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Talking of stagnant water, I now have water coming up through my kitchen floor tiles. Need to trace where it's coming from, it rained all last night but nothing has come up yet, so I'm wondering if it's coming from somewhere else. Actually quite warm out, though will be very muddy.

Ray of Light - Madonna

Blinded by the Light - Bruce Springsteen/Manfred Mann

Light my Fire - The Doors

Ring my Bell - Anita Ward

I'd forgotten about Boo Radley as well, such a good film.

It's dry so far today but with a bitterly cold wind, but at the weekend it's meant to be mid teens! good idea about the water, mind you won't it smell if it's kept for too long?

Golden Brown - The Stranglers

Apparently it's similar weather in Spain. I'm also on top of a hill so have been quite glad, we've had a day off today but it'll be back for the rest of the week Just went for a walk over the local nature reserve which is on a slight hillside and it was like a bog over there..

Don't it make my brown eyes blue - Crystal Gayle

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley - Jess quits her hated job working in a bar in Brighton and, having left under a cloud, to say the least, she needs to lie low and heads for her half-brother's flat in Paris; he knows she's coming, yet when she arrives he's not there, and after she manages to let herself in she finds some worrying signs in his flat, like blood on his cat's fur. She soon meets the neighbours and they're not exactly an endearing bunch, and then there's the concierge, who seems to creep around and appear as if by magic. No one seems to know, or care, that Ben might be missing, and she finds it difficult to know who to trust, but the more she digs, the more mysteries she uncovers. I can't say more as this is a book of short chapters with cliffhanger endings, and lots of twists. After a while I started to feel that the author needed to give the reader a few more proper plot developments, and once this started to happen, then the book became more gripping. I did have my suspicions about a couple of the characters, but didn't guess the ending, though I found it a bit far fetched, and it's the sort of twist which you could probably only get away with in a book. Good reading for a long journey or holiday, but most of the characters I found to be unlikeable (at best in some cases!) and even Jess herself is a bit of an unreliable narrator. 6.5/10

Boogie Shoes - KC and the Sunshine Band

With a little help from my friends - The Beatles/Joe Cocker/Wet Wet Wet etc

You are the One - Aha

Baby come back - Player

Welcome, do you have any favourite authors?

Back in the USSR - The Beatles

Running up that hill - Kate Bush

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

Mine are all T G Jones as well, as you say that seems to be the only difference. At least they're still open.

I've got some of the Jem Flockhart novels but haven't got round to reading them! One for the tbr pile methinks.

What a Fool Believes - The Isley Brothers

You know my name - Chris Cornell

Got to get you into my life - The Beatles

Something's gotten hold of my heart - Marc Almond/Gene Pitney