Grumpy Old Holidays
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Grumpy Old Holidays
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Author : Judith Holder
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-12-29
Grumpy Old Holidays written by Judith Holder and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-29 with Humor categories.
Welcome on board - holidays the Grumpy way! As every Grumpy Old Man and Woman knows, holidays are another way of keeping you all house-trained. They are civilised society's reminder to you that the tedium of everyday life is actually preferable to a fortnight spent in the company of nagging partners, other people's brats, bombastic in-laws; and - worse still - people who can't speak English. As soon as you check in at the airport you are marooned in a sea of screaming babies, dull-faced reps and bland airport food. Count yourself lucky if your optimistic expectation of a good holiday is even remotely fulfilled. Don't be fooled by the glamorous air-brushed photos of American models with tippexed teeth sitting by laguna pools, cocktail in hand. There may be beautiful sunsets by the beach in the brochure, but you'll inevitably find that a) you should have booked the neighbouring hotel (and if you're lucky she'll tell you so, 'ad nauseam') b) you picked the rainy/religious holiday/mosquito/plague infestation season - and wonder why it was so cheap and c) you'll have had too much sex or food by the third or fourth day and be bored of each other, but there's no-one else to talk to, apart from monosyllabic waiting staff and the ubiquitous Russians. A holiday is supposed to be a lovely break, isn't it? This book proves that it is the stay-at-homes who have all the fun.
Grumpy Old Women
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Author : Judith Holder
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-05-04
Grumpy Old Women written by Judith Holder and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-04 with Humor categories.
We all know what it means these days to be a grumpy old man, because part of that role is to be outspoken. Well, we've heard just about enough out of the men, thank you very much! Grumpy Old Women gives us the other perspective: the female take on the million irritations of today's world. So whats the difference? Surely what is irritating to the mature members of one sex is equally annoying to the other? Not necessarily, and this is precisely what Grumpy Old Women seeks to address. Body image, visitors, children, animals, shopping, careers, parties, holidays and, yes, grumpy old men themselves all are very much on the list of what today's mature woman finds a source of concern. From the series producer and stand-up comic Judith Holder, the book incorporates material from the television series Grumpy Old Women, which features a diverse, colourful and very grumpy group of celebrities, including Janet Street Porter, Jenny Eclair, Ann Widdecombe, Germaine Greer, Kathryn Flett and Jilly Cooper. Written with wit, style and sympathy, the book is a source of both amusement and comfort to women everywhere - grumpy, old or otherwise.
Grumpy Old Women
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Author : Judith Holder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Grumpy Old Women written by Judith Holder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Grumpy old women (Television program) categories.
Similar in style to the 'Grumpy Old Men', this official handbook features the rants of women. Topics covered include body image, visitors, children, careers, animals, shopping, parties, holidays and grumpy old men.
Grumpy Old Couples
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Author : Jenny Eclair
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-12-29
Grumpy Old Couples written by Jenny Eclair and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-29 with Humor categories.
From that first date - and how it's all downhill from there We all know about the jungle of 'dating'. But once you've found your 'special' friend you'll have to pretend you like their taste in music, be nice to their mother and pick up their socks, and that's only year one. By the time you get into grumpy old middle-aged land, you're firmly on farting terms and over-familiarity has bedded in. The only thing to do with the whole business is to laugh over it, which is the idea of this book.
Grumpy Old Christmas
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Author : Stuart Prebble
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-12-20
Grumpy Old Christmas written by Stuart Prebble and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-20 with Humor categories.
The highly successful 'Grumpies' return full of the Christmas spirit. So - 'tis the season to be jolly is it? Well, not in the household of the Grumpy Old Man it isn't. In the case of the GOM, 'tis the season to have to put up with even deeper layers of vexation than usual, and the only thing worth celebrating is that it looks as though you might after all be surviving to the end of what has been another crap year. Everything about Christmas gets up our snitches. Everything. From the breakfast telly presenters who tell us it's now just 120 shopping days to go, to the annual festive strike by airport baggage handlers. From office parties where drunken juniors have waited the whole year to tell you what 'the trouble with you is...', to parents videoing their precocious brats at the atrocious school nativity play where your kid is playing the part of the donkey's rear end. From the woman next door who drops in to show your wife the diamond ring her prat of a husband has bought her, to the 150th opportunity to see 'Whistle Down the Wind' on the telly. And speaking of wind, there's the festive Xmas turkey that tastes like blotting paper soaked in a puddle and sends your digestive system to hell. And how on earth are we really supposed to look happy when someone buys us a tie with a picture of xxxxing Santa on it? Eh?
Mundane Governance
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Author : Steve Woolgar
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-11-28
Mundane Governance written by Steve Woolgar and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-28 with Business & Economics categories.
What is to be made of the outcry when newly issued recycling "wheelie" bins are discovered to contain microchips for weighing and evaluating householders' rubbish? The angry accusations that speed cameras are generating excessive income for the government? The consternation at the measures taken by airports to heighten security in the wake of the increased threat of terrorist attacks? These increasingly widespread reactions to ordinary events and everyday phenomena share a common theme. They all embody concerns about the ways in which our lives are increasingly regulated and controlled in relation to ordinary objects and technologies. This book takes these concerns as the starting point for exploring the ways in which relations of governance and accountability in contemporary life are organized around ordinary, everyday, pervasive objects and technologies. In contrast to the contemporary literature on governance, the book argues for the importance of examining how accountability relations are enacted on the ground, in relation to mundane objects and technologies. In particular, it is crucial to understand how governance and accountability are mediated through material relations involving ordinary everyday objects and technologies. The book argues that the key to understanding governance is to focus on political constitution at the level of ontology rather than just on the traditional politics of organization, structure, and human compliance. The term ontology is used here to draw attention to the social and cultural processes whereby the nature and existence of ordinary things come to matter. The argument is developed in relation to a wide variety of empirical materials drawn from three main areas of everyday life: waste management and recycling; the regulation and control of traffic (especially speed cameras and parking); and security and passenger movement in airports.
Mum In A Million
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Author : Judith Holder
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-02-16
Mum In A Million written by Judith Holder and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-16 with Humor categories.
There is no one quite like your mother - but along with the unconditional love and understanding, this also means that there is no one else who always knows when you're fibbing, or where you keep your diary, or the terribly amusing thing you once said at a family wedding when you were five. In an affectionate, amusing and mischievous book, Judith Holder's tribute to motherhood covers everything from mothers through the ages (it's not only the Virgin Mary who we wish had had an immaculate conception) to maternal anxiety and those little things she says and why she says them: 'You're not going out like that', 'What are you doing inside on a lovely day like today?', and the classic 'because I said so.' Using interviews and testimonies from mothers and daughters of all ages, this is a humorous look at motherhood and everything that goes with it, with beautifully illustrated and funny line drawings integrated into the text.
Poems From The Heart
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Author : Tony Gorman
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-05
Poems From The Heart written by Tony Gorman and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with Humor categories.
Poems from the Heart is exactly as I have named my book They are meant to make people happy that read them and bring back old memories that had been forgotton and locked away in the past. Hopefully the poems I have written flow's from my heart to your's when you read them. Tony Gorman
A Little Bit Of Holiday Magic
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Author : Melissa McClone
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2013-11-05
A Little Bit Of Holiday Magic written by Melissa McClone and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Fiction categories.
Widow Grace Wilcox is hesitant to give in to her feelings for Hood Hamlet firefighter Bill Paulson, but her young son Liam has other ideas for what he sees as a new family for Christmas.
The Secret Diary Of A Grumpy Old Woman
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Author : Judith Holder
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-12-29
The Secret Diary Of A Grumpy Old Woman written by Judith Holder and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-29 with Humor categories.
The highly successful Grumpy Old Woman returns - and this time she's even grumpier! 'It feels like only yesterday I was the youngest person in the room, I had my whole life in front of me. I had time to burn, I spent my whole day snogging boys and backcombing my hair. I was a young thing, with a lovely body, life was fun, and I hadn't a care in the world. Now - it feels like two minutes later - I'm a little bit old. OK, I'm not in elasticated stockings or on Meals on Wheels whizzing down the stairs on my stairlift, but my life is more than half over. I've been there, done that, got the packamac. I'm so old that I remember dances with drum solos, the arrival of unisex hairdressers and had a crush on Ilya Kuryakin. I am up at the top of the hill, and over the other side again. What all this means, is that I am grumpy. But I've earnt it... I lived through Boney M and leg warmers and the Crossroads Motel. Obviously in a book this size I wouldn't be able to share with you ALL of my grumps. But I've decided to write down some of the secret thoughts that beset a woman of a certain age, some of the wicked things that occur to a woman who takes a lot of things to the dry cleaners, has to have her roots done every four weeks and finds it hard to wear high heels. And guess what: they still fancy people, still have silly little crushes on people at work, still - shock horror - have sex. You will discover that women of a certain age are just as provocative and turned on as women in their twenties. Probably more so. So get over it. Middle-aged women are sexy, funny and infinitely lovable. They are also taking over the world.'