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2013 Books
New Year, so here's 2013's reading poll. Tick any that you've ever read. As ever, LOLs, criticisms, squees, and recommendations in the comments.
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My 2012
Well, the Christmas decorations are back in their boxes and up in the attic for another year. So, that's it for 2012, but these two will be back next Christmas as a reminder of what a year it was.
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2012 Books
It's January 1st, so it must be time for the past year's reading poll. Tick any that you've ever read. LOLs, criticisms, squees, and recommendations in the comments.
A decent amount of non-fiction read this year (and an amount of decent non-fiction), plus the whole (to date) of A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Dinosaur Miniatures News
It's been nearly two years since the last round up. I've just updated every one of my listing pages with new figures. What's been happening?
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Treasure Haul
I spent a day helping my parents start clearing out their loft. In a box marked games I found this little haul.
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2011 Books Poll
The now customary round of year-end polls are being cross-posted to librarything, so here's mine. Fewer graphic novels (especially superheroes) this year - almost certainly down to Croydon libraries being a lot poorer in that respect than Lambeth.
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Running on autopilot.
“Good morning. Thank you for waiting. Would you like a small bag?”
“No thank you” I said as I unzipped my rucksack.
At least she looked slightly embarrassed as I took everything out of the carrier bag she’d put them into and transferred them to the rucksack. -
Season 7 Finale
I'm really not sure that the script writers for Season 7 of Rugby World Cup have done a very good job ( Read more... ) -
Wales 8, France 9, Alain Rolland -1
What a sad way to leave the world cup.
That tackle was dangerous, it deserved a penalty. And it likely deserved a yellow card. But a red card? No *%!$ing way!
Wales scored the only try and ended up losing by just one point after playing three quarters of the game with only 14 men - they were the better, braver side.
