Suze's Witterings

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Game of Thrones

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So I've just finished the fifth book of George RR Martin's "Game of Thrones". There are now so many different viewpoints t...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Hooked on Crochet!

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I've been learning to crochet. Inspiration struck when I bought Mr S a Star Wars craft book. Among the patchwork quilt made from Star W...
Friday, August 31, 2012

The Strangers Child - Alan Hollinghurst

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I've just finished this. It was an impulse buy from the Amazon Kindle Store. Good but not great. One you want to continue to read to ge...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Peculiar Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

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This was a Christmas present (thanks R!) but it's taken a while to sit down and read it. Overall, I would say it was worth waiting for....

Fever of the Bone, Val McDermid

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This is the first of Val McDermid's books which I have read. A few years ago we watched the Wire in the Blood series and grew to like i...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Skagboys

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So I have just finished Skagboys by Irvine Welsh. It's a precursor, I'm not sure I'd call it a prequel, to Trainspotting. I ha...
Friday, June 08, 2012

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

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Tuesday was a rainy day so an ideal day for hiding indoors, reading and playing on the Wii. I recently downloaded Irvine Welsh's "...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Fossil Hunting

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I mentioned in my earlier post that the tide goes out a long way to reveal rocks to clamber, pools to splash in and seaweed to soften your f...

Our Jubilee Holiday

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So here we are in Watchett on the North Somerset coast. After a very busy Friday helping out at the school Jubilee celebrations and packing...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Finished!

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Since October, I have studying with the Open university, the Arts Past and Present (aka AA100). Yesterday saw the submission of my final ass...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Benin Bronzes

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So, this weekend saw us take a trip to the British Museum. This was to tie in with a trip which my OU tutor had organised to see the Benin ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The four horsemen of the Apipplypse

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This evening while getting read for bed, Pip asked "when will it end?" I replied: "Tuesday." Pip: "Tuesday....
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

An anthology of poems

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According to Paul Muldoon in the Faber Book of Beasts, anthologists tend towards the despotic. As part of the section on poetry in the AA10...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Why do stars have points?

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This was Pip's question to me at bedtime this evening. Twinkle Twinkle is a regular feature of the bedtime routine and clearly set of a...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Race times

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A Duathlon wouldn't be complete without some post race stats - hopefully blogger won't mangle the layout... 2011....
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Beat the Heat: playing catch up

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Afraid to say that I have neglected the blog over the past couple of weeks so playing catch up on the last two weeks and then I will write a...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Beat the Heat: Week 6

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1. What have you done to help you achieve your goals? Last week was an adjustment back to the working routine and timezone. I complet...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Beat the Heat: August

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This was the last week of my holiday, so a bit late in posting this. 1. What have you done this week to help you achieve your goals? A...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Long weekend in Cape Cod: Saturday 30th July - Monday 1st August

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We spent three days in Cape Cod, we could have easily spent longer there but three days gave us a taste of the area and provided a welcome c...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Philly-Cape Cod via Princeton: Friday 29th July

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We had a very early start, partly so we could see Annie, Parker and the boys in Princeton and partly because we had such a long journey ahea...
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