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I have spent most of the last month languishing on the sofa with drawn curtains on, fan going and feeling wiped out with the heat. I am sure if anybody living in Arizona reads this they will laugh and say you know nothing about heat, but in the UK we are just no geared up…
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As most of my regular readers know by now I read very little modern literature, if at all. I have tried all my life to appreciate the published books of the day and read books listed on the Orange List, the Purple List, the Yellow list or whatever it was called at the time, and…
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I have had a busy few weeks charging around and finally am at home, feet up and watching tennis. At the moment we have a heatwave here in the UK (it is called summer elsewhere) and the Met Office have gone into its usual panic mode, urging everyone to stay indoors, drink water, don’t sunbathe…
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I am going to start this post with a comment I have made before on Random but it does no harm to say it again. Many years ago I worked as an assistant in a library in Highgate, London. A lovely old place and the majority of readers (not customers as they are called nowadays…
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This was the first Elizabeth von Arnim title I read. Quite a while back now, in fact probably twenty years. Time flies. I had been browsing in Waterstones and spotted the Virago edition, (yes those ones with the green covers), and pulled it down, took it home read it in two hours and was back…
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I have always been fascinated by the story of the Count of Monte Cristo. I first became aware of this way back when I was in my early teens and there was a dramatization of the same on the BBC. This was in the early sixties, so in black and white, and was one of…
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Well the sun is shining and I, for one, am very glad to see the back of February. A virus laid me low and it has taken a few weeks to get back to normal, well as normal as I can ever be.. I belong to a walking group and have been going on some…
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This is just a random ramble and catch up as I have been unwell for the last couple of weeks and totally unable to read or concentrate on anything. January and February seem to be dragging, and yes I know it is nearly March, but the damp weather and the dreary rain seems to be…
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I was trawling through old posts the other day and came across one entitled Favourite Characters. It was interesting to read as it was several years old and views I expressed some time ago have more or less stayed the same. Jo in Little Women (Meg was too bossy, Amy too self obsessed and Beth…
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No I have not vanished and my apologies for lack of posts. As I have mentioned my daughter had to have an operation and all going well, when she had to return and have another. So my mind has been somewhat frazzled over the last two months and blogging has taken a back seat. As…
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This simply stunning biography was written several years ago and, having recently been embarking on a re-read of some of her novels, I decided to give this another whirl. And glad I am that I did as this in depth book gives the background and situation in her life as each book was written and…
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Well another rather fraught few weeks which, hopefully, is now at an end. Firstly, my daughter in Australia had to go back to have another procedure as after her first operation a few more cells were discovered. The surgeon said that she was pretty certain they were benign but she wanted them out and, of…
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Last week a friend and I went up to London and, thank goodness, this time there was no strikes in the offing so we were able to get on a bus to Trafalgar Square. From there we walked up the Mall and had grinning selfies with the Palace in the background. We were going to…
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Just dropping by after my update in which I mentioned Ann Cleeves and her new book The Killing Stones. I have just finished it and it is, as always, excellent and I did not guess the murderer. I thought of somebody completely different. No I am here because a friend mentioned that the author was…
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I said when I transferred to WordPress that I was going to try and post more regularly and already have lagged behind. I have had a pretty worrying week as my daughter, who lives in Australia, has to have an operation and, being so far away, I have been incredibly worried. However, it seems that…
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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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Apologies for absence but as you may guess from the title of this post I have had a mini disaster at Schloss Random. My hallway carpet was showing stains which after being cleaned kept coming back and then I discovered that they were, oh horror, wet. My wonderful go to guy came round and ripped…