harvest home, the story of the great floods of 1947
not much else to do in norfolk
harvest home, the story of the great floods of 1947
not much else to do in norfolk
pies
In Search of Robert Millar, halfway through, takes me back to when I used to believe cycling, a great read so far, saw Millar at a Kelloggs city centre in Manchester 1986, brilliant, bought a set of Modolo Equipe brakes & a Cinelli 1A black stem from Harry Halls the same day, happy days :thumbup:
Robert Millars "assistant" used to send faxes from my dad's factory. True story.
Reading Nansen by Roland Huntford and thoroughly enjoying it.
pies
Just started The Running Man by Gilbert Tuhabonye. I think it's going to be an excellent read.
Just finished reading Adventures in mind by Heather Dawe.
It's an easy and unpretentious read, I found it thoroughly enjoyable.
Do what you like, like what you do
Just finished Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving .... now picked up A History of loneliness by John Boyne. Both about redemption in some way. Languishing with a cold has some benefits !
it's been on my "To Read" list for ages, but inspired by last night's "Secret Life Of Books" I have started reading the Mabinogion
(you can download it free off gutenberg.org)
Scramble the rock face through the glare of morning sun — to run
Runner, by Lizzy Hawker.
What's not to like?
Except that I can't stop reading it and I'm supposed to be doing the Hoovering.
Highly recommended.
"Get yourself together, Jones" - Ray Davies
Does language determine concepts/culture, or is it the other way around? Is language itself genetic, or are we just "clever"? Is there a universal grammar? Would a visitor from Mars think we all spoke the same language, just in different dialects?
I got into this looking at a Future Learn course on English teaching/speaking. Lots of new ideas and concepts - as usual we do not know what we do not know.
Have a look at "Don't sleep there are snakes" by a linguist/anthropologist who stayed with a tribe in the Amazon to try to learn their language so he could translate the bible into that language - a much better read than it sounds - and it is not at all religious - quite the opposite in fact. How the tribe lives and how this is reflected in their language is absolutely fascinating. It changed my ideas about "Western Culture".
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