Category Archives: Books

Page 301/365 : Meeting Robin Hobb

Posted on October 28, 2013 by

Headed over to Manchester this evening to meet Robin Hobb, the author of undoubtably my favourite series of books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Everything began a couple of years ago when my friend Yvonne told me … Continue reading →

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Page 241/365 : Two Bookmarks

Posted on August 30, 2013 by

Wow. For the first time ever, I have to use two bookmarks in a book. House Of Leaves is mental. I had to jump back to the Appendix but the section of the appendix was about 60 pages long! I … Continue reading →

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Page 239/365 : House Of Leaves

Posted on August 28, 2013 by

I have started to read this : It’s a strange and scary book all related to an odd film and an old man’s studies of it before meeting his demise. I have never read any horror…and this is playing with … Continue reading →

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Page 198/365 : Shocks & Sugar

Posted on July 17, 2013 by

******Contains spoilers for The Apprentice********* Had a right shock reading Robin Hobb’s Dragon Haven this lunchtime. Just got to the end of chapter 19 with a HUGE moment developing. The Apprentice final was on tonight and Lord Shuggs shunned the … Continue reading →

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Page 191/365 : Leeds United are throwing cash away…!

Posted on July 10, 2013 by

Another cracking win last night for the Dodgers, 6-1 against division topping Diamondbacks! Leeds United played their first proper friendly today against a Slovenian select XI. They won comfortably 3-1 but the main talking point was the way in which … Continue reading →

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Page 188/365 : Minions, Magic & Murray

Posted on July 7, 2013 by

Elle was working at Flamingo Land today on her Sports & Social thing so I went across to the Cineworld in Wakefield. On the way I nipped into McDonalds on the road into Wakey. I didn’t want any food…I just … Continue reading →

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Page 157/365 : One Down, One to go…

Posted on June 6, 2013 by

Well this morning on the Breakfast Show on Real Radio, the person who made it through only scored 7, so that’s one down and one to go. If the caller tomorrow doesn’t beat 11, then I win £500 and will … Continue reading →

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Page 145/365 : Glorious

Posted on May 25, 2013 by

Was a bit cold during the night. Elle suffered with it a bit but I never get as cold as her so only had two layers on and not five! Got up this morning at 4:15am to the sound of … Continue reading →

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Page 144/365 : Carry On Camping

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

Work passed by today. There was only 4 of us is the contracts department all day. After work, picked Elle up and we were off to Champs Field. It’s out first camping trip. We had a new tent, new stove, … Continue reading →

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Page 103/365 : One Week

Posted on April 13, 2013 by

Up nice and early this morning. Had a trip over to Batley to Elle’s hairdresser’s to get my hair sorted out after the general impression was that the Mister Gee’s cut just didn’t…well…cut it. The hairdresser was actually outraged by … Continue reading →

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