british comics a cultual history by james chapman this claims to be a first of its kind but is yet another adult orientated nostalgia book dealing with comics from the victorian to the present yet again sections on dan dare pilot of the future and 2000AD and viz less on the funnies beano and danny just passed over and long section on little read brief issues of alternative comics and graphic novels one for the collector
It Just Slipped Out: A Bulging Encyclopaedia of Double Entendres by Russell Ash laugh out hsitory of this englaih language comedy institution what is a doulbe entendre well a girl wals in a bar and asks for a double entendre so the bar man gives her one side splitting a to z od the perisl of asking aold hard of hearing man if he had "seen any picknickers about " or the reply to get if you ask a cockney in a rowing boat with two woman passengers if you ask to "borrow one of his oars" "taking down particulars" and "inspecting testimonials" a laugh out loud book
when a bilion chinese jump how china will save mankind or destroy it by jonathan watts the asian enviromental correspondent for the Guardian tours china and finds it smoggy, eco extinct and building great cities on refuse and resources
dubai the story of the worlds fastest city by jim kane yet another journalists book this time on the mirror city building skyscrapers in the sand powered by its migrant workers who live in a shanty called the city of gold dubai like binhai and beihan a new 21stC city from nowhere but like all cities in the world abandoned by the end of this 21st century city as wealth of the elite and model town dream do we need them?
nearly did not make it to monday as narrowly missed by a speeding car going through a red light when i was crossing the road
writing poetry and emailed simon armitage expect as much a reply from him as got from brian cox all i asked SA was was had he ever considered doing another medieval yorkshire accent poem this time translating the kalevala
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