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Your travel luggage is not safe!

Monday, May 12, 2014

If you travel by plane, this is a pretty disturbing video. Unfortunately the solution offered is, for a normal traveller, unintentionally hilarious!

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Driven – James Sallis

Sunday, May 11, 2014

James Sallis’s Driven is a sequel to the author’s novel Drive. It’s a short crime novel which doesn’t really get going or lead anywhere. Disappointing.

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Old Filth trilogy – Jane Gardam

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Jane Gardam’s Old Filth is the first book in a trilogy. I hadn’t realised this when I bought the book, only discovering it after reading it. Having enjoyed Old Filth I bought the other two and read the three books back to back. They’re a warm and affectionate amble through past times, the British Empire and the changing face of Britain. The other two books in the series are The Man in the Wooden Hat and Last Friends, and all three are recommended.

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Babysitting duties….

Sunday, May 4, 2014

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One has become grandparents

Monday, Apr 28, 2014

Welcome to the world, Chloe Jasmine Haque.

Born Monday 28th April 2014, at about 11pm.

All are well.

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Friday’s to-do list ✔

Saturday, Apr 26, 2014

Sit in a long traffic jam. ✔
Teach a pensioner and a heavily pregnant woman how to play cribbage. ✔
File a report that my mother’s doorstep milk has been stolen, again.✔
File a report that a second cheque-book sent to my mother has failed to arrive – another act of dishonesty? ✔
Buy a book for its title. ✔ [The Erotic Potential of my Wife, by David Foenkinos, 75 pence from a charity shop]
Sit through an episode of a Norwegian thriller without having a clue what’s going on. ✔