Current reading matter

[J.R.]

'Dover Beach'

Leslie Thomas.

[kerrensimmonds]

Kitchen Confidential
(Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly)
by Anthony Bourdain
(published in 2000)

'More gripping than a Stephen King novel' (Sunday Times)
'It's not exactly Delia' (Guardian)

Must have been given to me cos. I don't remember buying it, but I am enjoying it enormously.

[Vièr Bliu]

Don't know if it counts as reading but my copy of the November issue of Maxim arrived yesterday (yes, I am a 42 year old lad-mag subscriber...) and it contains (p46) what passes for an interview with (OB actor) Jason Flemyng. No CH-related trivia - the "interview" is on the level of "What's the scariest fight you've ever witnessed in your pub?".

The intro describes him as a "dodgy-dealing ginge". I remember him more as "cheekiest squit ever", but there you go. I only read the mag anyway for the bikini photospreads

[englishangel]

Don't know if it counts as reading but my copy of the November issue of Maxim arrived yesterday (yes, I am a 42 year old lad-mag subscriber...) and it contains (p46) what passes for an interview with (OB actor) Jason Flemyng. No CH-related trivia - the "interview" is on the level of "What's the scariest fight you've ever witnessed in your pub?".

The intro describes him as a "dodgy-dealing ginge". I remember him more as "cheekiest squit ever", but there you go. I only read the mag anyway for the bikini photospreads

Shome mishtake shorely!!

[Vièr Bliu]

Shome mishtake shorely!!

Well, captions like "Already a big star on Norwegian TV, Triana isn't shy about baring all for the camera" (p38, current issue) don't read themselves, you know.

But tomorrow morning, it'll be back to the Škvorecký while waiting at out-patients clinic at the hospital.

[kerrensimmonds]

Haven't you finished the Škvorecký yet Geraint? You've been reading it in Waiting Rooms for at least two weeks! Is this an indication that the Channel Islands are rather better than the UK mainland in keeping waiting times to a minimum?
In my waiting room at the Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead, this week, I was drinking from my water bottle and looking at/reading my copy of 'Kitchen Confidential' as mentioned previously in this Forum. But the hospital was so efficient I only managed a page or two!

[Vièr Bliu]

I know, it's slow progress. My excuses are as follows: it's the general election; I've got two publication deadlines for the end of the month; I've been dipping into the aforementioned sack of books.

My secret as regards waiting at the hospital is that I live slap bang opposite the old hospital main entrance. Location, location, location! I can just cross the road and be in out-patients reception in less than a minute.

[kerrensimmonds]

Brilliant! And no time wasted trying to find a parking space, and having to have the right change to pay the (fortune) the parking requires. Lucky you.

[Mid A 15]

Brilliant! And no time wasted trying to find a parking space, and having to have the right change to pay the (fortune) the parking requires. Lucky you.

Parking was FREE (in capitals because that is a word increasingly unfamiliar in England) last time I was in the Channel Islands. You just had to display a disc clock with your arrival time and park in a spot which allowed you long enough to attend to your business. The time zones only ran from something like 8:am to 5:pm. Outside those times you could park for free for as long as you liked.

If I could afford it I'd move there!

[J.R.]

Brilliant! And no time wasted trying to find a parking space, and having to have the right change to pay the (fortune) the parking requires. Lucky you.

Parking was FREE (in capitals because that is a word increasingly unfamiliar in England) last time I was in the Channel Islands. You just had to display a disc clock with your arrival time and park in a spot which allowed you long enough to attend to your business. The time zones only ran from something like 8:am to 5:pm. Outside those times you could park for free for as long as you liked.

If I could afford it I'd move there!

It's still the same way in Guernsey.

Not on Herm or Alderney !!

[Mid A 15]

Brilliant! And no time wasted trying to find a parking space, and having to have the right change to pay the (fortune) the parking requires. Lucky you.

Parking was FREE (in capitals because that is a word increasingly unfamiliar in England) last time I was in the Channel Islands. You just had to display a disc clock with your arrival time and park in a spot which allowed you long enough to attend to your business. The time zones only ran from something like 8:am to 5:pm. Outside those times you could park for free for as long as you liked.

If I could afford it I'd move there!

It's still the same way in Guernsey.

Not on Herm or Alderney !!

Not on Sark either!

I was in Guernsey two years ago and Jersey seven years ago and have visited Herm and Sark. I've yet to visit Alderney.

I love the Channel Islands but the "Open Market" prices are a bit prohibitive!

Fair play to them though for using whatever means to control who they do and don't let in.

[J.R.]

Until a few years ago, I had relatives on Guernsey, so I was over there all the time.

Not been to Alderney ?

Did you know it has a big secret which the 'Islanders' still to this day almost refuse to talk about ?

[Mid A 15]

Until a few years ago, I had relatives on Guernsey, so I was over there all the time.

Not been to Alderney ?

Did you know it has a big secret which the 'Islanders' still to this day almost refuse to talk about ?

No I didn't.

Has it got anything to do with the exact location of the late John Arlott's wine cellar?

[J.R.]

Alderney housed the'Todt' labour camp for slave labourers building the fortifications on the main islands during the German occupation.

To all intents and purposes, a concentration camp.

You can still still see the foundations, though the older residents WON'T direct you.

Denial !

[englishangel]

I have just been online to renew a library book, and one of the new services available is to see all the books you have borrowed recently, since 19 January 2007 in this case. I have borrowed 191 books since then, that is a rate of 2 a week.

Now you know why I don't post on this thread very often, I would never be off it.