Monthly Archive: December 2009
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Christmas Tree
I love the Christmas Tree. It’s a tradition in our family to give a new decoration every year. Alas my flat is very small so a 4ft tree is all I can manage to fit.Included on it are decorations from the Senior Section Lones Christmas decoration swap, origami birds from the first tree my parents …
Dec
23
Snow Day Fun
Today was a snow day. A proper school cancelled due to amazing snow! Even better I didn’t even try and get to work so missed out on being stuck on a motor way or back roads (all of which became closed by the back of 8am). So after a lazy morning -mostly spent catching up …
Dec
23
Christmas in the Library
Now I love the festive season and any excuse the decorate the library so I opted this year for a Christ-moose (or a Merry Moose-mas?) The baubles hanging from the antlers are book wishes from staff – the poor moose became quite heavily laden by the end. I also made a wreath for the door …
Dec
23
Recent Displays
I have been busy with library displays but kept forgetting to get the photos home to post. I’ve done three displays since I last posted. Hallowe’en is full of photos of the pupils so I can’t post them but we did a haunted house mystery where the pupils had different characters and library users were …
Dec
21
Turkey Cupcakes
I love a holiday and even though we don’t get Thanksgiving here I still like the idea. So for the first time in years I had people round for the big day itself so I decided to mark the occasion with some themed cupcakes (that and I found a source of Candy Corn!). I found …
Dec
21
Camp badge – back again!
The time has come for the SS100 badge to be designed. This year it’s on the West Coast but it’s main thing is to mark the 100 years of Girlguiding. So the badge was to reflect this (say goodbye to my puffin plan). I decided to limit the options a lot more this year – …
Dec
21
Janet Evanovich
The latest Janet Evanovich is ‘Finger Lickin’ Good’. Now these are simple fluff but very enjoyable fluff. The end even had me laughing out loud in the middle of a silent reading reading english class! Stephanie Plum once again is split between two steamin’ hot men, more people try and kill them and there is …
Dec
21
How to talk about books you haven’t read
Pierre Bayard has written a book called ‘How to talk about books you haven’t read’. It’s classed under humour and he spends a lot of the time in the book showing how you don’t need to read a book to know about a book or to be able to discuss it. I don’t think it was particularly …
Dec
21
Oscar Wilde continued
Well I continued with my Oscar Wilde pre-occupation (though totally failed to see Dorian Gray in the cinema). I listened to Dorian Gray in the car on the way to work – though I remembered it was excellent, I had forgotten just how good the story was. I also read the first of Gyles Brandreth’s Oscar Wilde mysteries …
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- "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.” - Christopher Paolini (via magiquotes) […]
- “Since the introduction of printing there has been a tendency in...“Since the introduction of printing there has been a tendency in literature to appeal more and more to the eye, and less and less to the ear which is really the sense which, from the standpoint of pure art, it should seek to please, and by whose canons of pleasure it should abide always.” - Oscar Wilde Books on CD are available for you to borrow from the lib […]
- Everyone Should Read - The Chronicles of NarniaEveryone Should Read - The Chronicles of Narnia […]
- "Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” - Mark Twain (via thelifeguardlibrarian) […]
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