sitting on my lazy ***, and then getting off it.

Had a cracking weekend at home, Miche kindly took me to the pub on friday night, which was a lovely welcome home, then on saturday we did a load of jobs ( like getting my suit fitted for Shubu's wedding - and then organising dates for his stag do), then in the evening went over to Ceri and Bill's for a spot of dinner and drinks, which was really nice. On sunday, we were hoping to see my bro, who was up in Manchester with Rich, but as he was a dirty stop out, he wasn't up in time... We were off to Ellie's ( Steve and Rita's little girl) christening. Got to catch up with the pub quiz lot over a few beers, which was highly agreeable.




Anyway, I obviously also did a fair bit of travelling, so I've got through a few more books. Really enjoyed Dissolution, it wasn't obvious what was happening, and I really enjoyed reading a thriller from a different era - makes a change from most of the stuff that I read which is of the modern day era. This was all about the dissolution of the monasteries in Cromwell's time, so I "learnt" a bit about that period of history too.

Next up was "A tale etched in blood and hard black pencil" by Christopher Brookmyre... fabulous story, a modern day crime where all the characters ( villains, cops, lawyers) were together at the same school, and most of the book is telling the tales of being at school. Its told with a great voice, and the decsriptions of the playground antics made me laugh out loud at times.

I then finished off a Harlan Coben book, Deal Breaker which I'd started at xmas and then forgotten about... it was ok - again, well constructed and a good plot, but I didn't really like the main hero too much so not sure how many more in that series I will look at.

Back in the saddle here in Linkoping, I finally joined the gym today, and did a good 30 min row, followed up by some weights and stretches... was good to get a sweat on , will try and get there after work every day now.

Apologies for the length of this blurb, had a lot to catch up on!

back again soon,

AG

Reading: The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
Listening: The State of things by Reverend and the Makers