So, way back I posted my reading of the Jan-March quarter, and fully intended to follow it up with a list at the end of July.

I made the list, I just forgot to post it. But now, it is the end of the third quarter of the year (or yesterday was), so here are the books I've read.
( It's a bit of a long list, with comments and everything )

Yesterday I left work to go to Pilates. There was a slightly odd looking chap heading into the class ahead of me, turns out the normal instructor was on holiday and that he was covering. Apparently he used to teach at my gym until about 6 years ago, when he was ousted by “some Russian bitch”. Hmmm, professional ( Read more... )

Apparently I look like a terrorist ( Read more... )

I have joined a new gym (for a bargain student price, due to working at a university) and decided to start going to aerobics classes. Last night I went to one rejoicing in the name of Body Pump, which involves exercises with weights ( Read more... )

Last night I made two batches of cupcakes to take to Rosy's birthday celebrations. Two batches of 12 nicely put in a tin in my cupboard for me to ice today - one lot of chocolate, one plain ( Read more... )

I’m still working on the publishing things, and have got up to the months the war was breaking out in 1939. The correspondence remains fascinating, sometimes because it’s unintentionally hilarious, and other times it’s shocking, or just desperately sad ( Read more... )

A letter:

Dear Ruth [no, not me]

let it be thursday, same place same time, inside the main entrance.

Yours ever...

An assignation? A business meeting? Who can tell? Ok, so the letter is part of a business, but they seem to be on very friendly terms with their writers...

Urgh, I haven’t slept enough the last couple of nights (because I haven’t gone to bed, not for any more sensible reason). So now I’m tired and want to sleep when at work, which makes me grumpy and also more prone to self-loathing. Not helped by the fact that the shop I have no fewer than 3 pairs of jeans from appears to have altered their sizing ( Read more... )

Work, at the moment it's fabulous, I have a collection of interesting things - 1930s publishers with famous name and comedy titles (Live Alone and Like It, The Pleasures of a Single Bed, Better Bed Manners, Love Is too Young)- boss who thinks I'm ace,(his word, not mine) and with whom I get on really well. Just overall enjoyment of it at the ( Read more... )

George Clooney day, all day Saturday on film4.

Fetch the nibbles! I will be spending the day on the sofa...