: partly in French, explicit violence, hence the rating. Also, the narrative imperative ( Read more... )