And now my TBL is down to 13 books!

Maigret and the Dead Girl by Georges Simenon, read by Gareth Armstrong.  A dead girl is found in Place Vintimille in Paris, and Maigret needs to find out who she is and what brought her to being murdered.  The usual entertaining plot.

Safe Enough by Lee Child, read by Richard Armitage.  A collection of short ( Read more... )

FutureLearn

Robert Frost: The American Voice (Ralston College)
I had come across a couple of Frost's poems before, but never really thought about them, so as an introduction to Frost this was quite interesting.  Jay Parini, the lecturer, has written a biography of Frost, so was knowledgeable, but a couple of week's into the course I was reading ( Read more... )

11 NOV: Origami Day: Do you know how to do origami?
I can do some basic origami

12 NOV: Fancy Rat & Mouse Day: What’s your favorite fictional mouse or rat?
Mouselet, without a doubt.

17 NOV: Homemade Bread Day: When’s the last time you made bread or ate homemade bread?
Probably a couple of years ago.  At one point SM was making his own bread, ( Read more... )

Yes, it's that time of year again!

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4 NOV: Use Your Common Sense Day: Is common sense common?
If common sense were common a lot of accidents wouldn't happen. Also, how many times do we do something and wonder why we did them - little things, like taking something out of the oven, knowing it's hot and still managing to touch it? Too often our common sense is away with the fairies.

6 ( Read more... )

This week's TheFridayFive questions, since it's NaNoWriMo this month

1. Where do you get ideas/inspiration for your writing?
Quite often I'm working for prompts from challenges, or exchanges with suggestions from the recipient.  Sometimes I'll want to follow up an idea I've had in a previous work, or there'll be a request as to what happens next ( Read more... )

The lowest number of words for a month this year, but 8,250 still brings me to 122,600 and so past my main goal of 120,000 for the year and with a reasonable chance of reaching 135,000.

Reflecting the lower number I have less to share, but begin with Allbingo Fall Fest for which I wrote The Witch, the Ghost and the Hound from Hell which is a ( Read more... )

I finished knitting the sleeveless cotton top in hydrangea coloured stripes.  I'm very pleased with the result.

( October 2024 )

My TBL is at 15 titles, probably the lowest it's been for a couple of years!

Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon read by Gareth Armstrong.  Different from the usual stories, with Maigret himself providing some of his own history and explaining how he is different from he character described by M. Simenon.  Learning a bit about Maigret's ( Read more... )

Nothing from FutureLearn - I did start one course but abandoned it after a few days as, although I would have been very interested in the subject, the presentation did absolutely nothing for me.

OpenLearn

Approaching Language, Literature and Childhood A new course, looking at children's books and how they have changed, and improved, from the ( Read more... )