Desperate Reader

Finishing all the partly read books isn't my only aim for the new year, I really want to use up some of the excessive amounts of yarn I...

I'm in the Scottish Borders at the moment (lovely) where I had planned on doing a fair bit of dog walking whilst I had a dog at my dispo...

I've been desperately trying to finish a jumper whilst the weather is so cold, partly to wear partly because it's nice and warm havi...

Before the year gets any more advanced or I have any new connectivity problems here are my top ten books from the last year. I didn't re...

New Year got off to a fun start with 5 of our team of 10 testing positive for Covid and feeling ill with it. Covid's no joke so I'm ...

We're still both suffering somewhat with the cold - for Doug it's day 3 or 4 of being down with it, but his work is closed so he...

I've dithered around writing about this but as the year comes to an end it's been such a big feature, especially of the last few mon...

I love deep midwinter and proper dark - I wouldn't mind it being a bit colder but at least it; 's saving me some money on heating, a...

This is my second nomination for  Cross Examining Crime's  reprint of the year. I wasn't totally convinced by the first Christina Br...

It turns out that it's almost exactly 13 years since I first read 'In A Lonely Place', it's stayed with me ever since, and a...