What bemused you today?

[Oldboy]

With all the sham marriages going on, perhaps he is too busy. 

[Reinardina]

A personal joke for me! Thanks hevans.

I regularly post my entries for the comp here on Flickr, I mention CC, but hardly ever put a link in. I will try to do better in future!
If only I could think of something for this week's competition!

[Oldboy]

If only I could think of something for this week's competition!

Think shops like old sweet shops or even antique shops like ye old curiosity shop. 

[Reinardina]

If only I could think of something for this week's competition!

Think shops like old sweet shops or even antique shops like ye old curiosity shop. 

I was thinking along those lines, but ... (there's always one, isn't there?). We used to have a little road full of small, dusty antique shops. The area was redeveloped, which killed off the small shops, and I haven't found yet, where they are hiding now.
Also, the only old fashioned sweet shop I knew, is now a modern news agent.

Still thinking though, and still hunting for suitable premises.

[Hinfrance]

I was going to go for the Little Shop Of Horrors and then I remembered 1) It's not Dickens and 2) we don't an Apple Store 

[jinky]

I was going to do Bleak House but when I went looking for the one in mind it had been pulled down to make room for a huge new one. They must be selling again!

[Reinardina]

Southampton doesn't have many old houses, as it was flattened during the war. A lot of the ones that were left, have since been demolished to make way for 'luxury apartments.' Ha!

Not giving up yet though.

[Oldboy]

Southampton doesn't have many old houses, as it was flattened during the war. A lot of the ones that were left, have since been demolished to make way for 'luxury apartments.' Ha!

Not giving up yet though.

Novels


The Pickwick Papers (1836–1837) ·
Oliver Twist (1837–1839) ·
Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839) ·
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841) ·
Barnaby Rudge (1840–1841) ·
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–1844) ·
Dombey and Son (1846–1848) ·
David Copperfield (1849–1850) ·
Bleak House (1852–1853) ·
Hard Times (1854) ·
Little Dorrit (1855–1857) ·
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) ·
Great Expectations (1860–1861) ·
Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865) ·
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished) (1870)









Christmas books


A Christmas Carol (1843) ·
The Chimes (1844) ·
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) ·
The Battle of Life (1846) ·
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)






Short stories


The Lamplighter (1838) ·
A Child's Dream of a Star (1850) ·
Captain Murderer ·
The Long Voyage (1853) ·
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1857) (with Wilkie Collins) ·
Hunted Down (1859) ·
The Signal-Man (1866) ·
George Silverman's Explanation (1868) ·
Holiday Romance (1868)






Christmas
short stories


A Christmas Tree (1850) ·
What Christmas is, as We Grow Older (1851) ·
The Poor Relation's Story (1852) ·
The Child's Story (1852) ·
The Schoolboy's Story (1853) ·
Nobody's Story (1853) ·
Going into Society (1858) ·
Somebody's Luggage (1862) ·
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings (1863) ·
Mrs Lirriper's Legacy (1864) ·
Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (1865)






Short story
collections


Sketches by Boz (1837–1839) ·
The Mudfog Papers (1837–1838) ·
Master Humphrey's Clock (1840–1841) ·
Boots at the Holly-tree Inn: And Other Stories (1858) ·
Reprinted Pieces (1861)






Non-fiction


Sunday Under Three Heads (1836) ·
American Notes (1842) ·
Pictures from Italy (1846) ·
The Life of Our Lord (1846, published in 1934) ·
A Child's History of England (1851–1853) ·
The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–1869)






Poetry & plays


The Village Coquettes (play, 1836) ·
The Fine Old English Gentleman (poetry, 1841) ·
The Frozen Deep (play, 1866) (with Wilkie Collins) ·
No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts (play, 1867) (with Wilkie Collins)






Journalism


The Examiner (1808–1886) ·
Monthly Magazine (1833–1835) ·
Morning Chronicle (1834–1836) ·
Evening Chronicle (1835) ·
Bentley's Miscellany (1836–1838) ·
Master Humphrey's Clock (1840–1841) ·
The Pic-Nic Papers (1841) ·
Daily News (1846) ·
Household Words (1850–1859) ·
All the Year Round (1858–1870)






Collaborations


Household Words: The Seven Poor Travellers (1854) (with Wilkie Collins, Adelaide Proctor, George Sala and Eliza Linton) · The Holly-tree Inn (1855) (with Wilkie Collins, William Howitt, Harriet Parr, and Adelaide Procter) · The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856) (with Wilkie Collins, Adelaide Proctor, Harriet Parr, Percy Fitzgerald and Rev. James White) · The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) (with Wilkie Collins) · A House to Let (1858) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Procter) All the Year Round: The Haunted House (1859) (with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Procter, George Sala, and Hesba Stretton) · A Message from the Sea (1860) (with Wilkie Collins, Robert Buchanan, Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards, and Harriet Parr) · Tom Tiddler's Ground (1861) (with Wilkie Collins, John Harwood, Charles Allston Collins, and Amelia Edwards) · The Trial for Murder (1865) (with Charles Allston Collins) · Mugby Junction (1866) (with Andrew Halliday, Charles Allston Collins, Hesba Stretton and Amelia Edwards) · No Thoroughfare (1867) (with Wilkie Collins)





Articles & essays


A Visit to Newgate (1836) ·
Epitaph of Charles Irving Thornton (1842) ·
In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray (1850) ·
A Coal Miner's Evidence (1850) ·
Frauds on the Fairies (1853) ·
The Lost Arctic Voyagers (1854)

The above is a list of Dickens's works so you should find something there. 

[Reinardina]

You can have too much of a good thing OB!
Got quite a few of these at home. Actually took a photograph of 'Bleak House,' but think it's a bit too easy.

[Reinardina]

'Here's one I did earlier.'

Not really what I'm after, but the idea I had, meant a trip into the outdoors, and somehow I never got round to it. Well, two more days, so we'll see.

Bleak House:

[krennon]

WBMT...this hot off the bbc press http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21285587 Jessops brand sold to Peter Jones (he of Dragons Den fame)..could we see this iconic store reopen??? (I know the report says not but you never know even if it just becomes a interweb store like woolies has)

[ABERS]

A discussion about the forthcoming American Superbowl lead to the question how long is the match.

The match time is 60 minutes, but lasts on average 3 hours! The amazing statistic to come out of this was that the ball, in all that time, was in play for only an average of 11-12 minutes for the whole match. Whether you are a defensive or attacking player, you will only get 6 minutes play time.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html

I remember going to a promotional match way back and leaving after a couple of hours. I didn't realise then I had missed another hour of the event, or perhaps 3 more minutes of action!

[Reinardina]

Conversation, I overheard today between two 'college' students, or rather a monologue, as it was only the girl who spoke: "I try to get in on Wednesdays, but I'm never there before eleven o'clock ... what with getting up and getting motivated and all that ..."

[donoreo]

A discussion about the forthcoming American Superbowl lead to the question how long is the match.

The match time is 60 minutes, but lasts on average 3 hours! The amazing statistic to come out of this was that the ball, in all that time, was in play for only an average of 11-12 minutes for the whole match. Whether you are a defensive or attacking player, you will only get 6 minutes play time.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html

I remember going to a promotional match way back and leaving after a couple of hours. I didn't realise then I had missed another hour of the event, or perhaps 3 more minutes of action!

OH yes, quite silly.  There is also a "2 minute warning" that stops play.   That last 2 minutes can take 20 minutes to play out if both teams use time outs and put the ball out of play.   Here is a good one: If a play is in motion and time runs out, the play continues until the ball is "down" (tackled, scores, out of bounds).

[Oldboy]

Taking pictures without using your hands. 

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2241024/snap-happy-google-grabs-9500-panorama-images-of-grand-canyon