mooging | "I'm ready for the good times" (Reply)

Tomorrow I am away skipping on my holidays!

Although 'skipping' may be a stretch, as may 'holiday', as I am actually going to a place in the middle of nowhere, to stay in a converted train station with no internet and four family members for a week, and I may never recover. But! There must be a bright side! There is a games room there, and a mini-spa type thing and 2 acres of ground (yes, all where we're going - and it's only us there, like a little rented holiday home thing) so, er, please let bits of it be good?

So, today I am being busy with packing and sorting out my iPod and cleaning my sink and packing and emailing people and packing and things.

I am taking somewhere near a hundred-weight of books to get me through the torment.

Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter: Half Blood Prince
(I'm doing a re-read of the whole lot before next Saturday, and I'm taking these two with me because they're my favourites - OotP being my favourite of the lot)
His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman (read them before, but loooove them)
Cagney and Lacey - Serita Deborah Stevens
Harry and the Wrinklies - Alan Temperley (a favourite of mine, and I re-read every holiday)
The Rice Mother - Rani Manicka (one of the trashier books I'm taking - shh what I need to read some rubbish too - and it's thick and chunky and layer-ish towards the end whilst remaining fairly eegh (which is clearly a word) and I liked it the first time round, and it's a book you find more in once you know the ending, you know?)
Polite Sex - James Wilcox (*)
The Adultery Club - Tess Stimson (pure trashy reading - my aunt gave it to me, and I figured what the hell, I'm on holiday, let's read some crap) (*)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson (*)
In Cold Domain - Anne Fine (*)
The Regeneration Trilogy - Pat Barker (*)
The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gatiss (*)
The Devil in Amber - Mark Gatiss (*)

Books with an asterix denote books I've not read before.

We are returning next Saturday - the day Deathly Hallows comes out. And I shall be purchasing that on the way home. And I shall be walking through streets of anywhere we stop with a kind of practised deafness, in case anyone decides it would be fun to shout out the ending. This is super caution, as last year I was spoiled for That Big Half Blood Prince Spoiler by Newsround. Newsround, people. The world clearly, clearly hates me.

And then that Monday I am off to Manchester overnight with my dad and step-mother, and we will be seeing Order of the Phoenix, and as such I shall not be on the internet after today until a week on Tuesday (SPOILER LOCK-DOWN COMMENCES NOW).

Shh, I'm silly.

Anyway. I hope you all have a good week and a bit, and I shall see (well, metaphorically speaking) you all sometime the week after next!