A strange coincidence: This came up on World Mental Health Day.

I could easily have said Carrie for this one too, but I chose what is possibly the only horror film I can think of (at least only Stephen King film I can think of) that is even bleaker.


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I spent much of today doing a long hike with the ramblers; we had a few dropouts, mostly personal reasons, so best not asking ( Read more... )

So, from tomorrow I have ten days off work; I've been looking forward to this, and my weekend away, which I feared wouldn't go ahead, for a while ( Read more... )

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Picture from another exploratory walk, close to where I went last Monday morning. I don't think I'd make that path a regular "haunt" because the ground is quite uneven.


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Again, not something I've thought of much - I decided to blog about an author whose works I've enjoyed, so Stephen King.


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This evening was exciting.

I was at a talk by Graeme Simsion and his wife Anne Buist about the new book they've written, "Two Steps Forward", which is about two people on the Camaro trail in Spain, who seem to be based on themselves.

Graeme Simsion is someone I've heard of before because he wrote two books I enjoyed, The Rosie Project and The ( Read more... )

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She didn't seem to like this one - I did.