after recent lapses, getting worried aabout mental acuity so very glad i worked that one out Wordle 1,641 6/6 🟧⬜⬜⬜🟧 🟧⬜⬜⬜🟧 🟧⬜⬜⬜🟧 🟧⬜🟦⬜🟧 🟧🟧⬜⬜🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

to those wondering how things are going, I just got home from popping into the Co-Op on the way home for supplies to tide me over working from home the rest of the week. Got home - tax demand. Ha coffee, chilled realised I didnt remember taking my £100 from the cashpoint. Because I fucking didn't

Sunday - bad start as knock 2 stacks of books over switching on bedroom light. Improves with £30 win o the lottery. Not 8 o'clock yet. Which way will the day go?

Heh.

on the one hand, me forgetting to put the bin oput today wasa shocking lapse....on the other shows I'm starting to be less uptight with retirement in sight (53 days)

This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.

#booksky #books 5938 Penguin 7361 Tantalus / Amanda Hemingway (1985) hard to categorize family thriller with siblings alienated from their distant father and one daughter incubating a plan for revenge that backfires violently and has her neatly lined right up as a favoured murder suspect

#booksky #books 5937 Penguin 8375 Out Of The Shelter / David Lodge (4th post-1986) immediate post-war teenager goes to stay with his sister in occupied Germany. embedded with the brash occupying Americans and meeting the broken Germans gradually learning like him that they will have a future

#fantasy #booksky

#booksky #books 5936 Penguin 9347 On The Yankee Station / William Boyd (3rd post-1988) short stories that genuinely seem snapshots of fully realized other lives, disparate in geography and tone but united in their skill and that upper middle class self-deprecation camouflaging feelings

#booksky #books 5935 Penguin 9990 My Secret History / Paul Theroux (7th post-1990) taking events from his own life and running a fictionalized version with an unsympathetic protagonist and misadventures all over the globe - a reckoning of sorts and a confession depending on the nature of The Truth

#booksky #books 5934 Penguin 9978 O-Zone / Paul Theroux (7th post-1987) step sideways from his normal hunting grounds into a near-future New York overseen by computers, driven by greed and fear and a heartless Owner class exploiting the poor and "aliens". Our current nightmare has deep roots

so watching "Cooper And Fry" on Channel 5 out of loyalty having read all the books : some changes I'm fine with but making Cooper up to a decade older seems to not serve any purpose except upping the grimness quotient and cutting the comic relief old school older copper makes it very one-tone

#booksky #books 5933 Penguin 8329 To Have And To Hold / Deborah Moggach (1986) surrogacy drama between married sisters issued simultaneously with the TV version she also scripted starring an unrecognizable 80's-permed Amanda Redman as the exciting sibling who agrees to carry the child

#booksky #books 5932 Penguin 9952 The Alteration / Kingsley Amis (1988) for those familiar with Philip Pullman's Lyra universe, here's a direct ancestor where an angelic choirboy is destined for castration in an England where the Reformation never happened and the 1970's have medieval flourishes

#booksky #books 5931 Penguin 7574 The Porkchoppers / Ross Thomas "a labour-union officer regarded by fellow unionists as motivated chiefly by self-interest" . I believe in unions but dealing with the reps elected at a previous workplace proved I was utterly right not to believe in the human race

#booksky #books 5930 Penguin 11244 Driving In The Dark / Deborah Moggach (1989) typically clueless bloke gets dumped by his wife & sets off North on an odyssey seeking the son he's never seen. Shows sympathy and understanding for men stranded with a heritage no longer relevant in the evolving world

#booksky #books 5929 Penguin 10886 Family / Susan Hill (1990) accomplished author turns her ability to convey intense and dark emotions from fiction to her own life as the death of her second child aged 5 weeks leads to a desperate, barely rational need to conceive and safely deliver another baby

you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit