Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

I hope you'll compost him in true OS stylee, jk0!

Pertiddling down here, so am tidying and running a vacuum around areas which are normally behind/ under furniture. Am taking the opportunity of being able to access the hidden deep food storage, which is contained in small to medium coolbags, to check contents and dates.

Have rotated some stuff into use and am shortly going out to the shop to replace 3 items before I re-assemble the deep storage area. I have also decided to run down the quantity of FB pies on the premises as a serious catastrophe would make these difficult to cook, whereas there are other meats and fishes which are edible straight from the can.

Folks, I know this is shocking to some of you, but the FB pie mountain is dwindling steadily and will be no more in few months.

Just hope like heck no one decides to make an unexpected visit to my little corner of Shoebox Towers as I'm at sixes and sevens atm.:D

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jk0 wrote: »

I just impaled him with an old immersion heater thermostat, and put him in the bin bag full of the carrot peelings he craves.

Couldn't you trap him in a corner of the bag, and whack him?

Alternatively, could you scrounge up a source of CO2 (maybe a home brew cylinder, or a fire extinguisher), and flood the bag with the gas?

Personally (but possibly not for the squeamish), I'd don thick gloves, grab him, and stretch his neck.

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

Just hope like heck no one decides to make an unexpected visit to my little corner of Shoebox Towers as I'm at sixes and sevens atm.:D

Don't let them in!

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

Don't let them in!

It's tough if they're friends. I don't let random strangers in this place anyway. Hell, one of my next-doors was bellowing at someone late last night that they were a see-you-next-tuesday and that he was going to effing kill 'em.

I just had a quick phone natter with SG over on the far side of the block, so that should prevent any dropping-in this aft.;)

NewShadow

nuatha wrote: »

I'd second the Tepper recommendation, Gateway to Women's Country is my favourite standalone of hers.

Have you ever read Califia's Daughters (Leigh Richards) or The Shore of Women (Pamela Sargent - published the year before Women's Country).

If not, you might enjoy both.

Kelly Armstrong - Women of the Otherworld
Jim Butcher
Raymond E Feist

yes, yes, and yes.

If you like Armstrong, have you read Alice Borchardt? The Silver Wolf is really good.

Same with the Dresden books - the Kate Daniels books (Ilona Andrews) have a very similar 'feel'.

Glen Cook's The Black Company

I've actually only recently bought the first couple of these on my kindle. You've just bumped them up my reading list...

ALIBOBSY

GreyQueen wrote: »

:T I've read that - excellent book. But I've got a borrowed copy of his book Legend on the shelf and just can't get into it. Go figure.

I love "Legend" and the other drenai/nadir novels, the warrior priests who always die accept for one who has to train the next "30" is an interesting idea.

Mind you I love this kind of fantasy novel so maybe its just me lol.

Say it quietly I am currently writing a fantasy novel myself which will be a series if I get around to it lol. Too much to do and too little time.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

Karmacat wrote: »

I used to read lots and lots and lots of Stargate SG1 fanfic, there are some amazing writers out there, some of them very funny too.

http://betacandy-sgfic.livejournal.com/503.html this is a link to all her stories - some very short, some almost novel length, spread throughout nearly all the seasons and before the seasons as well.

Love stargate sg1 and even enjoyed SGU but never watched SGA until about 2 yrs ago now love them all lol. Read quite alot of fan fic from all of them.

I love the fact that people are enjoying writing for themselves, there is pretty much fan fic for most programmes/films out there especially sci fi and fantasy.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

mardatha wrote: »

I'm more into paranormal and spooky, I love Graham Masterton and F Paul Wilson. I'll be ok when the lights go out because I don't have a kindle or anything like it, just a huge cupboard packed full of real books. Knowing how to deal with a reincarnated red indian demon is going to be dead handy when the SHTF.

Love F Paul Wilson, the keep was brilliant (unlike the rubbish film version) and the whole series of adversary novels. One scene in Nightworld with the flesh eating creatures still haunts me :eek:

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

Decided I possibly read TOO much as I have books by most of the authors mentioned on here, have two kindles full of books-some read alot not yet, plus books literally everywhere lol.

MIL is the same, but now she knows I like books she keeps clearing out piles to me. Unfortunately she keeps buying new ones lol. She sometimes by mistake buys ones she has had already, but last week she sent a bag of book with the same book in it twice rofl.

I will pass them on as it was a good book "Blood Stream" by Luca Veste.

She mostly reads detective/murder stuff and I got Gone Girl from her and read it on her recommendation before it seemed to be everywhere.

I am convinced I will be one of those old ladies with a dozen cats and floor to ceiling books

Ali x

GreyQueen

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

I am convinced I will be one of those old ladies with a dozen cats and floor to ceiling books

Ali x

And this is a negative outcome?

I love Jim Butcher and Kelley Armstrong, too. Interesting to see the common choices and the things I've never even heard of.

I love reading, too, have often joked that my idea home would comprise of a small flat attached to the Central Library, with a secret door for me to sneak through, out of hours.