Waiting list

Popped in to Crawley library yesterday to ask them about how I can get on the waiting list for books that they haven't got yet / haven't been published yet, and it turns out to be pretty straightforward - just look on the catalogue and if they have confirmed it as coming in the future, it can be reserved like any other.

So, I have reserved the new Ian McEwan (The Children Act) from Crawley, and despite the pricier Sussex reservation cost, I think this is one area in which Kent trumps Sussex, as I don't think I can actually see where I am in the queue on the Sussex website, which is a bit of a shame.

Having learned how to do it, and given that we are approaching the time of year when lots of interesting books get published, I have reserved three books from the Kent library system, and here I can track my place in the queue, which is as follows at the moment (none of the following books have been published yet):

- David Nicholls - Us - 153 out of 158
- John Grisham - Gray Mountain - 72 out of 74
- Danny Baker - Going off Alarming - 26 out of 26.

HUB5

Home Hub 5 has arrived and been plugged in.

No better than Hub 3.

So much for 2-3 times the range.

Ho hum!

More hoops

Success - basketball hoop constructed. It's huge, but very good. We've all scored a few baskets - some more than others.


Otherwise, a Sunday of lawn-mowing, roast beef-eating, and other weekend stuff!

Hoop

Building basketball hoop turns out to be a 2 day job.

To be resumed tomorrow.

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Week - end

And so we get to the end of the first week of term. Jake and I have been to KFC for tea, Nanny and Granddad have spent their first few couple of nights in their new home, and Nicky is putting the world to rights with a couple of old friends with a few glasses of wine and a chinese takeaway.

All good!

Rivers

A couple of days without blogging, so will be needing to sneak in a couple of bonus blogs somewhere along the way during the rest of this month to keep things moving along. Tuesday's excuse was a late night of Ikea furniture building (not that I did very much compared to others) and yesterday's was an even later night spent at a work wine tasting evening in London. Thankfully I managed to do a reasonable job of sipping my way through the eight different wines that we were tasting during the course of the evening (unlike some) and therefore managed to stay reasonably with it, although today has also seemed like a fairly long day!

Sad news about Joan Rivers today, and whilst this is most definitely not a blog to make a point of commenting on the passing of every celebrity (I seem to have a brother in law who takes a morbid delight in doing that on an annual basis), even if I did rather go on about Robin Williams a few weeks ago, I saw something on twitter from 'Letters of Note' written by Joan Rivers, and as the introduction said, clearly she was hoping for a more interesting death:

When my time comes, I'm going to go out in high style. I have no intention of being sick or lingering on or dragging on and on and boring everyone I know. I have no intention of coughing and wheezing for months on end. One morning you'll wake up and read a headline: Joan Rivers found dead ... on George Clooney's face. Clooney was so bereft, all he could say was, "Xjfhfyrnem."

Shame she didn't quite get her wish!

Registration

September is upon us, and I haven't spotted a '64' just yet.

To make sure that I see one sooner or later, I've ordered a new car today!