Crikey, I haven't posted here in over a year. That's shameful... the trouble is life goes on and there's nothing of great interest to say to be honest. I am keeping my LJ bookblog going however and can be found there quite often. The link is here: http://read-warbler.livejournal.com/Read more... )

OK, well I haven't posted here for a while, mainly as I haven't had much to post about. But we had a nice few days in Scotland last week so I thought I'd share a few photos. It was an absolutely gorgeous week, we explored to our heart's content, went a lot further than we expected, and also fitted in an afternoon visit to the absolutely wonderful nakeisha ( Read more... )

I take it my Pros fan friends all know that Martin Shaw is one of the people discovering his roots in the new series of Who Do You Think You Are?... which has just started. No idea when his episode will be shown, I've checked the BBC website and they're not saying. Only that Julie Walters was first on (very interesting, Irish background...) and ( Read more... )

... a few bookish smiley and pretty things:

http://read-warbler.livejournal.com/87114.html

For instance:


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I see I haven't posted anything here for over a month. Basically that's because it's been a really quiet few weeks with not much going on. The one memorable bit... though not for a good reason... was tripping over in the back yard, falling flat on my face, and ending up in A&E. Nothing broken but my face was a mess and I was quite shaken up. It ( Read more... )

A couple of book reviews for a quiet Sunday:

http://read-warbler.livejournal.com/84430.html

So... tell me what you're reading at the moment. If you feel like it. :-) Fanfic? A mainstream book? Is it any good?

... here on my bookblog:

http://read-warbler.livejournal.com/83284.html?view=493908#t493908

Going to enjoy a very relaxed Sunday today. A nice lunch, reading (really enjoying a book rec from bluespirit_star called A Fete Worse than Death by Delores Gordon-Smith), ( Read more... )

I don't think I realised I had a birthday 'twin' on LJ. A big Happy Birthday and many happy returns to unsentimentalf. I say 'twin'... I'm sure you're nowhere near as antiquated as me. ;-)

To me, this is genuinely awesome. Pic from NASA.

International Space Station astronauts captured this photo of Earth's atmospheric layers on July 31, 2011, revealing the troposphere (orange-red), stratosphere and above.


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Happy Sunday. :-)


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