Good morning! It is Thursday and I really have no one topic in my head but fractured pieces of several. Bear with me… (bare with me? No, that doesn’t sound right either….)
Last night Bookcloseouts.com emailed me a 50% off audio books sale. Way to go Book Closeouts… much of my supposed “mowing in the evening” time went to browsing and drooling over great titles that were $7.99 and less…. many around that $4.00 mark. 17 audio books later, I came out the other side. I averaged less that $5 per audio. No kidding – check this out. (And I finished mowing at 9:15 pm, thank you Book Closeouts!)
Shelf Awareness posted this morning that the Pooh House is for sale and for several reasons…. I visualized it as mine for a few seconds… one reason being, how funny it is called the “Pooh” house…. and the looks you would get – HOWEVER it is called the Pooh House because it used to belong to Christopher Robin Milne, son of Winnie the Pooh creator A.A. Milne, and more recently – a Rolling Stone… not a rolling rock, but a rock man… errr, a member of the Rolling Stones. 😛
I picture myself in England, no doubt wearing long flowing dresses and carrying around a cup of tea as I think that is what the English do… with my pinky in the air because I think that is a “must” as well. Tally ho and all that…. I think that’s what you say…..
Tonight after work I get my hair cut (always frightening!) and then I am going on a town walk – a bout thing which sounds a little cheesy but a lot of fun. A few of my friends and I are participating in a thing where you go to local participating businesses and get your card stamped – some of the businesses will have treats to sample, and drawings, and one person will win $1,000 dollars, announced tomorrow morning on the radio. My friend Amy was the winner of that $1,000 the first year she participated.
Sounds just silly enough to be fun.
Have to run – have to work…. have a wonderful day…. our weather has gone from delightful the past three days where I have been busy mowing the lawn and preparing the garden to now – when I have time to be outside…. windy and cold. GAH…. Hopefully $1,000 will take the edge off the weather…LOL..
hey, a girl can dream can’t she? 😛
Book Journey 
I really love the look of the Pooh house, despite the name…lol
Christopher Robin from the stories was Milne’s real son’s name…I guess I might have known that, but had forgotten it.
Enjoy your walk-about…our weather has turned cooler, too; but I’m kind of glad. It was edging upwards in the 90s.
Have a great day!
I did not know the Christopher Robins connection between author and son but now I feel ready for Jeopardy! 😀
What a great house-I loved Milnes’s books. When is BEA-who are you boarding with-my trial may not go now after all. I find out for sure next week-although after taking off to France not sure I could afford NYC.
Hi Esme, Oh what a bummer! Our room is now full! I am flying out June 3rd (Sunday) and leaving the morning of the 8th. The actual expo is June 4-7.
Hope you have a wonderful Thursday. Hope you win the $1000 so you can put a down payment on the “Pooh” House! 🙂
Shannon
http://www.irunreadteach.wordpress.com
LOL – I did not win Shannon and I dont think $1,000 would have covered the down payment on this one… LOL…
what would I even do with such a house? Fill it with books? Hmmm…..
Love the Pooh house, and Pooh too! 😀 The town walk sounds fun. Binghamton, NY, just north of us, has First Friday each month when the art galleries stay open in the evening and all the bars and restaurants have specials and they get a big turnout. Everyone just strolls around and they pop in wherever they like.
That sounds fun Barbara! 😀
Cold???!!! Seriously…this “breezy” weather is right up my alley. This is what I call great laying (lying?) in a hammock with a book weather! 🙂
LOL – well, when I left for work it looked a little…. er, crappy out. The day actually shaped up nicely 😀
Oooh, what a pretty little house!
When we were in England, last year, we fell in love with the fashion. Women were wearing really flowy fabrics, all light and airy. I don’t know why I can’t get anything like that here — in the stifling Deep South! Nobody looked like Jane Austen and stuck out a pinky, but we did pass a pub called the Tally Ho. 🙂
Nice – I like the picture of that Nancy!
I forgot to mention our connection to the Winnie-the-Pooh author. We had some descendants of Milne living in our town, for a while (they’ve moved). Their son went to school with our eldest. They were direct descendants with the last name Milne and very proud of their ancestry. They had a Pooh flag hanging over the front door.
Oh that is so cool! Relatives of The Pooh!!!