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A selection of Xmas reading. I now have to work my way through all this literature, a word reserved for no good reason only for story books,...

BBC An Azerbaijan aircraft flying over Southern Russia crashes while landing in Kazakhstan.  It appears to have been shot down by eager Russ...

It's been a bad year for books in that I have hardly read any.   Too much time girning on Twitter about the state of the world does not ...

  I have always said that having a hobby is a good idea.  The satisfaction of building something from a kit has always pleased little boys, ...

It's been a bit of a bind in recent days.  My knees not being good, overdoing it on the front and scunnering myself for over a week, the...

There were two reasons for me to select this book, one was it was FREE on Amazon Kindle or possibly cheap, I forget which, and the gentle pe...

I appear to have done it again.   I have accidentally collected too many books to read.  Certainly I took advantage of an 'Amazon' c...

No, like you I did not bother listening to Jeremy Hunt offering a lying budget.  They are always lies, and tomorrow the clever people will h...

Having been touring Ancestry myself recently I found it interesting that Michael Palin, famous from all his many TV appearances, would have ...

  The problem I have now, with the year ebbing away, is which book do I read first?  Considering there are several already open and at varyi...

  The 'Indian Summer' as we used to call it, continues.  This leaves me wondering why we no longer call it 'Indian Summer?' ...

Another day of coughing and spluttering is upon me.  I am glad, because it was much worse yesterday!  This is a bind however, I do not get o...

A surprise this week, the new Prime Minister is still in office! Not only that, but few have made serious claims about his mental health.  I...

This is a good book.   Published in 2016, Tom Chesshyre road the rail in 2013/14, so it is slightly dated.  Non the worse for that.  It is u...

  This is a delightful, short, easy to read book. Charlie Connelly is not the first to scribble a book based on the Shipping Forecast , he ...

  It's that woman's fault!  I was trying not to, but she made me do it. Today I sat quietly, attempting not to pay out money for any...

  I have begun reading these two, what I call 'Dipper' books.  That is, they are full of short chapters on a variety of different su...

  Decided this morning to take action against the 'stir crazy' feeling that has developed around here.  I checked the bus times onli...