Tas has been reading to MiniBoyGeek tonight. The photo is taken with her reading “Where’s My Cow” by Terry Pratchett. Like Sam Vimes, Tas is good at doing the noises!
Books
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Some more books: Book 23 – Julia Donaldson’s “Fox’s Socks“ Book 24 – Beth Pountney’s “Scatty Catty Where is Your Milk?” Book 25 – Mary Murphy’s “Slow Snail“ Book 26 – Kali Stileman’s “Peely Wally“ Book 27 – Jane Clarke’s “Dance Together Dinosaurs“ I have also started reading Ronald Holmes’ […]
Tas and I are listing to the Harry Potter Audiobooks at home, and I have had The Tales of Beedle the Bard at my parents for a while, and had not got round to reading it as of this. I am not counting Audiobooks in the 100 book challenge (I […]
Book 11 – Giles Andreae’s “Giraffes Can’t Dance“ Book 12 – Don Hale’s “Mallard: How the Blue Streak Broke the World Steam Speed Record” (book crossing ID 609-14374962) On 3rd July 1938 A4 LNER Pacific ‘Mallard’ achieved the world speed record for a steam locomotive of 126mph and in this […]
Carole Sampson’s First Mate Guides, are a set of books with details about things local to the canals, If you wanted to know how to contact a doctor, dentist, vet or chemist, or if you want to know where you can find a bank, post office, telephone or laundrette then […]
Tamarisk and I went boat hunting for a craft to call our own, this outing started with a virtual perambulation of the normal haunts, and then a trip to North Wales; while poking around Chirk Marina we came across a boat that looks like it will make us a lovely home. We found […]
Some of you may think I have some hippy tendancys; being that I live on a boat, and that I plan to be as off grid as I can, bma and I have over a number of years had a smiler talk; he is a fan of Greenpeace, the Green party, and CND […]
I read Delkaetre’s post on why she doesn’t have an ebook reader yet; I do have a Kindle, which I use in place of my book shelf most of the time. Her reasons for not liking an ebook reader include being able to Survive a fall onto a hard surface, (Readers are […]
I use 123-reg as my domain registrar, I found this DNS Management Guide on there site. Its not a very big book; but it gives a nice quick overview to DNS, and gives examples of how to use different records. A records, CNAME records, MX records, nameservers…… confused? What will this guide help […]
We Got Served’s “Using OS X Lion Server at Home: A Step by Step Guide” by Terry Walsh is a good introduction to OS X Lion Server, I read this one after reading Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office, Its more aimed at setting […]
Charles Edge’s “Using Mac OS X Lion Server: Managing Mac Services at Home and Office” (published by O’Reilly books) is a good introduction into the setting up and configuring of Mac OS X Lion Server, its aimed at small workgroup installs, such as Home, SOHO, or Schools. If you’re considering a […]
Peter Underwood’s (@Livingafloat) “Living Afloat” was a book that I picked up when it was free on Kindle; I follow Peter on Twitter where he is an active member of the #boatsthattweet group. The Kindle book seems to be unavailable; however you can still download the PDF files from Norbury […]
John Hannavy’s “Fox Talbot: An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, ‘Father of Modern Photography’, 1800 -1877[note Amazon]” Fox Talbot is universally recognised as the father of modern photography. His ‘calotype’ or ‘Talbotype’ process was the first working photographic process to use the now familiar format of negatives and positives. He […]
Roger Halse’s “The Somersetshire Coal Canal – A Second Pictorial Journey” “This new volume provides readers with an in depth look into the Somersetshire Coal Canal. The previous volume of old photographs of this delightful short canal, which branched off the Kennet & Avon Canal just south of Bath, brought […]
Chancie Walker’s “Her Master’s Slut” in my opinion is not very well written, and I shall not be buying or reading the two other books in the trilogy. although it was a nice short book. Eleanor believes herself to be frigid. Twenty-two, married, and still a virgin. She would do anything, go […]
Douglas Adams’ “Starship Titanic” was written by Terry Jones rather than Douglas Adams Starship Titanic was inspired by Douglas Adams — the creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — and forms the basis of a computer game which was launched in late 1997. At the centre of the galaxy, a […]
Mike Daniek’s “Do It Yourself 12 Volt Solar Power” is a good book about 12 Volt off the grid systems; Its the same style of book as Building a Low Impact Roundhouse however despite both books being quite Hippiesh the 12 volt book talks ‘seriously’ about “electrosmog’ and has a little bit too […]
The Canal Magazine’s Canal Boat (and inland waterways) Manual is similar to Living Aboard (Towpath Guides) however it has a lot more large colour photos; and is Add Supported; in some ways this is quite helpful as it allows you to quickly jump to suppliers for further information on the items covered on the page. […]
On the way to look at boats on Friday, Mum and I listened to two audio books in the car; Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo (Read by Imelda Staunton), and Walt Disney / Pixar’s Ratatouille, Both are easy to listen to while sat on the A34 / M40 / A43 driving at […]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (free Kindle edition) is available as a free Kindle book; I started reading it on my Mac, and iPhone; but with the purchase of my Kindle, I found reading to be easer; however I do have a slight complaint about the typos: […]
My new Kindle came today 🙂 Very small box; not much bigger than the Kindle, Amazon like minimalist packaging 🙂 It looks like they have been talking to Apple. The Kindle comes nicely wrapped in a box with the instructions in the lid; and the charging cable under the eBook reader in […]
Nick Corble and Allan Ford ‘s “Living Aboard (Towpath Guides)” is a guide I bought to read more about living on a boat all year round; One of the useful things it has is a chapter all about the costs associated with living on a narrow boat; it covers narrowboats, widebeam and barges, and houseboats. on […]
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Plain & Simple is a work book. One of the fun things I have been involved with is the long running Alfresco vrs Microsoft SharePoint Fiasco, Recently we have finally decided on using MicroSoft SharePoint Foundations rather than some of the commercial versions. This book is not […]
Madame B’s “Lust and Longing” was an interesting read, the back of the book has written the following: “Jenna leads a double life: by day she’s a government researcher; by night she’s one of the hottest dominatrixes on the london fetish sceane. When she starts working for Alexander Louth, a young, arrogant MP, her […]
Chris Hallbeck’s “Book of Biff” is a free Kindle book, I downloaded it to see what a Graphical book would look like on the Kindle app on the iPhone; Desktop App; and when I can use on a full blown Kindle. While the book is half “The Far Side” esc; […]
I am currently not doing that well on my 100+ Reading Challenge; I am currently up to book number 24, leaving me just under 5 months to read the remaining 76 books to get to the minimum 100. One of the things I am finding hard is the act of […]
Nick Billingham’s “Narrow Boats: Care and Maintenance” is another book, like the Inland Waterways Manual, that I borrowed from the library, it was an interesting book to read to see what the mechanical structure, and systems of narrowboats are, mostly it was an overview of some of the systems, but hopefully […]
Emrhys Barrell’s “Inland Waterways Manual: The Complete Guide to Boating on Rivers, Lakes and Canals” is an introduction, and a guide to getting started with boating on the UKs waterways; while it does not concentrate specifically on the subject of narrowboats, they are heavily represented in the book, with consideration on how Locks work, manoeuvring and handling; […]
Dan Vice’s “The Little Book of Goths” is an interesting satirical look at Goth Culture; however its amusingly accurate in some regards; Charlotte Hathaway wrote this book under the pseudonym Dan Vice “in case the hive has been stirred and angered by this light-hearted guide.” The book features well known […]
A while ago I read Lee Rouke’s “The Canal” as part of Task 16; yesterday Loupie and I went for a walk to look see if we could find where the bench in the book was; well this is my best guess: [photonav url=’http://skippy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/the_bench.jpg’ mode=’move’ popup=’none’ animate=’1′] It is here […]