For reasons relating to the sad passing of callmemadam (please see her blog for details), I have popped back to Livejournal, and see that I...just stopped posting here in February 2022. If you're wondering why, I'd point you to reputable international news sources abouut what happened then and the nationality of LJ's current owners. I kept on posting on ( Read more... )

My impressions of the first week of the Australian Open were based on catching up via headlines and scattered, second-hand reports, ( Read more... )

This week, I’ve been following the twists and turns of Novak Djokovic’s visa problems and attempt to play in the Australian Open. I won’t try to record them all or my views on them, ( Read more... )

It's about time I posted this, as I’m now in the process of taking down the Christmas decorations.

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The Christmas episode

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Portrait of a Murderer: Anne Meredith British Library 2017

Hmm, I’m now thinking I should stop this ‘tradition’ of reading Golden Age Christmas crime/murder stories written by women. ( Read more... )

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Holiday Adventure: Norah Mylrea. Warne.

I’m mainly posting about this because the title is an actual tag. It’s not very good. ( Read more... )

The Finishing Touches: Hester Browne. Hodder, 2010

It’s been a while since I read a romance, although strictly speaking this is chicklit, with a romantic subplot, and it’s been a while since I read one of those too. There are two explicit references to Bridget Jones in this book, although this takes place in a posher milieu. There are also probably ( Read more... )

Congratulations to Cam(eron) Norrie for winning Indian Wells the other week and thus becoming the male British no. 1. He’s one of the players who the freeze in rankings because of the pandemic didn’t help, and as I remember from Queen’s, has certainly been threatening to advance like this in 2021, and now he’s finally pushed through the barrier of ( Read more... )