The August Library Book Photo

 Collected these books I'd reserved on-line from the mobile library.

An old Rumer Godden that I've not read plus 4 various Non Fiction. 

But, as usual, mostly crime fiction. Two are collections of short stories, two are by authors I've not read before and the rest are by tried and trusted authors.

They should keep me out of mischief for the next few weeks.

 

Four weeks ago I collected these below

I read nine of them. Details on the Books Read 2025 Page.  I've  still got the very fat R F Delderfield book. It's got so many people in the first few pages that I got lost. I have read it before - back in the 1970's - maybe I had more patience then -might try it again if I'm short of reading. 

For goodness sake don't read Nevil Shute's 'In The Wet' if you are offended by language in common use when the book was written in 1953. I looked on a review of it somewhere on line and a person was Horrified and counted how many times a certain word we no longer use was actually in the book! Which I thought rather strange for someone who was so disgusted!

Have a good Bank Holiday weekend - if you are in the UK. I'm doing nothing exciting which will give me plenty of time for reading.

Short Break

 Thanks to everyone for comments on yesterdays post.

Nothing much to write about, so having a few days off blogging. I'll be back with the August Library Book Photo in a few days.

Dragonflies

 It came in the wide open door and crashed around at the window, then it thought it was stuck (the window was just open a fraction) and stayed still for me to take a photo.

It went in a hurry when I opened the window fully.

They really are strange creatures. Years ago when I worked in Stowmarket old library we used to get them coming in all the time in summer. The library was surrounded by trees, cool and shaded in summer. Sometimes people in the library were terrified, no idea why as they aren't dangerous all we could do was  to open all the windows and hope the dragonflies would find their way out.

Did you know there are around 3,000  species, most live in tropical regions with 36 species in the UK. Such an ancient creature that their ancestors were around even earlier than the dinosaurs. Some are incredibly colourful - all that beauty for a lifespan of 7 - 56 days.

 I think this one is quite common -  Ophiogomphus cecilia or green snake-tail (once I started looking at all the dragonfly pictures on different websites, things got very confusing). If I've identified correctly it says the species is viable and stable - there is no concern for population decrease. Although apparently in the last 60 years two other species have vanished from the UK.

More Info HERE on one of the many websites I looked at.

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