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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Berlin May 2016

Some images from a wonderful weekend in a hot and sunny Berlin. It’s a relaxing, manageable city, with big buildings, big spaces and a gorgeous park. A youthful population, a fantastic mix of crisscrossing transport, and a million and one cafés and restaurants, make for a wonderfully, bustling city.

I always like to include a couple of highly processed images!

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Finders Keepers – Stephen King

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Finders Keepers is my first ever Stephen King novel and what a terrific thriller it is.

[I thought about slowing down, to have something to read on the plane, but it’s just so unputdownable – I couldn’t stop!]

Brilliantly constructed, the various threads are nicely juggled, joined up and then brought to a tense and satisfying ending.

Highly recommended to all fans of thrillers.

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Big ships, but not the big one!

Monday, May 16, 2016

Sadly, the Harmony of the Seas, the biggest cruise liner in the world, doesn’t arrive in Southampton until tomorrow, so all I could see on my brief visit were these ships.

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What’s a litotes?

Sunday, May 15, 2016

I came across a new word, ‘litotes’, in a Guardian forum. Not an unpleasant sounding word (ha ha!), and worth examination.

Wikipedia tells me ‘it’s a figure of speech wherein understatement is used to emphasize a point by stating a negative to further affirm a positive, often incorporating double negatives for effect’.

Examples of litotes: