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The tales of a London Fields based couple & their varied interests - baking / singing / spinning / weaving / beekeeping / crochet.
In memory of Caspar the dog & now the tales of Lumi 💕
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Likewise, some of us can remember the arcane docket system used to pay for your book.
It was almost like they didn’t want to sell you books 🤔😂
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Depends if you’re referencing the old building pre-2014 or the new one, two blocks down the road from the old one
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But they are so pretty 🥺
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If it helps (as someone who only started a couple of years ago) you almost always spend proportionally much longer on the first few rows than you do on any other part of the project 😁
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My first joyous experience of Tom Holt was “Who’s afraid of Beowulf” (& then I went back and read “Expecting someone Taller”) so now I feel significantly older than I did a few mins ago 😋
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When you go to pre-order and then realise you already pre-ordered book 1 in Sep… 😋
(took the opportunity to pre-order book 2 though 😁)
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“After long silence” was published as “The enigma score” in the UK & I read it in the 90s
When I was hunting for her back catalogue in 2nd hand book stores in the 00s in USA, Canada, Aus & NZ on my travels this caused utter confusion (pre internet) until I found a copy of ALS and realised it was TES
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For me, the Grass trilogy was her peak & some of her later work definitely more questionable.
But there’s a passage from Grass I would like as a reading at my funeral one day, because it still resonates.
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Got it for Christmas. Avidly reading. Eldest goddaughter already wants it as soon as I’m done reading it (to borrow - she won’t get to keep it 😌)
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This is a good autumnal one.
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/puy-...
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I read this (from the UK side of the pond) with some interest last week. It might explain your struggle
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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My advice is to carb load and hydrate when you get home but *before* going to sleep. Preferably a mix of simple and complex carbs and ideally a bit of salt.
I liked a couple of ready salted crisp sandwiches with litre of a non-diet soda of your choice (sod the diet)
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So personally (only personally) it depends. Love portable cocktails.
If drinking from container then metal cans can skew taste & prefer glass bottles. If decanting into container then no difference but circumstances where portability more useful are where drinking containers less likely (eg concert)
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Well hello from London
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My Lumi just seems to enjoy the cool water (no crab hunting so far) but thankfully not as interested as full swimming (she’s done it 3 times chasing sea birds out to sea) as each time it’s taken hours to get her dry 😖
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She’s a committed paddler. She likes to parallel the foreshore just deep enough that her legs are submerged but not her body.
She is very definite about this 😁
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Of the paddling variety 😋
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Plus the whole series (and the subsequent season ones) are just a cracking read 🥰
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I vividly remember reading it and being so moved that here was a gay character who wasn’t ‘wrong’ because he was gay. In fact it was no big deal.
1999 was also the year I saw Talented Mr Ripley & American Beauty in the cinema where the gay characters had much darker predestined doom.
Thank you 🏳️🌈❤️
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If you see this, post a picture taken in the mountains. #photography
View of Huchuy Picchu from inside the Machu Picchu complex
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Pre-ordered 🥰
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I’ve just finished it, and it was utterly riveting from start to end. Another mind blowing novel world-build, that’s mere backdrop to the far more fascinating characters & plot. I don’t write reviews usually, but if adding an Amazon review gets me another book, I’d better start.