Holda's Holt

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
hagazusa goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Queen Boo-dicca of the Iceni.
abhasana gives you 17 brown coffee-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
ally112038 gives you 1 purple passionfruit-flavoured jawbreakers.
caitriona_nnc tricks you! You get a wet rag.
catrin_santiago gives you 15 red mint-flavoured gummy bats.
eydimork tricks you! You get a rotten egg.
happydog gives you 14 tan licorice-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
jenett gives you 14 mauve grape-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
mare_in_flames tricks you! You get a rock.
pinkpolarity tricks you! You get a rock.
selkie_b gives you 9 light blue blueberry-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
hagazusa ends up with 70 pieces of candy, a wet rag, a rotten egg, a rock, and a rock.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

http://www.intothehermitage.blogspot.com/

I love this blog. The Scottish artist travels through Britain in a converted horsebox turned gypsy wagon and her art is to die for.

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Liz Jones on how horses changed her life. It is exactly like falling in love.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1202090/LIZ-JONES-The-horse-helped-rediscover-happiness-saved-life.html

I wish we all had her money and resources to rescue animals in need.

My LiveJournal Sitcom
hagazusa at the Eiffel Tower (BRAVO, 10:30): hagazusa (Kim Basinger) and witchy_abriel (Joaquin Phoenix) sneak a pocketwatch into a grocery store. Then, mry19355 (Dennis Quaid) accidentally throws away slate1198 (Jean Claude van Damme)'s salad. Meanwhile, catrin_santiago (Michelle Yeoh) burns bluedolfyn (Errol Flynn)'s coffee mug. Nearby, thorn_and_calyx (Joey Lauren Adams) gets ravan (Bill Murray) drunk. Upstairs, siggy_gfs (Petula Clark) causes problems at work when a file from wastedrock (Jane Fonda) has a virus. (Part 1 of 2.)
What's Your LiveJournal Sitcom? (by rfreebern)

Who cares about dead celebrities? This is far more relevant!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEjKk5Kt3rs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flj%2Dtoys%2Ecom%2F%3Fjournalid%3D138030%26moduleid%3D99%26preview%3D%26auth%5Ftoken%3Dsessionless%3A1241722800%3Aembedcontent&feature=player_embedded

from sunfell

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HAPPY SAINT GEORGE'S DAY!

Remember, folks, he's the patron saint of ponehs!

Amazon is not bowing to fundy groups to sweep GLBT titles under the carpet! It was all a glitch. Or something. Sure . . .

This is the best summary I've seen so far of the whole sorry tale:

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/the_wildhunt/564641.html

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Saunders and French do Pony Club:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWd_r2sOPhs

From zzrmags, The Engineers' Guide to Cats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4

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The BBC thinks most people have only read six of these. They are wrong.

Bolding the ones I have read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Read up to Book 5)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (Most of it, anyway.)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Why listed twice?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (What is this doing on a list of great books?)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Chez Hagazusa we are sacrificing a 75 cl bottle of Belgian beer, the special kind with the champagne cork and nearly as strong as champagne, to celebrate Obama's inauguration.

Amusingly, the beer is called Bush.

The best Amazon book review ever:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X2TB3S4O5I60/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

Who knew?!

Which creature of the night are you? Your Result: Sorceror   Control is the name of your game. You are a studied tactician and scientist and you seek a kingdom where things make sense, damn the morals, even if you have to create it. You are cold, calm and calculating.
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