BBC Forsyte Saga (again)
I’ve been having a bit of a Forsyte-fest since I was given the original BBC set from 1967 for Mothering Sunday. I’ve watched all 26 episodes and although it seemed a bit dated at first, it wasn’t long...
View ArticleBirthday Trip
First, many thanks for the birthday felicitations, folks. As it was a lovely bright day we prepared a picnic and went for a drive along the coast. Just before we left our house I had a delivery of...
View ArticleBirthday books
I was lucky enough to be given a copy of The Gathering Night by Margaret Elphinstone for my birthday. This photograph of me reading it in our garden makes me look a bit weird I think, worryingly my...
View ArticleThe Shipping News DVD
When I finished reading the book The Shipping News by Annie Proulx I had that horrible feeling that you get when you really enjoy a book so much that you’ve been completely immersed in its environment....
View ArticleTestament of Youth by Vera Brittain
I dug a lot of books out of the attic during my recent clean up and decluttering binge, and one of them was Testament of Youth which is Vera Brittain’s autobiography from 1900 – 1925, definitely one...
View ArticleThe Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
This book was much better than the last Margery Allingham which I read. It’s the first book which she wrote featuring Albert Campion as a character, and it really annoys me that she has written him...
View ArticleFortunes of War by Olivia Manning
Olivia Manning’s Balkan and Levant Trilogies are probably better known as Fortunes of War as that is what the BBC serialisation was named. The first three books were published separately between 1960...
View ArticleKona Galaxy Garden
Like loads of people I’m interested in astronomy, not in any technical sort of a way mind you just the usual sort of looking for meteor showers and solar eclipses and the like. Of course we all get...
View ArticleChristmas Haul
We’re nearly at the end of the year and I still haven’t mentioned any of the books I got at Christmas. So here goes: A God and his Gifts by Ivy Compton-Burnett The Old Bank House by Angela Thirkell The...
View ArticleMore Wild Weather
It has only been around a month since I blogged about a terrible hurricane/gale that we had which has since been nicknamed Hurricane Bawbag, and that was the worst one that I had experienced since we...
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