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Continue reading →: More from Cap SizunWe spent the last week on the Cap Sizun peninsula here in Finistère enjoying the fine weather brought by this spell of high pressure. The days have become gradually warmer. There are periods of quite strong wind, up to 30 kilometres per hour at times, but they come and go,…
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Continue reading →: The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E.F. Benson
English Ghost Story – Published 1912 This gothic tale of ghosts written by EF Benson in 1912 is worthy of a short review by way of recommendation. I don’t usually review short stories unless they are a bit special, and likely to stay in the mind. I’m a big Benson…
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Continue reading →: Cassidy’s Girl by David Goodis
American Pulp Fiction / Noir – Published 1951 This is a fine piece of pulp fiction that soon moves into noir territory. The original cover, that I have used for the edition I read, is a false indication of what is to follow, something like that of a Harlequin romance,…
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Continue reading →: Iceland Fisherman by Pierre Loti
translated from the French by Jules Cambon This is a beautiful, though occasionally sad, novel written in 1886 depicting the lives of Breton fishermen and their families. It’s available in the public domain for free through Project Gutenberg. I read it while on that bit of coastline, and it does…
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Continue reading →: The Hills to the OceanSaint-Auvent was an ideal place for a typical March weekend of thundery rain showers. It has an excellent ‘aire’, one of the best I have stayed at. There are only places for three visiting vans, with the individual sites set in the forest at the back of the town’s sports…
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Continue reading →: Welcoming the Spring SolsticeRarely have I welcomed a Spring Solstice as much as this one. It is coming to the end of my second year in the van, though last year I had my hip operation on that day, 20th March. A year on from the operation and I don’t think it could…
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Continue reading →: The Garden by Nick Newman
British Literature – Dystopian/Science Fiction – Published 2025 Two elderly and frail sisters living in isolation together immediately conjures up images of Shirley Jackson’s writing, and indeed, disturbing they are, though this is set at an unspecified time in the future in an unnamed place. Further to the comparison with…
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Continue reading →: Mystery in Room 913 by Cornell Woolrich
American Fiction Pulp/Noir – Published 1941 At seemingly random intervals in the St Anslem Hotel in New York single young men check in to the titular room but are found in the early hours of the morning on the pavement below, having supposedly leapt to their death from the French…
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SafeReturnDoubtful is my alias. Rua is my fox red labrador pup, born 14 Feb 2026 and learning fast..
Where is Rua?
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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