It's International Book Week. The Rules: Grab the nearest book to you, turn to page 52, post the fifth sentence as your status. Don't mention the title and share the rules as part of your status.
"I pulled on a pair of cotton gloves and wandered over to the bed, whistling softly through my teeth - a habit that severely tries my husband, friends, and anyone working near me in the library"
What makes you think that we don't have lives, medic ? There are a lot of busy people who also find time to correspond her. We have a little spare time, and we use it to read and to keep in contact with these, other, friends on Gransnet. You must have some interest in our discussion too or you would not be able to criticise.
Here's the page 52-er I didn't add yesterday, partly because I wasn't sure if it qualified as a sentence. Oh, and the oages aren't actually numbered, but there is an easy way of finding the fiftysecond.
So, here you are:
Radical leaves o; stem leaves numerous, green reticulate below, semi-amplexicaul; heads many, small; peduncles and flo. bracts densely clothed with dark glandular hairs*; styles livid.
'Later, when the sun is up, its roof will be perfect, strikingly red square against the dust because of the tomatoes his wife has set out to dry in the sun.'
I think it's a great thread Elegran as, presumably, do the others who have posted. Thank you for starting it!
This morning I was at court, supporting a very reluctant DV victim, on the way home I called to see DS1 with his 40th birthday present. DD3 called in with Bertie 'the wrecker'. This afternoon I will ice 36 cupcakes then I will phone my friend who is having chemo, make ginger beef for DH and I, have and watch Strictly. I think that might be called a life!!
As you study a course, and range over a number of different topics, your mind can become cluttered with lots of disconnected bits and pieces of information.
"It was opened in 1901 by the City and South London Railway (C&SLR), which would later merge with the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR) to form what is now the Northern Line."
Sorry about that, but I felt it would be cheating to cross the room and grab vol. 1 of A la Recherché du Temps Perdu, which only has four complete sentences on page 52 anyway.
Don't know whether it would be cheating to cross the room or not, but I find myself picking up random books and checking page 52, fifth sentence in them. This thread is fun Elegran.
thatbags ..... 'peduncle'.....I don't know what on earth that is but I like it!
Kurcher and others imagine that in the centre of the channel of the Maelstrom is an abyss penetrating the globe,and issuing in some very remote part-the Gulf of Bothnia being somewhat decidedly named in one instance.