Infinity was mentioned. Took me on a trail of 2008 House tunes. That was the best year ever! They don't make them like that any more. So Many Times 🎵🎶🎧

And the award goes to Monday 15 December for being the darkest, wettest, most miserable day of the whole year. ☔🙄

Tomsen knew tribal Afghanistan better than most Americans know their own towns. He warned that ignoring tribal reality would doom any mission. His bosses thought tribes were ancient history. They were wrong. #ForeignPolicy #AfghanWar #MustRead

I have read 45 of 45 books for the 2025 Reading Challenge! What should I read next? www.goodreads.com/user_challen... And what a book to end on. A Far -Flung Life by M L Stedman. (out March '26). A wonderful, warm wrap of a book. A genuine 5⭐ read. 🥰

Well I never knew that. Imogen Clark also writes as Izzy Bromley. And Table For Five sounds really good. Please stop telling me about books Amazon. I've got way more than I can read right now.

Why do men swear they're not asleep when they so blatantly are!

Come and spend CHRISTMAS ON THE CLOSE! 🎄🎅❄️⛄️🥰 The #neighbours are ready to welcome you into their homes to enjoy all the fun of the festive season. #Christmas2025 #familylife #Christmas #celebrations #amreading #womensfiction #booksky amazon.co.uk/dp/B074C693D3 💙📚

Oh, this is very sad news. Way too young.

Just came home on the bus (a very rare thing for me). Two very young people sat behind me 17/18? Fascinating to listen to. They had a conversation about politics and what they thought. They put more thought into it than either of my 30 odd year old kids ever have.

Currently getting Gemini to help me with selecting a Christmas gift for my teenage granddaughter, after sorting out a crashing issue to do with 'Gems'. This granny is 'on trend', moves with and embraces the times. 🎄🎅💡

What are we on now 8th December. I'm just starting chapter 5. So I need to read 4 chapters today including this one. Seems quite good so far. Does mean my other book has been abandoned for now and it's so good. #booksky.

Sleep - 6 hours 47 mins. 🥳🥳🎉

Something in my eye #Strictly 🥹

What the hell is that ear splitting racket on #Strictly. How anyone sits through a stage musical I will never know.

FFS, I am so sick of the 'renovations' next door now. Nearly 4 months of it. Some bloke knocking 7 bells out of the bloody wall at the moment. It's Sunday! Trapped in the house by rain, no choice but to hear it.

Ohh, I've got to do this. Read this book like an advent calendar! A chapter a day to Christmas. Bit of catching up to do but I'm told chapters are short. Exciting. 25 Days by Per Jacobsen. #booksky

Managed to get in a brisk walk this morning as promised to myself. It is of course raining now, and just had a weather warning alert for rain on Tuesday. 🙄 Never rains but it pours eh!

Ok, if it can manage not to rain today I think a very brisk walk is in order. I think I'm suffering cabin fever with all the crap weather we've had this week. 3.5 hrs sleep! I'm tired and woke feeling all the troubles of the world on my shoulders. 😔

Fitbit "sleep score - 83 good". How the hell do you work that out on 3 hours 30 minutes? 😴 I so wish I knew why sleep just completely eludes me sometimes.

Oh well it's 2.40am now so I shall have another attempt at going to sleep. Good night/morning or whatever it might be.

Lights out at 12.30am and I went to sleep. Bloody dog woke me up licking. Why does he do that for ages. Now I'm wide awake and it's 2.15am. Thanks for that Louie. 😡

I decided to give up the battle at 49%. I just couldn't read any more. I'm not a quitter, but life is short and so many books. Currently reading A Far-Flung Life by M L Stedman #Netgalley #booksky A much more compelling read.

What is this on my playlist? CamelPhat &Zafrir - Destino. I love this. Currently listening to 2025 recap.

That was so good #Strictly. I don't even like musicals but that was brilliant.

I didn't like Lewis's dance either. But the music, noo I didn't like that, messy with no tune 🤷 #Strictly

I've voted for Valbinda (sorry if I got the name wrong 😬) every week. I don't know why she's *always* in the dance offs. I think she's so good. You show 'em girl. #Strictly

Oh, how much of a total, repetitive bore is that Reform bloke on Question Time. I can hear him rabbiting on over the top of my earbuds listening to music.

So my 'listening' age on Spotify's Wrapped is drumroll ........🥁🥁 18. Yes you read that right 18 😂 Even I was a little surprised at that, I thought maybe late 20's/30. Oh well, I am a teenager at heart. Top genres - House, Soft pop, Electroclash ?🤔 Drum&Base, rap.

Literally forcing my eyes and mind through a non fiction history book this month. On the whole it's boring me too tears, with the odd interesting bit now and again to keep me going. The reviews so far are 4 and 5 stars. It must be me. 🤷 #booksky

Fireworks are just never ending round here. Some numpty thought it would be a really good idea to let fireworks off all night tonight. Why? What are we 'celebrating' now? A rare dry sunny day, a light switch on round their house? 🤷🤬

My sole contribution to Christmas Dec's so far. Two coasters. 😂 I might drag the thing out of the loft and sling some lights on it at some point before Christmas day. 🙄

I can see Clementine Douglas being my most played in the YouTube music end of year wrap up. Asking, Sonny Fodera probably being *the* most played. 🎧🎵🎶

The fourth book in the Regency Secrets series by Julia Golding is out today. The Austen Intrigue sees Jane Austen featuring as one of the characters, helping Dora and Jacob to solve another mystery. #RegencyRomance #RegencyMystery #HistoricalFiction #booksky 📚💙

Someone just mentioned being a native New Yorker. Which made me think of that record by Odyssey, which made me go find it on YouTube. Wow that tune took me back, made my heart jump. That must have been one of my most played records when I was 15/16. On a record player 🥰

Sometimes, on the odd occasion I read a library book or a paperback or even an ebook that's from elsewhere, I've had to read a kindle book at the same time to keep this streak going. How could I ever break it now.

I loved this book. So much historical detail and a charming story spanning 111 years. Telling the stories of all the women who've lived at 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie. My Review. #booksky #historicalfiction

8 months ago we applied on behalf of my mum for her name to be registered with Land Registry as the owner of her house which she lived in married to my dad for 62 years. 8 months later they haven't even looked at the application let alone processed it!!

I've ploughed my way through some boring books this year. Maybe time to give Netgalley a break in '26. I've done it for 7 years and read mostly fab books but it would be nice, that if it's not doing it for me, to just feel able to ditch a book! 😴

Finally, after having frozen feet all day long they're toasty warm now. All I need now is some joggers that aren't half mast. They have these amazing hot water bottles in Aldi again this year. (They have an envelope in which to place your feet.) 🤗

Tomorrow is the last voting day for the Goodreads (readers'!) favourite books of the year. If you read We All Live Here and enjoyed it I'd love it if you voted for it. Thank you! www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...

If you're a note taker or just like playing about with new apps (just me? Yeah, doesn't take much to entertain me) but anyways I was introduced to Upnote. It's brilliant, synchs fabulously, and you can use it all over the place, phone, tablet, Chromebook, windows, iOS.

I'm re-sharing this because it's a really good book and it's Saturday, a good day for reading, and because it's one of my better reviews. Gotta blow your own trumpet from time to time. 😀

The Truth About Ruby Cooper – Liz Nugent If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened. Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s…

Small Acts of Resistance, the latest historical novel from @anitafrank.bsky.social is out today. Happy publication day 🎉🎉 My review of this moving story of bravery and strength set in rural occupied France during WW1. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booksky ⌛📚💙

OMG!! This is just about the most prestigious award out there! 😳 Thank you librarians 🙏

Short answer: yes, book launches still work. But the long answer? Only if you treat them as part of a system. Our latest WriteStats analysis unpacks what the data really says about modern release strategy. 📊 Read → writestats.com/do-book-laun... #PublishingInsights #BookStrategy

Aww, it was very sad Ambulance tonight.

Just been looking on here to see if Evri the crap courier is on here. Unsurprisingly they're not. Imagine the abuse they'd get if they were. They are an utter joke of a company definitely not fit for purpose.

Oh no! That was unexpected, I've just finished 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie. This is what happens when you read e-books, you don't realise you're approaching the end! How sad. An absolutely riveting book, I loved it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booksky 📚💙

🥶🥶 10 degrees in this bedroom this morning! Never ever if you're building an extension, put a bedroom over a garage, just don't go there, you'll regret it.