Slags, Drugs and Jasper Fforde

[themolesmother]

Hubby arrived home very excited earlier this week.  He’d picked up some genuine gossip during a visit to the supermarket and was dying to impart it.  Usually we’re the very last to hear the local news but this lot was hot off the press.

The sleepy local town 5 kms from us is apparently a sink of iniquity.  The gendarmes have arrested eleven of the

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[nineveh_uk]

Ha! you you were getting away from it all. I like your neighbour of the silk PJs - she sounds like the vixen character in a Miss Marple (hope she doesn't end up wrapped around a dose of hemlock).

[themolesmother]

I like your neighbour of the silk PJs - she sounds like the vixen character in a Miss Marple (hope she doesn't end up wrapped around a dose of hemlock).

Sadly, she's a bit more the bimbo type - "as dim as a TOC-H lamp", as my not-so-beloved mother used to say. I can't see anyone bothering to poison her, least of all her other half. It wouldn't be worth the effort :-).

She's good entertainment, however. She named their enormous slavering Rottweilery-type dog "Roxanne". I keel over laughing every time I hear them calling it as the contrast between the name and the dog is hilarious.

MM

[nineveh_uk]

Just finished reading "Affairs of Wizards" (yes, I know I should be working...). What can I say but Inspector Lynley ruins lives! I really enjoyed it - Vanessa was an engaging character and her narrative highly entertaining. I liked the main plot - plots that work are always good - and I damn well expect that metamorphmagus family talent to be a point in DH, and the little bits of WW culture and news that were worked in made me smile. Lavender Brown must be very happy in her chosen career.

[themolesmother]

Thank you for reading and commenting. Glad you enjoyed it. I'm really rather fond of Vanessa. She's the elder sister of the stroppy sixteen year old who is the narrator of my French Novel That Never Got Finished. Perhaps one day.

MM

[themolesmother]

*Snerk*

Very true.

It's the basil hubby worries about the most. The slugs are addicted to the stuff. He's now given in to slug pellets, so at least some of it is surviving.

MM

[lyras]

Ooh, I hope you enjoy the Jasper Fforde. My copy is allegedly on its way from Amazon.

[themolesmother]

Judging by the first few chapters Fforde is very definitely back on form with this one. Hubby nicked the book from me for a while as I predicted and started chortling as soon as he read the first page.

Hope your copy arrives soon.

MM

[loupnoir]

I think you should add the community _audiobookshare to your flist.

Someone's been posting DH7 as an audio book read by Fry.

[themolesmother]

Thanks for the tip! I'll take a look at it.

Still waiting for my copy from Amazon :-(.

MM