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Monday #522

Happy Easter Monday, everyone. I hope you all had a good Easter weekend. Ours was fun, if rather cold! My favourite stand alone titles and Enid Blyton’s Holiday Stories part 4 20 short stories from the 1930s, and around 96 … Continue reading

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Monday #521

I am writing this from my new laptop! The old one isn’t quite dead yet, but it has been on its last legs for the past few years (obviously it had more legs than I thought, though). I’m now trying … Continue reading

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Monday #520

Until around 3pm on Saturday I was blissfully unaware that the clocks were due to change that night. Normally I’m counting the weeks until the end of March so that it’s finally light when I finish work on my late … Continue reading

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Monday #519

So let’s try that again! Last week I promised the last part of my Five Are Together Again reviews – the one with the nitpicks no less. I even had it all written and ready to go with the exception … Continue reading

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Monday #518

It’s ten pm on Monday as I write this, which is later than usual but at least it is still Monday. Whether I get a Monday post written on Sunday as planned or not, I inevitably find myself trying to … Continue reading

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Monday #517

As you can see I’m going to share my thoughts on the whole updating Roald Dahl’s books furore this week. I’m a bit late to the party (as usual) but I have many thoughts (also as usual) so I’m going … Continue reading

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Five Are Together Again part 2

Last time we had 90 pages of nothingness before the tiniest sniff of a mystery. Things finally kick off After running his mouth off to Mr Wooh Tinker is upset at his telling off from Julian and goes to sleep … Continue reading

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Monday #516

I find myself slightly less baffled by the passage of time, as I know that February is a short month and have been willing it to be over. Before we know it, it’ll be March! The crocuses (croci?) are out … Continue reading

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Monday #515

My laptop seems to have recovered from its troubles last week – though I did a hurried backup of all my files just in case – so I’m planning to see how long it will keep going before I have … Continue reading

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Monday #514

There has been a short gap since my last post as last week another lurgy hit our house (I swear primary schools are an absolute cesspit of germs!) and then this week my laptop encountered the blue screen of death. … Continue reading

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Monday #513

I have reached the end of my list of ideas that I had at the start of the year, but I managed to come up with enough for this week without too much trouble. I need to get my thinking … Continue reading

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Monday #512

We are at the very end of January now. February is a short(er) month which I hope flies by much like January has. January round-up and The Faraway Tree on the Nintendo DS We have started reading Enid Blyton’s Holiday … Continue reading

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Five Have a Mystery to Solve part 3

In part one I talked about Wilfrid and in part two I talked about how foolish the Five were. Now for part three which will include the nitpicks. George as a boy There are various things to unpick here. Mrs … Continue reading

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Monday #511

January is rushing past us, though I  generally still feel like it’s only a week past New Year. Saying that, it feels like winter has dragged on forever (as it always does in January). According to Google meteorological winter ends … Continue reading

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Monday #510

For once I have an actual list of posts to write/post and have had to work out the best order to use them. Those should last me for at least a few weeks, then I will likely return to scrambling … Continue reading

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Monday #509

We have skipped from Monday #505 straight to Monday #509 as I took an unannounced (and longer than anticipated) Christmas break. Nothing untoward happened – I just had so much on and decided to down tools a bit early. This … Continue reading

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Monday #505

Winter has really hit here in Scotland. Where I am we’ve had a couple of flurries of snow and consistent sub-zero temperatures which are set to last for the rest of the week. Lots of layers are required to venture … Continue reading

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Five Have a Mystery to Solve

I am now at book 20 of 21! It has only taken a little over four years. But here I am, at the penultimate book, and my second least-favourite of the series. I’m not entirely sure why I think so … Continue reading

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An updated round-up of Christmas posts 2022

It has been a few years since I did one of these posts, and I managed to post quite a few Christmassy things since then.  There’s plenty to visit, or revisit, so I hope this makes up for me not … Continue reading

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Monday #504

We are into December now and there are more and more Christmas trees and lights up, which is nice when it’s dark by 4.30! A Christmas content round up and Five Have a Mystery to Solve “Oh DAAAN!” I have … Continue reading

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