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The new series is ok nothing great .BBC .

Touch me in the Morning - Diana Ross

The Flight of the Falcon Daphne du Maurier It’s very difficult to summarise this book, especially without giving away the plot. However, The Flight of the Falcon does play a large part in the story. It’s set in the fictional town of Ruffano, somewhere in Italy, around 20 years after the Second World War – people have telephones and drive cars, and the war is mentioned slightly. The main character is a courier, what we would call a tour guide, and his life is bowling along as such until a crime takes place. Some of the tourists that he is escorting insist that he reports said crime to the police, and he does so, but goes on the run immediately afterward because he thinks that the police will find him guilty, as he had a brief but innocent contact with the victim (he believes, at first, that it was this contact that caused the crime). He goes back to his hometown of Ruffano, and the story unfolds from there. The more he finds out, the worse he thinks it will be for him. Until the very end, when all is explained. I didn’t guess any of the story except the very last bit, and was gripped throughout. Recommended

to men who love

fraught with perils unknown

Some Velvet Morning ~ Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

liaison of dangerous dimensions,

International Velvet - Catatonia

I'm sorry to hear that Adrian hasn't been very well, Kev! Poor thing . It's nowhere near on the same level, but Olle had a little cough and stuffy nose last month and I bought this Vicks Cool Mist thing for him: Vicks Mini Cool Mist Ultrasonic Humidifier (compact, quiet, for better sleep, cough and cold, comfort, essential oils, humidity, rooms up to 15m2) VUL525 : Amazon.co.uk: Home & Kitchen I wonder if it might help a little bit when Adrian is home? I had the same cold and it actually helped me too 😅

Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton

Poor big fella, he can't believe it 😯

femme fatale, risking a

Tangled Up In Blue ~ Bob Dylan

Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond

Why I Sing the Blues - B.B. King

attention from Dolly the

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the hopes of capturing

Deacon Blues ~ Steely Dan

Custard Pie Blues - Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (two of the best)

gonna be starting up Gravity's Rainbow as my next long-term read

Lucy Carmichael by Margaret Kennedy. This is a strange one. Margaret Kennedy was a prolific author from the 1920's and I've read several of her books before and enjoyed them. This one from 1951 is about Lucy and how she remakes her life after being jilted on her wedding day. Lucy is a survivor and a realistic one, she makes mistakes and isn't good at everything and there's a feel good ending but it's also strangely inconclusive in many ways. I like books where all the ends are not neatly tied up but here there are story arcs which seem to meander into nothing and don't leave you speculating what might have happened. It's an interesting read but is very much of its time.

i should probably skim the wikipedia or something to make sure i at least know what actually happened lol but yeah in retrospect i really should have been referring to some kind of guide as i went. feels like its too late now though. oops.

1. Lucy Carmichael - Margaret Kennedy **** 2. Clown Town -Mick Herron ****1/2 3. An Instruction in Shadow - Kevin >Hearne ****1/2 4. Introducing Mrs Collins - Rachel Parris ***1/2 5. In the Blink of an Eye- Jo Callaghan 4 Peach Street to Lobster Lane - Felicity Cloake

Eleanor was exceptional in that she ruled Aquitaine (her dowry and getting on for 1/3 of present day France) as Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right - her father's will specified that Aquitaine would not pass to her husband on marriage as was the rule in those days and that she would keep it until her death. I read this ages ago as background for my job (tour guide in Bordeaux where she married Louis ) and thoroughly enjoyed it though the sheer unpleasantness of some of the male nobles made it hard reading in places.