2011 Project365 (day339-341)
Categories: book-review, photography
Tags: photos, project365, book review
Date: 07 December 2011 21:17:26
7th December:
Kitchen tile.
6th December:
[Actually taken on 7th, oops]. One of the 20 million cushions left by the previous house owner.
5th December:
As I'm without a car this week I am having a long long old journey to and from work. This book is really brightening up the journey. The author is (or at least was when the book was published) a presenter on Radio 6 and film buff for Radio Times, but more importantly for my purposes he's just a few years older than me and is from down the road from where I'm from. This is just a very gentle memoir, based on his childhood diaries (kept from age 6 to 19) of growing up in Northampton in the 1970s. There is so much I recognise, from approximations of the accent (it's totally true: we do shorten 'this afternoon' to 'sartnoon') to the places he went on holiday (same places as us!). What is striking me at the moment (he's probably about 10 by this point) is that in his diaries he writes about the presents he gets for birthday, Christmas etc and they're so simple (felt tips, Action Man) and yet he seemed so chuffed with them, not like all the electronic gizmos kids get these days. This is my book group book, I'll be really interested to see what the others make of it - with one exception all of us are probably within 5 or 6 years of my age, so will get lots of the cultural references, but I'm not sure how much of the book is accessible to any UK-based 70s kid and how much of it is more specifically resonant to someone from the Rose of the Shires (yes that is what it says on the signs, believe it or not).
Mind you, he'd better not reveal the Northants ultra-secret, how to pronounce Bozeat. That's the easiest way to tell someone's not from round 'ere.