links for 2009-01-29
Photo Gallery – Google Maps Street View oddities – Free BizTech images | smh.com.au Hilarious
Monthly Archive: January 2009
100 novels everyone should read
Found this on the Daily Telegraph web site: I’ll edit it later to put in the one’s I’ve read. This should become a FaceBook game! 100 novels everyone should read 100 The Lord of...
links for 2009-01-23
Catch 22: Detailed Character Analysis (tags: English HSCExtension literature HSC) NovelGuide: Catch 22: Character Profiles (tags: English HSCExtension literature postmodernism) Internet Resources: Joseph Heller & Catch-22 (tags: HSCExtension HSC English) Casebook: Jack the Ripper...
London, Tonbridge and home
Saturday was our last day in London, before we headed down to Tonbridge to spend some time with Jan. It became the great day of overdoing things, as we has left the V&A and...
Les Miserablés and London life
Strictly, this should be two separate entries: one for the show on Thursday night (15 Jan) and one for Friday’s walks; but they all seem to me part of one large portrait of London....
London: a formal evaluation by the Bounds Rating Agency
This is the first entry for two days: I didn’t tell the story of the trip from Avignon, but the new TVGs are something that you have to experience for yourself. Seeing a whole...
Avignon: the last laugh
This was a funny day and unfortunately Paula’s email was the perfect summary. As I claim some contributory rights, I am going to quote it here as soon as we get back – I...
Le Palais du Papes and other ecclesiastical monuments
Monday 12 January brought with it a reminder that we are only a week from departing home – ah, the joys of Heathrow and the torture tube! It was time to get our roller...
Avignon – no pont, no pontif!
I’ve reached the stage of the trip where I’m hanging out for a beer and English TV. This must mean that it’s time start thinking of England, even though we have travelled to the...
A pilgrimage to Cerdon
It’s Saturday night and we are both bushed, not because of the day — which was uplifting and hilarious at once — but because the last hour of our journey back to Lyon in...