Meh.

[denny]

This week seems a little up and down... my date for tonight changed her mind, but I'm seeing her tomorrow instead. I can't entirely blame her for not wanting to go to Swindon just to watch my hooligan friends explode things. It would have been a lot more convenient if we still had our fireworks meet-ups in south London, but typically it's moved to someone else's place this year, now that I live in south London myself.

My car failed its MoT on Wednesday - on emissions, which isn't unusual for a rotary engined car. I'm getting it serviced this coming Thursday anyway, and then I've booked it in with an MoT tester who owns an RX himself and knows how to treat them properly before/during running the test, so hopefully all will be well.

I just finished reading the His Dark Materials trilogy, which is very good. It has a bit of a sad ending and I'm feeling a bit susceptible to that kind of thing at the moment, so I'm moping a bit now. I'm going to try to counteract that by getting dressed and going out to find somewhere that will sell me a fried breakfast.

Comments

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

HDM rocked slightly more than it disturbed me, which on balance is a good thing. The standard of writing for young adults seems to be increasing, so I suppose we only need to get the buggers to read the books.
If you're looking for another good trilogy, you could do worse than either Garth Nix ("Sabriel", "Lirael", "Abhorsen") or Trudi Canavan (The Dark Magician trilogy, "The Magician's Guild", "The Novice", "The High Lord").

fried breakfast..'tsk tsk* ..unhealthy..

[missyasmina.livejournal.com]

*tip-toes in with home-made, healthy breakfast for him*

[woodall.livejournal.com]

"I can't entirely blame her for not wanting to go to Swindon just to watch my hooligan friends explode things.

Probably the best reason I can think of to ever go to Swindon :)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

:)

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

His Dark Materials: I'm so glad I read that *before* my ex left me. Yes I found the ending sad too - I also cried as a kid when reading how Marvin died in "Life, the Universe and Everything"...

[dryad-wombat.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading the His Dark Materials trilogy, which is very good. It has a bit of a sad ending

It's heartbreaking, isn't it. I couldn't get it out of my head for days.

I hope your fried breakfast helped!

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

It did indeed :) Fried egg sandwiches and chip butties may not make everything right, but they go a long way in that direction :)

[ravenselene.livejournal.com]

Hello You,

How are you?

Just trying to have a little catch up-almost an impossible job after three months of utter hermitism-more your view on the world than mine ;)

I loved these books... They had a very strange effect on me. I had to rush out and buy the next copy the day I finished each book and I was utterly miserable when I finished the last one. I was addicted.

I finished reading them a few years ago now but I looked at Lyra's Oxford (the last little book, more of a map and info book to complimemt the story) the other day and all the old feelings came back so strongly I couldn't even bring myself to pick it up in case it led to addicts loss depression again =/

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I'm okay... life seems rather busy, maybe I got your unused social life? ;)

[ravenselene.livejournal.com]

ha... maybe, I havent had any social life for thre months at all... Kind of getting used to it now-prob not that bad a thing considering what my life will entail in the next year!

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

The next year? Just the one? *laughs*

It's a life sentence y'know... you'll still be getting phone calls that start 'Muuu-uuu-uuum' when you're 60-odd :-P