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Continue reading →: Last Days in the Alva ValleyI’m moving north tomorrow after three weeks here at the camping area at Barril. It’s free and provided by the community, based around a few beaches on the river and a cafe that always does good business. It certainly wouldn’t be my scene in the summer, but at this time…
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Continue reading →: The Terror by Arthur Machen
British Literature (Wales) – Published 1917 Machen can be so far ahead of his time.That our planet could be so enraged at the behaviour of its human population and that it would take some actual action, is how I would best sum this up.Bear in mind that this takes place…
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Continue reading →: Something in the Shadows by Vin Packer
American Literature – Published 1961 I am new to the writing of Vin Packer, and began with this, widely thought to be the best of her psychological thrillers. The intentional running down of a cat by a car driver, grows into a murder, though the real suspense in the story…
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Continue reading →: The Fall
2006 At a Los Angeles hospital in the 1920s, Alexandria is a child recovering from a broken arm. She befriends Roy Walker, a movie stunt man with legs paralyzed after a fall. At her request, Roy tells her an elaborate story about six men of widely varied backgrounds who are…
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Continue reading →: Pociag or Night Train
Poland – 1959 A man named Jerzy is taking a night train to the Baltic coast in Poland, and from his manner, and dark sunglasses, it is evident he wants to be alone. Through a series of circumstances he ends up having to share his compartment with a young blonde…
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Continue reading →: Medical Visits in the Alva ValleyRoja had been unwell with vomiting after eating since Monday, I mentioned it in the last post. Though I thought he had recovered, the issue flared up again later in the week. It was clear he wasn’t digesting any of his food, and was losing weight. On Friday I found…
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Continue reading →: Big RiverStorm Ivo followed hot on the heels of Storm Herminia. Ivo was named by Portugal, Herminia by Spain; it seems a race to get it named, both come from the Atlantic, so one assumes that Portugal would take the brunt of both. They have both been rain events, the latter,…
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Where is Andy?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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