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Nov. 27th, 2005 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmonsterFailed to die on Saturday, despite some interesting weather.
Harlaw Reservoir.
Green Cleugh - the white streak in the middle of the left-hand hillside is a path under virgin snow.
A very sharp cloud layer at about 450 metres: snow and sleet and vicious wind above it, the occasional drop of rain below it. On the tops there was 50 metres or less visibility and lots of fun practising map and compass work. So I came back down and walked along the A702 instead, which may not be as scenic but where one is slightly less likely to walk off a cliff.
Ok, that isn't from a walk, it's just some nice new mugs. Me like.
Also failed to hit up any second-hand bookshops on Sunday, mainly because they all open at 12. Bah. But!
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life of a Courageous Woman, James Brabazon
Toast!, And Other Rusted Futures, Charles Stross
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
Trent's Own Case, E.C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen
The Sign Of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Mitsou, Colette (Raymond Postgate tr.)
Music-Hall Sidelights, Colette (Anne-Marie Callimachi tr.)
The Ogre Downstairs, Diana Wynne Jones
On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
The Ultra Secret, F. W. Winterbotham
A Study In Terror, Ellery Queen
Like Love, Ed McBain
Hail to the Chief, Ed McBain
So Long As You Both Shall Live, Ed McBain
The Blessington Method, Stanley Ellin
King's Ransom, Ed McBain
English Satire, James Sutherland
The Pusher, Ed McBain
Banking On Death, Emma Lathen
A Man Lay Dead, Ngaio Marsh
The Sayers biography, Colette, and the Stanley Ellin were most memorable (Stanley Ellin wrote "The Specialty Of The House", if that helps). I also appear to be reading rather a lot of Ed McBain.
Harlaw Reservoir.
Green Cleugh - the white streak in the middle of the left-hand hillside is a path under virgin snow.
A very sharp cloud layer at about 450 metres: snow and sleet and vicious wind above it, the occasional drop of rain below it. On the tops there was 50 metres or less visibility and lots of fun practising map and compass work. So I came back down and walked along the A702 instead, which may not be as scenic but where one is slightly less likely to walk off a cliff.
Ok, that isn't from a walk, it's just some nice new mugs. Me like.
Also failed to hit up any second-hand bookshops on Sunday, mainly because they all open at 12. Bah. But!
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life of a Courageous Woman, James Brabazon
Toast!, And Other Rusted Futures, Charles Stross
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
Trent's Own Case, E.C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen
The Sign Of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Mitsou, Colette (Raymond Postgate tr.)
Music-Hall Sidelights, Colette (Anne-Marie Callimachi tr.)
The Ogre Downstairs, Diana Wynne Jones
On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
The Ultra Secret, F. W. Winterbotham
A Study In Terror, Ellery Queen
Like Love, Ed McBain
Hail to the Chief, Ed McBain
So Long As You Both Shall Live, Ed McBain
The Blessington Method, Stanley Ellin
King's Ransom, Ed McBain
English Satire, James Sutherland
The Pusher, Ed McBain
Banking On Death, Emma Lathen
A Man Lay Dead, Ngaio Marsh
The Sayers biography, Colette, and the Stanley Ellin were most memorable (Stanley Ellin wrote "The Specialty Of The House", if that helps). I also appear to be reading rather a lot of Ed McBain.
