4th October 2019
In
General
Life with a lollipop
(News about "The Servant's Voice" at the end of this post...
Do you remember Clive Ponting?
I thought I would post slightly obliquely about the current political and legal chaos. The Supreme Court’s decision reminded me of two court cases long ago. In the early 1980s, Ken Livingstone’s Greater London Council (later abolished) introduced radically cheap transport fares. This was challenged in the...
Sorry…
The Blogger apologises for lack of a post this week: she is off travelling for the weekend....
Defending women in “Evil Under The Sun”
It’s now respectable to like and enjoy Agatha Christie, and I do, as I think previous posts have amply shown. I've read nearly all the Christies, most of them more than once, and they are a great go-to comfort read; but some of them are perhaps...
Trials and smiles of an author (7) with particular reference to “The Servant’s Voice”
I am currently enmeshed in proof-reading, which is a very pleasant task. But also dangerous, in more ways than one. For example, I described a character as wearing green. Later in the story he was wearing brown, and although it was a different day, he was...
“Nursing her wrath to keep it warm”
I apologise for the lack of a post, or even a message, last week. This was due to various technical difficulties. The computer now has a new hard drive, so apparently it was not Windows that was to blame. I was planning to post this week...