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Thinking of the days: June 2015
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Thinking of the days. I love blogging about. Tuesday, 23 June 2015. The day we went orff to Ascot. This time last week, the picnic was packed and I was slipping into something uncomfortable. A pair of shoes with high heels.not totteringly high, but high enough for me. Oh, and I was putting on a frock.the girls and I were off to the races. To Ascot for the first day. So, it was race time. First stop was to see the Royals in their carriages. And to have a look at the runners in the first race. So I chose n...
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Thinking of the days: The day a banana got in the way in the bookshop
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Thinking of the days. I love blogging about. Sunday, 21 June 2015. The day a banana got in the way in the bookshop. There was a slight kerfuffle as I walked into my favourite bookshop yesterday. Two new people were on duty and one of them was battling with the till and the credit card machine to everyone's delight and consternation. But did this matter? Nina threw herself into her new role.with a little help from Debbie James who owns the bookshop. I only know Jon Reed through Twitter.we both love li...
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Thinking of the days: The day we went orff to Ascot
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Thinking of the days. I love blogging about. Tuesday, 23 June 2015. The day we went orff to Ascot. This time last week, the picnic was packed and I was slipping into something uncomfortable. A pair of shoes with high heels.not totteringly high, but high enough for me. Oh, and I was putting on a frock.the girls and I were off to the races. To Ascot for the first day. So, it was race time. First stop was to see the Royals in their carriages. And to have a look at the runners in the first race. So I chose n...
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Thinking of the days: Days of loving my cookery books.
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Thinking of the days. I love blogging about. Friday, 24 July 2015. Days of loving my cookery books. Ermthere's 90 of them. Yes, I have 90 recipe books and books about food. I didn't realise I had so many .at a guess last year I thought there may be 60. Oops. Some of them are on the bookshelves in the kitchen. Others can be found on the dining table,. By my bed, on the coffee table.wherever I sit and read, there's bound to be a book about food close by. I also tend to use what I've got.sometimes I'm n...
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A fool on a hill...: August 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Saturday, 29 August 2015. The Century Trilogy, by Ken Follett. First up, apologies for not having posted for such a long time. It's been a busy few weeks - particularly the bit where we had two nine year olds to stay! With not much time or head-space for writing blogs. The boxed set. (See how big they are? And there are a lot. What Follett does is to use the fortunes of these families as a vehicle for nothing less than relating the entire histo...
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A fool on a hill...: June 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Monday, 22 June 2015. Congratulations to Tanya Landman, winner of the 2015 Carnegie Medal! The Carnegie Medal is the big one for writers of children's books - the one we'd all like to win. (Well, we'd like to win any prize - but this one would be the cherry on anyone's cake! Tanya Landman earlier today at the Carnegie presentation. But to return to the book - I reviewed it not long after it first came out, and you can see that review here.
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A fool on a hill...: February 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Wednesday, 25 February 2015. Just a word first about that term, junior novels. They're sometimes called 'middle-grade' novels, and they are - very approximately - intended for 9-12 year olds. (Many of them could be, and are, enjoyed equally by adults - don't dismiss books because they happen to be on the children's shelves in the bookshop! And 'Young Adult' books even more so.). Fairy-tales do sometimes come true - don't they? This book is a ve...
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A fool on a hill...: January 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Friday, 23 January 2015. Trouble on Cable Street, by Joan Lingard. Anyone who was teaching English in the late 70s/early 80s - and probably after that - will remember the name of Joan Lingard. She wrote Across the Barricades. Concerns Isabella, whose mother is Spanish. She has two brothers. One has chosen to fight in the Spanish Civil War for the Republicans: the other, by contrast, is attracted by Oswald Mosley's increasingly powerful ...And a...
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A fool on a hill...: Liberty's Fire, by Lydia Syson
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Tuesday, 26 May 2015. Liberty's Fire, by Lydia Syson. Like Lydia Syson's previous books, A World Between Us. And That Burning Summer. Liberty's Fire is set during the Paris Uprising of 1871, when the workers, starving and desperate after being besieged by the Prussians, declared that the people would govern the city through a Commune. It's a time about which I knew virtually nothing: after reading the book, I know a great deal more! The cloud h...
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