Andrea, I meant to say in reply to your other post - your description of the Not-so-Terrible Twos sounds much more up my street, especially the more sleep part. Now where's the button I have to press for that option??

Myrtle,

It's the one marked 'Please God'

Andrea

This thread wouldn't be the same without a mention of the much loved Bovril.

JB

I've always thought that sounded like a girl whose parents couldn't decide between "Beryl" and "Avril".


Alex

Much-hated Borvril in my case

Emma

Never tried Bovril, but I used to have a cat called Avril. (And thus the threads of WW converge...see Pets in the Lounge.)

I remember doing a chicken bovril diet with a friend in my teens ... a chicken bovril drink instead of meals. Didn't last long obviously

Andrea

Never tried Bovril, but I used to have a cat called Avril

I can go 2 better: I've got a sister-in-law called Beryl, and the lady who comes to groom our dog is called Avril, and they know each other. Luckily for me, neither of them reads this site...


Alex

I think there are some books you'll never get on with but there are books that are waiting for you at a certain time in your life. Great Expectations was the one book I didn't finish on the day it was handed out at school - put me off Dickens for about 10 years. But I found Dickens & George Eliot were perfect when I was a volunteer in Thailand with no TV & in a strange culture - great for long tropical nights.
Some books hit you first time & then you read them years later & you wonder what all the fuss was about.
And some books are always special.
The vast majority of books I never want to read more than once - so they did their job (entertained me) but don't have that extra special something that brings me back to them again & again. (Some of mine are Villette, The Glass Palace - Amitrav Ghosh, a wonderful book about Hmong people in the US The Spirit Catches Me & I Fall Down - love the title too!)