http://www.turquoise.me.uk Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.turquoise.me.uk/reading/comment-page-1/#comment-29468 turquoise » Blog Archive » Meet me Monday Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:42:37 +0000 http://www.turquoise.me.uk/reading/#comment-29468 [...] I’m all about the memes just now – so am joining in with the “for the love of blogging” week-long project (probably: you know me, am unlikely to manage all week) hosted at Sluiter Nation. Which means that, ahem, yesterday I was supposed to introduce myself. I can’t believe a soul will read this who doesn’t already know me: how blogging has changed since those halcyon days of blogrolls and webrings! I’ve been here and previously here since 2002, on and off. Very on to  begin with: I was child-poor time-rich and we were living abroad. I got tired of writing variations on the same emails to lots of different people (yes we had email in those days, cheeky – but not skype, no) so I had a bit of a look about to see if I could figure out a way to share our adventures online. And discovered blogs. We’ve been back in Blighty since the end of 2004 and in the interim years have become child-rich time-poor; also and sadly it must be said that Chester, nice as it is, is significantly less exciting than Tokyo so I don’t find myself with daily adventures to share. I still like my blog but I don’t have a niche these days: I can’t be a mummy blogger because everybody else does that better (plus I have no Philosophy beyond doing what has to be done) – yet frankly, what else do I do. So sporadic wittering is what it is all about. The archives are fun though, I promise This .me.uk site has been a work in progress for several years now but what can I say – see note above about time. I do have one other linked page up and running, which is my reading list. [...] [...] I’m all about the memes just now – so am joining in with the “for the love of blogging” week-long project (probably: you know me, am unlikely to manage all week) hosted at Sluiter Nation. Which means that, ahem, yesterday I was supposed to introduce myself. I can’t believe a soul will read this who doesn’t already know me: how blogging has changed since those halcyon days of blogrolls and webrings! I’ve been here and previously here since 2002, on and off. Very on to  begin with: I was child-poor time-rich and we were living abroad. I got tired of writing variations on the same emails to lots of different people (yes we had email in those days, cheeky – but not skype, no) so I had a bit of a look about to see if I could figure out a way to share our adventures online. And discovered blogs. We’ve been back in Blighty since the end of 2004 and in the interim years have become child-rich time-poor; also and sadly it must be said that Chester, nice as it is, is significantly less exciting than Tokyo so I don’t find myself with daily adventures to share. I still like my blog but I don’t have a niche these days: I can’t be a mummy blogger because everybody else does that better (plus I have no Philosophy beyond doing what has to be done) – yet frankly, what else do I do. So sporadic wittering is what it is all about. The archives are fun though, I promise This .me.uk site has been a work in progress for several years now but what can I say – see note above about time. I do have one other linked page up and running, which is my reading list. [...]

]]> http://www.turquoise.me.uk/reading/comment-page-1/#comment-28786 turquoise » Blog Archive » Book Quiz Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:52:43 +0000 http://www.turquoise.me.uk/reading/#comment-28786 [...] a series of books about walking talking fruit. Do you keep track of the books you read? Yes, here. All the way back to 2002! How many books are on your TO READ list? Loads. Where is your favorite [...] [...] a series of books about walking talking fruit. Do you keep track of the books you read? Yes, here. All the way back to 2002! How many books are on your TO READ list? Loads. Where is your favorite [...]

]]> http://www.turquoise.me.uk/reading/comment-page-1/#comment-13413 turquoise » Blog Archive » Hmm… Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:06:30 +0000 http://www.turquoise.me.uk/reading/#comment-13413 [...] been reading…not that I am ever without a book, but I’ve been getting through them at a better rate (we’ll see what happens now it is [...] [...] been reading…not that I am ever without a book, but I’ve been getting through them at a better rate (we’ll see what happens now it is [...]

]]> http://www.turquoise.me.uk/reading/comment-page-1/#comment-6 turquoise » Blog Archive » Slowly, slowly… Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:18:08 +0000 http://www.turquoise.me.uk/reading/#comment-6 [...] the new site is taking shape. I know it looks the same to you as it did yesterday but I now have my book lists in the new style. I had a thoroughly interesting half hour reformatting the lists: I knew I was reading less these days but hadn’t realised quite how much less. Pre-Maggie I went through a book a week (and “proper” books too, with far fewer trash thrillers and mummy memoirs). Maggie’s birth decreased my reading to more like one a month; moving back from Japan decreased the rate again (driving in a car rather than sitting on a train hasn’t helped) and I have read precisely two thrillers since Tamsin’s arrival. It’s not just a lack of time - though mostly that - but also a lack of mental function even though Tamsin is an angel who now does a full 6-hour stretch at night (maybe I am suffering mummy amnesia but I don’t think Maggie did that until she was much older). [...] [...] the new site is taking shape. I know it looks the same to you as it did yesterday but I now have my book lists in the new style. I had a thoroughly interesting half hour reformatting the lists: I knew I was reading less these days but hadn’t realised quite how much less. Pre-Maggie I went through a book a week (and “proper” books too, with far fewer trash thrillers and mummy memoirs). Maggie’s birth decreased my reading to more like one a month; moving back from Japan decreased the rate again (driving in a car rather than sitting on a train hasn’t helped) and I have read precisely two thrillers since Tamsin’s arrival. It’s not just a lack of time – though mostly that – but also a lack of mental function even though Tamsin is an angel who now does a full 6-hour stretch at night (maybe I am suffering mummy amnesia but I don’t think Maggie did that until she was much older). [...]

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