I seem to have had a very busy life recently but I really could not tell you what I have been doing - not watched any movies, or any plays. Did manage to read 4 books tho - some of them quite interesting.
One was an Agatha Christie - 'Easy to Kill' - nice enough story about crime, drama etc. The really good one though was the Clive Cussler one - Trojan Odyssey - very interesting read because it introduced me to this thought that the Trojan war was not between the Greeks etc over Helen of Troy but was fought on the coasts of England for Tin. Apparently Homer wrote the Iliad a 1000 years later so it's a tale that was passed down from generation to generation and we all know how much can get lost in transalation. I always like books that open your mind to new perspectives - which is why I think the Da Vinci code is such a runaway success - the whole concept was so novel that it was eaten up immediately. I have not read Clive Cussler before but he seems to me to be on the lines of Alistair Maclean et all with the adventure story telling and the recurring protagonists much like Jack Higgins for that matter as well.
The other one of note was 'Leaving Eden' - about a girl's search for herself growing up without a mother to guide her - the hits and misses in her life and how painful the struggle is without someone to guide you.
The last book was 'Blood in the sky' which I think was a bit overdone. It was one of those I live in the country and I make friends with the natives and I help solve murder mysteries and I was an ex policemen and I think I ruined lives and I.. I..I..I.. so yeah you get the point!
I have also gone crazy trying to get a 3 column template for this blog. I like to put up pictures, lyrics, photo walls etc on the sides and one column on the left is not cutting it. The alignment of the posts and the side bar just dont match. So I trawled all these websites and found all these templates with the code and changed the code about a hundred times and de nada! nothing has changed - in one case the post column itself disappeared. So I'm thinking will stick with this format only coz minima stretch does not seem like an option anymore on blogger leaving me with minima where it becomes a 4 column blog with the columns on either side being like single colored pillars! If anyone can hand me a solution I would be eternally grateful!
One was an Agatha Christie - 'Easy to Kill' - nice enough story about crime, drama etc. The really good one though was the Clive Cussler one - Trojan Odyssey - very interesting read because it introduced me to this thought that the Trojan war was not between the Greeks etc over Helen of Troy but was fought on the coasts of England for Tin. Apparently Homer wrote the Iliad a 1000 years later so it's a tale that was passed down from generation to generation and we all know how much can get lost in transalation. I always like books that open your mind to new perspectives - which is why I think the Da Vinci code is such a runaway success - the whole concept was so novel that it was eaten up immediately. I have not read Clive Cussler before but he seems to me to be on the lines of Alistair Maclean et all with the adventure story telling and the recurring protagonists much like Jack Higgins for that matter as well.
The other one of note was 'Leaving Eden' - about a girl's search for herself growing up without a mother to guide her - the hits and misses in her life and how painful the struggle is without someone to guide you.
The last book was 'Blood in the sky' which I think was a bit overdone. It was one of those I live in the country and I make friends with the natives and I help solve murder mysteries and I was an ex policemen and I think I ruined lives and I.. I..I..I.. so yeah you get the point!
I have also gone crazy trying to get a 3 column template for this blog. I like to put up pictures, lyrics, photo walls etc on the sides and one column on the left is not cutting it. The alignment of the posts and the side bar just dont match. So I trawled all these websites and found all these templates with the code and changed the code about a hundred times and de nada! nothing has changed - in one case the post column itself disappeared. So I'm thinking will stick with this format only coz minima stretch does not seem like an option anymore on blogger leaving me with minima where it becomes a 4 column blog with the columns on either side being like single colored pillars! If anyone can hand me a solution I would be eternally grateful!
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Oooh but the top part looks so nice...
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