OT Childhood books you still own and read.

Dr Seuss was a bit hit and miss here. One of the grandmas got them a
boxed set one year but I think they were too old for it by the time it
arrived. I'll have a look and see if we kept it if you want, then you
can read it with your lad.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten those. I was very disappointed as an adult to
find out that the McWhirters were um, not of a political persausion
I'd share shall we say.

Have I mentioned Readers Digest yet? There was one (which I rescued
from home, very battered) Strange Stories, amazing facts - bizarre,
incredible but true.

Oh yes. I didn't read it until I was an adult but it is wonderful.
last read September of last year waiting at a train station.

Oscar Wilde stories as well, The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and
so on.

 

Philip Powell wrote:

Somewhere near Stanhope?

 

Lady Nina wrote:

Is nobody going to mention "Asterix", or do I have to do it myself?

 

Terrible, that. Galling, you might say.

 

He can probably get a fix for it.

 

Actually, better than many (most) monoplanes in that they were *slow*.
Swordfish landed at about 45 knots or something ludicrous.

Of course, this attraibute became a disadvantage when they accounted any
opposition more deadly than a peashooter.

 

*Exactly* what they were called in my prep school.

<AOL>

In fact, most of my German was learned from them. I still can't ask how
the weather is, but I can "Gott in Himmel!" with the best of them.

 

Just ordered from Play bargain at 5.99

 

Underrated film, Silent Running. I googled the other day for Joan Baez's
theme song, and discovered that someone's put all of SR on YouTube. The
theme song is at the end of Part Nine, if you're interested.

 

Have you read the *excellent * spoof, Now We Are Sixty?

"They're changing sex at Buckingham Palace",
Murgatroyd mutters with undisguised malice.
Roger is marrying one of the Guard,
Bugger whose bearskin reeks of pomade,
Called Alice.

 

Good call, good call.

I have virtually every single one and, though it pains me to sounds so
pretentious, all in the original French.

I will admit that some of the English names are brilliant puns, though.
Dogmatix is a good example. And the two Roman centurions,
Sendervictorius and Appianglorius: that's brilliant.

 

Wonder if it's on YouTube?

 

Jennings was set and written in the 1950s, but otherwise, yes.

 

Umm...Camel?

 

Wow! Two people in the world with the same name! How cool is that?!

 

AOL.

Has anyone mentioned Arthur Ransom yet?

 

if he can jump the queue past the geriatrics.

 

I didn't even know he'd been kidnapped.

 

Obviously he made an impression on you, because I couldn't remember his
name when reviewing some video the other week and came across that trip.

 

In communiqué <[email protected]>,

Read all his, but never kept any. He also wrote some excellent stuff on
fishing "Rod and Line".

Malcolm Saville also featured strongly in my childhood reading list.
The Lone Pine Club series.
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