Author : Stuart Prebble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Older men
ISBN : OCLC:1244796942
Grumpy Old Men
Stuart Prebble
Grumpy Old Men The Secret Diary
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Grumpy Old Men: The Secret Diary
Stuart Prebble
Author : Stuart Prebble
Publisher : Random House
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781409071631
Grumpy Old Men: The Secret Diary by Stuart Prebble Pdf
To everything there is a season. A time to be born, a time to die ... and a time to have a bloody good moan. Following the huge success of Grumpy Old Men, Stuart Prebble, writer of the highly acclaimed TV series, gives us a more in-depth look at what it's really like to be a pissed-off man of a certain age. In painstaking detail, he takes us through a year in the constantly irritated life of a Grumpy Old Man, recounting the manifold vexations and absurdities he has to put up with in the perpetual torment that we call modern living. Drinks parties, holidays, hospital visits, his children's misdemeanours, buying presents for the wife, watching television, attempts to visit the gym, trips to the shops, the trials and tribulations of everyday life - each event has something to tip him over the edge. Stuart's diary proves that grumpiness is not just an occasional mood or a temporary feeling, but a way of looking at the world, and will strike a chord with all those who are proud to call themselves Grumpy Old Men.
The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman
Judith Holder
Author : Judith Holder
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781780223889
The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman by Judith Holder Pdf
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.'
Grumpy Old Men: The Official Handbook
Stuart Prebble
Author : Stuart Prebble
Publisher : Random House
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781409071600
Grumpy Old Men: The Official Handbook by Stuart Prebble Pdf
Do you know someone who is incensed by compulsory tipping? Who is infuriated if kept on hold for more than a minute? Who is positively apoplectic if someone answers their phone during dinner? If so, youve probably encountered the phenomenon of the grumpy old man. Following their first massively successful BBC1 series, this autumn will see the grumpy old men will return to our screens, and this time theyre grumpier than ever. Packed with funny and informative chapters such as Who are we, What are we grumpy about and How can you spot the signs of grumpiness coming on, this book will leave even the grumpiest of men with a grin on his face.
The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman
Judith Holder
Author : Judith Holder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Middle-aged women
ISBN : OCLC:1151175963
The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman by Judith Holder Pdf
The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman
Judith Holder
Author : Judith Holder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Large type books
ISBN : OCLC:1245755817
The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman by Judith Holder Pdf
It feels like only yesterday I was the youngest person in the room. I spent the whole day snogging boys, backcombing my hair and trying to dance like Pan's People. Now, I'm so old I remember the arrival of unisex hairdressers and had a crush on Illya Kuryakin, which for people younger than me just looks like a bad Scrabble hand. This means that I am grumpy. For a start I have a bad hair life, my teenage daughter has a better sex life than I do, and if I skip plucking the beard, I have the start of five o'clock shadow. Why wouldn't I be grumpy?
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen
Hendrik Groen
Author : Hendrik Groen
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455542147
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen Pdf
A #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Bachman's A Man Called Ove: an irresistible, funny, charming, and tender-hearted tale about friendship, love, and an old man who is young at heart. "FUNNY AND FRANK...A STORY WITH A GREAT DEAL OF HEART."--Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of THE ROSIE PROJECT Technically speaking, Hendrik Groen is....elderly. But at age 83 1/4, this feisty, indomitable curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted geraniums, exasperated by the indignities of aging, Hendrik has decided to rebel--on his own terms. He begins writing an exposé: secretly recording the antics of day-to-day life in his retirement home, where he refuses to take himself, or his fellow "inmates," too seriously. With an eccentric group of friends he founds the wickedly anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club--"Rule #3: No Whining Allowed"--and he and his best friend, Evert, gleefully stir up trouble, enraging the home's humorless director and turning themselves into unlikely heroes. And when a sweet and sassy widow moves in next door, he polishes his shoes, grooms what's left of his hair, and determines to savor every ounce of joy in the time he has left, with hilarious and tender consequences. A bestselling phenomenon that has captured imaginations around the world, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen is inspiring, charming, and laugh-out-loud funny with a deep and poignant core: a page-turning delight for readers of any age.
Grumpy Old Drivers
Stuart Prebble
Author : Stuart Prebble
Publisher : Orion
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780297856078
Grumpy Old Drivers by Stuart Prebble Pdf
How modern motoring drives Grumpies to distraction We've said that Christmas is the worst thing; we've said that working for idiots is the worst thing; we've said that holidays are the worst thing. But driving is the worst thing of all. It brings together so many of the multitude of individual elements which combine to make Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women grumpy. It's got queuing - at petrol stations, on side roads, on A roads, on motorways, at car parks and even at the 'drive through'. Very few things make Grumpies more grumpy than queuing. It's got being ripped off - when you buy a car, when you have it serviced, when you buy anything for it, when anything goes wrong, when you put petrol in it, when you wash it, when you park it, when it gets towed away and when some arsehole you've never met bumps into it. It's got being pissed about - when you want to book it in for a service, and when you get to tax it, insure it and get the MOT for it, and again when you want to sell it. And last but not least, it's got the most essential ingredient of grumpiness. Driving is a triumph of disappointment over expectation. When we were kids we thought driving would be the ultimate freedom and all it has turned out to be is a total pain in the tushkin. And that is not even mentioning Top sodding Gear...
Grumpy Old Workers
Stuart Prebble
Author : Stuart Prebble
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781780223896
Grumpy Old Workers by Stuart Prebble Pdf
'I owe, I owe, so off to work we go.' A Grumpy perspective on the daily grind. Whether we are celebrity chef or hapless waiter, engineer or oily rag, commissioning editor or TV producer, all of us have a whole daily wagon-load of s**t to deal with in the name of work. From boardroom to boredom, from 'what's the point?' to Powerpoint, from 9 to 5 to P45. And that's what this new book from uber-grump Stuart Prebble is all about; the utter everyday relentless crapulence of working for 'the man', or indeed 'the woman'. The workplace is a piece of cake for someone of his curmudgeonly quality. It's not possible in a book of this size to include ALL the grumps arising from the working day - the office politics, the shortcomings of IT, the interminable meetings and some of your colleagues' weirder habits, but he is giving it a go. Grumpy? I'll say we are ...
Grumpy Old Christmas
Stuart Prebble
Author : Stuart Prebble
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781780223902
Grumpy Old Christmas by Stuart Prebble Pdf
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?
The Long-Lost Secret Diary Of The World's Worst Knight
Tim Collins
Author : Tim Collins
Publisher : The Salariya Book Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781912006670
The Long-Lost Secret Diary Of The World's Worst Knight by Tim Collins Pdf
These hilarious fictional diaries put us inside the heads of hapless figures from history. Meet Roderick – a scrawny, unremarkable teenager keeping a diary of his life in the Middle Ages. When he’s chosen to become a knight on a quest to find a holy relic (the fingers of St Stephen), Roderick is determined to prove his honour and graduate from zero to hero. ‘Get Real’ fact boxes feature throughout, providing historical context and further information, as well as a timeline, historical biographies and a glossary in the end matter.
The Insect Farm
Stuart Prebble
Author : Stuart Prebble
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316337373
The Insect Farm by Stuart Prebble Pdf
An eerie debut suspense novel that explores how little one man may know his own brother -- and his own mind. The Maguire brothers each have their own driving, single-minded obsession. For Jonathan, it is his magnificent, talented, and desirable wife, Harriet. For Roger, it is the elaborate universe he has constructed in a shed in their parents' garden, populated by millions of tiny insects. While Jonathan's pursuit of Harriet leads him to feelings of jealousy and anguish, Roger's immersion in the world he has created reveals a capability and talent which are absent from his everyday life. Roger is known to all as a loving, protective, yet simple man, but the ever-growing complexity of the insect farm suggests that he is capable of far more than anyone believes. Following a series of strange and disturbing incidents, Jonathan begins to question every story he has ever been told about his brother -- and if he has so completely misjudged Roger's mind, what else might he have overlooked about his family, and himself? The Insect Farm is a dramatic psychological thriller about the secrets we keep from those we love most, and the extent to which the people closest to us are also the most unknowable. In his astounding debut, Stuart Prebble guides us through haunting twists and jolting discoveries as a startling picture emerges: One of the Maguire brothers is a killer, and the other has no idea.
The Economist
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Economic history
ISBN : UCSD:31822032751588
The Economist by Anonim Pdf
Those Darn Squirrels!
Adam Rubin
Author : Adam Rubin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544029569
Those Darn Squirrels! by Adam Rubin Pdf
Little ones and grown-ups will giggle through multiple reads of Those Darn Squirrels! From the creators of Dragons Love Tacos comes the story of what happens when a grumpy old man and some mischievous squirrels match wits—with hilarious results. Old Man Fookwire is a grump. The only thing he likes to do is paint pictures of the birds that visit his backyard. The problem is, they fly south every winter, leaving him sad and lonely. So he decides to get them to stay by putting up beautiful bird feeders filled with seeds and berries. Unfortunately, the squirrels like the treats, too, and make a daring raid on the feeders. The conflict escalates—until the birds depart (as usual), and the squirrels come up with a plan that completely charms the old grump. The three funny picture books in this series from Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri: Those Darn Squirrels Those Darn Squirrels and the Cat Next Door Those Darn Squirrels Fly South
Two Old Men and a Baby
Hendrik Groen
Author : Hendrik Groen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538753514
Two Old Men and a Baby by Hendrik Groen Pdf
Nine years before the events of the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 ¼ Years Old, Hendrik and his best friend Evert embark on a madcap adventure—with an unexpected guest. Hendrik Groen and Evert Duiker, faithful friends in good and bad times, are well over seventy and their lives have quieted down. They see each other once a week to play chess, have a drink, and grab a bite to eat while reflecting on life. But one day, their peace is rudely disturbed when Evert shows up on Hendrik's doorstep with a surprise in the form of an unexpected little guest. He had spotted a stroller with a baby in it—unattended for just a minute—and, in a moment of utter madness, decided to take it for a walk. Hilarious, right? Not to Hendrik, who can barely believe his friend's stupidity. After Evert regains recovers from his momentary lapse of sanity, the two seventy-year-olds resolve to return their charge to its parents—hopefully without being noticed. But the quiet neighborhood is now swarmed by bumbling police officers, and they realize that getting rid of their accidental foster child will be more difficult than expected . . .