This Trick Will Change Your Life!
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todayiamadaisyHave a look at this Lindt Bugs and Bees packet. The bee, I recognise; so too the ladybird. But what is the brown and gold striped beetle? It's not native to Australia.
I was up late the other night, having a cup of camomile tea before bed, with only the kitchen light on and everything else dark. And there was... scuffling in the magnolia tree outside, something crashing through the internal branches. Loud enough for me to notice, and for Alistair to raise his head. I went out to look, peering up the tree in the dark. The scuffling stopped. I went back in. The scuffling started again, this time with a sound that I would describe as parrot-like. I went out to look. The scuffling stopped. I went back in. The scuffling started again. I went back out. This was obviously too much for my loud little mystery friend, as I made out the shape of a large bird flying out of the magnolia and over to the giant eucalyptus several houses away. I mean, sorry, bird. But you should have been quieter.
April books read
April was a very light reading month. Rather than reading, I've been working on my backlog of cross-stitch kits in the evenings, and my choice of books has been so dull I barely manage one chapter at bedtime. Let's hope May is more interesting.
* The Secrets of the Wild Wood - Tonke Dragt (1965) (trans. Laura Watkinson, 2015) ★ ★ ★
This is an old-fashioned quest story, and a sequel to The Letter for the King. If Enid Blyton wrote Lord of the Rings, this is what you'd get: unadorned characters in a simple tale of good versus evil. I didn't enjoy this as much as the first one; it took so long to get going and then had too many things happening to wrap up satisfactorily. But it had its moments.
* Three Towers in Tuscany - Malcolm Saville (1963) ★ ★
An early YA novel about four English students visiting Italy who stumble into an international espionage plot. They were so insufferable I was hoping they'd all be kidnapped indefinitely.
I was up late the other night, having a cup of camomile tea before bed, with only the kitchen light on and everything else dark. And there was... scuffling in the magnolia tree outside, something crashing through the internal branches. Loud enough for me to notice, and for Alistair to raise his head. I went out to look, peering up the tree in the dark. The scuffling stopped. I went back in. The scuffling started again, this time with a sound that I would describe as parrot-like. I went out to look. The scuffling stopped. I went back in. The scuffling started again. I went back out. This was obviously too much for my loud little mystery friend, as I made out the shape of a large bird flying out of the magnolia and over to the giant eucalyptus several houses away. I mean, sorry, bird. But you should have been quieter.
April books read
April was a very light reading month. Rather than reading, I've been working on my backlog of cross-stitch kits in the evenings, and my choice of books has been so dull I barely manage one chapter at bedtime. Let's hope May is more interesting.
* The Secrets of the Wild Wood - Tonke Dragt (1965) (trans. Laura Watkinson, 2015) ★ ★ ★
This is an old-fashioned quest story, and a sequel to The Letter for the King. If Enid Blyton wrote Lord of the Rings, this is what you'd get: unadorned characters in a simple tale of good versus evil. I didn't enjoy this as much as the first one; it took so long to get going and then had too many things happening to wrap up satisfactorily. But it had its moments.
* Three Towers in Tuscany - Malcolm Saville (1963) ★ ★
An early YA novel about four English students visiting Italy who stumble into an international espionage plot. They were so insufferable I was hoping they'd all be kidnapped indefinitely.