In all my years visiting London, I have always avoided mushy peas as it sounded bad and I'm not a big pea fan. Had them twice on this trip and oh my, rather yum. I am now annoyed at past me for depriving me of this treat.

In London, life size monopoly is a thing

Unexpectedly, the local pub was out of bangers and mash.

First night in Paris and had duck for dinner. Quelle surprise. Finishing the evening with some Armorik, French whisky, that I purchased earlier.

This may be my new favourite drink tasteatlas.com/kir-breton#:~:…

"French supermarket chain Carrefour puts "shrinkflation" warnings on price-gouging brands" boingboing.net/2023/09/15/fre…

Going to bed in Brussels. Plan for Monday is beer + mussels

The glory of this holiday is that I'm getting a lot of reading done of some excellent SF - I have Murderbot queued up next snail.ws/books/

Finally getting to playing with my librarything account. Current plan: 1. export all records in MARC format 2. export all records in excel format 3. delete current library 4. start scanning books from scratch using librarything app librarything.com/profile/snail

I am disappointed that Choice has not reviewed staplers

*cough* #NoseyGetsTheNod Thank you to everyone who voted 🙏 “An Uncommon Hangman”: Danger Award 2023, People’s Choice. I’m very grateful to BADCrimeSydney and Libby, by OverDrive.

I am increasingly not here. Also the web version no longer auto scrolls

Once more I enter the fray, descending to the lounge of the ticketing monolith

This was a fun and engaging read with 2 scholars in conversation about the future of the book, Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere, curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac waterstones.com/book/this-is-n…

ooh...I get to conference in person again...am heading to ALIA National in May alianational2024.alia.org.au

Is this place still a thing?

We must all stand together to protect the freedom to read. See ALIA's statement below. 👉 buff.ly/3wqf82U

"It's up to readers to choose what they want to read." – Minister for the Arts, John Graham The State Library of NSW supports free and equitable access to books and information. Read statement from our State Librarian: sl.nsw.gov.au/news/statement

Here are 3 exciting research opportunities at the Library right now! 1. The new Imago Creative Writing Fellowship ($50,000) 2. The Summer Scholars Program ($10,000) 3. Paid Fellowships & Visiting Scholarships (total $186,000) Apply here: ow.ly/bjoY50Rz7i3

I have updated the roll call for #blogjune snail.ws/2024/06/04/rol…