Aunty Jean and Uncle Pete are here, the Wales vs. Italy rugby match is on, and I’ve finally finished adding the required privacy pages to around twenty sites that are currently displaying Google’s AdSense adverts. I hope to post a few links by Tuesday, that have been sitting around waiting to be published. I still need to find the photos for the Jimi wallet review (left my wallet in Tescos yesterday, returned after an hour or so to still find it sitting on the side of the till!), take and post more photos of Anna, and try to at least finish posting the 2008 Amsterdam photos.
Apr 21 2008
You Are Feeling Sleepy – I Am Feeling Rich!
Imagine you are a Paul McKenna type hypnotist . Now suppose you don’t earn a lot of money selling lose weight / stop smoking / self belief DVDs. What would be next on your list of money making schemes?
Well, one guy in Italy has been caught dipping his hands into shop tills, right in front of the cashiers! The BBC have some details, and you can check the video here to see the guy working his ‘magic’. So, when out and about in Italy, if any of your conversations start involving lines like ‘count backwards from ten’, then you need to make a move, quickly 😉
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May 31 2007
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
This book is at least semi-auto biographic for Hemingway. He did go and volunteer for service in Italy during WWI, and is assumed to have had a romance that inspired the other half of this book’s content. Personally, I did like the description of the futility if many types of war, but didn’t really warm to the love story/romance side of it.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I read it, probably more than For Whom The Bell Tolls, for example (review coming in a few days), I was just expecting something a little different I suppose. I did quite enjoy reading the portrayal of the priest as a real human being rather than simply a plot device conveniently present whenever morality needed to be raised as a subject.
The main character starts out content enough in his ambulance duties, but after being badly wounded in a battle, he starts to lose his taste for war (despite meeting his GF at the hospital), and becomes more self-centred. He eventually deserts and well, you’ll need to read the book to find out more 🙂
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