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Crowd of the Day: Save the NHS
Apr 16th 2016
Admin1 is reading Open Grave by Kjell Eriksson (gloomily Swedish) and watching Troll Hunter (amusingly Norwegian). Admin2 was too tired to watch having been up half the night emptying buckets of water pouring through the roof after workpeople had left a tiny gap unsealed.
We scored 9.5 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Neon Lights
Apr 12th 2016
A wet day.
Admin1 is reading The Bomber by Liza Marklund. Admin2 is reading Chilled to the Bone by Quentin Bates (bit confusing with watching Trapped at the same time as many of the characters had the same names and some had the same back story). We are watching Trapped. It’s the coldest day of the month so far.
Kahawa ya siku Kenya AA Blue Mountain: sweet and gingery.
Halo…
Apr 8th 2016
…with a dragon’s head…
…and CZA…
…smiling down
Admin2 is reading The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler.
Admin1 is reading Shock Wave by John Sandford, after giving up on three other books: Mo Hayder’s Skin (gruesome and increasingly implausible, with unconvincing characters); Thomas Enger’s Burned (after 100 pages of unrelieved gloom and misery); and Robert Goddard’s Hand in Glove (horribly old fashioned in an Agatha Christie fashion, with flighty heiresses, shady antique dealers, mysterious bequests and country piles).
End of the Rainbow
Apr 6th 2016
Sunshine, showers and blustery winds.
Admin1 is reading Skin by Mo Hayder.
Critter of the Day: Magpie
Apr 4th 2016
Admin1 is reading Star Struck by Val McDermid. Admin2 is reading I Married a Communist by Philip Roth (which was strangely old-fashioned and literary, being largely a rambling reminiscence by a superannuated English teacher).
We are watching Shetland.
Clouds of the Day; Cumulus humilis, Cirrus and murky haze
Apr 2nd 2016
Admin1 is reading Lifetime by Liza Marklund. Admin2 is reading Artefacts of the Dead by Tony Black (stultifyingly boring snoring). We scored TEN on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Happy Birthday Gez
Mar 31st 2016
Admin1 is reading Chilled to the Bone by Quentin Bates (Icelandic crime. Not bad, but marred by weakish characterisation and an insistence on jump-cutting every page or so). By a strange temperature-related coincidence Admin2 is reading Burned by Thomas Enger.
We are watching The Night Manager and Admin1 is watching Game of Thrones, series 5.
Rainbow Trout
Mar 29th 2016
A slightly iridescent fish floats above an expanding cumulus (with a tiny bit of pileus on top).
Admin1 is reading Certain Prey by John Sandford. Admin2 is reading Stone by Adam Roberts, which didn’t really rock.
Here Comes a Chopper…
Mar 25th 2016
…which was circling overhead for an hour today.
Admin1 is reading The Chosen by Kristina Ohlsson. Admin2 is reading The Passenger by Lisa Lutz, a “girl”-type saga of changing identities which was lively and readable if a bit downmarket.
Coffee of the day: Mahogany Roast Jampit Hit; woody, treacly and chocolatey.
Magnolias
Mar 24th 2016
What women in hospital have to put up with.
Admin1′s 400th book is When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum. Admin2 is reading Calling Out for You, also by Karin Fossum.
Daffodils
Mar 22nd 2016
Admin1 is reading Calling Out for You by Karin Fossum (a sad tale, effective and affecting). Admin2 is reading Dark of the Moon by John Sandford (too manly and gunly).
The Moon and Jupiter
Mar 21st 2016
Heavenly bodies on the vernal equinox.
Admin1 is reading Union Jack by VL (aka Val) McDermid. An early effort, enlivened by the similarities between trade union conventions and sf cons: booze, gossip and (character) assassination…
Flowers That Bloom in the Spring
Mar 20th 2016
First camellia.
Admin1 is reading The Damned by Andrew Pyper. Admin2 is reading The Chosen by Kristina Ohlsson.
We scored 5 on the Guardian Weekend quiz. Down, down, deeper and down.
Fly Me to the Moon
Mar 18th 2016
Admins 1 and 2 both took photos like this yesterday when the sky was clear. Today was unbroken dense black clouds.
Admin1 is reading Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indriðason.
Cloud of the Day: Cumulus mediocris
Mar 16th 2016
Admin1 is reading The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp (like being trapped in a room for six hours with a shouty twat. Which was sort of the point). Admin2 is reading Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama, 600 pages of Japanese police press office politics.
Cloud of the Day: Altostratus Opacus
Mar 15th 2016
Blue skies, all of them gone.
Admin1 is reading Stray Souls by Kate Griffin. Admin2 is reading Union Jack by Val McDermid. We are watching House of Cards (the original 1990 UK series but still bang up to date about Tory dirty tricks).
Critters of the Day: squirrel + pigeon
Mar 13th 2016
Admin1 spotted this unlikely couple on next-door’s pergola.
Admin1 is reading The Restoration Game By Ken MacLeod. Admin2 is reading When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum.
The Darling Buds of Bay
Mar 12th 2016
Our bay leaf bush is getting flowers for the first time.
Admin1 is reading The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod. Admin2 is reading Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indriðason (gloooooooomy). We had a roast chicken dinner (yum yum) and scored (oh shit) 5.5 on the Guardian Weekend Quiz.
Listen to the Rain
Mar 9th 2016
Admin2 was photographing a splashy puddle when this unexpected iridescent tableau floated by, looking like Mary and Jesus using magic to repel a charging elk.
Admin1 is reading Fairyland by Paul McAuley. Admin2 is reading War Crimes for the Home by Liz Jensen, an unforgettable book about memory loss.