So abseiling with an Italian hitch is better than with a grigri. (That’s an adjustable knot through your karabiner as opposed to a mechanical belaying device). Not sure why I like it better, since they both work the same with a self-locking ability if you fall, but the grigri freaks me out!. Also, I was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘books’
Ropes Assessments and Actual Abseiling.
Posted in Life in Cartoon Motion, tagged books, presents, wordnerdery, work on March 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Birthdays
Posted in Life in Cartoon Motion, Uncategorized, tagged birthday, books, Coraline, father's day, presents, Scepticism on September 3, 2009 | 8 Comments »
My family is annoying birthday-wise. They’re all clumped into two areas of the year and I’m not great at present ideas at the best of times. At the moment it’s sister’s-bday-dad’s-bday-father’s-day (all within 4 days). I went out yesterday and did a quick present-shop. My sister got Coraline (which is one of the best books [...]
DWTS and an awesome book.
Posted in Life in Cartoon Motion, tagged books, Brownies, DWTS on March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So it’s Dancing With the Stars time again. I don’t watch a lot of reality TV anymore. I used to love it all – Big Brother, Idol, etc but now DWTS is pretty much it. I don’t know why this is, since I just KNOW that it will start to piss me off at some [...]
Meme 2 & 3
Posted in Life in Cartoon Motion, Meme, tagged books, Meme, movies on February 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Both of these are stolen from Jenny (Two and Three). The first is about books: One book… you’re currently reading: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. that changed your life: Hmm. Changed my life. I guess any book that first turned me onto an author that I love. Or no, my Linguistics textbook from first year. [...]
After the Honeymoon (another Meme)
Posted in Meme, tagged books, Virginia Andrews on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever fallen out of love with a favorite author? Was the last book you read by the author so bad, you broke up with them and haven’t read their work since? Could they ever lure you back?I don’t think I’ve ever fallen out of love with an author per se, but one day [...]
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