AN UNNUMBERED HOUR OF THE NIGHT. BBC World Service is blaring. I've got back into the habit of sleeping living diarrhoeaing with the radio on. Which is odd, as in previous weeks I've lived with blankness. No radio. No TV. (We're top priority, so I'm told, in the TV Licensing authority's "London CRACKDOWN". Our home shall be investigated. Ooo, matron!
What has filled the gap? Books. But I must advise against Agatha Christie's At Bertram's Hotel. The climax is so very implausible; so very, very un-true-to-life it's a wonder the slim volume did not go flying out my window once the last page was finally reached. Miss Marple doesn't even solve the crime ~ so where is the point in that. I haven't felt quite so cheated by a novel in a long time.
Swynable (the Chinese Mouse) is angrily sleeping. After spending most of the night in mousey birdcage prison. Irritatedly nibbling at the bars and trying to get out. I had thought he might like it more in there but aparently not.
Righto thten I'm off to Mother Hubbs's presently for luncheon. And my time on this computer is up. Gotta run!
PS I am supposed to be writing my memoirs. Has anyone got any advice for me?
PPS The ceiling is leaking rain all over my bed. Lovely.
I just popped in on my sunday morning walk through blogville and read about your hamster. Must be very cute, we had a guinea pig once. The only problem with hamsters is that they sleep during the day and are top fit at night !
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your lunch.
ReplyDeletethanks alot for adding a link in your blog; I'll come back to read more of your blogs.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to the silence as I so miss R4 here. Can get it on the net but it's not the same as having it as the background to your life. Enjoying reading about your hamster - I think he's got himslef a good billet with you, Gleds1 Hope you enjoyed lunch. Auguri
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ReplyDeleteFinally getting around to visiting. I`ve figured out a system for my slow connection. Download blog, go away and do something else, then come back and voila, all downloaded.
Hope you had a nice lunch at your Mother Hubbards. I guess my methadone is the patch at the moment. Day 6 with no ciggies. I liked smoking. It`s even better when you haven`t smoked for awhile. But never mind.
Love Miss Marple. Saw Agatha Christie's At Bertram's Hotel on tv once. The stage setting arrangements of rooms and scenery was actually better than the show. Reading is the best when there`s nothing to do. Or even when there is.
Glad you have a pet. Pets are good company.
tea
xo
For some reason I think you would like The Shadow of the Wind. It's a very good book about books and love and mystery.
ReplyDeleteHi Gleds
ReplyDeleteI love reading and go spare if I haven't got an unread book around somewhere.
Ceiling leak over your bed...that Dr Evilstein landlord of yours needs a good kick in the bum.
Enjoy your lunch with Mother Hubbard.
DARN that rain. SHIT.
ReplyDeleteRain rain go away, sun sun come today
also an old poem-nurcery rhyme i've used to sing & say. haha :D
& never thought Agatha Cristie would be bad. Damn. & i just wanted to buy a book of hers. But i guess i will anyway. What can I do? I luv reading. It's good for ur soul.
TC!
AAK! Gled, you realize that my friend's blog is posted up there.. this girl that knows me.. if she ever clicks on your blog and then finds me she might get really really upset. Also.. I remember asking you about this before but never got a response.. how do you order your blogs? And why are people who never comment on your page "ahead" of me on the list? Like she is in one two lists ahead of me or something like that? How the hell does your blog thing work?? I dont understand the logic that's all. And I hope she doesnt come here or she might find my blog. If she ever read here she would read the comments and find me. That's what makes it dangerous. (Post-It-Comix.) I am trying to keep my journal as anonymous as possible.. except for about TWO people that i feel comfortable with, nobody knows about this.
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she has known me for 11 years. We are best friends. Still, I want my blog to be private.
ReplyDeleteGattina: normal ones yes. All the dwarf ones (Siberian Winter Whites/Campbells and Chinese) don't have such a strongly nocturnal sleep pattern at all. They sleep more like a cat. Which is supposedly "nocturnal" but actually sleeps on and off all day and all night ...
ReplyDeleteAkelamalu: I did, thank you!
Anitya: you're welcome
Welshcakes: can't you get Radio 4 on some kind of satellite radio? I remember hearing an announcement about BBC World Service (OK, not the same thing but ...) saying if you're in Europe listening to this on the Hotbird satellite you need to retune channels ... maybe try that..?? I don't know anything about satellite radio though ...
T&Ms: no smoking..! I sympathize. Nicotine patches are a good equivalent to methadone. Because even though you're not in the most horrible withdrawal you still feel an acheingly forlorn lack of your drug of choice
ReplyDeleteLiz: Shadow of the Wind? I've no idea who that is by. Never heard of it either. I will have to GOOGLE it!!
PiB: Yeah. They have come and fixed that "leak"... only from the inside if my suspicions are right. Really they gotta put someone out there on that roof and have a look at the dreadful slates. BC the ones we can see out of the hallway window, literally you can lift them up with your fingers if you lean out. Also some have cracking great holes in them. If my roof looks anything like that section of roof I am not at all surprised it leaks!!
Edyta: I will find a good Agatha and tell you about it. They Came To Baghdad sounds good ...
ReplyDeleteIvy:
what do you mean "ahead of you on the list..??" do you mean my links list? they are generally ordered alphabetically or reverse-alphabetically. One I think is just ordered as I happened to enter each link ... Don't get upset about being in "Best Blogs II"::-~-that is the one I always used to use for the people I talked to the most. Only thing is it's now update hence best blogs vi etc ...
What do you mean you want your blog to be private if you are publishing it in your own name with your photos! Only thing you can do is what I've done ie NOT printing your photos up, NOT using your real name and NOT telling people who know you in the real world what your url is except for very distinct exceptions ...
hi there gledwood!! Happy blogging!!!
ReplyDeleteGLEDS!
ReplyDeleteI SWEAR, we DO have psychic powers!
i wanted to buy THIS AGATHA CRISTIE BOOK.
"They Came To Baghdad!" <-- this VERY ONE. OMG. Grusome.
your mousey sounds so adorable! I wish we could see pictures.
ReplyDeleteagatha christy is awesome!
We wake up to the BBC every morning; the clock radio is set to it. The gf hates it because the news is typically depressing.
ReplyDeleteNaomi: good. but you still haven't told me the difference between rap and hiphop!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteEvil: How do you get BBC? From a satellite radio "thang"?...
After all the visits you've had re you room; how come they notice a mess but don't get the roof seen too!!!
ReplyDeleteI've had my share with leaks and now suffer from anxiety whenever I hear "dripping". Seriously, I had HUNDREDS of gallons of water pour through my place (inside the walls). Then the main water main burst and flooded the rest of the place. And the upstairs shower "ran" all the time and I had to turn on a fan to "drown" out the noise. Now it's a toilet that won't stop running.
ReplyDeleteLife can be so rough at times, can't it?
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