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National Geographic Kids Feature on Half-Blood Prince[...]

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Dear Diary...Move over Virginia , final
instalment

post from dovegreyreader scribbles on 04 July 2009 07:15:00 PM. © dovegreyreader scribbles

Thursday June 3rd
Busy Bees meeting, I'm in charge - no meeting
I think there might have been rebellion, a swarming in fact because there are no more Busy Bees entries.
Tact may succeed where cleverness fails.
Monday June 7th
Picnic on Mitcham Common, don't want to go.
Unpunctuality is slackness - nothing else.
Inbetween all this I have been enrolled at Guides having passed theessential skills of knots , flags and bed-making (to include envelopecorners) been to the library (many times) Birchington-on-Sea andHampton Court, I'd been to endless C of E confirmation classes and thenwas confirmed and now I'm obviously getting low on news.
Thursday June 10th
Duke of Edinburghs birthday
Self control is essential to good manners.
Then towards July and my final weeks at Primary school I have clearly switched allegiance from Juliet
July 13th
Carols (my best friend) birthday
Nobody is indispensable.
The end of term is nigh, remember how we did all the work
July 22nd
Spring cleaning.Polished our tables
Culture is one thing varnish another.
We also moved this week, from Mitcham to Wallington and a house on the banks of the River Wandle.
I then seem to have sensibly spent every day teaching myself to swim at Mitcham Baths rather than in the Wandle until
10th August
Can now swim
Let the shipwrecks of others be your sea-marks.
30th August
Went to see Mary Poppins
It's easier to offer objections than to get busy.
and then that's it, off to senior school and no time for the fripperies of a diary but for two further entries
October 17th
Homework, ugh
Success requires pains and brains.
December 28th
Get a new diary
Well begun is half done.
And as for that Sunday School panto?
WellI think it's clear I was a natural on the stage, bringing joy andhumour to the performance, and is it any wonder I'm loving Susie Boyt'sMy Judy Garland Life.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

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TT: Out of the past

post from About Last Night on 04 July 2009 06:31:00 PM. © About Last Night

On Friday NPR broadcast a story by John McDonough about the last great reunion of veterans of the American Civil War, which took place in Gettysburg in 1938. The ceremonies were broadcast live on network radio, and McDonough's story contained excerpts from surviving airchecks of those broadcasts. You can listen to the story here.It occurred to me after listening to the NPR story that someone might have posted newsreel footage of the 1938 reunion on YouTube. Sure enough, a fair amount of the footage is available for viewing. Here are two clips. The first is a silent montage of newsreel excerpts:
video details and more

The second is a seventeen-second-long sound clip that shows Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands over the stone wall at Bloody Angle:
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Lest we forget!

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Happy Independence Day from Mayberry RFD!

post from She Is Too Fond Of Books ... on 04 July 2009 06:09:21 PM. © She Is Too Fond Of Books ...

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'The Book of Rapture' by Nikki Gemmell

post from Reading matters on 04 July 2009 05:55:55 PM. © Reading matters

Fiction - paperback; Fourth Estate; 269 pages; 2009. Review copy. Nikki Gemmell is an Australian author based in London who achieved international acclaim with her 2003 novel The Bride Stripped Bare, which was originally published anonymously on the basis that the subject matter was too provocative. Prior to this she wrote three other novels -- Shiver; Cleave; and Love Song -- none of which I've read. However, I've long been familiar with Gemmell's work, mainly as a broadcast journalist, first, on Triple J, the ABC's youth network, back in the early 1990s (she filed memorable reports on a scientific expedition from Antarctica; her girlie voice used to grate), and second, more recently as a commentator on the BBC's Newsnight Review. This latest novel, The Book of Rapture, is a strangely haunting story set in an unnamed country at an unspecified time. It feels dystopian but lacks the true grit and...

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post from on 04 July 2009 05:22:55 PM. ©

Reminder: Radcliffe and Grint Rove Live Appearance This Weekend[...]

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post from on 04 July 2009 05:22:55 PM. ©

Confirmed: Rupert Grint Recovering Just Fine from Mild Bout of Swine Flu[...]

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Scholastic Store in NYC to Host Deathly Hallows Paperback Release Party[...]

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More Half-Blood Prince Reviews: Guardian Three Stars out of Five, More[...]

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"My button period"

For the FT, Vanessa Friedman lunches with Manolo Blahnik (site registration required):

His favourites have been a pair that he made in 1973 for Ossie Clark, which featured cherry blossoms and green suede leaves that twined up the leg; ones with gigantic buttons (?from my button period in the 1980s?); shoes made from coral and pony skin that appeared in an exhibit at the Design Museum in London in 2003; and shoes from this season?s collection called ?Toubid?, high-heeled ankle-strap sandals featuring tiers of cut work around the arch of the foot. The ones his customers like best tend to be the court shoes, which he thinks are ?very conventional?, especially when they come in ?stupid colours like dusty pink. It?s the safe shoe!?

He makes all sorts of heels but says that his favourite height is 3cm, which is a mid-height. (He also does 5cm.) He is currently also very interested in flats because ?they are the most difficult shoes to walk in and be divine and gracious ? they make you walk like a reindeer. The last time women really knew how to walk well in flats was the 1950s. You can see it in the movies.

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