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An Old Blue has a fairly prominent role as an extra in the Atonement film. Without his permission I won't say who...

there is only 2/3 ob's i know who have been in films etc. Just gone through entire cast list on IMDB and cannot find CH mentioned anywhere on any of the males! oh well keep pondering

blondie95 wrote:there is only 2/3 ob's i know who have been in films etc. Just gone through entire cast list on IMDB and cannot find CH mentioned anywhere on any of the males! oh well keep pondering

I don't think extras normally get a mention in the credits Amy.

but if he was a promient extra and some of than random soliders who had 1 line were mentioned!

i got two very different books at xmas
1) Gary Barlow's autobiography (which for a huuuuugeeee Take That fan although Mark was my fav is a very good buy and read)
2) biography of Che Guevara (i know the legacy he left but not what he did to leave that legacy oh and i do love historic biographies)

1. Easy reading at the moment - Miss Read. Switch brain off and enjoy descriptions of the countryside.

2. Pregnancy and Baby book by Miriam Stoppard. Might put that one away for a bit though - don't want to remember how awful giving birth is at the mo.

I am reading a Christmas present The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery. It is quite a challenging and thought provoking read.

I'm reading A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby, an excellent read on the commute home. The preface by Evelyn Waugh is worth the purchase price alone.

cj wrote:1. Easy reading at the moment - Miss Read. Switch brain off and enjoy descriptions of the countryside.

I came across an old Miss Read on my shelves a few months ago and re-read it avidly, so when I found another one in a charity shop last week, I snapped it up. It's on my reading pile. Having just been on hols, I polished off fairly quickly "The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall-Smith, which I'd been meaning to read for ages, and which was just as delightful as I'd hoped, and a "Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett, which I found a bit disappointing after his earlier ones (I'm still working my way through the set).

Currently reading Carol Drinkwater's "The Olive Route", which is fascinating - very descriptive, if not always elegantly expressed.

Just finished The Gathering by Anne Enright. Enjoyed her use of words, but not the best choice of reading matter for someone who is about to be invaded by family
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Katharine wrote:I am reading a Christmas present The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery. It is quite a challenging and thought provoking read.

I have to say I thought that book was excellent, also comes in handy when debating the existence of global warming with your pig-headed younger brother (who incedentaly does bot believe in global warming _ )

Pan

Lightbulbbroken wrote:

Katharine wrote:I am reading a Christmas present The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery. It is quite a challenging and thought provoking read.

I have to say I thought that book was excellent, also comes in handy when debating the existence of global warming with your pig-headed younger brother (who incedentaly does bot believe in global warming _ )

Pan

surely an unnecessary adjective, it goes with the role.

Y-e-e-sss! After having picked up on flagrant shameless hints, my current husband bought me "The Mitfords" edited by Charlotte Mosley - a mere 5% of the thousands of letters exchanged beween the six sisters who I find endlessly fascinating.

I keep dipping into the huge book. It's irresistible. I first discovered Jessica Mitford's "Hons and Rebels" (memoir of her early life, written in 1960), on a patient's locker during night duty in 1975. Of course I cracked straight into it, and have been addicted to Mitfordiana ever since.

I go through periodic phases of being keener on one sister than the others. This latest book tells their stories better than any biographer, as attested by JK Rowling on the cover.

Addict!

Munch

Angela Woodford wrote:Y-e-e-sss! After having picked up on flagrant shameless hints, my current husband bought me "The Mitfords" edited by Charlotte Mosley - a mere 5% of the thousands of letters exchanged beween the six sisters who I find endlessly fascinating.

I keep dipping into the huge book. It's irresistible. I first discovered Jessica Mitford's "Hons and Rebels" (memoir of her early life, written in 1960), on a patient's locker during night duty in 1975. Of course I cracked straight into it, and have been addicted to Mitfordiana ever since.

I go through periodic phases of being keener on one sister than the others. This latest book tells their stories better than any biographer, as attested by JK Rowling on the cover.

Addict!

Munch

Tenuous link #19482....

In the BBC series of "Love in a Cold Climate" a few years ago, there were two young sisters played by Anna & Lulu Popplewell, whose mother Debra Lomas was at CH from about 1971-78. I believe she was head girl. (Anna is starting to make a name for herself - she played Susan in the Chronicles of Narnia).

Just started In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore. Just finished the chapter on Slow food - tying in nicely with the Channel 4 Food Fight programmes. Quite an easy read, not drowning in statistics, but philosophically entertaining. Food for thought - ha ha!