One of life's eternal mysteries: if there's a duvet cover in the wash how does all the other washing end up inside it by the end?
This 35 minute podcast episode is so interesting. Pet lovers, tune in! Death in the Afternoon: INTERVIEW: Uncovering Pet Death’s Greatest Mystery:
The author of history’s most influential piece of animal mourning literature had been lost…until now. Learn the incredible true story behind The Rainbow Bridge.
Well, that's unusual: two sizeable quakes within moments of one another. The pheasants were busy with their special earthquake alarm calls. 〰️
A 5.7 at 1016 and a 5.4 at 1019.
Reading Persons Unknown (Manon Bradshaw, Book 2) by Susie Steiner was how I imagine white water rafting would be. You dip a toe in the river not sure if you really want to engage, take a step, and then you're off, swept along irresistibly. What a read! 📚
Fire in Broken Water (The Pegasus Quincy Mystery Series Book 3) by Lakota Grace was a thoroughly good read from an author and in a setting I enjoy. 📚
feuding over water rights … suspected drug dealing, and a blackmailer … all lead Pegasus astray on her quest to find the killer
Woohoo, a proper holiday (with friends) coming up later this year. There is an island or two below that red dot… 🇼🇸
This was another gripping read from Tracy Clark: Runner (A Chicago Mystery Book 4). It's a great shame there are only 4 books in the series. It's a story worth telling. 📚
Chicago in the dead of winter can be brutal, especially when you’re scouring the frigid streets for a missing girl.
Seems a bit woo-woo but sometime last night while I was asleep my little battlers announced to my brain that they’d defeated whatever infection this has been. And indeed, I feel different today — definitely getting better at last. Negative Covid test again; symptoms partly match cold, flu and Covid.
Took me a few starts but in the end I enjoyed Poodle Versus The Mob (Cottage Country Cozy Mysteries Book 2) by Anne Shillolo well enough. 📚
Zora Flynn, local newspaper publisher, and Rocco, her pampered poodle, are faced with a mini-crime wave. Not one but two victims have surfaced
I enjoyed reading Murder Among The Roses (Maybridge Murder Mysteries Book 1) by Liz Fielding. 📚
Abby is horrified to discover the bones of a baby buried under a rose bush. … And then, just two days later, Abby finds Howard himself. Lying dead in the very same rose garden.
In Murder Never Retires (DI Hillary Greene Book 12) by Faith Martin our favourite DI is back on the job but in a different role. 📚
20 years ago … Anna McRae was found beaten to death … with a rolling pin. She’d been having an affair with her brother-in-law … But the evidence never added up.
Today, while my sore throat morphs into a cough, I’m resting up, mainly reading, dozing and answering urgent last minute calls from our lawyer about the house we’re selling. 🤞🏼
Another excellent mystery from Faith Martin — Murder at Work (DI Hillary Greene Book 11) 📚:
Michael Ivers was a gambler and a notorious womaniser … there is a long list of people who might have wanted him dead.
Hillary has just days left to solve her final case as a police officer.
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the novella Catnip & Brimstone by Jessica Nickelsen. 📚
Nine-year-old Beth and her tabby kitten Charley become BFFs … When Charley is catnapped by a strange man in a dark cloak, Beth does everything she can to get him back.
A couple of photos from the other day of one of my favourites: the Tūturiwhatu | New Zealand dotterel. On close inspection, I see this one has a yellow band high on its right leg. 🐦
These little Tūturiwhatu are only about 25 cm vs 37 for a gull or 15 for a sparrow.
Turns out I’ve been wrong for at least 5 days now in my belief that Fliss had stopped laying for the season. Quail only lay when there’s at least 12 hours of sunlight… 🐦
On This Day reminded me that in 2018 and 2020 I did an online hearing test. So here's another. I attribute where there is improvement at 500 and 1K to the fact that tinnitus now seldom bothers me very much. Looks like high pitch has declined though.
Hmmm, yesterday I was tired and my throat was a bit scratchy. Today, after sleeping poorly, I’m still tired and my throat is more scratchy… But in better news, yesterday we accepted an offer on the house we’ve been hoping to sell since last September. It’s not the one we live in. Whew.
Started this book so long ago I’d forgotten what was going on. Picked it up and finished it with some enjoyment. The Country Inn Mystery (Jenny Starling Book 7) by Faith Martin. 📚
Jenny Starling is [cooking for] a Regency Extravaganza … Leading actress … turns up actually drowned in the pond…
