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Sunday, 18 October 2026 at 6:40 PM
WHAT AM I READING?
Just finished 'The Bingo Hall Detectives' by Jonathan Whitelaw, a cosy crime tale with interesting characters, easy to read style and a great in-between book, especially as some of the books I read are a slog.
I surprised myself by liking the book very much. In fact, I am reading the next in the series, 'The Village Hall Vendetta' which features the same characters. I have to admit that I want to shake Jason (son-in-law) sometimes. He can be such a wet!
Want to read something to the kids? I suggest 'The Dingle Valley' series by Joseph Murphy-James. My discerning grandsons enjoyed it, and that's quite an accolade!
A couple of windows of the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle on the Northumbrian Coast, the lower one showing two people walking in the grounds of the ruin.
Saturday, 17 October 2026 at 8:29 AM
Pud the black and white cat doesn't look like this pretty boy now. He's an old soldier now.
Barrels of maturing sherry left and right, bright window at the centre at the end of the barrels and dim yellow/orange lamps at ceiling level.
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 8:29 AM
I was watching an unusual event for October in the UK, a dragonfly skillfully manoeuvring it's way through overgrown vegetation in our autumn garden.
It has a tiny neural network (without a GW data centre behind it) of less than a million neurons, compound eyes that detect motion better than crisp images and a twin pair of wings that can twist in the X,Y & Z planes. We should learn from them in our defensive drone designs.
Most of the way through 'The Bingo Hall Detectives' by Jonathan Whitelaw.
A humorous, warm story in the cosy crime style with rich likeable characters.
I particularly liked the main character, Jason's mother-in-law, Amita, a stereotypical women of Indian origin: strong, principled, opinionated and the loved matriarch of the family.
