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oursinWas thinking (for some reason, the way one does), of brilliant telegram messages in various novels:
Worse fears realised darling Seth and Reuben too please send gumboots
Where there is no vision the people perish Reachfar
Better drowned than duffers if not duffers wont drown
I'm sure there are lots more examples but my mind has gone blank.
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Date: 2006-07-01 08:48 am (UTC)Twins this time - go (where?) buy outfits
(I can't find the book, so am guessing wildly.
Didm't merely magnet come into that one too?
I wish I wish that I had the Macleans and George and Tom (and "a pencil that would write red")
I borrowed them from a comical little lending library, but they wouldn't let me buy them to complete my set.
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Date: 2006-07-01 09:03 am (UTC)My collection's nearly complete - I'm missing Martha's Aunt, but I have read it. A friend discovered George and Tom in one of her local bookshops and got it for me. I read them as a teen in my local library but didn't find them second-hand until I moved to Scotland 8 years ago. And yes, Abebooks, but there's something about finding them on the shelves in a bookshop.
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Date: 2006-07-01 09:10 am (UTC)Yes, of course - and Janet was in the West Indies at the time
Cheaper? I paid about 10 p each for my paperbacks and 50 p for my hardbacks. Admittedly, that was over ten years ago!
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Date: 2006-07-01 09:16 am (UTC)Of course! And Janet is in the West Indies at the time!
Cheaper! I paid pence for all mine - admittedly, about ten years ago.
BRAG! I know someone who has Hungry Generation signed by the real children, her nephews and nieces.
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Date: 2006-07-01 08:53 pm (UTC)How big are they and what would be the UK postage? Mine are very shabby and my Father is a large print and falling apart.
Apologies to oursin for this discussion in her LJ!
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Date: 2006-07-01 08:56 pm (UTC)Mine are really shabby! What editins and what would the postage be?
Apologies to oursin for using her LJ thus!
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Date: 2006-07-02 09:04 am (UTC)How lovely!
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Date: 2006-07-01 12:35 am (UTC)(I've never done Susan before. It's a bit novel, in the way that something you never intend to do again is novel.)
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Date: 2006-07-01 08:50 am (UTC)Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers won't drown.
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Date: 2006-07-01 06:15 am (UTC)sorry-- just being annoying...
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Date: 2006-07-03 05:25 am (UTC)I'd like to add you to my flist, if you don't mind.
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Date: 2006-07-03 07:12 am (UTC)And I can't place that one!
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