From My Mental Library

The Body in the Dales J.R. Ellis It was through Monica's blog that I came across this series of Yorkshire Murder Mysteries, and of cour...

A History of the World in 21 Women by Jenni Murray Like many, many others, this year I did not really have a birthday party. But I still had...

 ...it felt much more like spring or late summer than mid-November. It was sunny and warm at almost 20 C (68 F). But the autumn colours all ...

The flat I have been living in for 17 years now is on the first floor (the first upper floor from the ground up, not the ground floor) of a ...

The first week of November continued as nicely as it had begun (see previous post for the Monday).  On Tuesday, the 3rd, my sister came for ...