http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/belated-birthday Just another bbPress community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 14:16:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/belated-birthday#post-155663 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:45:16 +0000 skinandvein 155663@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ &quot;I love work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.&quot; Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), first published to mixed reviews in 1889, is one of the best-loved comic novels in the English language, although it was initially intended to be a serious travel guide to recreational boating on the Thames. Sadly, its author, Jerome K Jerome, remains surprisingly neglected, though in his lifetime he was also celebrated for a cult play, The Passing of the Third Floor Back. The passing of JKJ's 150th birthday on 2 May occurred without a single reference in the British press.<br /> <br /> It has been left to the Jerome K Jerome Society to remedy this situation with an amusing and strangely compelling &quot;celebration&quot;, Idle Thoughts on Jerome K Jerome, edited by the society's president, Jeremy Nicholas, with a foreword by Gyles Brandreth.<br /> <br /> This has been a labor of love which these two idlers were able to bestir themselves to complete and launch - one month after their hero's birthday. JKJ would have heartily approved. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/belated-birthday#post-82865 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:47:31 +0000 foxriver 82865@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Very sincere late happy birthday. I can't wait for you to begin your seventh novel.</blockquote><br /> <a href="http://www.dvdsetshop.com">happy birthday</a> though late!<br /> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/belated-birthday#post-69452 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:16:46 +0000 thethirdgirl 69452@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Very sincere late happy birthday. I can't wait for you to begin your seventh novel.