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to the coast where on a whim although we ve been walking past it our entire lives and to our knowledge have never been in we decided that this was the day we visited the zetland lifeboat museum and the moment we stepped inside one of the volunteers set us a challenge how can you balance 6 flat headed nails on top of 1 flat headed nail we didn t know but we could have as many attempts as we liked and if we wanted to know the answer all we had to do was donate 1 00 to the rnli the lifeboat charity so with nothing to lose and only charity to gain james gave it a go and failed lots of times in the end he gave in although goodness knows men don t like to be beaten do they i thought we were going to have to move in so he could keep trying until he worked it out we paid our 1 00 and the volunteer took him through it step by step and here s how it s done apparently there s lots of tricks like that on youtube and apparently the museum have landed on a great way to raise funds i shall the effect of this good lesson keep ophelia act 1 2 and on that positive note i m bowing out of this post and of august this month has taken me almost as long to write about as it did for me to live you re welcome to join me with your own numbers or to read this post and and smile or to read this post and question just how much free time i must have or to read this post today and then join in with a comment and a quote of your own quotes are optional so that was my august 2015 in numbers the rest is silence hamlet act 5 2 unless of course you do leave a comment julie posted by julie kirk at 07 00 15 comments labels my month in numbers blogging meme statistics lists numbers memory keeping by numbers hamlet barbican email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 29 august 2015 portable magic the a z of you and me by james hannah hi you now here s a thing to admit in a book review i don t want to tell you about this book not because it s isn t worth talking about far from it and not because i m being precious and i want to keep it all to myself it s just i want you to come to it as i did oblivious oblivious to its depth to its craft to it s well tuned tone but most importantly oblivious to its plot especially to the predicament of the narrator who we gradually get to know inside and out gradually and that s the point i don t want to tell you the plot of this book right here right now before you ve even had a chance to crack its spine for yourself i don t want to tell you about what is happening to the narrator throughout the novel i don t want to tell you because trust me it s quite the experience when it just unfolds before you line by line page by page in an organic unfurling of detail of location of situation because if you don t know any solid plot facts from the start if you don t know any better you can sustain yourself by speculating on what s happening or what might happen and even on what part of you knows probably can t happen but you still hope that it can so how did i come to be so in the dark about it how did i come to it blind why i didn t intuit the true nature of the a z of you and me at the start well it all started in the library i picked it up from the shelf not knowing anything about it turned it over in my hands and read this blurb and what did i pick out wonderfully quirky contemporary love story funny and sweet couple that with the pretty swirly blackboard chic cover design and i stood there thinking mmm ok looks like some light summer reading i can do with something a bit breezy i d just finished reading about the persecution of jews in edmund dewaal s exquisite the hare with amber eyes and so i popped it on my pile of books to borrow reading light fiction is more of an exception rather than a rule for me and the library is the ideal commitment free place for me to indulge in it and i don t mind admitting that i can be a bit of a literary snob often preferring something i can really get my linguistic teeth around tending to treat lighter fiction like i do custard slices wonderful to drop my face into for a top up of something sweet but equally no way to feed my brain on a regularly basis but if like me you pick up the a z of you and me thinking you ll be getting a custard slice then be warned you re not that element picked out in those quotes is much more of a side serving to what is essentially a meal of beautifully rich writing and bittersweet storytelling with a garnish of salty tears it s certainly not as light and casual as some of those review phrases and jacket design would suggest and whether later alternative editions it came out in paperback this week come closer to presenting the real marrow of the book i can t say i haven t seen those copies for me though this disconnect turned out to be a positive experience i was pleasantly surprised that i found myself reading something far more stylish literary and deep than i was expecting and maybe it s the exceeding of my expectations that s been a part of the reason the book has endured in my mind after reading but i m getting ahead of myself talking about having finished the book here s a glimpse at the opening lines so you get a feel for the prose yourself it s hannah s debut novel and like so many first novels this feels like a beloved collection of ideas thoughts phrases distilled into a rich and satisfying end result distilled not condensed this isn t a novel over crammed with plot twists or research or high concepts it s a novel of clarity focus and immediacy which while you might not want it to puts you right there on that bed in that room with it s narrator and that s where you stay from start to finish inside his life his room his head meanwhile you learn about his wider life his past his story beyond the room through the conceit of him listing body parts a z attaching a story to each one for example and that s probably the first time i ve seen the word chesticles written down a recommendation in itself surely and with that that s all i m going to say to whet your whistle to stir your curiosity to tempt you to add the a z of you and me to your to read list because remember i don t want to tell you about this book what i will tell you is that it made me cry and i feel i can tell you this because i say that so often here about so many things that perhaps you ll write it off as nothing noteworthy i m quite literally the girl who cried wolf and then cried because no one believed her that there was a wolf in the first place and then again worrying if the wolf was ok out there on its own and what would happen if they did believe her and then go and kill the wolf so yes i m easily moved but the emotional reactions it stirred in me were not cheap easy ones the tears were drawn from my eyes not jerked some were to be expected others came in waves the scenes with the girl with the yarn bombing for example and they kept coming gently until the final page so make of this review what you will because that s it i m not going to tell you anything more about it in fact i ve probably already told you too much and i didn t want to tell you about it in the first place but if you do want to know more then find a copy of the book and push your nose firmly into it or there s currently an official blog tour happening which you can follow by heading to the atozofyouandme hashtag on twitter within those tweets you ll be able to find plenty of other reviews which give more of the game away i m not part of the blog tour i m just gate crashing it just happened to coincide with my just having finished the book and for further details you can find the author james hannah on twitter here or on his website your turn have you read the a z of you and me how would you tell someone about it without telling them too much or are there other books that you d love other people to read but you don t want to spoil the plot before they begin do share your thoughts and experiences julie more book talk posted by julie kirk at 07 00 0 comments labels portable magic books reading james hannah the a z of you me atozofyouandme email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 27 august 2015 summertime photography scavenger hunt 2015 the london edition hi hi did you catch my post earlier this week the one where i blurred the lines between rational adult on holiday and complete sherlock super fan a post which for balance also involved gnomes and black bean burgers well if you didn t read it you ll want to go catch up because that s quality journalism you re missing out on right there but not so quick because i ve got more scavenger hunt photos to share as i m almost finished my version of the 21 items we needed to find so have i mentioned i ve been to london once or twice well ever since i knew i was headed there i d been holding off photographing this next particular category as i thought a snapshot of the thames would make the ideal document of my mini break the thing is as you ll see i didn t really stop at one photo 20 a natural body of water the thames glittering in the morning sunshine the thing we came to realise about the thames is that it s so ubiquitous you can see it from all kinds of locations throughout the city so much so that while our hotel sat right on the river with the front door being just metres away from the water s edge we could also see it from our room located at the back of the building and we couldn t really go far without bumping into although happily not falling into it so here are a few additional takes on my chosen natural body of water with essential london landmarks in the background the london eye tower bridge and while we re on the subject of bridges here s a glimpse of the thames taken while on a bridge and while under a bridge then with the tide out it was a little strange to hear the tidal lapping of the water a familiar sound from closer to home where the coast is just a few minutes drive away but not necessarily something i thought i d hear in a city and from moving with the tides we go back in time to when it froze over one of a series of plaques depicting the frost fairs held between the 17th and early 19th centuries when the thames would freeze over and while we re on the subject of doing brave things on the river i m much more of a landlubber here s a view of the thames from the back of a boat my friend kirsty and i took a trip up and down the river to and from greenwich and it was on our return that we sat in the splash zone with various small boys and other people who didn t mind getting wet when the engines were going full speed while i was there i took this photo as proof that this summer i did at least one activity that required the creation of an official escape plan makes me feel almost adventurous almost and finally for today here s yet another shot of the thames again with an famous london landmark in the background the houses of parliament and big ben only this time in the foreground i ve sneaked in another scavenger hunt category 21 a photograph of you with a sign reading 2015 summertime photography scavenger hunt i ll admit that i did worry if i d feel silly holding that up while on a very crowded bank side footpath then i saw just how many tourists were selfie sticking with gay abandon and i got over myself i ve now got just 2 categories left to find and my summertime hunt will be at an end is that autumn i can feel in the air starts thinking of what to document as the days begin to darken julie p s if you d like to catch up on my discoveries then do drop by my other scavenger hunt posts here the old book edition the hamlet ticket booth edition the out about on holiday edition the lincoln city centre edition the town centre edition the haven t i seen that outfit somewhere before edition and if f you wanted to join in the hunt then you still can it doesn t end until summer does just visit rinda as it s her brainchild and you can share your discoveries either via your blog or on instagram with the hashtag rindas2015photohunt or even join the facebook group and make sure to visit rinda s blog to catch her regular round ups and link posts posted by julie kirk at 07 00 7 comments labels rinda ontiveros gallo organico summertime photography scavenger hunt london email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 25 august 2015 if we ve popped up and setlocked then this must be london hi you i m back i m now post london post hamlet post cumberbatch although as you ll see from where this post finishes up it s fair to say i m never entirely post cumberbatch i m more a case of permanently in between cumberbatches but until the next batch comes along a few paragraphs down in fact let s talk about the serendipity i stumbled over in the big smoke let s talk about things that pop up with the power to delight and let s talk about finding gnomes and holmes where you d least expect them the popping up while i may not live in or even particularly close to a city i still like to think of myself as pretty up to date with what s what with what s on the up with what s going down i may live 250 miles from the capital but for several reasons i don t live under a rock with a whippet for company heck i read i can use a hashtag i have at least 5 kinds of tea in the cupboard i watch skyarts documentaries for pleasure and i can even use the manual settings on my camera basically what i m trying to say is as my grandma would ve put it i m not as green as i m cabbage looking and yet until last week i d never been to a pop up restaurant they tend to be such city style phenomena don t they so when we stumbled across one in real life in the oxo building on london s south bank just metres from our hotel dare i admit that i really felt i had to go perhaps so that at the very least i could later proclaim like in a blog post or something ahem that i went to a pop up restaurant in london and while i was really looking forward to it i found myself being slightly unsure at the same time and began to feel like maybe there was slightly more green around my cabbage leaves as i d been willing to accept which was only appropriate considering the theme of this particular pop up the garden gate at oxo2 open until august 30th is decorated like part summer fete part english garden part woodland picnic its laid back atmosphere there were people playing table tennis and jenga was just what two tired achy people needed who d been walking around london for 3 days one of whom may or may not have been so emotional that they wept in a theatre one night and then again over breakfast the following morning for the record that last person wasn t james but then you d guessed that already hadn t you and what s better for lifting a crafty kitsch loving girl s spirits than sitting her on a gingham covered tree trunk next to a wall of fake hedging and artificial flowers not to mention the fact that if i d had the 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