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Yesssss! Broadband (and thus my PC, as opposed to R's antique and temperamental beast) up and running! Can look at LJ without taking a tea break every time I click on a post! Can Google and get results!

Photo-essay soon. Maybe.

[books] recent reads

#60: A Conspiracy of Paper -- David Liss
#61: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -- J K Rowling
#62: Mr Darwin's Shooter -- Roger McDonald

Then and Now

Then	Now
Twelve trains to Central London every hour (+ DLR)	Two trains to Central London every hour
Five rooms	Seventeen rooms
Looking at the pretty colours of the evening smog	Watching the stars come out from the football pitch lawn
Scaly carnivore, singular	Furry carnivores, plural
Virgin phone signal	No Virgin phone signal (Vodafone connection real soon now)
Bored teenagers on mini-scooters / yelling at each other	Birdsong
2500 books	About 1000 books (the rest are in the loft or headed/heading for new shelves)
straggly pot-plants	verdant vegetation
a river running past	a river running past (rainy days only, end of the road)
pikey high-street chain stores	nice mix of independent shops and chains
Maritime Greenwich, 20 mins walk	Brighton (2 trains an hour)
tumuli	South Downs
Bookshops that stay open until 11	Amazon
muggings	strangers who say 'good morning' and smile