Project 365 2015 Week 22
It’s half term. It’s been a nice, relaxing week, but not exactly exciting! Here’s our week in pictures… Day 144 – Sunday 24th May – the wanderer returned from his French exchange just before midnight last night. He’d had such a brilliant time and couldn’t stop talking about it. His French family sent him home with these cakes and biscuits. Day 145 – Monday 25th May – after...
The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons
I have been a big fan of Tony Parsons ever since his first novel, Man and Boy, so was looking forward to getting to grips with his latest offering, The Murder Bag. I was especially pleased to see that it’s Parsons’ first crime novel. As regular readers of my book reviews will know, I love a good Jo Nesbo crime novel. The Murder Bag was my third crime novel in a row – I’d gone from Scandinavian (The Son) to...
Return to the dermatologist
Since I last went to the dermatologist, my skin has got a lot worse, then a bit better, then a bit worse and, finally, quite a lot better. It still looks weird, wrong, strange, not right. Ugly, even. But it’s improving. And that’s all that matters to me. I’d been very low . Two weeks previously, I’d walked around Marks & Spencer on the brink of tears. Everyone I saw was so beautiful and so normal. And I...
The Gallery: Macro
I like a bit of macro photography. For me, it’s pretty much always flowers. This time of year is great – the garden is changing so fast that something that was in full bloom two weeks ago is dead, but something else amazing has replaced it. I look at my photos and I think they’re pretty good. They always make a good fall-back for my Silent Sunday posts. Then I look at other peoples’ and I realise they’re...