Interests Meme
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slemslempikeTaken from just about everybody: Look at your LJ "interests" list. If you have fewer than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.
Chalet School - of course! Today at lunch my supervisor said that her niece was addicted, but had just about grown out of them now. Real Chalet girls take Joey Maynard as their role model and never grow out of the Chalet School.
Due South - lovely mounties. Lovely gay mounties. And Fraser is divinely polite and lovely and capable and a little bit like a genteel steamroller.
Hanson/Penhall - EEEEEEEEEEE! Although I fear the introduction of the bad man. They kiss, and Penhall picks up Hanson and swings him round to put him on the table, and they bicker and are PARTNERS. It is the greatest thing in the history of ever.
Joanna Lloyd - wrote hilarious girls' school stories, one stand alone, which I've never read, and a series about Bramber Manor, the final of which I read earlier this month. They are wonderfully funny about gss without being nasty about them, and Catherine is a brilliant character. She wants to be a good schoolgirl, and is actually quite a good sportswoman, but has a tendancy to space out while considering an interesting academic question and run the wrong way in lacrosse.
Noel Streatfield - obv. Well, perhaps not. The author of Ballet Shoes, and a whole host of other children's books. She tends towards middle class families of three or four children with at least one gifted in the performing arts. If you read several close together they are very repetitive of themes and charactersation, but still a lovely read. Her adult books are far darker, and if you read them unwarned, may lead to distress.
Secondhand Bookshops - to no-one's surprise. I much prefer secondhand shops to new ones. The surprise of the stock, and the prices, and knowing that you might come across something that will utterly make your day if not year. And they tend to be piled all over the place, and the less order there is the better, frankly.
tmwrnj - aka This Morning With Richard Not Judy, a BBC2 show with Lee and Herring. I can't possibly describe it, only quote bits at you in a manner calculated to annoy. "No, not ahh!" "Nostradamus and his horse David Collins!" "THE FENCE IS NOT ON OFFER!"
Worrals - is fabulous and brashly feminist and all round Good Egg. She is the progatonist of a series of books by WE Johns, the creator of Biggles. Johns was asked to create a character to entice girls to join the WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) in the second world war, and the first story appeared in the Girl's Own Annual in 1939 (I think). Apparently (I'm not sure if it's miffic), she was credited with increasing recruitment hugely. Anyway, she foils crime and defeats villains and flies planes etc with the help of her trusty sidekick Frecks.
Chalet School - of course! Today at lunch my supervisor said that her niece was addicted, but had just about grown out of them now. Real Chalet girls take Joey Maynard as their role model and never grow out of the Chalet School.
Due South - lovely mounties. Lovely gay mounties. And Fraser is divinely polite and lovely and capable and a little bit like a genteel steamroller.
Hanson/Penhall - EEEEEEEEEEE! Although I fear the introduction of the bad man. They kiss, and Penhall picks up Hanson and swings him round to put him on the table, and they bicker and are PARTNERS. It is the greatest thing in the history of ever.
Joanna Lloyd - wrote hilarious girls' school stories, one stand alone, which I've never read, and a series about Bramber Manor, the final of which I read earlier this month. They are wonderfully funny about gss without being nasty about them, and Catherine is a brilliant character. She wants to be a good schoolgirl, and is actually quite a good sportswoman, but has a tendancy to space out while considering an interesting academic question and run the wrong way in lacrosse.
Noel Streatfield - obv. Well, perhaps not. The author of Ballet Shoes, and a whole host of other children's books. She tends towards middle class families of three or four children with at least one gifted in the performing arts. If you read several close together they are very repetitive of themes and charactersation, but still a lovely read. Her adult books are far darker, and if you read them unwarned, may lead to distress.
Secondhand Bookshops - to no-one's surprise. I much prefer secondhand shops to new ones. The surprise of the stock, and the prices, and knowing that you might come across something that will utterly make your day if not year. And they tend to be piled all over the place, and the less order there is the better, frankly.
tmwrnj - aka This Morning With Richard Not Judy, a BBC2 show with Lee and Herring. I can't possibly describe it, only quote bits at you in a manner calculated to annoy. "No, not ahh!" "Nostradamus and his horse David Collins!" "THE FENCE IS NOT ON OFFER!"
Worrals - is fabulous and brashly feminist and all round Good Egg. She is the progatonist of a series of books by WE Johns, the creator of Biggles. Johns was asked to create a character to entice girls to join the WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) in the second world war, and the first story appeared in the Girl's Own Annual in 1939 (I think). Apparently (I'm not sure if it's miffic), she was credited with increasing recruitment hugely. Anyway, she foils crime and defeats villains and flies planes etc with the help of her trusty sidekick Frecks.
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tmwrnj!
Date: 2005-09-07 12:31 pm (UTC)Re: tmwrnj!
Date: 2005-09-07 12:36 pm (UTC)You want the moon on a stick, you do!
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Date: 2005-09-07 01:29 pm (UTC)Re: tmwrnj!
Date: 2005-09-07 02:17 pm (UTC)1. I have tmwrnj on my computer omg you should marry me.
2. Slemslem is betrothed to me because of not wanting to die from nerdcakes.
3. She might throw us out of the house if she was married.
Re: tmwrnj!
Date: 2005-09-07 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-07 12:41 pm (UTC)Most of my other favourite bits are from Fist of Fun though. "Heroin's a MEDICINE!" and "I didn't fight in two world wars! ... admittedly..."
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Date: 2005-09-07 02:57 pm (UTC)28 years old, I was.
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Date: 2005-09-07 12:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-07 02:50 pm (UTC)Ballet Shoes is her best known, and the characters in that pop up in several other books, so I'd definitely start there (if a non-
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Date: 2005-09-07 03:52 pm (UTC)Thanks for those ideas. I don't think I'd realised just how keen everyone round here was! It sounds as though I should maybe read Ballet Shoes, and then I'll go on to White Boots after that.
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Date: 2005-09-07 02:55 pm (UTC)Are you enjoying them then? I'm so pleased!
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Date: 2005-09-07 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-07 04:10 pm (UTC)And thank you for your Streatfeild recommendations, too! I'm going to start with Ballet Shoes.
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Date: 2005-09-08 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-14 06:55 am (UTC)In between all the other things that I've been reading, I finally finished Autumn Term this morning, and, based on the one book so far, AF is going to be a big favourite.
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Date: 2007-07-29 03:56 pm (UTC)I think I've only read one Joanna Lloyd book, and I'm blanking out on it leaving any impression, unfortunately, but I'll look out for her. You get it spot on on sechondhand shops, the possibility of finding, well, treasure and their characterfulness makes them places of wonder.
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Date: 2007-07-29 11:31 pm (UTC)