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I Hate Rain
Apr 28th 2018
Written on the road and strangely not washed away.
Admin1 is reading Smoke and Mirrors by Elly Griffiths. Admin2 is reading The Rift by Nina Allan: a different missing girl story.
We scored 11.5 on the GWQ.
Lovely Weather for Ducks
Apr 27th 2018
Admin2 is reading District VIII by Adam Lebor; a Roma policeman with an estranged wife investigating a possible murder of a Syrian refugee in Budapest. Too boring and sexist to finish.
Meet the New Cat (2 of 2)
Apr 26th 2018
Here’s the shy brother cat which has a slightly lighter coat and a less stripy tail. And here’s a rainbow.
Admin1 is reading The Dead Tracks by Tim Weaver. Admin2 is reading The Mechanical Devil by Kate Ellis.
Meet the New Cat (1 of 2)
Apr 24th 2018
We have had two lovely brother cats since Friday but they have spent the past few days in hiding, only venturing out in the dead of night. They are gradually becoming braver and this chap is quite friendly, but the other spends most of his time squeezed into an inaccessible corner behind the kitchen cupboards. Early days.
Admin1 is reading Holy Ceremony by Harri Nykänen. Admin2 is reading The Silver Pillow by Thomas M Disch.
Critter of the Day: Robin
Apr 22nd 2018
Cooling its claws in the pond waterfall.
Admin2 is reading The Beige Man by Helene Tursten.
We scored 10.5 on the GWQ. Thx Audrey.
Crowd of the Day: Stop Bombing Syria
Apr 16th 2018
A select few people protesting at short notice.
Admin1 is reading Fall from Grace by Tim Weaver. Admin2 is reading The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, an unfinished novel on the theme of sadness and boredom featuring an exceptionally spotty trainee tax inspector and with numerous bureaucratic footnotes that nonetheless managed to be interesting and amusing. We are watching Below the Surface and we scored 7.5 on the GWQ.
Cauliflower Cheese
Apr 14th 2018
The sun is shining on our supper on a horrible war day. Hottest day this year, though: 19.0°C.
Admin1 is reading The Fourth Monkey by JD Barker (terrible). Admin2 is reading The Body Library by Jeff Noon; weird postmodern bollox. We watched Cardinal and are now watching Collateral.
Jay of the Day
Apr 10th 2018
Yay and Hooray! Admin2 has been stalking this bird unsuccessfully for ages but Admin1 photographed it through a rainy window on our most dismal April day ever (0.42kWh).
Admin1 is reading Silenced by Kristina Olsson. Admin2 is reading The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths.
Weather of the Day: Fog
Apr 9th 2018
Admin1 is reading Victim Without a Face by Stefan Ahnhem. Admin2 is reading The Night Ferry by Lotte and Soren Hammer.
We scored 10 on the GWQ.
Blue Skies
Apr 5th 2018
A sunny day after a sleety night. And a square balloon to publicise a new shop.
Admin1 is reading The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths. Admin2 is reading The Chosen Ones by Scarlett Thomas which was magic.
Corona
Apr 3rd 2018
Sun behind clouds reflected in puddle. It rained today, but not like yesterday.
Admin2 is reading Holy Ceremony by Harri Nykanen; another story of long-delayed school revenge killings and very interesting until it was hastily wrapped up at the end.
Happy Birthday Gez
Mar 31st 2018
Happy birthday, Easter and Passover to the best woman in the world.
Admin2 is reading The Ninth Grave by Stefan Ahnhem: a tricky problem for the maritally challenged father of a rebellious teenager Fabian Risk: three serial killers in two countries with the Israelis pulling some strings (careful now).
We scored an appalling 6 on the GWQ.
Sundew in the Sun
Mar 28th 2018
The garden is full of rubbish and the sky is full of altostratus so here’s our resurgent flesh-eater getting ready to catch flies.
Admin2 is reading Nod by Adrian Barnes; an insomniac apocalypse with a heartbreaking epigraph which should probably be read first to add resonance to the narrative.
A Grand Sunset
Mar 27th 2018
A pretty sunset from Grand Theft Auto 5. Admin1 is at 99.29% completion — just need to attain par at golf and do a couple of shooting range challenges now…
Admin2 is quietly reading Silence by Jan Costin Wagner.
Crowd of the Day: Bollocks to Brexit
Mar 24th 2018
Admin1 is reading Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths. Admin2 is reading Victim without a Face by Stefan Ahnhem, an unlikely but suspenseful story of a long-delayed and slow-motion school killing.
We scored, um, 5.75 on the GWQ.
Flower of the Day: Camellia
Mar 20th 2018
A sign of spring for the equinox.
Admin1 is reading Silence by Jan Costin Wagner. Admin2 is reading Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths.
Oh No! More Snow
Mar 18th 2018
Admin2 is reading Stockholm Delete by Jens Lapidus which is rubbish; too many gangstas.
We scored 7.5 on the GWQ after a late goal from Dave.
π Day
Mar 14th 2018
A pastafarian pi day pie made from repurposed leftover spag bol.
Admin1 is reading Eighteen Below by Stefan Ahnhem. Admin2 is reading The Lake by Lotte and Soren Hammer; a horrible story about human traffickers.
Critter of the Day: Female Blackbird
Mar 11th 2018
So not black.
Admin2 is reading The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux.
We scored 10 on the GWQ.
Snowman’s Land
Mar 8th 2018
After the Beast from the East comes the Pest from the West. This is what we woke up to this morning:
By the afternoon it was all gone, apart from the melting snowpeople. Admin2 is reading Eighteen Below by Stefan Ahnhem (a somewhat preposterous but pacy story) on a day when it eventually reached 10.5 above.
Coffee of the day: Red Roast Blend: mellow.