This series by Lynne McEwan has caught hold of me. In The Girls in the Glen (Detective Shona Oliver Book 3) I had my suspicions about the ultimate bad guy from around half way through the book.
A satisfying and well-told story. 📚
Heh heh. Housebroken S01E08 at approx 7 minutes in. The Hamster(?) is reading a magazine article:
It says you died.
What?!
I live in a third Grade classroom most of the year, RIP stands for "really is dead". The 'p' is silent.
The second book was as gripping as the first — Dead Man Deep (Detective Shona Oliver Book 2) by Lynne McEwan. 📚
Interesting fact about Beaufort's Dyke, a real-life natural trench between Scotland and Ireland and a key plot point: well over a million tons of munitions have been dumped there
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In August 2022 I spotted a Kererū at Waikawa Beach for the first time. This year there are two! I only managed a photo of one. 🐦
There are still very few birds around on the beach: a white-faced heron, some black-backed gulls, a pied stilt or two and a handful of oystercatchers. I could hear a skylark.
It was a very low tide and there were islands of driftwood 'mulch'. And this luminous orange shell.
Haven't been for a dawn beach walk for a while, so that's this morning's first planned item. I wonder if a few more birds may be around?
I'm also really enjoying HouseBroken, an American adult animated sitcom, where a poodle runs therapy sessions:
from the perspective of the animals, each one having various issues that usually stem from their owners, the show details the various adventures they go on to deal with their problems.
I'm enjoying watching Season 1 of the Australian crime drama Mystery Road.
Detective Jay Swan [is] assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two young farmhands on an outback cattle station, one a local Indigenous football hero and the other a white backpacker.
A compelling read — I stayed up late for this one. In Dark Water (Detective Shona Oliver Book 1) by Lynne McEwan. Now to buy the next in series. 📚
The author manages to convey the sound of a southwest Scots accent with minimal gestures in the text.
Our
Kāhu | Hawk keeps thwarting my attempts to take a good photo. Yesterday that included flying off just as I was waiting for it to turn around to face the camera.
One of the great features of the NetNewsWire RSS reader is you can use your own stylesheet for how to display articles.
I recently realised that when I catch up on the Micro.Blog Timeline I constantly have to scroll down, just a bit, to see photos. I fixed that by putting the article body first.
Hmm, I thought, as I looked down from the lounge window. That bull looks bigger than usual. … And shouldn't he be behind the flax?
Yes, yes, he should. Luckily when I yelled sufficiently he pushed his way back through the fence to the paddock he was supposed to be in.
Rural life…
This was a complicated book, and I still haven't figured out what to say about it — Deaths of Jocasta by J.M. Redmann. 📚
It was a tangled book of emotions, sex, poison pen letters, anti-abortion protestors, vicious murders, all while lead character PI Micky undertakes major life changes. Hmmm.
A few months ago I set the Desktop Picture on my MacBook Pro to pull from my Favourites in Photos and then to change the picture randomly every 5 minutes.
That created the problem of wanting to see the picture hidden behind my active window. Keyboard Maestro took care of that.
It's a special day today as my good friend Willow has come to visit for a while. 🐶
If the rain holds off we'll head to the beach.
Depending on rain, wind and tides, the river sometimes carves deep into the sand at the mouth. Then chunks are rather splendidly and randomly carved off.
I was slow to get into this book, but then I was hooked and reading solidly: Death by the Riverside (Micky Knight Mysteries Book 1) by J.M. Redmann. 📚
It's so refreshing and rare to have an actual lesbian protagonist. Some parts are definitely NSFW. Micky is a survivor to be sure!
When we went to Samoa I totally wanted to avoid any Roaming fees so turned off all kinds of stuff on my Phone. I regret it now, when somehow iMessages are only turning up on my Phone not my Mac, and a phone call I actually wanted just failed to connect with me. Grrr.
Now fiddling with Settings…
Ohhhh, I just caught up with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S02E09 — the musical episode. I loved it! Just brilliant! 🖖🏼