nocto

i’ve always thought that susan coolidge’s katy series was a trilogy but i now discover there were five volumes. as well as the popular threesome of what katy did, what katy did at school and what katy did next there are two following stories called clover and in the high valley.

amazon’s isbn’s for the last two books in the series date from a 1965 publication so i don’t expect i’ll have any luck rooting out these two missing tales. and project gutenberg have only got the text to what katy did at school so far.

update: found them.

[found in the middle of a huge old thread on the guardian's booktalk section about chalet school characters]

i’ve had an rss feed for centuries and have watched other people talking[*] about how useful rss readers are for keeping up with weblogs but i just couldn’t be bothered to install another piece of software to clutter my desktop up with. i’ve just installed nntp//rss and so far i think it’s ace. it lets you read feeds via your regular usenet newsreader, no need to add another piece of software into your life. great stuff.

[found via dive into mark]

[*]i tried to change that to “listened to other people talking” but for the most part i’ve never heard these people’s voices. i tried to change that to “watched other people writing” but that doesn’t make sense to me either. the act of reading weblogs feels more like “watching people talking” to me than anything else no matter how nonsensical it sounds.

i think it’s been sunny every day for a week now. i fully expect to find that this is “the summer” this year.