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Vox Hunt: This One's For The Kids
Books: Show us a great children's book.
You can take your schoolboy wizards and your furry-toed hobbits. Ratty, Badger, Mole and, of course, Toad are the finest creatures on the planet.
Chocolate Rain: annoying earworm
QotD: First Crush
How old were you when you had your very first boyfriend/girlfriend? Do you still know them now?
Submitted by KIM.
I was a late starter. I sorta dated a girl called Jo when I was 17, but I didn't really start dating properly until Jennifer when I was 19.
And I'm not in contact with any of my ex-girlfriends at all. Not a great believer in "can't we just stay friends?"
No.
Vintage QotD: Here Comes The Bride
What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding?
John & Anita's wedding a few months back. And no, I had no role at all which was blissful. After being the wedding photographer at a couple of hitchings, it was nice just to take it easy.
The Friday Afternoon Feeling
Apparently, British firms are losing £50m, because people are taking Friday afternoons off, on the sly.
You'll never catch that happening here, oh, no:
QotD: My Strongest Summer Memory
What will you remember most about this summer?
August has only just begun! There's at least a month left for making cool summer memories!
Really. Vox is becoming terribly premature...
The Charity Shop Racks
Why do these two classes of books turn up in these shops with such frequency?
I suppose it's something to do with their target audience being voracious readers, who don't put any value in the books themselves once they're done with them.
Pulp clearly lives...
Flower
One of a group of photos I shot, while fruitlessly searching for a butterfly, as instructed by a recent Vox Hunt:
QotD: School Sports
What were the sports or games you played in high school or college?
Submitted by Stephen.
Here's another pic, showing what must have been one of the early uses of the electric hit registering system for sabre. The metallic piste on the floor was an integral part of the circuit:
QotD: Stress Case
People do many different things to cope with stress, loss, and "bumps in the road". How do you handle stress and hard times?
Submitted by RedlyGal.
Cinema Mismanagement
So, on Friday night, Lorna and I went to the cinema. Boy, that was a mistake.
The cinema, the Odeon Greenwich, had decided to go back to back for the opening of Transformers either to "meet customer demand" or "make more money". Well, they may have succeeded in the latter, but they failed badly in the former. By the time we arrived at the cinema to collect our pre-booked 9.30pm showing tickets, the queue to get up to the screens was looped right around the circular building. Staff were surly and evasive when asked what was going on, and it took us three separate attempts to discover the back-to-back thing wasn't working very well for them, and all the screenings had fallen behind.
We finally got into the cinema well after 10pm, to find dirty seats and an unpleasantly aromatic cinema. And when the film started, 10% of it was on the side wall, not the screen itself. Several members of the audience had to go and complain before this was sorted out.
Oh, and when we emerged, the women's loo had run out of toilet paper.
Congratulations Odeon. We, after half a decade of using your cinema regularly, will never be darkening your doors again. If that's how you treat paying customers, I won't be a customer of yours any more.