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Silent Sunday…
Myrtle, one of my favourites… Happy Ist of June!
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Review for The Forever House by Linda Acaster #Women Sleuths #Bone Chilling
A chilling discovery. A sense of foreboding. They say I’m obsessing. I’m not. Resisting family pressure to sell the too-big house Carrie and her late husband began to renovate, she is determined to carry through their shared project to prove she can manage alone. And she can, until a discovery beneath old wallpaper chills her…
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Diamonds for Breakfast…
I was lying on the couch early this morning, watching the giant gum tree through my window. I hadn’t been awake long and was waiting for my first cup of tea. The big tree was strangely still that morning, with no wind to stir the branches. It was enjoying the early morning sunshine, after the…
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Review for Close to Home by Alex Craigie #Family Life Fiction
“The book is brilliant. It reads like a memoir and grips like great fiction should – beautiful characterization”Viga Boland – Author – No Tears For My Father Talented pianist Megan Youngblood has it all – fame, fortune and Gideon. But Gideon isn’t good enough for Megan’s ambitious, manipulative mother, whose meddling has devastating repercussions for Megan…
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Did she fall…
Or was she pushed? This has always been a question for me, and I would love to know the answer. At 6 feet tall, I know I can’t do delicate. I have always been the proverbial bull in the china shop. But whenever I fall down, why don’t I end up in a heap where…
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Patience is a funny thing…
Patience is a funny thing. And not just the card game… Never ending for some things, yet remarkably short for others. I am known for my patience and will often hang on long after most people have given up. But I am beginning to discover what happens when it runs out. My recovery at the…
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Brilliant news from my Bonsai!
My sister came racing back indoors after watering my bonsai. I was amazed, for she never gets that excited about my babies. ‘The hawthorn has flowers!’ she pronounced. I struggled to the window, hoping to see for myself. And there it was, a touch of pink on the very last tree on the shelf. Number…
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My Latest Review… BEELITZ-HEILSTÄTTEN: Where Ghosts Never Die
What if rediscovering your birthplace unearthed a secret so powerful it could rewrite history—and your own identity? A Russian-American writer obsessed with her birthplace – a ghostly derelict German military hospital near BerlinHer Austrian husband, who pines for the father he never metA passionate young doctor destined for darknessA demonic figure who changed the course…
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A Sad Reflection…
It was lovely to see all those entries from the ‘Six on Saturday’ gardeners when I logged into my blog yesterday morning. Such a wonderful assortment of lovely flowers! I don’t have a clue what’s happening in my own garden at the moment, being confined to barracks, so to speak. All I get to see…
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Silent Sunday…
Myrtle, one of my favourites… Happy Ist of June!
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Review for The Forever House by Linda Acaster #Women Sleuths #Bone Chilling
A chilling discovery. A sense of foreboding. They say I’m obsessing. I’m not. Resisting family pressure to sell the too-big house Carrie and her late husband began to renovate, she is determined to carry through their shared project to prove she can manage alone. And she can, until a discovery beneath old wallpaper chills her…
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Diamonds for Breakfast…
I was lying on the couch early this morning, watching the giant gum tree through my window. I hadn’t been awake long and was waiting for my first cup of tea. The big tree was strangely still that morning, with no wind to stir the branches. It was enjoying the early morning sunshine, after the…
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Review for Close to Home by Alex Craigie #Family Life Fiction
“The book is brilliant. It reads like a memoir and grips like great fiction should – beautiful characterization”Viga Boland – Author – No Tears For My Father Talented pianist Megan Youngblood has it all – fame, fortune and Gideon. But Gideon isn’t good enough for Megan’s ambitious, manipulative mother, whose meddling has devastating repercussions for Megan…
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Did she fall…
Or was she pushed? This has always been a question for me, and I would love to know the answer. At 6 feet tall, I know I can’t do delicate. I have always been the proverbial bull in the china shop. But whenever I fall down, why don’t I end up in a heap where…
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Patience is a funny thing…
Patience is a funny thing. And not just the card game… Never ending for some things, yet remarkably short for others. I am known for my patience and will often hang on long after most people have given up. But I am beginning to discover what happens when it runs out. My recovery at the…
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Brilliant news from my Bonsai!
My sister came racing back indoors after watering my bonsai. I was amazed, for she never gets that excited about my babies. ‘The hawthorn has flowers!’ she pronounced. I struggled to the window, hoping to see for myself. And there it was, a touch of pink on the very last tree on the shelf. Number…
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My Latest Review… BEELITZ-HEILSTÄTTEN: Where Ghosts Never Die
What if rediscovering your birthplace unearthed a secret so powerful it could rewrite history—and your own identity? A Russian-American writer obsessed with her birthplace – a ghostly derelict German military hospital near BerlinHer Austrian husband, who pines for the father he never metA passionate young doctor destined for darknessA demonic figure who changed the course…
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A Sad Reflection…
It was lovely to see all those entries from the ‘Six on Saturday’ gardeners when I logged into my blog yesterday morning. Such a wonderful assortment of lovely flowers! I don’t have a clue what’s happening in my own garden at the moment, being confined to barracks, so to speak. All I get to see…
Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes 