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The River Thames on a glorious afternoon
The yellow submarine in the third image belongs to the Common Sense Party. Its founder member, Howard Thomas, campaigns in a car and boat dressed up to look like a yellow submarine. See this Wikipedia entry for details! In 2014 he announced that he was leaving the Common Sense Party to join the UK Independence Party, so who uses the yellow submarine now is anyone’s guess!
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Liked, on a visit to the Tate Gallery, London
A section of Christ in the House of His Parents by John Everett Millais 
Hearts are Trumps by John Everett Millais 
Nanny, Small Bears and Bogeyman by Paula Rego 
King and Queen by Henry Moore 
Mariana by Sir John Everett Millais 
Swingeing London by Richard Hamilton -
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The Farm – Tom Rob Smith
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith is terrific!Rightly described as unputdownable, it’s brilliantly written with an unusual story, and I read its 350 pages in under a day.
Try to avoid reading the comments and summaries, and approach it with no idea of what it’s about – I did – you’ll quickly get hooked!
Highly recommended.
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Case Histories – Kate Atkinson
I whizzed through Case Histories by Kate Atkinson.
Centered around three family tragedies and a likable private detective, this is a well written English crime-novel.
I sometimes had to flick back to remember who was who, but in the main this is pretty easy read with the mysteries being nicely tied up at the end.
Recommended.
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My days in IT are over
I’m old enough to have been involved in the early days of ‘computing’. Of course it’s now called IT (or is it?).I was bookshelf-browsing and I came across some of my old computing books and it just seemed to be the right time to clear out a few of them.
So out goes Access 97 Programming For Dummies. My days of Access database programming are well and truly over. Back in the late 90s this was a well-used guide.
Out goes Web Design For Dummies. The only web design I do now is selecting a pre-designed blog template and adding some customisations using CSS (I have a manual!).
Out goes Short Order HTML 4 and JavaScript for the World Wide Web. Ditto previous paragraph. Two lovely books but I’m a blogger now and HTML and JavaScript, neither of which I really got going with, are no longer of use.
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My awesome desktop picture
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Shouldn’t that be Crêpe?
There’s a new place for a coffee / bite to eat in Cheam Village. On our first visit the cheese and ham crêpe was tasty and substantial but we found the lemon and sugar crêpe far too sugary. Next time I’ll ask for a lemon-only crêpe and I’ll add sugar from the sugar sachets!It’s worth giving Love Crèpe (surely that should be Love Crêpe) a try.
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Saturday – Ian McEwan
I wasn’t too sure about Ian McEwan’s Saturday, but with a few longer reading sessions I was into it and ultimately enjoyed it. This story, of a neurosurgeon and his family and of the events on one day, is well written and thoughtful.
Along the way, I particularly enjoyed the fascinating and detailed accounts of a squash match and a brain operation.
A fine novel which enters the ‘recommended’ category.
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Chloe swings!
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