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Thursday, 22 October 2020
A daft story with a philosophical theme
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Imagine the scenario; climate change and ecological destruction has reached the point where a great catastrophe is about to unfold unless w...
Friday, 16 October 2020
A Dark-Adapted Eye. What's the truth?
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I used to love the telly series Columbo . Peter Falk as the shuffling detective in his rumpled mac knew who'd committed the crime right...
Friday, 2 October 2020
Parson Peters - a life of dishonesty
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The word parson , like matron , brings to mind saucy Carry On films and salacious newspaper headlines. So it was with plenty of nudge-nudg...
Friday, 25 September 2020
A Long Petal of the Sea? Not my cup of tea.
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Our book club choice for August was Isabel Allende's A Long Petal of the Sea , published in 2019. Len and Yvonne are fans of the Chilea...
Thursday, 24 September 2020
Period Piece: charmingly fearful of the lower classes
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It's been difficult keeping Book Club going since March. Some members returned to their native land for lockdown, and most of our group...
Monday, 31 August 2020
Rats as big as cats
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You have to admire the courage of war correspondents, the journalists who place themselves in the middle of a conflict in order to bring us...
Thursday, 20 August 2020
Excusing Barbara Cartland
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I had a good laugh at Barbara Cartland's expense after finishing Mission to Monte Carlo . I texted my literary chum who sniggered, tha...
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