New Look and Have You Read

I’ve been tinkering with the blog style again. Unfortunately, it’s not quite the way I wanted, I designed a great 3 column site using divs rather then tables, but it just wouldn’t work as a blog. I’ll keep it because it looks great as a standard site, and it will be useful for any extra pages I add to this blog. Anyhow, I had to go back to tables to get it work, and that was rather odd, because it’s at least two years since I last used tables. It was a bit like stepping back in time, so this is now kind of a retro blog.

I’ve just finished reading The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry. It came out in 1995, but relying on second hand book shops as I do (I live in the land that literature forgot) I only found a copy recently. It took me a while to get into it, I wasn’t keen on the main character at first, but he grew on me as the story unfolded. After that, it was quite an enjoyable read, with some interesting, if exceedingly posh characters . . . to be expected considering the author, a man so posh QE2 probably feels common in his company. Be warned, it does contain some strong language, and a few scenes of a sexual nature, including one that could be construed as offensive. ( I had to pop that in, I would hate to be accused of corrupting anyones’ morals. LOL ) Overall, it’s an entertaining novel, very funny, with well defined characters and a sub plot which questions whether we should always believe what we see.