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To London!
A friend of mine, his second album complete and zipping about the planet as I type this, decided he needed to get a little clubbing in for celebration at the end of this month. In London. It seems I'm going with.
I've already taken careful note of Raya's bookstore find, but I would love to hear from others in the area about used bookstores that might appeal to the classically minded, Greek more than Latin. I guess I'll be quite close to the British Museum (a quick walk to Raya's find), but all I know about the Underground I learned from Neverwhere by Neal Gaiman, so remote destinations might not be wise on my first trip.
I've already taken careful note of Raya's bookstore find, but I would love to hear from others in the area about used bookstores that might appeal to the classically minded, Greek more than Latin. I guess I'll be quite close to the British Museum (a quick walk to Raya's find), but all I know about the Underground I learned from Neverwhere by Neal Gaiman, so remote destinations might not be wise on my first trip.
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London!
Hi William
if you have time while you are in the UK, you might consider going to Leeds, in the north-west of England, to visit the Thompson Collection, a special collection at the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
Or perhaps you could get an English textkit enthusiast to check it out.
It is the UK's national collection of greek and latin textbooks and the following link indicates there are more than 4000 volumes dating from 1800.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/p ... m#thompson
Apparently it is held in storage but can be viewed by advance arrangement with the LIbrary.
Have a great trip.
if you have time while you are in the UK, you might consider going to Leeds, in the north-west of England, to visit the Thompson Collection, a special collection at the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
Or perhaps you could get an English textkit enthusiast to check it out.
It is the UK's national collection of greek and latin textbooks and the following link indicates there are more than 4000 volumes dating from 1800.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/p ... m#thompson
Apparently it is held in storage but can be viewed by advance arrangement with the LIbrary.
Have a great trip.
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If you are coming to England, then it is not too much further to Hay-on-Wye (near Hereford) - the secondhand bookshop capital of England with more shb's than you could ever wish for! Failing that, then a visit to Blackwell's in Oxford (and there are several more) would be well worth it.
Enjoy the trip.
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Enjoy the trip.
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I'm 35, and while I have always gone to clubs I'm not sure I can be called a clubber - I don't don the crazy clothing, nor has my hair been other colors, and I avoid blitzing out my mind with recreational pharmaceuticals. But I was listening to this sort of electronica when the current crop of club kids were still in diapers (do the British use that word?), so I still wander out from time to time.Episcopus wrote:Sweet, how old are you annis? Never thought of you as a clubber
I just can't dance 4+ hours without serious interruption any more.
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Transatlantic lexicon of childhooddiapers (do the British use that word?)
Our diapers are nappies,
pacifiers, dummies,
jungle gyms: climbing frames,
bellies are tummies;
trunks, boots; hoods, bonnets;
push-chairs not strollers;
Calpol for Tylenol
(soothing your molars);
Cadburys not Hersheys
for little Brit misses --
crisps for your chips
and buttons for kisses.
(The last a confectionary not an osculatory reference.)
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When exactly will you be in London? I'll be in London too from the 20th until the 24th of February and I'm definitely going to check out Unsworth as Raya recommended it. The real reason I'm going though, is to look around Imperial College London and talk to the admissions tutor there.
I've already been round the Tate Modern - definitely something you shouldn't miss - and this time I'll go round the other Tate. No idea yet what else we'll be doing (some else in my class is thinking about studying at Imperial for one year, so he's coming too).
I've already been round the Tate Modern - definitely something you shouldn't miss - and this time I'll go round the other Tate. No idea yet what else we'll be doing (some else in my class is thinking about studying at Imperial for one year, so he's coming too).
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D'oh!Emma_85 wrote:When exactly will you be in London? I'll be in London too from the 20th until the 24th of February
We will miss each other by a day. Well, two days, since the flight to London is the 25th.
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I had not heard of either term before reading this post. All praise to Google, I now know more.1%homeless wrote:Heh, I remember there was a discussion about marmite here. Are you going to try it William? Oh yes, there was jaffa cakes being discussed too...
Regarding jaffa cake, in the US we can get Pims, which seem to follow the basic jaffa design, and I love them deeply. Especially the orange, but the pear ones appeal as well.
As for marmite, I very much (very, very, very) love Thai, Vietnamese and Lao cooking. And that means fish sauce. After that - and a few Chinese breakfasts - I can handle anything. Perhaps I'll bring back some marmite if books don't bring up the weight of my luggage too much.
(Classics content: the Greeks and Romans cooked with liberal doses of garum... fish sauce. It seems even to have been made basically the same way fish sauces are made today in S.E. Asia. Apicius even leaves us a melon salad flavored with a garum/vinegar mix, which is shockingly like a Thai melon salad in several of my Thai cookbooks.)
Most of our food plans so far involve Indian restaurants, southern Indian if possible since we can't get that in Madison.
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