stolen from boglin

[cybermule]

1. The Haunted House - Jan Pienkowski. It's just a wicked pop-up book, OK?
2. Danny, the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl. He lived in a carvan and defeated some posh people by liberating their pheasants. Story of 5 years of my life. [in my head *ahem*]
3. Milroy the Magician - Paul Theroux. This one is just deeply strange. It's about a little girl who goes to live with a health-freak magician in an airstream. And it's aimed at adults :) Paul Theroux also introduced me to the joy of travel writing, and spawned Louis Theroux :)
4. The Feynman Lectures. Hard maths made easy for chemists/physics properly explained.
5. The Lord of the Rings. Just because.
6. One of my OU course books last year, because that part of the course got me interested in both Old English and linguistics.
7. Circles of Stone - Aubrey Burl. Nice archaeology pics.
8. Fungus the Bogeyman - Raymond Briggs. This just had a profound influence on me - I am Fungus. I was going to say Eeyore, but I don't like the books at all.
9. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake. More dark fantasy.
10. Crime and Punishment. Just because I finally read it, understood it and liked it.


That was really hard - I might well change it in the morning.

Comments

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the links - I think I might get that pop-up book next time I raid Amazon. Is that stationery shop at the Westbury end of Whiteladies? Or the city end?

The tools are quite a mixture, but with a leaning towards good woodworking tools - a few planes, lots of boxsquares and measuring tools, sets of chisels and stuff. There's some crap in there, which unfortunately was what I dredged up today, but when I winkle the better stuff from my brother, I'll try photographing it. My dad was an enthusiastic collector/carpenter for a bit - I think he had some American planes and some Rabone stuff. Stacks of big clamps. But I can't pretend to know which bits were which, other than the basics :) Like I said, when I get it all together, I'll have a better idea of what the best of it is.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

The stationer's is on the left hand side as you go up Blackboy Hill, just as you reach the Downs. It's on the near corner of what I think is the last block. Good for hand-made paper, nice fountain pens, general art stuff, and cheap little "How to make" books for bright nieces and nephews.

Good shop - I hate going to Clifton (you can't park to drive, and I can't really buy paper if I'm cycling) but it's a regular visit if I do happen to be up there. Nice tex-mex takeaway just a bit further up too.

Best thing is a photo of the tools, or else a list of names cast into the ironwork _and_ the patent dates. Planes are pretty easy to date / value, just by their labelling. You'll have at least one Stanley Bailey No 4 in there (there's always one) which is so common as to not be worth much, but if you have something rare like a 164 it's worth more than my Alfa Romeo 164 is, and easier to recognise. You can never have too many clamps !