Sung to a tuneless dirge with much Stevie Wonderesque head waving and finger pointing:
‘Ohhhhhhh
It’s hard to know what to do
When you have a Croc O Dile
Downyourpants’
This Week I shall Mostly Be Reading
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen; A Kestrel for A Knave by Barry Hines; Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak; The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay; Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust; Snuff by Terry Pratchett; The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73 edited by John Saumarez Smith; The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden; Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson; Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson; Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson; The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot; Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney; The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett; Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.The Book I Shall Mostly Be Lusting After This Week Is…
Mother, Brother, Lover by Jarvis CockerI Tweet, therefore I am
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- @amjustme or me. The box thing is pretty troubling even if he does earn a lot of money. 11 hours ago
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That’s just what I thought this morning.
Jenny
I think we all did. It’s such a universal theme.