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Snow Is Falling All the Time
Dec 29th 2017
Actually it has all melted now, but not before the solar panels had recorded our first 0kWh day of the year.
Admin2 is reading A Death at the Palace by MH Baylis (thx Admin1); a young woman goes missing… We are watching Sé quién eres (aka I Know Who You Are); another young woman goes missing…
Coffee of the day: Ethiopian Espresso: sweet and fruity (thx Fiona)
The House of the Rising Sun
Dec 26th 2017
Admin1 is reading The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund (3 books by 2 people) — compelling, but horrific and disturbing. Admin2 is reading You Should Come with Me Now by M John Harrison (thx again Admin1); fragments washed up on the coast of an imaginary country where “Patrick Hamilton (master of shabbiness) glares balefully at JG Ballard (master of beaches)”.
Happy Birthday Jesus
Dec 25th 2017
A 3D printed sheep and Buddha come to the party.
Deck the coffee with leaves of holly.
Admin2 is reading White Tears by Hari Kunzru; a splendid time-slipping story of white men and the blues (thx Admin1).
We watched The Cuckoo’s Calling (thx again).
Christmas Day was our warmest (14.5 °C by day and 10.2 °C by night) and sunniest (0.683kWh) of this December.
God Jul
Dec 24th 2017
Admin1 is reading The Dark Isle by Clare Carson. Admin2 is reading The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills, a somewhat eccentric novella about music appreciation clubs. Admin1 watched The Leftovers, series 3, which was seriously weird, and we both watched The Farthest, about Voyager, which was amazing, even though we’ve had 40 years of spoilers.
Hear the Salvation Army Band
Dec 20th 2017
No sorry it’s the Back Chat Brass and jolly good they were too.
Admin2 is reading NW by Zadie Smith.
Christmas Lights
Dec 18th 2017
Bloke round corner continues his traditional tasteless display. Most of the neighbouring houses have started competing but he still wins.
Admin2 is reading What Dark Clouds Hide by Anne Holt.
Critter of the Day: Blackbird
Dec 17th 2017
Admin2 is reading Light in a Dark House by Jan Costin Wagner; a Finnish story with an open-ended finish.
We scored er um 6 on the GWQ.
Trifling
Dec 14th 2017
Admin1 is reading Wychwood by George Mann (daft. And mercifully short). Admin2 is reading Babylon Berlin by Volker Kutscher, shenanigans in interwar Germany with Russians, Nazis, gangsters and corrupt police.
Melting in the Sun
Dec 11th 2017
The blue skies of today reflected in the thaw.
Admin1 is reading The Bloody Meadow by William Ryan, a detective story set in the Stalinist USSR of the 1930s, and not as interesting as it sounds. Admin2 is reading The Double Silence by Mari Jungstedt.
Ice Ice Baby
Dec 9th 2017
On the road…
…and in the trees
Admin1 is reading Post Mortem and Admin2 is reading Death Message, both by Kate London.
A Horse with No Name
Dec 8th 2017
A pink pony on the pavement.
Admin1 is reading What Dark Clouds Hide by Anne Holt. Admin2 is reading Post Mortem by Kate London, a compelling Line of Duty-like story of an internal police investigation.
Late Bloomer
Dec 6th 2017
This unseasonal spring poppy has been struggling to unbox itself for weeks but has finally opened — just in time to get blown away by Storm Caroline tomorrow, probably.
Admin2 is reading The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble, a book mostly about jigsaws in hundreds of tiny pieces.
Eyes in the Skies
Dec 5th 2017
Admin1 is reading Europa Blues by Arne Dahl. Admin2 is reading Munich by Robert Harris, which resonated well with current events.
Reflecting
Dec 3rd 2017
Walls and fences reflected in a car.
Admin1 is reading Munich by Robert Harris, a somewhat plodding factionalisation of the Munich Conference in the run-up to WWII. Admin2 is reading The Cutting Crew by Steve Mosby. We scored 7 on the GWQ.
Sunset
Dec 1st 2017
The snows are melted, the snows are gone. Admin1 is rewatching Fringe. Admin2 is reading No Echo by Anne Holt.
Another Rain Another Bow
Nov 24th 2017
A bit bent because photographed in 3 parts.
Sleet as well today. Brrr!
Admin2 is reading Sleeping Beauties by Stephen/Owen King: bollocks with bullets.
We are watching Beck.
Greet the New Door
Nov 17th 2017
Admin1 is reading No Echo by Anne Holt, which was totally implausible, not helped by the characters all acting like spoiled kids. Admin2 tried reading The Marco Effect by Jussi Adler-Olsen but discovered that we had already read it under the title of Buried and is now reading Gnomon by Nick Harkaway, which was visionary.
Drizzle Bow
Nov 14th 2017
Light rain and sunshine.
Admin2 is reading The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee, which did not feature Jesus but was a good enough read in the vein of China Mieville or Adam Roberts, neither of whom are likely to win the Nobel Prize.
Poppy Day
Nov 12th 2017
A poppy tries to flower out of season.
Since it is Remembrance Sunday, Admin2 is reading Every Thing I Don’t Remember by Jonas Hassen Khemiri: random fragments of imaginary interviews coalesce into some sort of narrative. The author turns up so it must be a) literary and b) postmodern. Translated from Swedish into American, which grated exceedingly.
We scored 9.5 on the GWQ.
Bright Sun, Black Cloud
Nov 10th 2017
Admin1 is reading The Night Stalker by Clare Donoghue (annoyingly cluttered and rather risible; the sort of book Cold Comfort Farm was taking the piss out of). Admin2 is reading Black Flowers by Steve Mosby.