The August Library Book Photo

 Picked up these from the mobile library yesterday. All books I'd requested on line. There's a definite crime shortage and even one of the two here I'm not sure of as it's a new to me author.

From the top down

• Juliet Blaxland - The Easternmost Sky. Second book by this author about living with coast erosion 
• S.J. Bennett - The Windsor Knot - new to me author. The Queen solves a mystery ( sounds odd)
• Ronald Blythe - A Writers Day Book. I'm gradually reading my way through his books
• Margot Bennett - The Widow of Bath. Another British Library Crime Classic
• Clare Leighton - Country Matters. A Little Toller Books reprint with short pieces and her wonderful engravings
• John Lewis-Stempel - Woodston;The biography of an English Farm. Latest book by this well know author of country writing
• Sarah Maine - Women of the Dunes.Saw this on a blog I think. New to me author. Not sure if I'll like it.
  
• Brett Cobley - Easy Vegan. I'm not vegan or even vegetarian but gradually moving towards eating meat only a couple of times a month. 

Only 8 books including a few I'm not sure of so I reckon I'll be reading from my shelves before the next van visit - which will actually be a Very Good Thing! 

 So how did I get on with last months books?

I read The Screaming Sky (a separate post about it HERE), Brass Lives, Stour Seasons, A Little History of Exmoor,The Circling Sky and Guilty Creatures and skimmed through Nomadland (seen the film taken from the book and decided I didn't need to read it all properly). Then I went to Sowmarket Library after the boot sale last Saturday and picked up a copy of The Skylarks War by Hilary McKay  so that I could quickly re-read it before starting  The Swallows Flight. They are children's books but better than some adult books I've tried recently and well deserved of the prizes they've won. I zoomed through them both as they are so good.

More details about these on the separate Books Read 2021 page.

I didn't read the Ngaio Marsh 3 in One - couldn't be bothered and the print was really small and the cookery book was mostly about building a home smoker and pizza oven.

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Sue 

On the Washing Line...............

 This took me back to childhood........

 ..........when I was about 4 years old  washing doll's clothes and hanging them out was guaranteed to keep me busy for ages.

 These are some Barbie clothes that I found at the boot-sale last Saturday with a doll  for £2, I also brought home a toy cash register for a bargain 50p because apparently playing shops is Youngest Granddaughter's new favourite game.

 

These toys are all staying here........not sure where, as the single bedroom/toy room is getting full. I thought I'd be able to pass the baby toys on elsewhere soon but with grandchild number 5 arriving in late September or early October I've got to hang onto the baby stuff, the Duplo and the Play People for another few years yet.

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Sue

 

Wednesday Allsorts.....................

.........but mainly seen, read or heard.

This  weeks copy of the Radio Times has news of lots of crime dramas for Autumn TV.....Very Exciting.............for me anyway.

Vera is back for a short run and a new Shetland series (Thought they said there wouldn't be anymore). Ann Cleeves really is earning money because The Long Call - first of her new series based in North Devon will be a 4 part TV programme on ITV later this year.

Endeavour is back on ITV in September and P.D James' detective Adam Dalgleish will feature in 3 x two part series set in the 70's on Channel 5 later this autumn

Vigil  sounds good but claustrophobic as it's about the investigations into a death on a Royal Navy Submarine, and Silent Witness returns again. I've been watching on iplayer from the start, think I'm up to about series 15 now and have got to the point when I might have seen them before.

Although this week, I'll be watching the Paralympians in Tokyo. I'm always amazed by their skills of succeeding despite their disabilities.

(Also mentioned in this weeks RT was news that the age for getting free prescriptions will be raised to 66 -very soon, to match pension age, another bit of bad news for people struggling with poor health and poverty, (bad news buried?)

  I'm very attracted to books that have chapters for the months of the year or for the seasons , so when I picked up this below in a charity shop and opened it to find it had things to do to celebrate the wheel of the year it had to come home with me.

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The Channel 4 programme on Monday night "Summer of Wild Weather" highlighted this summer's extremes of weather around the world..........Suffolk missed them all......no heatwaves, no floods, no storms, no wild-fires......... Thank goodness, although just a teeny bit more warmth would have been good.

And finally............ on the Radio 4 Today programme Chris Packham said "every time you buy something containing palm oil you are helping to destroy a little bit more of the habitat of so many wild animals". That's why for many years I've been checking labels and cheered when I found Aldi were now stocking peanut butter that only contains peanuts - no salt, no sugar and definitely no palm oil.

Back Tomorrow 

Sue