Internet highlights – f/c 24th March 2024
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April Fools 2024
1 04 2024I was a bit concerned how much there’d be this year as it’s a bank holiday, but I’ve not been disappointed!
As per usual, I’ve put captions below the posts in case the posted get deleted later!
Let me know if you find any good ones I’ve missed and I’ll tack them on the bottom later.
Enjoy!
For some reason the McDonalds Lefty nuggets won’t embed, but you can get it at the link
Dominos Frozen Pizzas
Pink Stuff launch Brown stuff, to stop dirt standing out
Pizza Hut egg pizza
Aldi Love Aisleand
Added later:
Egg United loan Alex Horne to Chesham United
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Internet highlights – w/c 17th March 2024
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The Other Boleyn Girl – by Philippa Gregory
22 03 2024The next in my go through Philippa Gregory’s Tudor novels, easily the most famous, the only one I’m aware of that’s been made into a film, and characters that feel a little more familiar than in the last couple of books I’d read, which I guess made it a little easier to read.
That said, it’s still over 500 pages, and small font, so it took me about 6 weeks to read – not good for my Goodreads targets at all!
We all know Anne Boleyn as the second wife of Henry VIII, but this is the story of the affair her sister Mary had with him first, followed by the story we know better, but with other strings to its bow too.
Some people are critical of the historical accuracy of Gregory’s Tudor fiction, and yes, the conversations and how things happened are clearly imagined. However, some things that happened in this book were truly shocking and so as soon as I finished I opened up our friend Wikipedia, and found that the basic facts were indeed true.
The further I got through the book, the more hooked I became. And now I write this with the film on in the background, which has a ridiculous number of famous people in it, let’s see how it goes….
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Internet highlights – w/c 10th March 2024
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Internet highlights – f/c 25th February 2024
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Internet highlights – w/c 18th February 2024
24 02 2024
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Internet highlights – w/c 11th February 2024
17 02 2024
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, The Complete Screenplay – by J.K. Rowling & Steve Kloves
11 02 2024I would say very similar comments to the second book in this series: a quick read, hard to keep track of the characters due to it being a script so no descriptions, and didn’t really care about the plot a lot. It’s fine, but just…. I dunno.
The only thing this had on the other two books, was that the book contained several illustrations, a mixture of costume sketches, renderings of scenery, designs for props, which did give a bit more of a feel of where you were. I wonder if it was managed by someone different to have this, as it also didn’t have the pretty cover the first two books had! It also seems to have an additional author who wasn’t on the first two.
I wanted to read it because I don’t like to leave a series half done, but I think it might be time to admit I should just stick to the original seven Harry Potter books…..
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Internet highlights – w/c 4th February 2024
10 02 2024
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