These showery days and chilly nights make it feel like summer is over :( however two days off work is good no matter what time of year it is. Apart from the retail therapy mentioned in the previous post, my long weekend also involved some decluttering and charity bagging, and actually finishing a book for a change - Mark Cavendish's "Boy Racer". Oh, and I've even made serious inroads into the "Damages" season 1 boxset at last, currently on loan from faithful travelling companion. This programme is very addictive viewing, and after each episode I just want to see the next one. Also, the theme tune (which gives this post its title) is very good too.
I'm certainly not stuck for things to do during this blogging break. Work, rest, and play. On Monday I even slotted in a game of Beehive Bedlam at teatime and got to level 13 then decided to quit whilst I was ahead. Not for me the complicated world of modern gaming (although my fondness for The Sims will never die) but give me Bloobs or Beehive Bedlam and I'll be happy for the rest of the day.
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
"Ruinair" by Paul Kilduff
When my interest in blogging took off a couple of years ago, the one thing which seemed to suffer was my interest in reading. I've got some well-stocked bookshelves with lots of great books - almost exclusively in the humorous travel writing genre which Bill Bryson pioneered back in the day - but most of them are still begging to be read.
On the first of my two trips to Dublin last year, I spotted "Ruinair" by Irish writer Paul Kilduff, which is yet another one of those funny travel-related books, this time about the writer's experiences of travelling on a certain well-known airline. I didn't buy it at the time and looked for it during my second trip but couldn't find it.
It's now been published in the UK though and faithful travelling companion came to the rescue and bought it for me as part of my Valentine's Day presents. (Awww) anyway I started reading it the other night - great book, full of cheeky sarcastic wit and if you've ever flown on that airline you'll nod your head in agreement, that's when you're not laughing out loud.
So as part of my 2009 campaign for a healthy body and healthy mind - which involves 'lights out' at midnight during the week (yep. boring), I'm heading off now to read another chapter before bedtime.
On the first of my two trips to Dublin last year, I spotted "Ruinair" by Irish writer Paul Kilduff, which is yet another one of those funny travel-related books, this time about the writer's experiences of travelling on a certain well-known airline. I didn't buy it at the time and looked for it during my second trip but couldn't find it.
It's now been published in the UK though and faithful travelling companion came to the rescue and bought it for me as part of my Valentine's Day presents. (Awww) anyway I started reading it the other night - great book, full of cheeky sarcastic wit and if you've ever flown on that airline you'll nod your head in agreement, that's when you're not laughing out loud.
So as part of my 2009 campaign for a healthy body and healthy mind - which involves 'lights out' at midnight during the week (yep. boring), I'm heading off now to read another chapter before bedtime.
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