Watching (or Not Watching) and Reading

What a surprise I got yesterday afternoon to discover 2 posts had been published in one day! User Error obviously! The bird spotting post was meant for today.

So better think of something else.....................

 

  I've no idea if I'm claustrophobic or not - I know I don't like lifts but that's because  the idea of being stuck in one is terrifying rather than them being too enclosed but after watching the series Vigil  last week I shall never ever go in a submarine!

Vigil was on TV months ago but must have been on at the same time as something else because I didn't watch then so a bit  late getting around to it on iplayer.

 

I'm enjoying the Ipcress File on Sunday nights, which is an adaptation of a book by Len Deighton and came across a really silly crime series called Sister Boniface  and something even sillier which had three crime writers solving crimes for their police officer niece (I think- didn't actually watch much).

Not at all sure about the series that's been made from the Graham Norton book 'Holding'. Set in Ireland and about the finding of a body that brings out secrets from all members of the village. Described as Dark Humour. The juries out.

Did anyone see the thing about people living as the Amish do, but in Devon, through 6 months of last summer. I started and managed half an hour on Tuesday then thought ENOUGH! What a load of rubbish, what a load of odd people thrown together. Supposedly it was some sort of scientific project.

Do I have a another look to see if it improves  or not bother.

 

First book read this week was 'Merry Hall' by Beverley Nichols. This was originally written in 1951 and is the story of the author making a garden after buying an old Georgian Manor called Merry Hall. Beverley Nichols was a name I knew because he was quite a prolific author and journalist through the 70's when I was working in libraries. This was the ad that drew him to the house...........

 

"Easy Reach of London. Charming Georgian Manor House in quiet leafy lane. Five acres. Outbuildings.Excellent condition. Freehold. "

This is the description from the library website...............

First in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England. Though Mr. Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious.

Some of his ideas about his staff and  about women now seem awfully dated and would have been tut-tutted at a few years later but I really enjoyed this and have ordered another - Sunlight on the Lawn.

Then I had a few hours sitting in the warmth of the greenhouse through the week and read 'What They Knew' by Marion Todd.The library website says.....................

It's the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay when Alison Reid admits a caller to her home. When her death is later reported, DI Clare Mackay attends the scene. The initial evidence doesn't rule out murder, but it's not possible to say for certain if foul play was involved. Yet when the pathologist informs Clare about a post mortem of a young woman found in the Kinness Burn, and with some similarities to Alison's case, it seems there's a strong chance that there's a killer on the loose in St Andrews. Clare and her team will have to look past the obvious conclusions and delve deeper into the lives of the victims to get to the truth. But who else risks meeting the same fate while the clock is ticking? 

This is the 4th book in the series, and the 3rd I've read this year  after someone in Blogland mentioned the author last year. The 5th will be on the Library Van for me next month and the 6th out sometime later this year.

 

Finally I've just started this from my shelves, it popped up as something I would like and my cheap, well used copy is an ex-library book all the way from across the Atlantic from Duberque IA.

I'll let you know if it's any good and will probably pass it on to someone who would like it later.

 

Back Tomorrow

Sue

 

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