Showing posts with label Citation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Citation. Show all posts
Sunday, 1 November 2026

"Tarowean" (la Toussaint)

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  "Je suis l'océan Pacifique et je suis le plus grand. On m'appelle ainsi depuis très longtemps, mais ce n'est pas vrai qu...
Saturday, 29 August 2026

Spies in Stokenchurch

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You may remember that two years ago I thoroughly enjoyed reading  A Spy Alone , debut espionage novel of Charles Beaumont. An important port...
Saturday, 1 August 2026

Lammas Day ("there comes an autumn sickle...")

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  And as the daylight's fading When Lammas has come in And gleamers go to work among the stubble There comes an autumn sickle To cut...
Friday, 26 June 2026

Heat in Isola

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I know I'm blogging a lot about  Ed McBain 's 87th Precinct  crime novel series these days, as I am reading the books in order of pu...
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Sunday, 15 March 2026

"Beware the Ides of March"

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 Today is the 15th of March, therefore, this is the Ides of March . Which means that it is the anniversary of the assassination of Julius C...
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Thursday, 12 March 2026

"Pas grand-chose, c'est quelque chose."

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 Je suis en train de lire (et, je l'espère, de terminer, car je lis trop lentement) le polar Entre deux mondes d' Olivier Norek . U...
Friday, 6 February 2026

Voltaire (citation apocryphe)

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 Tiens, j'en ai appris une bien bonne aujourd'hui et je voulais la raconter. C'est une citation apocryphe de Voltaire , mais qua...
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Monday, 26 January 2026

Safari Outfits in South Africa

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At the moment, I am rereading South African crime writer  Deon Meyer 's novel  Blood Safari . I know I have a huge pile of TBR, however ...
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Sunday, 4 January 2026

Spies in The Compleat Angler

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Today is an interesting date for amateurs of spy thrillers, especially fans  John Le Carré . In Call for the Dead ,  George Smiley  receives...
Saturday, 1 November 2025

Tarowean

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  "Je suis l'océan Pacifique et je suis le plus grand. On m'appelle ainsi depuis très longtemps, mais ce n'est pas vrai qu...
Tuesday, 2 September 2025

"The dirty golden mustard of September"

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And I stop by a gateway To smoke a cigarette And stares across the fields and remember The gypsy fairs of August And early evening haze The ...
Friday, 1 August 2025

"There comes an autumn sickle..."

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  And as the daylight's fading When Lammas has come in And gleamers go to work among the stubble There comes an autumn sickle To cut...
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Saturday, 7 June 2025

The (mysterious, iconic) Compleat Angler

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I took this picture a few months ago, when one of our visit in the little town of  Marlow . You can easily recognise The Compleat Angler , a...
Friday, 4 April 2025

Return to Isola

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I mentioned it back in February : I had not read a book from Ed McBain 's 87th Precinct serie for a while. And that was a shame, given...
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Saturday, 15 March 2025

"Beware the Ides of March"

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 Today is the 15th of March, the Ides of March . People who are into history will of course know that this is the anniversary of the assassi...
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Saturday, 8 February 2025

"Restless pillow"

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I think I might start reading Charlotte Brontë . I never did, I only read one book from the Brontë sisters and it wasn't Charlotte'...
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Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Take the Cannoli

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 " Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. " You know where this quote comes from . Recently, WOlfie was asked in a homework to try Itali...
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Friday, 3 January 2025

Spy Meeting at the Compleat Angler

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 Today marks a special kind of anniversary, which I mention it every year as a sort of tradition. January is kind of an uneventful month, so...
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Monday, 25 November 2024

Dark and Stormy Times

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 You know the phrase " It was a dark and stormy night ". It is a phrase often mocked as silly, that said this is what we have been...
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Friday, 1 November 2024

Tarowean (Toussaint)

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  " "Je suis l'océan Pacifique et je suis le plus grand. On m'appelle ainsi depuis très longtemps, mais ce n'est pas ...