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This site is dedicated to my grandmother, who ran away from her Norwegian home in 1915 and arrived in England with nothing but a trunk full of books

  • Shooting Pheasants…

    Well, despite my best endeavours, I’ve been busy over the last week or so (Oxfam bits and pieces, and an unexpected visit from my Younger Daughter), so I’ve not been looking at anyone else’s posts, or checking my own, and consequently missed seeing that I had been selected by Jane and Briar, over at Fleur…

    chrisharding53

    November 11, 2013
    animal rights, First World War, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, The shooting Party
  • My Life in Books!

    A selection of some my old childhood books – can you guess which is my favourite? I’m always fascinated by other people’s reading habits (when I’m in someone else’s house I always look at the bookshelves) and I’ve really enjoyed the occasional My Life in Books series Simon T runs over on his blog Stuck…

    chrisharding53

    November 1, 2013
    Favourite Books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Simon T, Stuck in a Book
  • An Indian Adventure With A Suitable Boy

    Over the last couple of years I’ve looked at the Team Reads run by Lynne over at dovegreyreader(an exceedingly good blog – if you’ve never seen it, take a look, now),  and considered joining in, but never quite plucked up the courage. Normally I like to race through a book to discover the ending, then…

    chrisharding53

    October 29, 2013
    A Suitable Boy, dovegreyreader, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, India, Vikram Seth
  • Singing – with a Girdle in her Hand!

    October has been a funny sort of month, when I don’t seem to have got into my reading or writing stride at all. I started well, but I was at my Mother’s for a bit earlier in the month, and the Man of the House and I have just been on a last-minute break down…

    chrisharding53

    October 26, 2013
    bombing raids, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Second World War, the Blitz, War isn’t Wonderful
  • A Story That Never Really Got Under Way…

    I’ve finally got round to posting my thoughts on Rosamunde Pilcher’s The Carousel which, if you remember, I won in a draw organised by Pam over at The Travellin’ Penguin, and read while en route to my Younger Daughter in London. I’m the first to admit this is not quite my usual literary fare, and…

    chrisharding53

    October 16, 2013
    http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Rosamunde Pilcher, The Carousel
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