theo, just to let you know, my copy of "The Glint of Silver" will be with me on or before 09/05/13. I'm really looking forward to it, I told the girl in Waterstones that I know the author, she was suitably impressed!
Hi Dave - I'm sure you will enjoy it. I am the first comment on Amazon (feel guilt now for only putting 4****) and read it on my Kindle as it wasn't out in paperback then. However I am now lucky enough to own a printed copy personally signed by the author. Hope you had a good visit to your sisters. Theo - do you know who 'timinho' the third reviewer is? Weather is still lovely, leaving for home soon and a potter round the garden. Doesn't it seem like a long week waiting for Saturday.
Name dropper! I had a paper published whilst at University - an essay on the subject of Assessment in Schools. If you like, I'll see if Amazon are willing to sell a few copies - will even autograph one for you.
Dave, I hope you enjoy it and I'm very impressed you bought it via Waterstones...I wish I knew how to get them to stock it nationally!
Afternoon, Charlie...been doing some garden pottering myself - mainly putting up sticks and planting sweet peas. Actually Mrs H planted them while I chatted to the next door neighbour...fair division of labour and all that. I don't know who timinho is...Tim in Horsham? Portuguese Tim?...but I'm grateful for the review anyway.
Horses, goldfish and no intelligence all wrapped up in one WO article. http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/ne...ord_in_preparation_for_football_match/?ref=mr
Much as I've enjoyed this season's success and will be rooting for the team on Saturday, I can identify with a lot of this. Once the euphoria of promotion, if it comes, has worn off there will be some reservations about joining the setup that is the PL and everything it stands for.
I must admit I can't conjure up an image of you jumping in the pond, Theo - more one of sedately stepping into it.
The nearest I'll get to the pond is a paddle in the sea, and I'm reluctant to do that in mid-July, never mind early May.
I have never had any paper published - but was mentioned in a book on changes at Hilton by Price Watewrhouse. However my brother had a book published which is easy bedtime reading called "An Early History of Recursive Functions and Computability from Gödel to Turing" If anyone wnats a signed edition ........
Sounds a good read to me, BB, but then I did write a lot of exam papers for GCSE boards. I once made the mistake of giving my MSc thesis to my nephew to read because he was a cricket nut. It was titled 'Cricket; a study in fair play' but I think he found the sociological analysis of colonial relationships rather hard to get into at the age of 14.
