Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow....

Today I woke up to the first snow of the year, although it is starting to look less pretty now with all the car tracks.

Yesterday I took down all my Christmas cards and matched them against my list of cards sent before shredding the odd one or two with addresses on them before disposing of the rest in the paper recycling bin.

After this I got a bit antsy about my Christmas decorations and so I used my long pole to fish out all the boxes and bags from the cupboard and took them through to the living room.

Then I started packing away some of the easier things; I have an old biscuit tin which I use for smaller things and this sits inside a supermarket box. Between the two I can put away much of the decorations and many more have their own boxes. Other things I wrapped in bubble wrap or tissue paper and, for things like tinsel I used polythene freezer bags.

Just as I was well on the way to “calling it a day” I managed to trip over my two feet and down I went once more.

I tried every which way to get up again and eventually managed. Phew!

To TBSITW: please don’t give me a row, it is not necessary – I can hear it from here.

Up this morning after another disturbed night and finished off packing away all the decorations as far as everything is boxed or bagged. I truly, truly will not put any of it away in the cupboard.

Book Review etc.

Today I went to visit daughter to "child sit" her younger son while she and M went to Knockhill racing circuit . M had been given a voucher for The Morgan Experience, and daughter wnted to go along too. Before they left they provided lunch of soup and home made bread.

When they returned daughter showed a video of M in the car (unfortunately, unlike television with multiple camera vantage points, she had only the one), but still you could see the speeds that he reached.

Wow!

However, what I want to write about now is the book I have just finished reading.

If you like books about crime that are not romans policiers, if you like dark books, if you like black humour,

May I commend to you Christopher Brookmyre.

He started with a "hero" of Jack Parlabane, then left him and has moved on to several others returning to Jack Parlabane. A recent book had a heroine of a MOP (a member of the public as described by Tom Reynolds), overcoming many odds.

This latest book is called "A Snowball in Hell"

btw, I forgot to mention the quirky titles of all his books.

In the latest book his hero (she is too strong a personality to be called a heroine) is Angelique de Xavier - a welcome return for a feisty black police woman from near Glasgow.

This author holds a very sharp pin and uses it to puncture authorities whose pomposities deserve to be punctured, such as newspaper magnates, NHS managers, big banks and so on.

This book, inter alia, applies the pin to reality television from Big Brother to all its illegitimate spawn.

Do read it, unless you are a relation of Mrs Mary Whitehouse.