Marie H

Tonic

I loved Mrs Tims of the Regiment, and the second in the series Mrs.Tims carries on. I think that I have quite a few of her ebooks, and The English Air at the mo. At the beginning of this book I was worried that It was going to be too frothy, with some rather silly or scatterbrained characters, but it’s definitely improved.

I hope that the windy weather ceases, as it’s battering the new roses in my garden! They have only just started flowering too.

I’m 43% listened to What Could Possibility Go Wrong? by Jodi Taylor. It’s excellent!

Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross

Mind Blowing Decisions - Heatwave. I’m suddenly back in the late 70s again! Groovy....

Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy at £1.99 on Kindle daily deals UK today. A wonderful read!

Revolution

My faves are: A Chelsea Concerto by Frances Faviell - The author lived in Chelsea during the Blitz, and this a sort of memoir, and it’s excellent. Faviell also wrote The Dancing Bear, set in Berlin during the four years after the end of WW2, and this one is even better, I think. The protagonist is the wife of a British officer stationed in Berlin, and the story of a German family she meets. The story is a real cracker! It’s very similar in style as Shute’s Pied Piper. Crooked Hearts by Lissa Evans and The New Mrs Clifton by Elizabeth Buchanan are ones I really liked too. Henriettas war: news from the home front 1939 -1942 -this one is very witty and charming.

I love the term “lockdown locks” Or maybe should I buy a wig, in the style of Japanese manga characters?

Also reading The English Air - D E Stevenson (reading books with the theme of women in, or after WW2)

Blimey, it’s hot out there - 26°C in the shade! Lovely to sit in the shade though .

Episode 2 of Series 2 of Lucifer. Still okay, but nowhere as the 1st series.

Finished Nevil Shute’s Pied Paper. A wonderful book, it really was a page turner (sometimes I haven’t had for a while), and I loved Mr Howard and his band of little child....and the ways he managed to protect them.

I first read On The Beach in the 80s. A wonderful (but chilling) book, as it was during the nuclear armaments/cold war at that time was very worrying. His storytelling is excellent, but sadly he has “dropped off the radar” these days.

I’ll Take You There - Staple Singers

The BBC weather forecast for Wednesday is 25°C! It’s 16° today, still not pleasant with the breeze.

Take a chance on me - Abba

Ready Player One - very good!

Still that darn chilly wind, and even that the temperature say it’s 14°C, it doesn’t feel like it!

My favourites are: The Promised Neverland The Royal Tutor Flying Witch Our Dreams At Dusk (LGBT+ /slice of life) Sadly this a short series with only 4 episodes, but it’s sooo beautiful!) Dead Dead Demon’s DeDeDeDe Destruction - Inio Asano

One of the Kindle Daily Deals UK today is Never Let Me Do by Kazuo Ishiguro for £1.19.

Does anyone thinks that we all look like Cousin It before long during the lockdown?

Every Breathe You Take - The Police

Magnum almond ice cream