AMJ Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Ladybird book on Sheds - an adult book based on the classic children's style of books. Not a book about locomotives! Now then who does this remind you of? Looks like there are a few similar themed books when you look on the likes of https://www.waterstones.com/booklist/262226/waterstones-booksellers-books- Other titles include How it Works: The Wife - Ladybirds for Grown-Ups The Ladybird Book of the Hangover Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 I was given the Book of Sheds as a present last Christmas. It's quite a thin volume and only a 2 minute chuckle. A waste of money really, but I didn't pay for it.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 It's quite a thin volume and only a 2 minute chuckle. A waste of money really, but I didn't pay for it.. How much is a two minute chuckle worth? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 Not as much as - say - a Parkside wagon kit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 How much is a two minute chuckle worth? About the same as an ACE Models "O" gauge loco kit? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forest2807 Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 I thought this was about Class 66's when I clicked on it..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted May 10, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 10, 2016 How much is a two minute chuckle worth? Cost me a lot over the years...that's my love life in a nutshell... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 10, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 10, 2016 Cost me a lot over the years...that's my love life in a nutshell... How do you make it last two minutes? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Emily Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 I have the Ladybird book of the Hipster, and it's really quite funny. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 I have the Ladybird book of the Hipster, Do the English versions, like their American cousins, sport beards a lumberjack would envy and wax lyrical about artisanal foods like pickles? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Having read most of these books (luckily the station bookstall stocks them, and reading one fits nicely into waiting for a train, so one doesn't even have to pay!), I think they are probably like all comedy, funnier the nearer the bone they cut. So, the Sheds one had me creased-up, because I could empathise (all too closely, in some cases) with almost every one of the shed-owners illustrated (I'm sure I actually know some of them as friends),but the Hipster and Mindfulness ones, for instance, left me a bit unmoved, because I regard both types as so self-indulgent and/or self-deluded as to be irritating, rather than funny (they probably think the same about mildly grouchy middle-aged blokes, who hide from the world in their sheds). Kevin PS: Ozex, yes, and worse! (Actually, I've just realised: I'm grumpy with Hipsters precisely because they are young, and I'm not.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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