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Yeah, I am having a bit of a non-posty incommunicado spell. It's a combination of badly needing complete solitude in between two extremely social weekends, and having bought weed which always makes me go into lurkmode anyway.
Just got back from seeing the physiotherapist at Bournemouth Hospital about the elbow. She says there isn't a great lot they can really do, but keep wearing the brace and being careful with how I use it, and if it's not improved in another month talk to my GP about a steroid injection.
That's not what inspired me to post an entry, though. The hospital has one of those little charity shops in it - a real, unimproved by advertising types, old-fashioned charity shop, which means that unlike shiny new modern charity shops which look just like commercial shops and only sell immaculate paperbacks off the recent bestseller/Booker Prize list for a fiver, this one had a rack of musty-smelling dog-eared books my age or older for 20p a time. I was literally crowing with pleasure at some of my finds:
Winston Graham: Demelza, Jeremy Poldark and Warleggan. Yay Poldark!
Lynne Reid Banks: The Dark Quartet. LRB does the Brontes! Everything else I bought today is something I've previously owned copies of, but not this - I've never even heard of this. Wow.
Lewis Carroll: The Annotated Alice. Everyone should have a copy of Alice, and I hadn't for some time. Not sure how helpful/annoying the annotations might be.
Peter O'Donnell: Modesty Blaise. One of my girlhood heroines. I used to have them all, and have you any idea how hard to find they are these days?
Mary Webb: Precious BaneIn Space. I like it.
Peter Dickinson: Heartsease. I really want the rest of these. Oh, for a proper charity shop.
Ruby Ferguson: Jill Enjoys Her Ponies. Stop sniggering at the back there! I said STOP it!
Anyway, I am very pleased and I am probably spending the rest of today slightly stoned and reading. Yayy!
Just got back from seeing the physiotherapist at Bournemouth Hospital about the elbow. She says there isn't a great lot they can really do, but keep wearing the brace and being careful with how I use it, and if it's not improved in another month talk to my GP about a steroid injection.
That's not what inspired me to post an entry, though. The hospital has one of those little charity shops in it - a real, unimproved by advertising types, old-fashioned charity shop, which means that unlike shiny new modern charity shops which look just like commercial shops and only sell immaculate paperbacks off the recent bestseller/Booker Prize list for a fiver, this one had a rack of musty-smelling dog-eared books my age or older for 20p a time. I was literally crowing with pleasure at some of my finds:
Winston Graham: Demelza, Jeremy Poldark and Warleggan. Yay Poldark!
Lynne Reid Banks: The Dark Quartet. LRB does the Brontes! Everything else I bought today is something I've previously owned copies of, but not this - I've never even heard of this. Wow.
Lewis Carroll: The Annotated Alice. Everyone should have a copy of Alice, and I hadn't for some time. Not sure how helpful/annoying the annotations might be.
Peter O'Donnell: Modesty Blaise. One of my girlhood heroines. I used to have them all, and have you any idea how hard to find they are these days?
Mary Webb: Precious Bane
Peter Dickinson: Heartsease. I really want the rest of these. Oh, for a proper charity shop.
Ruby Ferguson: Jill Enjoys Her Ponies. Stop sniggering at the back there! I said STOP it!
Anyway, I am very pleased and I am probably spending the rest of today slightly stoned and reading. Yayy!
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Enjoy your reading.
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*snerk*
I don't care! I LOVE girly ponybooks!
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BTW: The hedgehog icon cracks me up every time.
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I've been meaning to go on a rant about charity shops in my own journal for a while. A Barnardos shop just opened in our shopping centre and my god, the prices - they had jackets in there for sixty quid! Handbags for twenty quid! And they don't even HAVE books, but if they did, I'm sure they'd only be first-edition hardbacks and be priced accordingly. Plus they had a snippy-looking corporate type person in a suit instead of little old ladies at the desk. Madness! Even our Age Concern has started pricing their clothes and books ridiculously high recently. Oxfam is the last bastion of cheap and cheerful charity shop merch around these parts.
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It's happening round here too, and it sucks big sweaty donkey balls. Thankfully we still have a few properly manky charity shops around here but they're disappearing fast. The books I bought today I once could have found in any one of a dozen places, but today it was like striking oil. Madness, indeed.
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I have to ask you now - did you read the 'Jinny at Finmory' series as a kid too? They were my favourite pony books by far.
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they were great books though, excellently written. I was just thinking of them yesterday, in fact - I was wondering how to go about seeing if I could find out who bred my Squish dog who was almost certainly stolen as a very small puppy, and it led my brain inexorably to that Talisker lady and Jinny's horse...
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Ah, yes, Ken the sanctimonious hippy vegan with his hand-knitted jumpers! I remember him well. I was always a big fan of Mr. McKenzie the sour-faced but ultimately good-hearted Scottish farmer, myself.
Of course those books made me wish I could have a Arab horse and ride wild over the moors too. I particularly loved all the mysticism at the time with the Epona statue and the primitive painting on the red horse in her bedroom.
Pat Leitch wrote a one-off book called Dream of Fair Horses (yay for duff pony book titles!) that pre-dated the Jinny series that had a lot of the same elements, except better in many ways. The characteriztion in that one was really excellent and lacked the element of sterotyping that sometimes crept into the Jinny books.
I'm thinking of all the pony book authors I used to read now. Remember the endless Pullein-Thompson sisters' books? And Monica Dickens - Follyfoot! I had 'em all ...
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The mysticism was, I thought, exceptionally well done. Oh, and remember the one with the ospreys? Damn, I got to find these books again!
Never did get hold of Dream Of Fair Horses. I collected them by wandering into W.H. Smiths on pocket money day and there was never a copy on the shelf - and I'm too much of an instant-gratification junkie to order books very often even now. And I was far worse at that age...
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It's all rather stupid as it's four doors down from a huge old fashioned charity shop for our local hospice, where even decent hardbacks are only a quid, and most paperbacks 60p.
So guess which one the tumbleweed blows through, and guess which one there's always a queue for the till?
The St Luke's shops in town are the reason I have a backlog of over 700 books to read, never mind the "permanent collection" plus the ones I have for sale...
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Ruby Ferguson: Jill Enjoys Her Ponies.
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As long as I'm careful not to say that I've read the series...
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I also read the Poldark novels around the same time :D I got put off when I saw the snippets from the tv show though. They could have at least cast an attractive Demelza... Grrr
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Ah.....I love my kinky, poly-bi friends!!!!!!
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Liz too
no need to rub it in the faces of poor folk like me who're doomed to celibacy
:-p
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When we were in antigua we visited a bookstore and it was chock full of enid blyton (can't get her here) and I was totally transported back to childhood.
Cheap books are major LOVE.
p.s. You really need to watch the videos I posted of Charlie.
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yes, I haven't watched the videos yet. Doing that now!
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I love my Charlie. :)
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I should buy you a Catherine the Great bio??
And we have some GOOD used book shops round here with OLD books for under a dollar a piece and large inventories :-)
Not as many as there USED to be
But some
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I'd kill for a decent, cheap, charity shop or second hand bookshop in walking distance. *sulk*
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And come to visit, I'll take you 'round to all the shops. Tho I don't know that I'd plan to leave you in shape to do much walking...
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Heartsease is a lovely book too. I keep looking out for it, but to no available. Peter Dickinson books are thin on the ground, although I have two or three. I really liked "The Green Gene" too.
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xxx