Blissed out

I spent a glorious hour tonight cuddling Chris and Vicky's five day old little girl, Skye. Am officially now Auntie Ang and exceedingly happy about it. No tears were shed, but I think everyone had a suspicious sheen to their eyes. She's a complete and utter darling!

Am very happy and for some unknown reason, writing a la Bridget Jones. How very odd.

In other good news, we are now the proud parents to a lawnmower. No longer do we need avoid catching the neighbours eyes. On Saturday the lawn will be mown and respectable. Our neighbourhood is somewhat obsessed with neatly manicured lawns....

The extremely long and neverending book meme.

I randomly stumbled across this meme.  It's a little on the elderly side, but I can't resist a nice long list of books!

Bold what you've read.
Italicize what you've started and not finished.
Add three books not on the list to the end.


1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

( The next 425+ are under the cut )

Book meme #2

And another one!  From rockfic this time :)  Much less books in bold this time round....

( Nice long list of books behind the cut! )