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I haven't posted for over a month, so here's some of what I've been up to. Reading ‘The Clue in the Castle’ by Joyce Bevins Webb and wondering if I will read a more bonkers girls own plot this year. I was a bit late starting Rereading February as a result, and because my reading pace has slowed, I won’t be rereading many books, but I may post about the book I’m currently reading here. Still in lockdown, enjoying my daily walks and the fact the day is lengthening.

I only followed the Australian Open headlines, so saw names like Barty, Osaka, Williams and Djokovic, Nadal and Tsitsipas until it came to the finals. ( Read more... )

Here’s hoping for Wimbledon in some form.

Carolynp mounts a well-argued defence of the Chalet School's Mary-Lou (I have to admit that my initial response was ‘Huh?’ at Mary-Lou needing to be defended)
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Here's a blog post about slang and its use to include and exclude.

The other day, I experienced something that has never happened to me before when buying a book - I watched bemused as the shopkeeper wrapped it up in brown paper, stuck some tape to keep it together but then cut off a piece of string and tied it up with a bow. It was one of Maria's favourite things. It was at a shop that sold 'vintage' goods and was partly a tea shop - too knick knacky to be an antiques shop, and with all sorts of objects lying in front of the mainly hardback books that were for sale in a bookshelf. The book in question was in quite good nick, so I suppose it's what they do with everything they sell.