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[NickFitz]

My right ear is grumbling again, which is nature's way of telling me that I'm a lazy sod who doesn't clean my hearing aids often enough

So I decided to give it a rest from telly tonight and read instead. The question then was what to read.

In browsing the bookshelves, I discovered that I have, at different times, bought two copies of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Both remain unread. I should put them next to the two copies of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar; though at least I read that one out of the library when I was younger, while I've never read any of Fyodor's stuff

[WTFH]

Bedroom redecorating finished. Carpet shampooed, furniture slowly being brought back in.

Only bedroom #3 left to do.

New bathroom floor going in tomorrow.


TFBSZ

[DoctorStrangelove]

My right ear is grumbling again, which is nature's way of telling me that I'm a lazy sod who doesn't clean my hearing aids often enough

So I decided to give it a rest from telly tonight and read instead. The question then was what to read.

In browsing the bookshelves, I discovered that I have, at different times, bought two copies of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Both remain unread. I should put them next to the two copies of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar; though at least I read that one out of the library when I was younger, while I've never read any of Fyodor's stuff

What's this 'ere ear?

Oddly I suffer from ear irritation too.

I discovered that TCP is quite magic at causing inneresting pain & removing earwax whilst killing off the offending irritation/pimple.

I regularly look at the piles of books surrounding whilst quietly wondering why there's two copies of certain tomes.

I remember buying a 2nd copy of a Poul Anderson Flandry tome that I had no recollection of reading previously until I put it in the appropriate place on the bookshelf right next to the original copy.

I seem to do it a lot more often these days with dvds, though I have bought "Vulcan Boys" twice.

To keep it clear, that's about bomber pilots rather than poiny eared aliens.

Fortunately I discovered this error on returning home & got a refund.

Also I don't really do quality literature if I can help it so the like of Plath & Fyodor have little chance of duplication.

Some of said books have resided unread for decades, as has been mentioned previously.

The Quirkolody book is proving problematic since I find it difficult to read more than a couple of pages at a time, and the chapters are 40 pages long which pisses me off.

[NickFitz]

The question of what to read took some time to resolve. I started with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, but I wasn't in the mood for more than a chapter and a bit of that. So then I thought I'd try Charlie Stross's Glasshouse, but again I wasn't really in the mood for it; I'm not so keen on that kind of sci-fi anyway

Finally I remembered that, for years, I've been meaning to reread The Great Gatsby, which I haven't read in, probably, more than twenty years. I did this one for Eng Lit O Level, so I used to know it pretty well. But I now have a better appreciation for how unutterably ghastly the people in it are; I got about a quarter or a third of the way through, and there really isn't a single person in there one could stand for a second

Moon's up again, looking very shiny

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning all

Drizzly.

Grey.

Sunless.

Damp.

Right eustachian tube blocked overnight so unpleasantly deaf.

Doomed etc.

Thursday.

[WTFH]

The Dog (tw) has been walked. It's murky out, in fact at one point on our walk we even had a little bit of precipitation.

Weather due to improve over the next couple of hours until it turns into a proper scorcher of a weekend.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Very grey out; the sun has currently found a very tiny patch of thinner cloud to peer through, but that won't last as there aren't many of them

Already at 19°C though, and predicted to reach 26° by late afternoon

[NickFitz]

75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing today. This means it's also the 25th anniversary of my eldest niece's christening. Not sure it was deliberately planned for the 50th anniversary, I think that was just the only date when they could book the village church and everybody could travel down for the occasion, it being on a Sunday that year

[vetran]

75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing today. This means it's also the 25th anniversary of my eldest niece's christening. Not sure it was deliberately planned for the 50th anniversary, I think that was just the only date when they could book the village church and everybody could travel down for the occasion, it being on a Sunday that year

Watched the film Radioactive last night where they were interspersing Madam Curie's research with the positive & negative uses of it, Enola Gay featured. As if a Polish female scientist winning 2 nobel prizes, having a scandalous relationship with her lab partner, revolutionising battlefield medicine and creating a partial cure for cancer wasn't exciting enough.

Not a bad film.

Pity people don't recognise the bombing of Hiroshima as the end of world war because of MAD (at least for a bit).