Crime on TV

 I read crime fiction and I watch crime fiction on TV but thankfully I don't think I've ever committed a crime! Although driving home from the coast after the Opticians last week I took a different route to avoid a road closure and came across a speed detection van - I was probably driving over 30mph, not by much although even 31mph counts as speeding and there was a car in front of me - I've got my fingers crossed. Colin used to say "they can see you long before you see them", he spent all his time driving and never drove over the speed limit, never got points on his licence, or fined or had to do a speed awareness course and he often told me off when I moaned about 30mph limits in places that didn't need them!...Or more accurately where I didn't think they were needed!

I'm remembering him especially today as it would have been his 69th birthday. It still seems all wrong to me that some people die aged just 61.

Crime on TV is a new series of 'The Capture' on BBC starring Holly Grainger. I know I watched some of the previous series but couldn't remember much about it, so I checked them  out.......Oh yes, it was that weird thing about Deep Fake - very violent. HG is also filming a new series of Strike coming later this year and there will be a return of the twisting turning Line of Duty  but maybe not until 2027.

On ITV Forgotten comes back sometime and the 26th series of Midsomer Murders although I've not watched series 25 yet, it doesn't seem to be on ITV X.

Ellis season 2 on Channel 5 started yesterday.

The 29th series of Silent Witness has finished, I think it was good but not as good as in the past and the set up of Jack in prison seemed a bit odd.

On the free U channel there's a new series of Bergerac and The Marlow Murder Club coming up. Plus there are lots of crime series from abroad with subtitles on the World Drama, Walter Presents section on the 4 catch up channel.

I found a huge list HERE although a lot don't have definite dates and some are not on free TV.

It's not just crime that I like............... I watch some sport and quizzes too! (but never soaps, true crime, wildlife stuff or period dramas).

Possible Spring Reading?

The pages that introduce the Spring part of The Country Commonplace Book by Miranda Mills. 

And above is another page from the same book . There are several similar pages through the book with ideas for reading at various times of the year. I'll share more as the year progresses.

Out of the 6 listed, I have a copy of 'Rain' by Melissa Harrison - found at one of the second-hand book sales last Autumn and I've read The Lark by E. Nesbit - one of her adult books that Dean Street Press/Furrowed Middlebrow reprinted in 2017 although I didn't keep it as it was a very light romance type book. The library had ' The Place of Tides' by James Rebanks (who also wrote the bestseller 'The Shepherds Life'), so I  reserved a copy, which arrived last week. I looked up details of the others but they don't appeal - is 'Darling' an updated version of 'The Pursuit of Love'? Sounds like it. 

And So It Starts

 First car boot sale of 2026 - nearly as big as a summer day - but a lot chillier. Plenty of sellers and buyers.

This is one of the house clearance people, impossible to rummage through the boxes for very long without getting a bad back! A huge stack of dressmaking patterns there on the left, perhaps someone will snap them up for reselling on line. 

I didn't spend much. £3 on two bunches of flowers and 50p for the washing soda (which I use along with a Smol capsule in the washing machine) and 50p for the full roll of baking paper. 

There is no sign at all of the crocus and tulips bulbs that I replanted last year in the big pot out the front of the bungalow, so I also spent £3 on a pack of 6 Primula plants to cheer things up.

I popped them out in the top of the pot when I got home............... after I'd had my breakfast.