It’s spring at last!
Yesterday was beautiful – sunny, with blue skies – but still quite cold and breezy. Today promises to be the same. The daffodils are out (actually they have been for a few days now). I like to see them growing but it’s been so windy recently that I rescued these and brought them inside.
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I’ve had The Lewis Man, Peter May’s second book in his Lewis Trilogy since last year, but I haven’t read it yet as I’ve been meaning to read the trilogy in order. I’ve borrowed the first book, The Blackhouse, from the library and as I’ve just realised that it is due back next week – I thought I’d better start it.
It begins:
Prologue
They are just kids. Sixteen years old. Emboldened by alcohol, and hastened by the approaching Sabbath, they embrace the dark in search of love, and find only death.
A chilling beginning!
There is a murder, on the beautiful and desolate Isle of Lewis. Detective Inspector Fin MacLeod is sent to investigate. And there is a secret, something sinister lurking in the close-knit community. This is a mystery set in a place where ‘the past is ever near the surface, and life blurs into myth and history.’
It all looks very promising I think.
Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Gilion @ Rose City Reader.
Happy Easter!
I’ve been looking back at family photos and came across this one today – an Easter photo from the past. I’m not saying how old this is, but our son, opening his Easter Eggs, now has his own children. Also in the photo are my sister-in-law and my nephew:
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Another jigsaw makes Heidi yawn:
It’s so boring – nothing to chase, so she’s off:
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It’s a dull, grey day here today and snow is forecast for later on:
High up in a tree, a birds’s nest left from last year:
It’s a day to sit, curled up with a book in front of the fire:
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I’ve posted photos of our visit to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland before. Adjacent to the Castle is Alnwick Garden, a formal garden with a cascading fountain. Also in the Garden there is a fantastic Treehouse and a Poison Garden, safely secured behind locked gates. When we were there there a very long queue to go into the Poison Garden, so we left that for another day and went to Treehouse.
It’s an enormous structure made from sustainably sourced cedar, redwood and pine, extending high up into the trees.
There are wobbly walkways:
and a restaurant:
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