BOOK GROUP.Byline: SHARI LOW AUNT EPP'S GUIDE FOR LIFE ELSPETH MARR MARR Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return Marr Marrucinian (linguistics) MARR Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation (British Columbia, Canada) MARR Multi Axis Radio Range Published by Michael O'Mara Books It's that time of year again! We're counting down to the festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. with some cracking pressie ideas to get you extra chipolatas on your dinner plate this Christmas. This week, it's top reads for the more mature family, starting with one that might even members of the family, starting with one that might even make granny blush. Elspeth Marr was an indomitable in·dom·i·ta·ble adj. Incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; unconquerable. [Late Latin indomit woman of Victorian times who hailed from Fife. Over 60 years after her death in 1947, this enjoyable collection brings us Epp's recipes, remedies and words of wisdom, from jealousy to reincarnation, leeks to libidos. Remember ladies, "Good, strong knickers underneath your nightgown will inhibit access to the fertile crescent Fertile Crescent, historic region of the Middle East. A well-watered and fertile area, it arcs across the northern part of the Syrian desert. It is flanked on the west by the Mediterranean and on the east by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, and includes all or parts ." ON THE MILK WILLIE ROBERTSON Published by Hachette From July 1962 until October 1963, 14-year-old Willie Robertson held the job that made him a rock star among his peers - he was on the milk. Traipsing around Dundee's streets before dawn in all weathers, this is the story of was Fat Boab, who didn't even read Willie's crew. There was Fat Boab, who didn't even read the words on the Lovehearts before he guzzled them. Johnny, the over-sexed stud with the fertile imagination. And Wee Good, who took gullibility to unprecedented heights. Along with Si, Steevie, Gordon and Avril, they got the job done, while providing Willie with a bucket-full of stoatin' anecdotes that make this a wonderfully evocative, pure braw blast from the past. THE BOOK OF SENIOR JOKES GEOFF TIBBALLS PUBLISHED BY MICHAEL O'MARA BOOKS Have you heard the one about the dads, uncles and granddads who told the same jokes year after year after zzzzzzzzzzzz? Gift wrap Geoff Tibball's little tome of amusement and then stand well back because out if they have a sense of humour Noun 1. sense of humour - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" sense of humor, humor, humour . From knock knock jokes, to those based on toecurling observations, this catalogue of cackles is for the elders who don't mind having a laugh at their own expense. Memory failures, hair loss, senior sex, incontinence, illness and the prospect of those pearly gates all get the funny treatment, giving those repetitive relatives a whole new range of material... just as long as they remember to read the book. SHARI LOW |
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