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Wednesday 4 September 2024

Making the Right New Season Choices

 & Wow on Wednesday 

Gail Hanlon from Is This Mutton with her top tips on buying wisely from the new season style drops.

Dear friends. Are you always eager to see what the new season brings in terms of latest drops at the fashion retailers?

I used to be, but now that I've experienced the advantages of having been colour analysed, my approach is more guarded. 

A brief look at M&S, John Lewis, Boden and Oliver Bonas shows that hardly any of the colours appearing in the shops for autumn are my favourites.  

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Monday 2 September 2024

The Sky Beneath Us by Fiona Valpy

 

The cover of novel The Sky Beneath Us by Fiona Valpy

Dear friends. Today I bring you a book I found truly magical. How I wish I had a Sherpa family, like the heroines of this book! 

I'm thrilled to be on the blog tour for The Sky Beneath Us by Fiona Valpy. 

Genres: historical fiction, women's fiction. 

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Friday 30 August 2024

The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves

 The cover of The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves, reviewed by Is This Mutton


Dear friends.  DCI Vera Stanhope is back, and searching for a troubled teenager who may have murdered a fellow resident in her care home. 

As always from Ann Cleeves, it's a complex, well constructed and eerie thriller. 

It's my turn on the blog tour for The Dark Wives. 

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The UK in Pictures: August in Review

 

The northern Highlands in Scotland


Dear friends.  Today's wrap-up of August is a different post than usual. Instead of writing about what I did on each day, I'm sharing a picture. 

We cycled from Land's End to John O'Groats, the length of mainland Britain, in August  (covered in this post), and I had lots of scenic photos I didn't have room to share.

Thanks to fellow riders Steve Waplington, David George and David Hamilton for many of the photos. My own are marked * in the caption.

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