Archive for May, 2006
Bogside Reading
Monday, May 8th, 2006I had to laugh, but in order to tell you about why I had to laugh, I have to make a confession about what some of you may consider as “eew”!
I’m a bogside reader.
There. I said it.
How has this confession come about? Quite simple, really. I’m reading Kate Fox’s Watching the English at the moment, and I had to laugh at the coincidence; I was reading about bogside reading, wait for it, when I was on the bog!
There are many English people – particularly males – who find it very hard to defecate at all unless they have something to read. If there was no proper bogside reading, they will read the instructions on the soap-dispenser or the list of ingredients on the spray can of air-freshener.
Fox, Kate, Watching the English, p221
Ho hum! That’s very true of me! However, I do not have a bogside collection of books and magazines. I tend to take a book or magazine into the loo with me. According to Fox, this makes me lower-middle or middle-middle.
There you go. There’s one more thing about me that you did not want to know!
Updates
Monday, May 8th, 2006Summary: Using opportunity to film a vlog because it’s not dark yet, and the sun’s out, so ideal conditions to film. Been long time since last posted, why? Busy, can’t be arsed, nothing to say. What have I been up to? Wedding is soon; just over 3 months to go. We’ve booked honeymoon to Kenya – really excited about it, staying at a posh hotel and going on a safari for 2 nights at Mount Kilmanjaro. Finished Masters degree, but got dissertation to do by December 2006; plenty of time. Work is busy because have got rid of advice surgeries and focusing on the training contract, and getting plenty legal work. That’s it!




