Madeleine
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sounds good,will think of something!
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Nobody does it better - Carly Simon
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Pray - Take That
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The River - Bruce Springsteen
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Into the Valley - The Skids
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Walls come tumbling down - The Style Council
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Another brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
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Another Suitcase in Another Hall - Barbara Dickson
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Same here, nice and sunny but a cold wind.
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You do something to me - Paul Weller (just happens to be playing as I type)
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Yesterday was much chillier here as well, with rain in the morning, more of the same for the weekend and most of next week,and apparently Easter looks like being a washout!☔🦆
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After a couple of nice days, spring is over for now so it's back indoors, to my jigsaw.
I did at least manage to give the grass in the back garden it's first cut the other day.
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I've just gotta get a message to you - The Bee Gees
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Message in a Bottle - The Police
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The Whitstable Pearl Mystery" by Julie Wassmer - this is the first in a series of books featuring Pearl Nolan, a 39 year old single mother who runs a restaurant in Whitstable, Kent and has also started a detective agency. Her first case starts when a man asks her to track down a local fisherman who owes him money from an investment which went wrong, but when she goes to visit the fisherman on his boat she finds him dead, caught in his anchor chain and drowned. Then her new client also turns up dead,found by Pearl, which makes the police quite suspicious of her! The detective in charge has been transferred from London and hates small towns and isn't too happy when Pearl, despite the obvious conflicts of interest, continues investigating and naturally learns more than he does. Although slightly predictable, I didn't guess the killer and there were enough back stories for the characters to keep me interested, it's also quite well-written for the cosy crime genre. There is also a TV series and I watched the first episode last night, which is based on this book. It was Ok but felt very rushed and I felt some of the casting was a bit off, though Frances Barber is perfect as Pearl's bohemian mum who helps her in the restaurant. There are several more books in this series and it looks promising. One quibble though - she mentions a character performing a 1974 Saturday Night Fever move, well SNF didn't come out until 1977......!7/10
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If I could turn back time - Cher
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I looked out of the kitchen window earlier and right outside on the grass was a peregrine falcon devouring (I think) a pigeon, might have been a seagull, hard to tell but we've had a very pretty black and white pigeon visiting regularly which I fear is the victim. Quite a sight though to have a peregrine right under my nose, even if it was quite gruesome! It did move to another bit of the garden and then flew down to the end, probably away from my gawping eyes! I think it's left the remnants under a bush at the bottom of the garden, lovely.
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20 hours ago, France said:
A very quick catch up:
Just like the curate's egg part of The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne are very good, others bits not so much. 80 year old Georgy, a Russian exile, looks back to when he was pitchforked out of his peasant upbringing into the middle of the Tsar's family in the years just before the Revolution. The early bits were wonderful then the plot line gradually got sillier and sillier. The last scene in Russia was just ridiculous. John Boyne has written some grat books but this isn't one of them, imo.
Everyone Here is Lying - Shari Lapena A decent thriller with one or two seriously unbelievable plot twists but that isn't unusual with this sort of book!
Destroying Angel - S J Maclean Excellent historical fiction set in Cromwellian times, the 3rd in her series about Damien Seeker.
Recipe for a Perfect Wife - Karma Brown A Kobo cheapie which turned out to be much better than I thought it would be, not profound but easy reading and enjoyable.
Fatal Legacy - Lindsay Davies I think I've come to the end of reading about Flavia Albia, I love the Falco books, both in print and on audio but this series about his adopted daughter, also a private investigator in Ancient Rome, lacks the humour and lightness of touch that Falco has.
I must get round to reading "Destroying Angel", I also have "The Bookseller of Inverness" ready to read.
I read the first of the Flavia Alba series and enjoyed it, but haven't got round to reading any of the others yet. I have read some of the Falco books and agree they are more involving, still have lots to read!
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Several figures from the music industry over the last few days:
Eric Carmen (All by Myself, Hungry Eyes)
Karl Wallinger (The Waterboys and World Party)
and over the weekend Steve Harley from Cockney Rebel - "Come up and see me (make me smile)".
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Hot in the City - Billy Idol
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Take it to the limit - The Eagles
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My one Temptation - Mica Paris
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Waiting for a girl like you - Foreigner
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Waiting for that day - George Michael
Never Ending Song Titles - Part 8
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Take me Out - franz Ferdinand