Month: September 2025
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Now that the autumn is hear and the nights are drawing in I always find I turn to my great love, VIctorian Literature. In the summer I tend to read lighter books, don’t ask me why, I just do but when the leaves start to fall and the curtains are drawn against the dark, then…
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Last week I and a friend had arranged to go to London to the theatre to see play Daughter of Time. It was a new play and based on the book by Josephine Tey which I read many moons ago as a teenager. She had written several mystery books featuring Inspector Grant and in this…
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You know that feeling you get when you go back to school in the autumn/fall? The summer has gone and the days are drawing in and you are either returning for a fresh term or starting a new school and you have a shiny new pencil case and empty exercise books (though now they are…
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Off to London today to the theatre. Matinee performance as do not want to stay up too late. Needless to say, this coincides with a Tube strike so I think I shall be doing a lot of walking. Hooray for the new hip! Will blog about it in a day or two
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I am here if you have landed on this page HOORAY! It has been a confusing time for me and I have to tell you right away that I have a brilliant computer friend in New York and on zoom etc she has helped get Random Jottings safely here. Going to take me a while…
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OK well here I am and it is all a bit confusing. I have already tried to post and it failed so haveing another go. Also typepad which hosts my blog seems to have vanished so hoping I can get the old blog back. This is another tester and let’s see if this one works
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I have been with typepad since I started my blog nearly twenty years ago now. I have just been informed that it is now closing and after the end of September it will vanish and I will have no access to anything I have written. Part of me thought I would close down as I…