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‘Death with manners… a page-turner in the very gentlest of ways, almost reminiscent of Alexander McCall Smith’s writing style.’ 5 stars
‘A very satisfying, uplifting read.’ 5 stars
‘Intriguing page-turner.’ 5 stars
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Books I read and enjoyed in February –
There are lots of types of joints – carpentry, elbow, marijuana, the main part of a non veggie Sunday dinner…
Other uses for the word include a place to meet someone for a drink, something done in partnership (eg jointly writing a book), cutting up a carcass for food, held or belonging to more than one person (joint account) the contrivance by which two artificial things are joined together (that’s something to do with plumbing, I think) the part of a stem from which a leaf grows, the cement bit between bricks and to prepare something ready to be joined to something else.
If I’ve missed any, please let me know – that way this post will be a joint effort.
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A tiro (which can also be written as tyro) is a beginner or novice. Two or more are known as tiros.
I’m a tiro when it comes to wildlife photography, but fortunately this little bird hopped off instead of flying away, so I got some of it in focus. Anyone know what it is?
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Here are a few things reviewers have said –
‘ lively humour and bubbling fun, that’s the gold, I loved this book. Smiled all the way to work on the train, smiled all the way home, sniggered happily more than once.’
‘ It’s a great story with characters that are written so well that you really care about them. I laughed, I cried and I shouted “no” at them several times as I joined them on their journey. I also got rather hungry with some of the food descriptions!’
‘ There is real warmth in this tale, the characters are believable, the dialogue good, and the story keeps its pace.’
‘Just the thing to cosy up to on a chilly night.’ Get it here.
Happy Valentine’s! x
I’m very pleased to have a short romantic story in the current issue of The People’s Friend Special. (Thanks to my friend Sheila Mooney for telling me she’d spotted it!)
If you’d like to read some of my romantic short stories, you might like to take a look at these four collections, which each contain 24 stories.
A mull is a promontory. Mull can also mean to ponder or consider. Mulling wine, beer or cider is heating it with sugar and spices. Eg I went to the Mull of Kintyre and mulled over whether or not to have a glass of mulled wine.
Mull apparently can also be a form of non acidic compost or a particular type of muslim, so I suppose I could have sat on a pile of mull at a mull* in the company of a mull. We may have mulled things over together, but we’d not have drunk any mulled wine.
*Not Kintyre though as the soils is acidic there.
Now I could have mulled some wine and photographed that as I do like the stuff, but instead here’s one of the foghorn at the Mull of Galloway. (I don’t actually know the man in the picture, but he stayed there so long I took the shot anyway, then walked down to see what he was looking at. It was a HUGE seal. He (the man, not the seal) then pointed out various different birds and explained about the tides and other interesting stuff.)