Monthly Archives: October 2022
Friday Book Club – September 2022!
Yes, terribly late with this one too!
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Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
Friday Book Club – August 2022!
Yes terribly late with this, sorry!
The Athena Public Library is holding an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of local Author Electra Barnes Cartwright, who agrees to make a rare public appearance which goes viral among her fans. They start to descend on Athena and the more persistant ones try and get to see poor Electra before the event as they have heard of un-published manuscripts which would be worth a pretty penny.
County Librarian, Charlie Harris, and his Maine Coon Cat, Diesel, try to keep order at the library but then the founder of the Electra Barnes Cartwright society is found murdered and things take a much darker turn with everyone suspecting each other as well as the over zealous fans. Can Charlie and Diesel find out who did it before anything else happens!
I loved the book, it was an easy read and a good ending.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
Oops Another Two Weeks Gone!
No matter how much I keep up to date with work, home jobs etc the weeks fly by and I suddenly realise that two weeks have passed and no posts! Where do the days and weeks go to?
Needless to say we have all been busy, which is why the days do pass very fast!
WARNING: PICTURE HEAVY POST!
Eldest spent three weeks doing his BA (Breathing Apparatus) training for his on-call fire service and came home every night smelling like a bonfire. He really enjoyed it and passed all aspects of it, so is now on the rota. This weekend he is training for the road accident equipment.
Youngest is finishing his course up and is down at the training centre in November for a week and then he will hopefully be finished and fully qualified.
We decided to get back to the hotel via the Thames River Boats.
Tomorrow The Boys and I are taking DH out for dinner at a lovely pub near our village and then Sunday DH has a swimming event and I am going to try and catch up, AGAIN!!!! Hopefully next week, but don’t say it too loud, I will try and post every day!!!
I hope you lovely lot have a wonderful weekend, last one for October 2022!!!! Oh goodness it’s November next week!!!!!
Hugs & Love, Susie, DH, Eldest, Youngest & Coco xxxxx
Susie’s Friday Book Club.
Wow I have managed to miss two months of Book Club!!! Where do the months go? Anyway I will catch up over the weekend but here is October’s Book.
Atlee has been searching for her twin sister Mercy her whole life since Mercy was kidnapped aged six from their bedroom at home. Sometimes Atlee even thinks it was all a dream but she has been finding clues to where her sister was taken and trying to put together why her sister was taken. Finally she has a good lead and she and Carol head off, but find that things are not as they seem.
As with all Mr Baldacci’s books they keep you turning just one more page to see what is going to happen next. If you like mysteries then this is one for you.
I will be back tomorrow with my August and September books.
Have a wonderful weekend you lovely lot.
Hugs & Love Susie & Coco xx
Angela Lansbury.
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It was announced yesterday that Dame Angela Lansbury passed away aged 96.
As you know if you read my blog, she was in one of my favourite films, Bedknobs and Broomsticks but is well known to younger viewers as Jessica Fletcher in the TV show “Murder, She Wrote”. However she acted in many, many films, TV shows and plays during her long career only retiring four years ago. Despite this long career she was really underrated and should have received far more recognition of her work but I suppose that as she worked for so long that showed that people respected her work.
RIP Dame Angela Lansbury
1925 – 2022
Susie xx
Miss Coco!
Miss Coco has had a very busy day, her first day at the Spa!!! We now have an Airedale teenager!!! She is still Miss Floof to us though!!!
You should have seen the look she gave me when I left her at the spa! The lady who runs the business is very good and asked me to get her there early so she could spend some time with her and get her used to things. When I collected her she said she was not very keen with the clippers around her head but that was only to be expected as it was her first visit! She will be going again before Christmas. As always we have a much smaller dog!!!
She is now in her basket asleep, it has been a tiring day for a seven month old Puppy!!!
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
Dinner & Swimming & Jobs!
The weekend flew by of course. Friday night turned into a deluge where the rain was running down our hill in torrents, so DH and I did not go to Goose Fair, which was a real shame but we can go next year!
Although we had friends coming round for dinner on Saturday evening, during the day we were busy getting things sorted with the Boys so I did not start cooking until after lunch. I managed to get everything ready just before they arrived!
I did a beef main course as it is getting very cool here and wanted something warming and cosy. It is a joint of beef which cooks in a pan on the stove top for four hours in red wine and it falls apart when it is cooked.
Yesterday I spent the day trying to sort things out at home and work of course. Tomorrow is Coco’s first spa day (!) and I have some grocery shopping to do and then home jobs at the end of the week. This weekend we have a very social time seeing friends for dinner on Friday evening and another set of friends on Saturday. During the day we have some home jobs to do and need to get into the garden to tidy it before the bad weather sets in.
I have been getting things sorted at home as they say we may possibly get power cuts this winter, so I have ordered some more battery lanterns and some battery lights for Eldest’s garage and for Youngest when he is working on his car. This all reminds me of the 1970’s when we had power cuts then, in the evening after dinner. I remember reading by candle light and listening to the radio, it was a very strange time and it looks like it might happen again. Not sure how the Boys are going to cope without the Internet!!
I was nine when it happened before and I remember my Mom filling flasks with hot drinks and getting the dinner cooked straight away so we had a hot meal before the power went off. We used to have candles but I have bought battery lights for safety. It will be interesting to see what happens!
I hope you lovely lot had a wonderful weekend and a good week to come. I will show you pictures tomorrow of Miss Coco and her first Airecut!!!
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx
Where are the Weeks Going?
I just think that I have caught up and back on track and then a week disappears in a flurry of work, home jobs and everything in between and I haven’t done a post!
Coco is out and about!
She completed her six week crate rest, just in time to save her and I going insane!!!
I am still working on sorting out the pictures I took at the quilt show and will get them added asap, as well as some other quilting I have been doing.
I hope you lovely lot are all doing well and Happy October.
Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx