I’ve just read Mr Quiet by Roger Hargreaves. The plot goes as follows (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS.): Mr Quiet lives in Loudland, where everyone shouts and bangs and no-one can hear Mr Quiet’s whispers. The unhappy Mr Quiet is invited to…
Da The Vinci Code
I have actually started reading the Vinci Code by Dan Brown. To celebrate this and my recent visit to the Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh, I have set a new lies category. The book doesn’t seem so bad so far after…
The Royal Wedding
Scary Duck on the impending Royal Wedding: Breaking News: “Prince Charles’s wedding postponed until Saturday, Queen’s ‘washing my hair’ excuse in disarray.” I expect she’ll be attending Ian Paisley’s Papal Memorial Jumble Sale instead.
Huntingdon: a strange place
The other week we went to Huntingdon. Huntingdon reminds me of Bedford in being a place that could be so pleasant, even beautiful, but which isn’t. The central St Paul’s Square in Bedford, for example, could be amazing rather than…
How to make tea and how to buy tea
Sil rants about how to make a decent cup of tea, most of which I agree with. To complete the picture Scary Duck rants about how to get hold of a decent cup of tea outside the UK. Both of…
End of cataloging?
In response to an idea that surfaced on the mailing list Autocat suggesting the reduced need to maintain individual cataloguers with the rise of Google, Google Scholar, Open Worldcat etc., I posted the following: Which makes a lot of sense…
"Cleric defends Da Vinci Code book"
To add to the fun, the BBC reports that a Catholic bishop has suggested that Da Vinci code need not be banned after all, although “I don’t know if people are capable of distinguishing the elements of fiction from those…
NHS recruitment
Librarywebbie makes the interesting point that librarians have been left out of the recent NHS recruitment campaign on TV and wonders if CILIP should be doing anything about it. On a vaguely related note, CILIP have released a report (summary…
"Church fights Da Vinci Code novel"
The BBC reports that the Vatican is fighting back against the claims of Da N. Brown’s Da Vinci code. This is funny enough and needs no further comment. What struck me from the story is the fact that 10 books…
Another test
I scored 48/70 (69%) on the BBC’s Test the Nation big entertainment test. Although the faintly irritating Sooperman Cooperman thankfully didn’t come up with an EQ for the occasion, this was apparently ranked as Above Average. This is odd: anyone…