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When I moved from Manchester to London 18 months ago I was asked to 'travel light' , so this involved taking about 40/50 carrier bags of books to the charity shops. They were very grateful
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It seems incredibly wrong to me to put books in the bin I know what you mean, Mary. I retrieved a Rough Guide to Miami and Florida Beach that I saw in the recycling box last week (one of the neighbours had presumably put it there). I doubt I'll ever make it to Miami but I didn't like the thought of it just being pulped. On the other hand, most books published are nearly worthless anyway, so I guess we should be less sentimental. |
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When I moved from Manchester to London 18 months ago I was asked to 'travel light' , so this involved taking about 40/50 carrier bags of books to the charity shops. They were very grateful
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A, could you tell me which charity shops were grateful? My local Oxfam will only take paperbacks, probably because of lack of space. It's quite a problem. What does one do with books bought on Ebay. not in very good condition, read once and that I know I won't read again? It seems incredibly wrong to me to put books in the bin, but I just don't have room for everything. In Sale, where I used to live there are several charity shops, they were all very happy to receive the books , some more than others. Always pleased was the heart charity shop, then PDSA, Sense, Barnados and Mind. I agree about Oxfam , I didn't take many to them as they didn't really seem all that thrilled. PDSA was always very grateful and as animals are my first love charity-wise I made many sojourns there! A  |
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« Reply #3753 on: 18:06:27, 03-08-2008 » |
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I gave up collecting books about 15 years ago, so my house doesn't have large numbers of books lying around getting dusty and never being looked at. The only books I really buy now are poetry books since I often refer to those. I have some works of fiction which are great favourites and which I wouldn't want to get rid of, but otherwise, most of the rest could go. Having said that, I've still got in the loft boxes of old books, some dating from when I was at school, which I really ought to get rid of, they're just junk.
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« Reply #3754 on: 18:11:20, 03-08-2008 » |
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I can never bear to part with books. Most are there unread from year to year but they've all been read before. There's always the chance I'll re-read them when I have the time. I like to re-read anyway. If I ever ended up housebound later in my old age, I'd just esconse myself in there with the books and have a field day.
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« Reply #3755 on: 18:50:37, 03-08-2008 » |
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MJ, how about this? One of the best children's books I know. It has the lot. Including furriness.  Hmm...thanks to you, martle, I have just spent the whole afternoon reading The Incredible Journey, which I eventually found in the 14th box I looked in! An awful lot of violence and carnage (I mean in the book not in my searching for it) as the poor starving animals have to kill to eat, and have to fight off other creatures. And I was  a few times! I think it would be all be too traumatic for the youngest children, some of whom have just turned 6, or those of a sensitive nature (Ami cried inconsolably listening to Peter and the Wolf last year). A little bird whispered Comet in Moominland in my ear so I must seek out a copy... |
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« Reply #3756 on: 19:31:54, 03-08-2008 » |
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I've just thought of one that might fit with the age group rather better than my previous attempts. Contains fur but no violence.  |
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« Reply #3757 on: 20:03:30, 03-08-2008 » |
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Hmm...thanks to you, martle, I have just spent the whole afternoon reading The Incredible Journey, which I eventually found in the 14th box I looked in! An awful lot of violence and carnage (I mean in the book not in my searching for it) as the poor starving animals have to kill to eat, and have to fight off other creatures. And I was a few times! I think it would be all be too traumatic for the youngest children, some of whom have just turned 6, or those of a sensitive nature (Ami cried inconsolably listening to Peter and the Wolf last year). I'm sure you're right, MJ. I'd forgotten the carnage! Great story, though, eh? |
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« Reply #3758 on: 20:12:21, 03-08-2008 » |
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I've been trying to think of a suitable Yr 2/3 text for you, MJ, but my brain's on 'standby' at the moment, I'm afraid! I wonder if there's a suitable traditional tale?
Are you linking it to the KS1 Geography unit on Barnaby Bear at all, where you could pick a suitable location to 'visit'?
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« Reply #3759 on: 01:02:02, 04-08-2008 » |
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Hello.
Why am I still awake and posting here?
I should be sleeping or at least reading.
As far as I can remember, Comet in Moominland doesn't have anything too scary in it (like the Groke or anything serious and Hattifattnerish) just the potential annihilation of all life on earth.
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I'm sure you have thought of these, MabelJane, but they came to me in the long watches of the night so I thought I would pass them on. Two sea journeys in small boats to distant islands, both contain furriness: Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are  Edward Lear: The Owl and the Pussycat  Ron and Tiller Girl |
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« Reply #3761 on: 08:25:23, 04-08-2008 » |
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Morning
I was woken by the binmen at 06:50, tried to doze for a bit and then got up for a cup of tea.
Don't really feel like food yet. My appetite seems to have gone strange lately.
Clearing opens for Scottish Universities today but fortunately I don't have to man a phone line until Friday, by which time I'm hoping that some sort of procedure will have evolved.
Today will probably be spent doing a bit of composition (solo french horn), a bit of piano practice at work, a bit of admin and meeting an old friend (from secondary school) for lunch.
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« Reply #3762 on: 09:30:15, 04-08-2008 » |
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Sounds like a nice day hh. I decided to sleep in the living room for a change, so I camped out on the floor with just my duvet and a couple of pillows, it felt like school holidays or something! I left the TV on so I was woken by the Big Brother highlights at something past 8, watched those till 9 then got up and had a banana.
I've got the booklet for a 3CD set of 19th-century organ voluntaries to edit later in the week but I've not received the essay yet, so I think I'll spend some of today just clearing bits of paper that have mounted up during the last few weeks' projects (and some much older than that). My room is gradually becoming a tidier place!
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #3763 on: 19:37:14, 04-08-2008 » |
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I have just looked at the stats and find in another 4 minutes I have beaten AndyD for most time on-line and find myself creeping up on Mary Chambers  Edit: Metaphorically not figuratively Mary. No need for that nervous smile! |
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« Reply #3764 on: 01:32:58, 05-08-2008 » |
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...I was woken by the Big Brother highlights at something past 8, watched those till 9 then got up and had a banana.
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