Archive for May, 2007

Yay!!
Thursday 31 May, 2007

The competition opened today! I was so excited! I couldn’t stop smiling all day! I suppose it is better that the competition started today because today is Thursday – just like Thursday Next! The website looks very pretty with lots of pictures of books on it. One day when I live in my own house, [...]

weddings
Thursday 31 May, 2007

I have given it some thought and I have decided that I would like to see a wedding. I told Julie that I have never been to a wedding and she said to give it a few months and there would bound to be loads to choose from. I hope she is right!

‘greyhound in the slips’,
Wednesday 30 May, 2007

A person wrote to me today and used the expression ‘like a greyhound in the slips’, I didn’t know what this meant, but I liked the way the words were put together so I looked it up on the computer. I found this  meaning first
http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/slip
4. To let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound.
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hold your horses!
Monday 28 May, 2007

Jasper emailed me again today

 

 

 
 

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Hello there June.
I have been browsing my lovely website and I see that there is a competition tied in with the launching of my new and [...]

new question
Monday 28 May, 2007

Jasper has added a question onto the end of the first round for each of the quizzes and added some new guidelines to the tie breaker. I hope he doesn’t add any more questions or we’ll never get it started!
peter emailed me today, he asked me if i wanted to meet up for lunch, but [...]

Primark
Saturday 26 May, 2007

Today I finally went to get my shirt! I was feeling a bit nervous still about going down the staircase, but this time when I opened my door to leave I met the sandwich delivery man in the corridor. He smiled at me and asked if I was going out. I explained to him that [...]

Wednesday
Friday 25 May, 2007

Wednesday is a funny word. Why doesn’t somebody take out the extra d? I’ve had that thought in my head for two days now.
I emailed peter today to see if wanted to meet for lunch but he said he was going for lunch with wendy already. I don’t see why we couldn’t all eat lunch [...]

Canada
Thursday 24 May, 2007

Today I felt so silly, I completely forgot that there is a country called Canada, and it is such a big country too! Luckily I emailed Julie about it first or I would have looked really silly.
Hello Julie,
There are people who want to enter the competition but they live in Canada. I looked in my [...]

photocopying
Wednesday 23 May, 2007

Jasper phoned up Julie today, he is very excited about the competition too (although Julie says nobody can be quite as excited as I am) he has even made up a special question which will be added to the Ffordian Next questions. It is really tricky because the answer isn’t in any of the books anywhere!
Today [...]

competition website
Tuesday 8 May, 2007

Julie and Janet went to meet with the people who will be making the game today. I was manning the phones and email in their absence, there were lots of calls about meetings that will be happening that Janet should go to but nothing very unusual. I wrote all the meetings down in her diary [...]