Showing posts with label MacGuffin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MacGuffin. Show all posts
Sunday, 14 June 2026

Shiny Gems

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A few weeks ago, Wolfie and I went to the local toy shop. Not to buy anything, just to see what there was available, see if we could find as...
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Thursday, 25 July 2024

Emerald Hunters?

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 Oh the things you sometimes learn thanks to random online researches. Like a few days ago, when I stumbled on this article from the Guardi...
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Tuesday, 16 May 2023

The £60,000 diamond ring

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 Sometimes, I check crime news just for kicks and one piece of news caught my attention recently. Two thieves got caught after stealing a ri...
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Wednesday, 3 May 2023

Play Cash

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We went to the local toy shop recently, Wolfie and I, while mummy was busy buying new shoes. I had decided to keep the purchases to the mini...
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Monday, 17 April 2023

Gold Divers

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A few days ago, we were flicking through channels when we stumbled a reality tv program called Gold Divers . This is the UK title. The origi...
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Friday, 17 February 2023

Jewellery Thefts

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 Sometimes, I read crime news just for kick. Also, I love crime fiction, I try to write some and I think reading crime news is good for insp...
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Friday, 4 November 2022

Crime Diamonds

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For today's post, I'm giving you a little bit of crime news that caught my attention: contraband luxury goods that were taken by Fre...
Sunday, 23 January 2022

Crowbar Carl

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 You might know that my son loves Playmobil .Maybe not as much as Lego, but still. He has a few sets that he loves. Last year, him and I agr...
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Friday, 26 November 2021

The Maltese Falcon for #Noirvember

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As I mentioned before , I read , The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet for this year's #Noirvember . The first time in decades, but I ...
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Thursday, 1 July 2021

Railway Watch

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As I mentioned in this post , I often think about the National Railway Museum of York . Also spend a fair deal of time browsing through its...
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Saturday, 26 June 2021

A diamond for cryptocurrency

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Sometimes, just sometimes, I start thinking about diamonds. As I mentioned in this post from 2020 , I think they make for great MacGuffins ...
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Thursday, 25 March 2021

Chasse aux trésor haïtien

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 Des fois, je lis une nouvelle rien que pour le titre. Il y a quelques jours, j'ai vu celui-ci sur La Presse: Chasse au trésor pour retr...
Sunday, 2 August 2020

Cops and Robbers

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Wolfie has quite a few toys from Playmobil , it is one of his favourite brands. Among them, he has a number of police officers and police eq...
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Sunday, 17 May 2020

Revisiting Treasure Island

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I first read Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ten years ago. It was one of these books I kept wishing to read, but always waite...
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Saturday, 8 February 2020

Death Train/Detonator

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There are bad movies, and there are bad movies one loves. Years and years ago, back in the days of VHS and videoclub, I rented a made for TV...
Tuesday, 28 January 2020

About a diamond

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I wanted to share a bit of fashion and luxury news that got me thinking: Louis Vuitton has revealed in Paris a diamond as big as a tennis b...
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Saturday, 18 January 2020

What is a MacGuffin?

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For people into movies and genre fiction in general, you may have heard of the term MacGuffin , which was coined by Alfred Hitchcock . It is...
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Tuesday, 12 March 2019

Crime (writing) in progress

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I wanted to give a bit of an update about the creative writing workshop I attend. I now know when will be our next meeting: in the first hal...
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Monday, 5 March 2018

About secret passages

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This is the classic board of Clue (or Cluedo as it was originally known in the UK) which is one of my favourite board games. there are t...
Thursday, 14 May 2015

De la nature de L'ostie d'chat

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Quelque chose m'est venu en tête à propos de L'ostie d'chat . Bon, je le savais déjà, enfin j'en étais conscient dès ma pr...