Madeleine

I Only wanna be with you - The Eurythmics/various others

Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

First book in a series?

My farm shop had mince pies from the beginning of August, even earlier than the supermarkets.

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

Hi Nat and welcome to the forum, great to see you're such a keen reader! there are guidelines and rules for newcomers at the top of the thread list if you want to have a look through them. They're under "The Office", 2nd line down. Have fun here.

Hold me now - Thompson Twins

Young hearts run free - Candi Staton

I remember Not the Nine O'Clock News, I wonder how much of that they'd get away with today, not much probably! Victoria Wood was also very funny, watch the soup sketch with Julie Walters,and the Acorn Antiques sketches were great too, which parodied certain soap operas. Monty Python were also funny, the fish slapping sketch is one that comes to mind.

I've seen the US version of The Vanishing which was good, but apparently the Dutch version is much scarier. I didn't find the US version at all scary.

And England's women's team won the Rugby World Cup yesterday.

Heart of Glass - Blondie

Young Guns (go for it) - Wham!

We did Animal farm and Lord of the Flies as well.

Took me a while to get into it but I'm starting to enjoy it now.

I'm just about to start "The Bookseller of Inverness" by S G MacLean.

Stand by Me - Ben E King

Stay (faraway so close) - U2

Constant Craving - k d Lang

I read The Distant Shore which I think was better, and another one, The Cornish House possibly, which was OK.

I am a clown - David Cassidy

The Secrets of Harbour House by Liz Fenwick - following her father's death in a cycling accident, Kerensa returns to her native Cornwall to sort out his estate, help her grieving and ailing mother, and also wind up the estate of 2 women artists, who both died within a few weeks of each other, and whose work was little known, though when they did sell a piece it usually sold for quite a bit of money. Kerensa is fascinated by a portrait of a beautiful woman in the house of the title, and tries to find out more, especially her identity,and so we get the subject's back story, and the book follows two timelines, the present day and the mid 1930s, when we first meet one of the artists, Bathsheba (Sheba) Kernow, who travels on the Orient Express to Paris and Venice to follow in her late mother's footsteps. On the train she meets a woman who beguiles her, but it's when they meet again in Venice that their story really starts. At a time when such relationships were forbidden for both men and women, they have to be very careful, especially as Sheba's new love is married, to a cold controlling husband who is a poet trying to gain favour with Mussolini and Hitler, both of whom feature, thankfully briefly, i in thebook. Meanwhile back in the present Kerensa's return to Cornwall isn't looked on happily by her uncle, who ran the family auction house with her father, or her partner Paul, who wants her back in London as soon as possible as he can't live without her, but once she starts to find discrepancies in her father's financial affairs, she has no choice but to stay in Cornwall to sort things out. So the main themes of this book are family mysteries and dynamics, forbidden love and controlling men, and this was were the book fell down for me, for most of the male characters were so two dimensional I wanted to hiss whenever they appeared! It was an OK read but not that convincing though the settings are lovely and the artistic references , to both real and fictitious writers and artists, were also interesting. 7/10

Rock the Casbah - The Clash

Empty rooms - Gary Moore

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits