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The Dry

The Dry, by Jane Harper I forgot how much I love a whodunit until my book club buddies started suggesting them way back at the start of this caper – with Adrian McKinty’s and his Sean Duffy series. Jo’s pick for this month hit the sweet spot.  This one is set in a rural township, drought stricken, tinder dry and unbearably hot. The locals are not necessarily welcoming.  A gruesome murder suicide…

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Hey babe, call for you ..

Hey babe, call for you ..

Today you had a call from a recruitment company.  I was a little curt with the poor fellow .  I felt bad about it. But not so bad that I would be endlessly kicking myself, the way I normally do when I feel I’ve been unkind.. But he got me by surprise.  It was the last thing I expected. The first time they called (yesterday) I saw the 02 area code, and ignored it thinking it was another…

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well, what can I say?

The clock is ticking, the cat is snoring - I should be in bed....but here I am. Just started this up so I could check out some nice little library posts...will probably delete this account in under a month.  We'll see.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NxenCGfxEk)

This is so good - c'mon laugh with me

slightly over two months later...

Now there are two cats, the black still snoring, the orange chasing a moth...

So easy to be fickle with social media - so many platforms, so little attention span

Another month, another thought....(just the one)

Time seems to fly  - it really does - we wonder where the days went, try to grasp what has happened? - but really, in actual fact it is not passing that quickly at all...I mean, it's only been a month since my last note..... about the time it took this moss to grow on the picnic table (took this pic a week ago...)

 I swear it feels like its been at least three months

Ithaka

How could I resist a title like that? So this is a side story to the Odyssey – it is set in Ithaca during the period Odysseus is trying to make his way home.  The protagonist in this story is a young girl, who along with her twin brother, grows up as playmates with Telemachus, son of Odysseus and Penelope.  As they reach adolescence their close bond is strained due mainly to the introduction into…

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Where was I?

Been reading a cute little number that has had me in fits of giggles on my commute each morning. Sometimes I’ve had to snap the book shut just as a guffaw was about to erupt. Very frustrating, reading in public and having to contain myself  like that.

Eats shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation. Truss, London : Profile Books, 2003.

2003!  Where the hell was I when this was…

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A Cork Hangover

Ireland and the Cork Hangover

Rode parts of Ireland recently, had to write it down to make sure I remember it. 

Pt.1 getting there

Buses, the lovelorn, and a bit of hangover.

Helen Garner

Helen Garner is 71!? Check out this article about her experience as a person “of a certain age”.

It’s always given me the ibits when people over 60 get treated as if they are somehow out of sync with the rest of the world.

My grandmother at 98 was more interesting and fun then most of younger people I knew..

#HelenGarner   #monkeygrip   is the only book of hers I read.

“I had known for…

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