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[livejournal.com profile] brundle has upped sticks to move across to our new accommodation. I'm hoping to move before the end of the week, panic-jobs outstanding willing. A Brave New World beckons, notably one that's at the other end of the grounds to my current position.

Had lunch cake with [personal profile] cynthia_black yesterday at a new(ish, to us) coffee place on Newland, which is a sort of second-hand bookshop/coffee bar. With free wi-fi, too. Definitely the sort of place one could hang out in for a while, but I do wonder whether the economies of this kind of enterprise really work out - can you honestly generate enough income from selling coffee for the relatively small number of tables/chairs to cover rent/staff/materials/wi-fi/overheads for the week? This, alas, is why I'll never be an entrepreneur - too timid to take such risks (and also, too devoid of imagination to come up with such concepts).

Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan, ordered on Friday, arrived yesterday - that was speedy service for free delivery! For more YA Steampunk, I've also been pointed at The Hunchback Assignments. But it's Leviathan first.

Date: 2009-10-13 12:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] carolanne5
*sighs*

So sad, there are more books in the world that I'd like to read than I will ever get time to read.

*sighs*

Date: 2009-10-13 10:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cynthia_black
*seconds*

*sighs*

Podcasts

Date: 2009-10-14 04:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] carolanne5
I already have too many podcasts to listen too! I subscribe to the Friday night Radio comedy (The New Quiz or The Now Show) and Stephen Fry's.

Date: 2009-10-13 01:59 pm (UTC)
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I'm glad you and [personal profile] cynthia_black still get to visit now and then. :)

Good luck with the work move. Just don't forget to walk to the right part of the building when you come to work the following morning! :D

Date: 2009-10-13 10:17 pm (UTC)
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Must admit, I *really* like the idea of that cafe, but it could do with having the same sort of space as t'other one further up t'road (why yes, this *is* Yorkshire). Me wonders if they too could branch out upstairs in order to make it work...

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