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gennepher said:
It is creepy, and I used to come back at nighttime and go over that bridge. My first Hearing Dog for the Deaf never liked crossing that bridge. One dark night, she refused to let me enter the footbridge. So, I went back to the Station, told the Station Master who locked up his ticket office, and came with me over the bridge, but half way across, there was a shadow at the end of the footbridge. The person turned round and ran away along the railings at the backs of the houses. We could see him and we waited until we couldn't see him any more. The Station Master said I am seeing you to your front door. And he did.

My dog probably saved my life that night @Lamont D
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And the (insert expletive) Tories wanted to close the ticket offices!
Wow! Again and again!
Your pet was your guardian that night, and his heightened sense of danger, was a heroic act.
Wow again!
 
Annb said:
Not much more to do here, other than watch TV or read - or chat on this forum. It's not a competition though; we have just always been around books. As a child I remember putting together a "lending library" in the garden using a wooden clothes horse and planks of wood to hold all my books and inviting other kids on the street to come to browse and borrow them. Come to think of it I never did get all of the books back. Maybe they didn't understand the concept of a lending library. Maybe that's what happened to my Enid Blyton books and my copy of Rebecca. :)

My grandfather had loads of books which he allowed us to look through (before we could read) and both my brother and myself loved just handling them (hands washed first) and looking at the illustrations in those that had them. Another link in the genetic connection to books and words.

It meant we were always easy to buy presents for (as long as they weren't cartoon versions).
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I also love books @Annb. I did try using a Kindle but much prefer a real book so stopped using it.
 
JohnEGreen said:
When in my early teens I remember opening a cupboard in our house to find it stock full of my mother’s books all by authors like Daphne du Maurior,
Georgette Heyerdahl and some by Jeffery Farnol once I had rea d them all I found my self somewhat addicted to historical romances and the like I think maybe I was one of the only teenage lads in my area that had even heard of such authors let alone had read nearly everything they had published.
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When I was young I loved historical romances and Georgette Heyer was my favourite author. I am not sure when my favourite type of book changed to detective books.

Most of my reading is text books so it is so good to relax and read a good Detective Book.
 
gennepher said:
It is creepy, and I used to come back at nighttime and go over that bridge. My first Hearing Dog for the Deaf never liked crossing that bridge. One dark night, she refused to let me enter the footbridge. So, I went back to the Station, told the Station Master who locked up his ticket office, and came with me over the bridge, but half way across, there was a shadow at the end of the footbridge. The person turned round and ran away along the railings at the backs of the houses. We could see him and we waited until we couldn't see him any more. The Station Master said I am seeing you to your front door. And he did.

My dog probably saved my life that night @Lamont D
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Yes your dog did save your life that night @gennepher and good that the Station Master saw you to your front door.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I also love books @Annb. I did try using a Kindle but much prefer a real book so stopped using it.
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I was given a Kindle about 3 years ago. It is still sitting in a drawer in this desk - unused. One of my research projects for my Masters was to find out if people could read more easily from a printed text than from a screen. That was years ago now and screens have improved although I still miss typos on screen. Back then, it was possible to prove that people read less efficiently from screens. My eyesight is not as good as it used to be and I find text on screen, in many cases, is very difficult to read, even using my glasses.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I also love books @Annb. I did try using a Kindle but much prefer a real book so stopped using it.
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I have a lightweight kindle reader, with a backlight, which I don't need sunglasses when in the sun.
Because of my arthritis and small fingers, I struggle with the weight and page turning.
And when cash was tight, kindle books are cheaper and they have improved so much in the last few years.
 
Lainie71 said:
I think he did. Apart from reading about 4 books on and off over the last few months, I might go to Waterstones and pick up the said book. Love going to old book shops but also like Waterstones for the café and the books obviously. If ever we move house, I am going to have a library - the silence would be amazing!
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He is even older than I am and the last I heard he was practicing going up and down the stairs at home.
Alan Fearon said one time he was going up onto High Pike with a group of young Christians to look at the stars and watch the dawn come up after a short summer night and he met Bonnington coming down going home.

Anyway he like their idea so much he went back up again with them and shared some of the night together.

I think he still has Pots Ghyll but he ls with his new wife down south normally. He must feel cut off from oxygen and the pints of Cumbrian beer.
Many of them share in the Hesket Newmarket local small brewery.
I got a crate for Abigail's hubby one year and he reckoned it was very good.
D.
All proper Yorkshire men love their ale...especially if someone else is paying.

;) :)
 
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Annb said:
I was given a Kindle about 3 years ago. It is still sitting in a drawer in this desk - unused. One of my research projects for my Masters was to find out if people could read more easily from a printed text than from a screen. That was years ago now and screens have improved although I still miss typos on screen. Back then, it was possible to prove that people read less efficiently from screens. My eyesight is not as good as it used to be and I find text on screen, in many cases, is very difficult to read, even using my glasses.
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I find Kindle better to read from @Annb
I use the dyslexic typeface. It is a lifesaver for me.
Otherwise Perpetua is the next best, and third is Times New Roman.
I generally need a serif typeface.
I am no good with a sans serif typeface.
I Also find it hard holding a book with my arthritic hands,
 
I have a bookshelf full of bird books and it flows out over the floor at the back of the den upstairs. Also there is a new Britannica in its own bookcase from when the girlls were young and it was long before the internet and google.

We once investigated twisted quotes from the "borg", ones we could not find in print on original sources. They were travesties of honesty. I think they assumed 99% of people wouldn't go back to original sources.

Also loads of fiction we have to throw away if its not to our liking.

I have more bird books and books on dragon flies, spiders wild flowers etc etc.
Woodwork building etc. It is extremely diverse and was how a secondary modern lad was educated and helped his girls achieve at school.
D.
 
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Fbg 6.7

Busy today...

Wildlife nighttime video
Cat Jade's busy night maybe watching a mouse first! - Fox appears concerned for Jade - Badger spoils Jade's night & wrecks her bed
2 min 14 secs

Creative... a photo of my holly berries...this year, the birds have not eaten them!

Have to do some stuff...

Have your best day...


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@Annb
Those Norman's only got Britain by cheating us Danes and Saxons, we fight clean wars with swords and battle axes and have to run the length of the country and fight tired against some foe who can't wield a battle axe or turn a man into a spread eagle and we are paying for centuries. You Norman's should fight properly
Lindis fairhair. ;)
 
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Annb said:
I was given a Kindle about 3 years ago. It is still sitting in a drawer in this desk - unused. One of my research projects for my Masters was to find out if people could read more easily from a printed text than from a screen. That was years ago now and screens have improved although I still miss typos on screen. Back then, it was possible to prove that people read less efficiently from screens. My eyesight is not as good as it used to be and I find text on screen, in many cases, is very difficult to read, even using my glasses.
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That's interesting. I find that I very often miss typos on screen but I spot them straight away if I run the document off.
 
Lamont D said:
I have a lightweight kindle reader, with a backlight, which I don't need sunglasses when in the sun.
Because of my arthritis and small fingers, I struggle with the weight and page turning.
And when cash was tight, kindle books are cheaper and they have improved so much in the last few years.
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Yes, books can be really heavy, especially hardback books.
 
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