How Many Library Books?.....................

.....................17!

Good grief, when will I get the chance to read all those when Queens Club and Wimbledon tennis are both on TV in the next month! 
 Luckily borrowing from the library van means we have 8 weeks to read them and I can probably renew them anyway. 

Several of yesterdays haul are books that have been mentioned on blogs or have popped up somewhere as recommended and I've requested them.
So what have we got. From the left.......a book about the first months of the war. Then a cookbook which I've glanced through - looks like some good value recipes. Then the latest in a very long series of historical crime by Anne Perry - always a good read. Next "Four Fields" - saw this mentioned but it may be a bit of a 'dry' read. There are two by Peter Turnbull, who has been churning out crime fiction at the rate of two a year for ever!. Tessa Harris - new to me - no idea what it is.
From the bottom of the pile........ Alys Fowler has done several gardening books but this is an exploration of the Birmingham canals by inflatable kayak! Next Crimson and Bones, read about this somewhere and I thought it was historical crime but maybe just historical, it might be OK.
Too Marvellous for Words by Julie Welch is another book about life in a girls boarding school. Trisha Ashley writes light fluffy books which I read now and again for a change.
The Whitstable Pearl Mystery......no idea about this except it's set in Whitstable! " The Shipping Forecast" There are several books around on this subject and this is the latest - a BBC book . Family Matters is another of the British Library Crime Classic reprints.
Then "Six Against The Yard" Which was originally published in 1932 and is a story written by members of The Detection Club which included Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers. An Agatha Christie that I've not read before............ The Secret of Chimneys and top of the heap is  "A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess" This is the lady (with umpteen children) who lives in the middle of nowhere on the moors.

Should keep me busy for a while. I'll keep you posted on how I get on with them.
All books read recently have been added to the  'Books Read 2017 Page'.

Thank you for all the comments on our beautiful grandchildren......... I do like being a Nana!

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Nana Sue Shows Off!

 

Hope these photos work as they are off the two daughters facebook pages and sometimes they don't copy properly. So apologies if all you see is words and no photos!

Our little poppet Florence is  8 months old now.
We usually try to get over to see her once a week, saw her yesterday and she was in chatty mood, trying out all sorts of sounds. She gets around at quite a speed commando style on her tummy, daughter found her sucking the pram wheels!  Washed her mouth very quickly!

 And our cheeky monkey Jacob was one at the end of May, hopefully he'll be coming up from Surrey to visit before the end of June. We'll need to move a lot of things up out of reach!

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Stormy Weather and Charity Shop Books

We had rain yesterday, though it was more like RAIN in capital letters as it came down hard and fast while the wind whipped the trees into a frenzy and the electric went off for 7 hours. We were OK as we had the LPG range for boiling a kettle and cooking dinner. I took round a flask of boiling water to our neighbours - (the ones who won't share the driveway costs) so they could have a hot drink, in the hope it will make them feel guilty!!
We rang the power people to notify them of the outage and found we could get text message updates on their progress at restoring power. What a handy service! All afternoon we kept getting little messages telling us what was happening and what time they hoped to fix it by.
They got it fixed just as it was getting dark.


And the book bit............after months of finding no books in charity shops, I  acquired 4 from various places over the last 3 weeks.

 Left to right
Modern Crimes by CHRIS NICKSON.
Last time I saw my Penny Pincher friend A she mentioned that Nickson had started yet another series, I checked the library website, found they didn't have it and then forgot all about it so when I spotted this I knew exactly what it was and snapped it up for 50p.
Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther.
This is a WWII classic and I have read it  but didn't own a copy. Winston Churchill  credited the film, which was made from the book in 1942, with increasing American support for the war effort. Oxfam Bookshop so £1.99
Carol Harris - Women at War In Uniform.
 Another addition to my collection of WWII books. Haven't read this. Also Oxfam Bookshop £1.99.
Barbara Pym - An Academic Question.
Pym is an author I didn't read  when working in libraries through the '70's  in fact I don't remember them at all. Reading the details about her on Fantastic Fiction I see that she had 6 books published between 1950 and 1961 ( before I was reading!) and two in the seventies but then four more were published after her death in 1980. It also says that when TLS asked critics to name underrated authors Pym was the only author mentioned twice, which brought her back to public recognition not long before she died. A short book, quickly read, the fourth of her books I've read and enjoyed. Another 50p purchase, which I'll now pass on to a friend.

Many thanks for comments about the Calamondin tree. Maybe it is edible after all, but will I be able to keep it alive long enough to find out?
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