Decided to go for a run today last minute, after Clare had done hers. Very windy indeed out, so it took me about fifteen minutes to run to Hythe into the wind, but only eight minutes to get back. This means I did my fastest ever mile on the way back, though I don't seem to have done my fastest ever kilometre. Possibly that was last time I went out in the wind. Anyway, good run, though the weather did most of the work.
I am most enjoying the "best of" of a particular year, hoping to catch all of those. BBC are mostly focussing on the big headlining sets of the pop acts I'm not so interested in, though hopefully there's a lot more out there. Our internet is behaving this afternoon, even with me on iplayer and the boys on the Nintendo Switch and tablet. I will watch the Arthur Lee set next.
Did the Sainsbury's click and collect pick up, no queue at all today, so fine. Jim has ordered some suspiciously different shopping this week, including prosecco, is he having a secret party?
Finished my Reginald Hill book so straight on to the next one1. Reading while mostly listening to Glastonbury, catching up with the 1994 Oasis performance and trying to spot myself in the crowd. Trying and failing.
Reminiscing about the festivals with Ro, 1994 was the first year we all went, and then Ro, Dave, Chris and I went in 1995 too. One year we went in the van, and one year we were going to go in the van but I had a bad back last minute and could not drive, I can't remember which year is which. No blog to refer back to from those days, and no photos either. One of these years, I think it was 1994, we went to some woods and collected loads of firewood, as Chris had told us it would be a sought after currency once you got on site.
| Author | Book | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Ian Rankin | Westwind2 | Dated thriller, shame. |
| Ian Rankin | Doors Open2 | Really good crime caper in Edinburgh but with no Rebus. |
| Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games2 | Borrowed from the children, very good. |
| Suzanne Collins | Catching Fire2 | Hunger Games part 2, read this even quicker, a bit darker. |
| Suzanne Collins | Mockingjay2 | Hunger Games part 3, joyless and grim. Very 2020... |
| Karen McManus | One Of Us Is Lying3 | Another one liberated from the children's bookshelf. A Breakfast Club whodunnit, dying to be a film, not at all suitable for a ten year old... |
| Robin Paige | Death at Glamis Castle4 | Edwardian era mystery written by Americans. I read one of these before. Quite atmospheric, though a little twee. Sort of romance / crime. Written in accents, with plenty of "of the time" attitudes. |
| Jed Rubenfield | The Interpretation of Murder5 | A charity shop find, one you always see, have had it kicking around a long time. Historical crime fiction again set in New York 1909, featuring Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Great, but complicated and fairly unlikely! |
| Muriel Spark | Loitering With Intent6 | Branching out a little this time, it's not even a crime. |
| Julie Wassmer | Murder on the Pilgrims Way7 | Going back to the familiar now. Fairly gentle and local crime. Forgot I had this one from when we met the author in Waterstones. Mostly predictable and cosy but I did not get the actual end murderer correct. |
| Reginald Hill | Blood Sympathy8 | Even more familiar, have read this before, but keen to revisit this crime series. Very enjoyable. |
| Reginald Hill | Born Guilty1 | Joe Sixsmith again, hoping I enjoy all of this series as much as the first one. Dated and a little complicated but lots of fun. |
Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe in the far South. Wed + dad to two, I'm a full stack web engineer, + I do js / Node, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubs, running, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, family tree stuff, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.