Book Purchases

I can't quite follow Amazon's delivery or postal charging policy and their delivery/dispatch estimates seem to be gleaned largely through reading entrails.

Thus it is that I am still waiting for my copy of Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever, the new biography by Peter Cowie. Even the cover seems not to be settled, though this seems to be the favourite:



In the meantime the companion book, Jazz Age Beauties by Robert Hudovernik, which was supposed to be harder to get hold of arrived on Saturday morning.



For once Amazon have at least not charged additional postage for splitting up the order. I am perplexed that the forecast delivery date for Lulu Forever is still 10 October...

Book Purchases

I can't quite follow Amazon's delivery or postal charging policy and their delivery/dispatch estimates seem to be gleaned largely through reading entrails.

Thus it is that I am still waiting for my copy of Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever, the new biography by Peter Cowie. Even the cover seems not to be settled, though this seems to be the favourite:



In the meantime the companion book, Jazz Age Beauties by Robert Hudovernik, which was supposed to be harder to get hold of arrived on Saturday morning.



For once Amazon have at least not charged additional postage for splitting up the order. I am perplexed that the forecast delivery date for Lulu Forever is still 10 October...

The Joker

For the benefit of geeks everywhere, and for mr_h_r_hughes in particular, Heath Ledger is the Joker in the new Batman movie due out in 2008.

( Does he look the part? )

I reckon so...

The Joker

For the benefit of geeks everywhere, and for mr_h_r_hughes in particular, Heath Ledger is the Joker in the new Batman movie due out in 2008.

( Does he look the part? )

I reckon so...

Taekwondo

I post this now because I wish to record it; because I forgot on Sunday morning and if I don't write it down soon I shall forget completely. Some things deserve to be remembered, and the utterances of the semi-comatose Furtle fall into that category.

It seems that her half-conscious brain is more knowledgeable about some things than her waking brain, for she professes not to know what Taekwondo is. Or at least not precisely. This did not dissuade her from flatly announcing to anyone who might hear (me) that "I shan't do Taekwondo for anybody". When I responded that this was quite right too, she clarified, "...and certainly not in these sandals."

So there you have it.

We never did get to the bottom of the mystery of the green tea pot....

Taekwondo

I post this now because I wish to record it; because I forgot on Sunday morning and if I don't write it down soon I shall forget completely. Some things deserve to be remembered, and the utterances of the semi-comatose Furtle fall into that category.

It seems that her half-conscious brain is more knowledgeable about some things than her waking brain, for she professes not to know what Taekwondo is. Or at least not precisely. This did not dissuade her from flatly announcing to anyone who might hear (me) that "I shan't do Taekwondo for anybody". When I responded that this was quite right too, she clarified, "...and certainly not in these sandals."

So there you have it.

We never did get to the bottom of the mystery of the green tea pot....