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Two good jokes – and a mystery (and a sign (and a cartoon dance))
Two things got my attention just now on Twitter, both, I think, very funny. I didn’t actually LOL. But I did smile. First up, this quote: It is always bittersweet when your relatives bid you fond...
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The paperback cover will be much more legible
The Devil’s Dice is a debut work of crime fiction, written by my niece (which I mention to make clear that I am biased in her favour) Roz Watkins, and published earlier this year. I enjoyed it a lot...
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Roz is now being quoted
This is not an advert for a book. Well, it is, but that’s not my purpose in showing it here. My angle is my niece, the crime fiction writer Roz Watkins, who is quoted here, enthusing about the book:...
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More photos from Monday January 28th
The Monday before last really was a very good photoing day. (I’ve been calling it Sunday but actually it was Monday, Monday January 28th. I remember at the time being confused about what day it was.)...
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Roz Watkins’s second book is out today
I read Dead Man’s Daughter quite a while ago, because I got sent a proof copy. What do I think of it? Very good, and with one especially good moment near the end, which (spoiler alert: I’m about to say...
View ArticleA very responsible turkey
ABC News reports, with video: This very responsible turkey halted traffic on a two-lane road in New Hampshire until the entire flock was able to cross. Via Roz the Crime Fiction Writer, who says: He...
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Niece Roz tweets: Had enough of your relatives already? Don’t just think about murdering them – come along to @scarthinbooks tomorrow afternoon and talk about how you could actually– (Just kidding,...
View ArticleThree more DI Meg Dalton books to come (following on from the first three)
Until around yesterday, fans of Roz Watkins’s DI Meg Dalton (who include me (Roz being my niece)) had to be content with knowing that there were, or would be, for sure, in all, just three Meg Daltons...
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Quota hippos
I have a meeting to get ready for tonight, and after the hotness of the last few days, during which I did nothing except wait for the hotness to stop, I have much to catch up on. So, quota hippos:...
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Happy birthday to me, that is, because today has been my 72nd birthday. Several emails have arrived noting that various Facebook friends have been wishing me a Happy Birthday. I find Facebook baffling...
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Out in paperback today …
… this: I have already read this book in hardback and liked it, but I would say that because Roz Watkins is my niece. So, much more to the point is that this lady really liked it, without in any way...
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Emily Yoffe: After 25 years of marriage, my husband and I are getting to know each other with a depth that is best avoided. The comments vary, from the laughter of recognition to the usual Twitter...
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Roz Watkins talks about her latest book – and about animals
Crime writer Tony Kent does a fifteen minute video-at-a-distance interview with fellow crime writer Roz Watkins. Roz is my niece, which is partly why I keep mentioning her here. But the bigger reason I...
View ArticleRoz Watkins “in the front rank of British crime writers”
About three weeks ago, I mentioned the latest DI Meg Dalton book, and its author (also my niece) Roz Watkins. The Daily Mail just gave Cut To The Bone, which comes out this month, this glowing review:...
View ArticleCivilised disagreement works better face-to-face (therefore cities have a...
The present dose of Plague History we’re having has caused much pessimism concerning the future of big, densely packed cities. Being an enthusiast for big city architecture, especially the seriously...
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Here. It would appear that dogs aren’t the only ones who copy what their humans do. (That link is to a posting on the Old Blog featuring a photo of my sister and her dog. I copied it over from the Old...
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Incoming from Amazon
All of these arrived today, from Chateau Samizdata, where nobody cons their way past the front door and nicks stuff: Looking forward to reading this one especially. It has been warmly received. The...
View ArticleA funny and informative tweet
Ben Sixsmith: Don’t have anything funny or informative to say but have to post something because I’ve told my loved ones that if I don’t post for 24 hours it means I’m in danger or dead. And as a...
View ArticleNo sport and strange sport
It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that one of the weirdest features of what you might describe as “classic Lockdown”, Lockdown when Lockdown was at its most Lockeddown, was the complete absence...
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Around three days ago, GodDaughter2 and I fixed to meet up, face to face, for the first time since Lockdown began, and before she disappears to the South of France for a month. We agreed on: Royal...
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