Some links for you

[wellinghall]

Today's Matt offers a different take on the swine flu scare:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

Oxford Arthurians might want to read this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8022291.stm

Thirty-five favourite children's books:

Quentin Blake Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, Edward Ardizzone; Queenie the Bantam, Bob Graham; The Box of Delights,John Masefield; Rose Blanche, Ian McEwan and Roberto Innocenti; Five Children and It, E Nesbit; Snow White, Josephine Poole; Stuart Little, EB White

Jacqueline Wilson Little Women, Louisa May Alcott; A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett; What Katy Did, Susan Coolidge; The Family from One End Street, Eve Garnett; The Railway Children, E Nesbit; Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild; Mary Poppins, PL Travers

Michael Morpurgo Five Go to Smuggler’s Top, Enid Blyton; Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Virginia Lee Burton; Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens; Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling; A Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear; Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson; The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde

Anne Fine The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken; Absolute Zero, Helen Cresswell; Just William, Richmal Crompton; Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson; Lavender’s Blue, Kathleen Lines; A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson; The Sword in the Stone, TH White

Michael Rosen Clown, Quentin Blake; The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank; Emil and the Detectives, Erich Kästner; Not Now, Bernard, David McKee; Fairy Tales, Terry Jones; Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, Andy Stanton; Daz 4 Zoe, Robert Swindells

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article6181796.ece

"A replica 16th Century junk has sunk off Taiwan, one day short of completing an epic voyage to the US and back. The Ming dynasty-style Princess Taiping was trying to prove that China's greatest admiral, Zheng He, could have reached North America 600 years ago."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8020206.stm

"A three-seater outside toilet in Kent has been listed as a building of special architectural and historical importance."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7251752.stm

ETA: The art of Penguin science fiction:
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/

Comments

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

Today's Matt offers a different take on the swine flu scare:

Thanks for that, that's excellent

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

I've often thought public toilets are under rated. Someone ought to endow them, like they do with other public buildings, for the good (comfort?) of the nation.

[segh.livejournal.com]

"'Vot,' asked George lll courteously, 'is ze difference between a public nuisance and a public Gonvenience?'"

[juliebeth.livejournal.com]

Loved the Matt cartoon! Thanks for the laugh.

[overconvergent.livejournal.com]

I think I saw that Pagan guy's caravan on Sunday ...

[tree_and_leaf]

The listed toilet is quite brilliant, actually.

Am shocked by the lack of Arthur Ransome on the books lists!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Penguin link. Did you see the two links I posted to galleries of fake video game box covers done in that style?

http://philmophlegm.livejournal.com/94168.html

[clarienne.livejournal.com]

What a shame about the junk. I hope the crew of the ship that rammed it feel suitably ashamed.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

I'd be inclined to say that, though having been sunk is of course a pity, the junk has done what it set out to do!

[knitting-hobbit.livejournal.com]

LOL!!! on the Matt comic. I needed that.

Thanks for listing the children's books too. :)

[knitting-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Agreed! :)

[chainmailmaiden]

The Matt cartoon went down very well at my work, but I failed to get them to use it on the email sent out to staff to let them know about our contingency plans. :-(

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I had seen it existed, but not looked at it; thank you for the recommendation.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well quite!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well quite. I'm more impressed with it than I was with the Irish coracle that set out to sail the Atlantic about 30 years ago; while it was an interesting experiment, their claims that "This shows it could have been done" were rather given the lie by the fact that they ended up trapped by ice, several hundred miles from shore.

Marks for bravery - or possibly stupidity - go to Thor Heyerdal's Ra expedition, crossing the Atlantic in a reed boat. When the first one sank off Bermuda because the ship came apart, they tried again!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it was appreciated :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Pleased to be of service! ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well quite!