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Chick

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  1. Are there any more interested in the BBC R4 book club?
  2. Bellenden Belle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Twenty pounds a head? > Sounds very reasonable to me. What didn't you like > out of interest? > > Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Dearest one was if I remember ?29.00. Bill for > > four came to ?80.00. > > Food was ok but dont think I would go back. I > > wish them well though. Yes good value and good food. It just didn't grab me. I dont wish to put anyone off. I tried it and it's not my cup of tea, so go along and try for your self before the prices go up.
  3. Greetings and thanks to every one who came to our last meeting. The next book is A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore and the next meeting is on Wednesday 16th April not the 9th at the Clockhouse again, a brief description is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gate_at_the_Stairs Jessie I was still laughing the next day from your story. Sorry to be so brief but I am very busy. Jacinda I will email you the book for R4 and email every one details of World Book Night, there has been a necessary change of venue. PS from the BBC: Just to let you all know that the book we?ll be discussing with Lorrie Moore is Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Many thanks Dymphna
  4. Dearest one was if I remember ?29.00. Bill for four came to ?80.00. Food was ok but dont think I would go back. I wish them well though.
  5. Cheepest wine is ?18.00
  6. Just to say the meeting is tomorrow.
  7. Newbie9 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Th problem lays with the crystal palace tower. could you explain why you think this please?
  8. grace3 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Quite: customers can be very scruffy looking > nowdays and they expect working tradesmen to look > like a Jeeves character Good grief
  9. Greetings book clubbers, Just a reminder that we are meeting next Thursday in the Clockhouse at 8.00pm in the downstairs snug area. We have been accepted as book giver for World Book night again so we can discuss our options. Look forward to seeing you.
  10. Those of you who are interested in doing the Radio 4 book club recording at Broadcasting House I have the following dates: April 22, May 20 or May 27th. No details yet about books etc but hope to get more info soon. Can you please let me know if you are interested in coming as I have to submit names etc. Haggis & totties.
  11. Dear book clubbers, Thanks to every one who came for a very good meeting last night. The next book is the Rosie Project by Graham Simsion and the next meeting is on Thursday 13th March at the Clockhouse. Alaistair can you order four copies for Caroline, Sarah, Sara & Nicky. Many thanks
  12. Cazifer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi I meant to message before but am new to book > club so will pop along tonight. Assuming 8pm kick > off. Caroline Ok look forward to meeting you.
  13. Interesting show at radio 4, will be broadcast in May & I will let everyone know the date. See you all on the 5th then off to Canada to freeze.
  14. Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I phoned the same friend once and had a rather > strange conversation as she had called me at the > same time and our calls met in the middle, with > neither phone actually ringing. > > Not sure I see this stuff as necessarily > spiritual, though. Physicists can prove that > everything is composed of energy, that everything > that has lived has an energy field, and apparently > that time is non-linear outside our day-to-day > experience (don't ask me for references as I'm not > that bothered) so it seems reasonable that in some > circumstances some people might unwittingly tap > into this somehow. > > Science isn't always black and white: when you > hold hands with someone, you know which is your > hand and which is theirs, but at the simplest > molecular level you can't see where one person > stops and the other begins. I find that rather > beautiful. What utter rubbish.
  15. To those of coming to R4 tomorrow, looking forward to it immensely. And beers after. Meet at Broadcasting house in Portland Place, just north of Oxford Circus tube station, at 5.15pm.
  16. MagMag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Louisa - I hear you, loud clear...... > > I used to know someone who was regularly visited > by an old man, in the middle of the night; he > would sit by the edge of her bed for a while and > then disappear. What amazed me is that she was > never freaked out by this visitation. Sounds like she was dreaming.
  17. Greetings, Thanks to everyone who came to another good meeting last week. Our next book is Water Line by Ross Raison. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/waterline-by-ross-raisin-2302767.html Our next meeting is Wednesday 5th February in the Blake room upstairs at the Clockhouse. Look forward to seeing you. Chick
  18. Dear Sue, I posted again because some post were very eccentric. Being insulted by some one who thinks as you do is quite a compliment. Cheers. Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Chick Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > This whole thread is barking. > > xxxxxx > > Charming as always. > > Closed-minded as always. > > Prejudiced as always. > > :( > > ETA: Guess you had to have another dig as nobody > bothered to comment on your station "joke" on the > first page?
  19. This whole thread is barking. Where is WOOF when we need him?
  20. Those of you coming to R4 book club can I have some questions before or around the 10th January please? Thanks.
  21. It?s really simple; don?t enter the box if your exit is blocked, whether going straight or turning right or turnig left.
  22. Happy new year. Eight days to go, anyone reading?
  23. One stop beyond. East Ham.
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