📘 What’s with the ‘doubleyous’…

So what’ve you been doing…

Well, wonders will never cease – I’ve been reading..

Have just started The Day of the Triffids- John Wyndham. One of those ‘might be interesting’ books written a fair while ago.

One chapter of 17 finished, 16/233 pages, so far so good but it’s going to take a while because this Penguin edition . . . . has very small print

I finished two more of the DCI Jack Hawksworth series by Fiona McIntosh. (an author I have trouble reading) I’ve only ever finished one of her other novels but these are very different. They are easy to read with enough twists and turns to keep you interested. It’s not always the one you think it is who turns out to be the villain!
Now I need to find #2 and then wait for #5 to be published.

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/fiona-mcintosh/dci-jack-hawksworth/.
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/lists/get-to-know-dci-jack-hawksworth

I finally, after quite a while of wondering will I or won’t I because it certainly wasn’t holding my interest, arrived at the end of Fled.
There was something about it that (after reading many ‘accounts’ of early transportation) just didn’t seem to jell, yes there was hardships and punishments but the lead character seemed to have it too easy. Based on fact so some of it must have been true but how much was poetic license I don’t know.

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What I’ve been watching in the evenings (while The Golfer has been glued to the tv showing an interest in the round and other shaped ball games)

I binged on the whole 5 series of  UTOPIA. The only Australian made tv program I look forward to each year. Rewatching episodes of less than 30 mins meant it wasn’t a difficult exercise 😊

~ A satire about the difficult process of taking grand, uncosted, inadequately planned, fundamentally flawed schemes – and passing them off as “Nation Building”. ~

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3163562/.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/utopia

Then I started on SMOTHER – an Irish series I hadn’t watched before.
This is some strange family! if you’ve seen it you’ll know what I mean. It was strange enough for me to keep coming back to watch more and more. I’d be interested in what o/seas readers who’ve watched it thought of the series.

~ Following her husband’s tragic death, Val Ahern investigates what might have happened in the hours after Denis caused chaos at her birthday party with an untimely announcement. Val reexamines the life of the man she was married to for 30 years ~

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11719808/.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/smother

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And lastly (just for fun) guess what’s been happening elsewhere

A new season of ‘let’s wake every two hours and go for a pee’ turned up. I asked Aging Australia (imaginary group) if I could return it because it had definitely worn out its welcome.

They suggested I try ‘life is an aching back’ instead but I declined saying after recent experiences I was up to date with that series and wasn’t renewing my subscription.

No wonder I’ve been out of sorts for a while!