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Do you have a pressure cooker IC? A casserole takes 20 minutes in one of those and the meat just melts in your mouth. We have grilled lemon sole tonight with pots and veg.

I have bought the Woman's Weekly for years and years and it has always satisfied me. Its a weekly and costs 80p. It has everything I like from knitting patterns to cookery recipes. there is also a letter page and pages devoted to topical news items; a medical page, often discussing something that has been in the news. Every week there is an article interviewing a celebrity (a real one, not one of your so called ones). Last week it was Helen Mirren. Inevitably there is the problem page. Recently they started a book club and have asked readers to do reviews of book which they send to them. The also publish an excerpt of a book and then publish the reviews the following month. This month it was The Beach House by Jane Green. All in all, it is a magazine packed with interesting and useful information, with a couple of short stories and a serial thrown in. Worth every penny of 80p I recommend it, dont think its just for old ladies, give it a try I am sure you will like it.

:lol: Obviously a typing error silly me

If you are 60, you only need to read 40 pages. And if you make it to 100, well then you can judge the book by it's cover!! Not quite sure where this leaves me ?? I am 73 this year I only need to read 27 pages??

Thanks for that Andy, will look him up.

That was serialised on tv some time ago and OH and I caught an episode on evening. We really enjoyed the storyline and carried on watching until it ended. I didnt realise it based on a book:blush: Who is the author Andy?

Well I thought the forum started in Scotland, didnt it??

Every door in my house has to be closed before I can settle down. I often have to get up in the night for the loo and I dont like seeing "black" spaces!! I dont like "black" windows either, so curtains or blinds have to be drawn over.

Will we be getting a review Janet??

For me its enough of a challenge to tackle the next book on my TBR pile:blush:

I am enjoying Emma very much. I am finding it very amusing the way Emma manipulates people.

I am using it Michelle. I keep a note of books that get good reviews on here that I like the sound of. Otherwise I forget them. I thought I had told me that I liked the idea???

This is my second reading of Emma and I am enjoying it much more than before. I dislike Emma intensely and agree with you Kell. She really does deserve to fall on her face. However I am enjoying reading about her machinations and how she really doesnt get it, that she can't interfere with people's lives the way sge does. I remember that some things don't quite work out the way she imagines.

Well there's a surprise!! I saw that documentary Beef and as you say it was very interesting. It illustrated what I believe about all these scares of global warming etc etc, its not Earth we are destroying, but ourselves. I have always believed that the Earth looks after itself and adjusts to changes. Humans are just a blip in the history of the Earth. Its possible that after we have destroyed ourselves everything will begin again.

Don't we all?

The Sunday Philosophy Club

Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan I was sent the proof form of this book by Nici. Hope this review is ok Nici. Synopsis (from Amazon) Roxanne Pellegrino's world collapses when her husband dies unexpectedly. The only way she feels she can deal with her all-consuming grief is to run away from her life. She leaves her home, her career and her friends, heading for Peaks Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine. A former psychologist, she finds herself taking a job as an animal warden and reinventing her past so it doesn't include the tragedy of her husband's death. But despite Roxanne's best efforts to cut herself off from her emotions and people in general, she finds herself drawn to her quirky new neighbours. And then Roxanne meets Lloyd. Lloyd is a stray dog, a large black Labrador retriever who clearly has been woefully mistreated. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and a wounded dog. And as both slowly begin to heal, Roxanne begins to deal with her grief and discover that happiness can be found in unexpected places... Review For the first few chapters of this book, I was a little doubtful, but gradually I became completely absorbed in Roxanne

I will borrow Paula's:lol: Not starting Book of Lost Things after all, will be starting Emma by Jane Austen to night.