Yarn and a stitch marker made from a different yarn. The bars on our balcony look like prison bars
Looks like I’m in knitting prison, but I’m on holiday. Phew! Forgot my stitch markers so I’ve made one out of yarn. 🧶
Noooooo! 🫣🤗
I’ve only just realised you’re an author, Nigel 😳🫣
Have also spotted David Mitchell’s Unruly, and some Freida McFadden.
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That should have been Jana Hensel- blooming autocorrect!
The Proof of my Innocence by Jonathan Coe - the cover shows a besuited man with a flame for a head.
Poolside authors:
James Patterson
Rosie Goodwin
Maeve Binchy
Lee Child
Jana Hansel
Taylor Reid Jenkins
Lucinda Riley
Simone Elkeles
And of course me with Jonathan Coe from the hotel book swap 🌅🩷📚
You’re very welcome! Thank you for writing it 🩷🩷🩷
A sock in the stage of ribbing and a sun bed and the ocean in the far distance. Portugal. Yarn is Regia 4 ply
#knitting by the ocean - only thing is avoiding the sun cream on my needles!
Comp is one of my favourite books 📚 🩷
We love the library!
#nationallibraryweek
Well I do recommend this place - it’s marvellous - I’m getting a lot of reading done 🩷🌴🌊🌅
You live in a beautiful place! 👀
It’s frustrating! I love having a stroll and a look - I’m very discreet!
View from my hotel room looking to the ocean - there are three trees and a sunset bar made of wood, which has comfy chairs aplenty with soft, thick cushions. The sky is cerulean blue and the sea a soft azure
There are an awful lot of Kindles around the pools on this holiday, which is most frustrating for a nosy parker like me who wants to see what everyone is reading this year.
Yes! This! I don’t know whether the BBC is setting out to annoy Lisa Nandy or she’s setting out to annoy the BBC
All these people are great. But that one person whose specialism is dandelion reproduction? Reading that, I shook my head and sighed with fretful awe. It's a bonkers subject. A mycologist once told me that dandelion taxonomy genuinely frightened him.
Pigeon Holed, by Gary Younge
Bibliography of recommended reading and source articles
Biog of Gary Younge - won the Orwell Prize
Faber members membership - free
Powerful reading - deserves a slow read
Pages of Hackney bookshop new books subscription
This seems designed to tempt me! I’m very tempted…
Thanks! It was very funny. I laughed a lot
Going to see The Unfriend this evening in Chorley - it comes highly recommended by my sister who saw it in Kenilworth.
I started Glorious Exploits too, and didn’t get into it. Need to try again
I’ve got Daffodil Days on reserve at the library but there is quite a bit of a queue so I’m having to be patient. Heard good things about Helm and I do love Sarah Hall.
Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning
American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV
french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts
British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault
Aintree’s Grand National Weekend can go away and be banned. I hate all mention of it - RIP the horses who have already perished
There is a lot of it about
I think birdsong is the sweetest and most beautiful of all music
I wonder if he likes birdsong
I like Patsy too. I like the way she says she leads a bit of a hermit life with her cat. I get that.
Wow. I had no idea! I don’t really understand how Substack works and I’ve never subscribed to anyone’s newsletter on there. But I will now try and find you on your new platform. And what awful luck after what happened with Unbound. Troubles and then more troubles.