Thanks for the R/R/C's - will do my best to return them before the week is out
Thanks for the R/R/C's - will do my best to return them before the week is out
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I cannot drive - I find it too expensive, and I was put off during a go-karting accident when I was 15. It set on fire with me in it, and the proprietor of the circuit blamed me! It was a very frightening experience which opened an exciting prospect up for me. The prospect of catching trains. When travelling by train, I read a newspaper, tabloid, generally, as the pages in broadsheets are far too big for me to hold, and I would need to lay on the floor to be able to read it. I also listen to music through my mobile phone - at the moment however, Orange are being extremely inefficient and have problems with their activation keys, for downloaded songs. If I'm feeling flush, I will buy a book - normally a fiction book; Nick Hornby and Mark Haddon being favourites of mine. They are good to read on public transport as it gives you something to do and stops you from falling asleep, which I have done once on a train, and woke up when the train was pulling back into my point of departure. I have also fallen asleep on a bus, and had to go to a police station to ascertain my whereabouts.
Anyhow, I bought this book in Birmingham New Street station, although I didn't begin to read it until I had changed at Crewe. My journey thereafter was only short as I was going to Chester. It cost me £7, less a penny, and I continued reading it even after I had alighted. I read it in the taxi on the way home. I read it on the toilet. I even read it during Coronation Street. I wanted to read it in the bath, but I once dropped a cookery book in the bath and ruined it, and like to think I learn from my mistakes.
On the back it states 'Everything you think you know is wrong'. I will give you some examples of what I thought I knew was right, which was actually wrong in a wee while. Apparently, however, this book is pocket-sized. This is wrong, unless you are wearing a pair of clowns trousers, or you are morbidly obese and have to wear one of them tent dress things that make you look like a slightly-deflated bouncy castle.It is long as 2 cigarette packets and as wide as 1 cigarette packet plus another stood up.
But that is a minor slight. The contents are extremely interesting. For example, 'How many nostrils have you got?' 2, I answered, unless, like Daniella Westbrook, your septum has fallen out due to cocaine abuse. The correct answer is 4 (3, in Daniella's case). 2 (or 1) external and 2 internal.
'Where is the driest place on Earth?' I thought perhaps the Atacama desert, although my dad told me it was in a nun's knickers. It is Antarctica.
The world's largest living thing is a mushroom, not Michelle McManus. Since buying this book, I have put a wipe-board up in work, and write a 'Fact of the Day' on there everyday - they think I am clever, but I owe it all to this book.
So if you want to know how long a chicken can live without its head, what chastity belts are for, or how to stay awake on a train, you should buy this book.
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