Madeleine

Happens quite a lot with all the building work going on! Those things are enormous, thank goodness they never went off.

They look so sweet! Saw a few kids dressed up but not as many as last year, still anything that gets kids interested in books has to be positive.

Wet here too, drizzly and grey.

My Heart will go on - Celine Dion

I hate that! Feels so weird....

I think the adults' day is in April (might be on Shakespeare's birth/death day if I'm correct). Saw a few kids dressed up, and a few dogs too (on the web!) so they try to make quite a big thing of it here, rightly so.

Glad they all liked it! It's difficult to please everyone isn't it. Today I've bought Black Water Lillies by Michel Bussi Family Matters by Anthony Rolls

Away

That's a shame I hope things improve for you, the treat for you and your mum sounds lovely, hope you enjoy it (and your bath! have a good soak).

Nice and sunny but still cold and windy.

Well gift vouchers are meant to be spent after all, it would be a shame to waste them! I've got that book too, wasn't that keen on his other book but like the sound of this one.

Cold and windy.

Heart of Stone - Cher

Yonder

have you read Remarkable Creatures? It's set in Lyme Regis and I thought it was lovely.

I think they're all the same Athena, we're trying to get hold of the guy who did our boiler to come back and fill in a form (which he should have filled in at the time) otherwise if anything goes wrong with it we're not covered by the 5 year guarantee. And they messed us around so much when they were working - turning up late, staying for an hour, then going off somewhere for 2 hours without letting us know when they'd be back, and not just once either. It's odd for someone like me who's used to adhering to a 9-5 (more or less) routine with fairly fixed timings, but some of these workmen seem to work on a different level to the rest of us, which is very frustrating and annoying!

Hasn't even tried to be sunny, drizzly and cold now.

Yes thyroid problems are vey common in the Uk, usually under-active, I think over-active is quite rare. It tends to run in families so do you have a family history? If so you might be able to get a test done just for thyroid, rather than the bog standard blood tests which not be so precise. And it does tend to be more common in women too.

Heart of Glass - Blondie

Still worth a read though!

Yes I've read it, it felt very much like a first book in that her potential was obvious, but I thought it could have done with some editing, maybe even a bit of re-working, and it seemed to end very suddenly, it almost felt unfinished if I remember rightly.

Raining again here.

Yes I've heard about the landslips, I suppose it's inevitable sadly. You're lucky living in such a lovely part of the country!

Totally with you Athena - I don't really like hardbacks for the same reasons - too big/heavy and of course more expensive! I have bought an occasional hardback if it's looking like it won't be out in paperback, I don't do Kindle either. Paperbacks have got bigger in the UK and some mass market books are now almost the same size as the trade paperbacks (and similar price too). And yes it seems so long before a book is published in paperback sometimes, but I suppose there's not much any of us can do about it.

I've read most of them, Chesil, except for The Last Runaway and Burning Bright. My favourites are Girl with a Pearl Earring and Remarkable Creatures, and I also really liked Lady and the Unicorn as well, I think she's a very good writer. Which are your favourites?