Everyone is working from home so access is limited, and as you can imagine there is a mass of 'stuff' to sort when someone dies 350 miles away. We live in a very beautiful real corner of the world but safe to say it's sparsely populated, not a lot of passing traffic or neighbours to go out and clap with, or sing with, so at times it could feel lonely were we not used to it and happy with it. Having had to sort out and clear Bookhound’s family council home from 350 miles away,( following the death of his dad at New Year) the experience has spurred us on to Sort Out the Loft and Clear Out Cupboards here. Tuesday, January 12, 2021 | Permalink Comments (38). The roses are pruned and fed, the dahlias are still asleep under their bed of straw until our last frost date of mid-May, and I have a few new ones starting off in the greenhouse along with sunflowers, cosmos, verbena, verbascum and marigolds. : And Other Things That Matter, David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Unabridged Audiobook), Peter James: Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace series Book 3), George R. R. 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She still puts her heart into her songs, including the one Elton John sings on. Having mentioned it I've been down to the basement to find this post from 2015 about The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones. Then another executive decision to be even more ruthless and so there it sits, reduced by two thirds, dead wood thinned out, ivy by the barrow-load uprooted, and much talking nicely to it, but if it doesn’t revive its days are numbered. The ash poles are in and ready (Bookhound has created something of an installation with them this year) for my October sown sweet peas to be planted out. "Crazy Kids'" lyrics were inspired by a birthday party of Ke$ha's, which she described as, "one crazy night.". (audio book), BALCH Oliver ~ Under the Tump - Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders, BARRY Sebastian ~ A Long Long Way (redux), BRADBURY J. When the thaw came, ten weeks of extraordinary weather had acted as a catalyst between two distinct eras. I’m now moving onto fungi and Entangled Life How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake. My reading seems to have been all over the shop this last year but I've reined it in for the New Year with a biography of Rosamond Lehmann and I shall follow it up with more of her fiction soon. So much that we missed but our parents must have known and worried about and yet they spared us that fear. This was ages ago. | It’s about grit, determination and adversity, about cultural difference and sportsmanship, dedication, commitment and loyalty.It’s also about the birth of the celebrity. I remember thinking back in the autumn these green shoots would be more important than ever and I wasn't wrong. So many board games available now...we have a new shop in town where you can hire them for £5 a week. Bookhound's very independent father, aged ninety, died of Covid, 350 miles away from us, on Wednesday afternoon after a torrid month of worry in the run up. I was tempted to open a book I’d been sent Game of the Gods by Paolo Maurensig. Heaven knows the diversionary trails this will lead me along. Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan.The show aired on AMC from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013, consisting of five seasons for a total of 62 episodes. and I'm predicting that by the time my sweet peas go in the ground things will be perking up nicely. We had a lovely wooden set, and also a tiny travelling chess set in a tiny maroon box with all the pieces pegged in place on a perforated base. MANSFIELD Katherine ~ The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. "Wonderwall" peaked at #8 in 1996. Carr: How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. MINSHULL Duncan ~ While Wandering - Rhythm of the feet... 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