Currently reading:
- Chasing the Scream: the first and last days of the war on drugs - Johann Hari
Read:
- Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
- Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
- ENUFF: Eliminate the needless, useless, foolish and frivolous - Kate Carpenter
- The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
- Be Brilliant Every Day - Andy Cope and Andy Whittaker
jan 4 2015 ∞ feb 7 2015 +
- Elysium
- American Hustle
- White House Down
- Dallas Buyers Club
- After Earth
- Riddick
- The Monuments Men
- This is the End
- Little Miss Sunshine
- World War Z
- Man of Steel
- Wolf of Wall Street
- Dom Hemingway
- Grand Budapest Hotel
- Layer Cake
jan 14 2014 ∞ aug 1 2014 +
- The Rainmmaker
- French Lieutenants Woman
- Erin Brokovich
- Pans Labyrinth
- Inception
- Blood Diamond
- Water
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Point Break
- Man On Fire
- Mr Brooks
- Limitless
- Big Wednesday
- Young Guns
- Serenity
- Proof Of Life
- Life of Pi
- Avatar
- Matrix
- Rush
- Inn of the Sixth Happiness
oct 5 2013 ∞ oct 7 2013 +
- St Johns in general, especially the views from Signal Hill and the walk down to St Johns along the coast
- Rita at the Bread and Cheese Inn in Bay Bulls
- The view towards the sea from our room at the Freshwater Inn in Gambo
- The sun-room at Neddie's Harbour Inn, Neddie's Harbour
- Cape Spear - the most easterly point in North America
- Newfoundlanders in general, except maybe the grumpy old trout in the Liquor Express in Rocky Harbour. Although I accept that maybe she was having a bad day :)
- Captain Wayne's whale-watching trip in Bay Bulls
- Lighthouse Picnics at Ferryland (even though it was peeing down)
- Beach combing pretty much anywhere
- Houses everywhere - the colours, the styl...
sep 1 2013 ∞ sep 1 2013 +
- merguez burgerz (Guardian supplement)
- Yellow split peas and greens (Heidi Swanson)
- Quinoa patties (Heidi Swanson)
- Ginger cookies (Heidi S)
- Baked eggs with lentils and goats cheese (Mighty spice express)
- Grilled aubergine with lamb, mint and feta (MS express)
- Bosphorus burger (MSE)
- Gujarati veggie curry (MSE)
aug 28 2013 ∞ aug 28 2013 +
- Roots - Alex Haley
- The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
- Africa's Mountains of the Moon - Guy Yeoman
- On Foot Through Africa - Ffyona Campbell
- Blood River - Tim Butcher
- The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
- Tandia - Bryce Courtenay
- Ebola - William Close
- Chasing the Devil - Tim Butcher
aug 25 2013 ∞ nov 4 2013 +
- Chatel, France. I loved it there, winter and summer. autumn and early spring leave a bit to be desired...
- On top of Signal Hill,St Johns, Newfoundland.
- Pretty much anywhere except my desk at work :)
- the top of Golden Cap, on the south-west coastline
- The Undercliff nature reserve, between Lyme Regis and Axmouth
- Tavira,Portugal
- Axmouth Harbour, watching the tide come in through the harbour mouth
aug 5 2013 ∞ nov 19 2013 +
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jan 27 2015 ∞ jan 27 2015 +
Currently
- The Book of Forgiving - Desmond and Mpho Tutu
- How to Develop a Brilliant Memory - week by week - Dominic O'Brien
Finished:
- The Last Asylum: a Memoir of Madness in our Times - Barbara Taylor
- When Mr Dog Bites - Brian Conaghan
- The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell (twice!)
- Weaveworld - Clive Barker
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
- The Robber of Memories - Michael Jacobs
- The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker
- The Wreckage by Michael Crummy
- Theatre of Fish by John Gimlette
- Galore by Michael Crummy
- Galilee by Clive Barker
jan 14 2014 ∞ jan 4 2015 +
- Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
- The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes
- Silver - Walter de la Mare
- Tarantella - Hilaire Belloc
- Escape at Bedtime - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Night Mail - W H Auden
- The Pied Piper of Hamlyn - Robert Browning
- The Donkey - G K Chesterton
- The Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear
- Cargoes - John Masefield
- Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Five Eyes - Walter de la Mare
- Duck's Ditty - Kenneth Grahame
- Colonel Fazackerley - Charles Causley
- Africa's Plea
- Love Is - Adrian Henri
oct 9 2013 ∞ oct 9 2013 +
- Milo (17/10/2012 - 03/12/2012), moved to Budleigh Salterton, Devon
- Alfie (30/01/2013 - 10/05/2013), moved to Wells, Somerset
- Imogen (16/07/2013 - 11/10/2013), moved to Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
- Kizzy (14/01/2014 - 25/02/2014), moved to Bristol to complete her training. Eventually matched to someone in Saltash (i.e. Nowhere near Bristol)
- Ellie (25/02/2014 - 28/05/2014), fully qualified Guide Dog staying with us for a short time while undertaking some refresher training / reevaluation. Retired in April 2014, moved to Porlock in May 2014.
sep 25 2013 ∞ may 28 2014 +
- Have a lie-in with my hubby and the dog, and a nice cup of coffee
- Read the Sunday papers
- Go for a nice walk
- Something tasty for tea - maybe roast dinner, maybe something else
aug 28 2013 ∞ aug 28 2013 +
This list is in no particular order, and does not take into account the books in the South American and African lists, and the Sex, Drugs etc. list.
- Old Filth - Jane Gardam
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
- The French Lieutenants Woman - John Fowles
- Birds, Beasts and Relatives - Gerald Durrell
- And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
- The Serpent and the Rainbow - Wade Davis
- Weaveworld - Clive Barker
- Under the Dome - Stephen King
- High Rise - J G Ballard
- Concrete Island - J G Ballard
- Rubbernecker - Belinda Bauer
- The Universe versus Alex Woods - Gavin Extence
- The Death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
aug 25 2013 ∞ oct 12 2013 +
- One Hundred Years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- At Play in the Fields of The Lord - Peter Mathiessen
- Cocaine - Dominic Streafeild
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Mario Vargas Llosa
- SeƱor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres
- A Neotropical Companion - John Krichner
- Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice - Mark Plotkin
- Conquest of the Incas - John Hemmings
- One River - Wade Davis
- House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
- The Miraculous Fever Tree - Fiamacco de Roca
- Love in a Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquival
aug 25 2013 ∞ aug 28 2013 +
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- Repainted the spare room
- Built new Ikea bedroom furniture in spare room
- Art classes on Wednesday afternoons
- Perfecting my bread making techniques (poolish method)
- Taught myself to crochet, left-handed
- Doodling and sketching
- Grouting the kitchen tiles
- Finishing the edging on the kitchen tiles
- Painting the dining room doors
- Painting the skirting board and door frames in the kitchen
- Prepping the downstairs loo walls for doing a collage
- Putting up the shelves in the kitchen
jan 30 2014 ∞ feb 6 2014 +
- Happy by Pharrell Williams
- Coming Home by the Kaiser Chiefs
- Mountains by Biffy Clyro
- Pompeii - Bastille
- Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People
- Dog Days are Over - Florence and the Machine
- Little Lion Man - Mumford and Son
- Many of Horror - Biffy Clyro
- Rearrange - Miles Kane
- Hawkmoon 269 - U2
- From despair to where - Manic Street Preachers
- Question - Moody Blues
- Train in Vain - The Clash
- Trampoline - Julian Cope
- What's My Scene - Hoodoo Gurus
- La Tristesse Durere - Manic Street Preachers
- No Easy Way - Gillan
- Long Gone - Gillan
oct 5 2013 ∞ jun 8 2014 +
- Short and Sweet - Dan Lepard
- Leon - Allegra McEvedy
- Super Natural Every Day - Heidi Swanson
- Mighty Spice Express - John Gregory-Smith
- The Good Housekeeping Step by Step Colour Cookbook - a faithful old standby
- Real Fast Food - Nigel Slater
- Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet Cookbook
- Economy Gastronomy - Allegra McEvedy
- Diet for Food Lovers - Jennifer McIrvine
- Riverford Farm Cookbook
aug 28 2013 ∞ apr 26 2014 +
- The Smoke
- Game of Thrones
- the Jump
- Sleepy Hollow
- Hell on Wheels
- The Following
- Chicago Fire
- Breaking Bad
- Sons of Anarchy
- Falling Skies
- Republic of Doyle (Newfoundland!)
- Friday Night Lights
- Bugs, Bites and Parasites
- Smash
- Under the Dome - not as good as the book though...
- Suits
- True Blood
- Burn Notice
- Southlands
- Lillyhammer
aug 28 2013 ∞ aug 1 2014 +
- Theatre of Fish: Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador - John Gimlette
- Cod - Mark Kurlansky
- The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
- Frommer's Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador
- Newfoundland and Labrador Book of Everything: Everything You Wanted to Know About Newfoundland And Labrador and Were Going To Ask Anyway - Martha Walls
- Galore - Michael Crummey
aug 25 2013 ∞ sep 25 2013 +
- Wonderland Avenue - Danny Sugarmann
- And I Don't Want to Live This Life - Nancy Spungen
- Will There Really be a Morning? - Frances Farmer
- Junky - William Burroughs
- Marching Powder - Rusty Young
- McMafia - Misha Glenny
- The Profession of Violence - John Pearson
- Journey into Madness - Gordon Thomas
- Rush - Kim Wozencraft
- Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
- H - Autobiography of a Child Prostitute Heroin Addict - Christiane F
- I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can - Barbara Gordon
- Schindler's Ark - Joseph Keneally
- Without Conscience: Charles Manson in his own words - Charles Manson
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
aug 25 2013 ∞ aug 28 2013 +
- my homemade multigrain and honey bread
- Coq Au Vin
- Roast rib of beef (rare) with horseradish sauce
- Valpolicella Ripasso (or Amarone if I am very flush)
- Fursty Ferret beer
- mashed potatoes with lots of butter
- Gratin Dauphinoise
- Marks and Spencer's chocolate biscuits
- avocados, especially with warm bacon vinaigrette
- puy lentils
- Leon breakfast pots ( especially the full breakfast one)
- sliced avocado with vinaigrette served on toast and Marmite (well buttered toast is essential)
- Strawberries and clotted cream
- Poached eggs on wholemeal toast
- Strawberries and melon with yogurt and gr...
aug 5 2013 ∞ jan 30 2014 +
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