Teaser Tuesday - May 28

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

Now the time had come to break up the strange domestic arrangements at Crespigny Road. Blackwell and Tooth were almost as sorry to see Freda and Diane leave as Chapman himself.

Our bookgroup book of the month - Agent Zigzag - Ben Macintyre the tale of a double agent during World War II a man of very mixed motives - but a fascinating story. I did wonder about some of the details - why did the Germans allow Chapman to bring his Iron Cross into the UK on a spying mission for them?

View from the Edge

View from the Edge, a photo by rajmarshall on Flickr.

Last week there was another All Saints' walk - and the evening turned out beautifully for a walk over Alderley Edge ending at the Wizard.

Mutterings - May 26

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Rental :: Car
2. Collapse :: of stout party
3. Seismic :: Shift
4. Barricade :: 1968 (Paris)
5. Dip :: Fondue
6. Teamed :: Cattle
7. Jeans :: Pair
8. Why not? :: Indeed
9. Honing :: Knife
10. Dough :: Bowl

Sunset

Sunset, a photo by rajmarshall on Flickr.

Earlier this week I led the church walk with a walk around Bollington from the Vale Inn. You'll find the flickr album of photos as the walking season progresses here. The Vale Inn sells a book of walks one of which we used - in a truncated form! You can see the full route and download a route card and a GPS file. We missed out the walk up to White Nancy (booo!) and did the walk in reverse cutting across to Ingersley Vale at around half way around - well it was the evening and we needed to get back to the pub for chips - which were enjoyed! The photo was taken from just beneath White Nancy. Our walk next week is on Wednesday (not Thursday!)

Mutterings - May 19

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Arrow :: Time (..flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
2. Hum :: Ho
3. Cornerstone :: Arch
4. Flight :: Departure
5. Music :: Life
6. Determine :: Calculate
7. Analysis :: Mathematical
8. Better day :: Tomorrow
9. Audio :: Plug
10. Meditation :: Silence

Teaser Tuesday - 14 May

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

Oh, my lordy, lordy! Raf'? Dey ain' no raf' no mo', she done broke loose en gone! - en here we is!

That's probably 4 sentences but it may only be 2? Huckleberry Finn and Jim getting into a scrape...but it's a good teaser!

Mutterings - May 12

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. 537 :: odd
2. Horizon :: Ringed by the flat.. (George Benjamin work and a quote from Eliot's The Waste Land)
3. Episode :: Soap
4. Character :: Set (and gives me a chance to link to a recent xkcd!
5. Crossed :: Palm (with silver)
6. Shipping :: Lanes
7. Jump :: to it!
8. Bowling :: Alley
9. Grumpy :: Dopey
10. Them :: Us

Teaser Tuesday - May 7

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study. Two months or more run along, and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I don't see how I ever got to like it so well at the window's, where you had to wash and eat on a plate, and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular, and be for ever bothering over a book and have old Miss Watson pecking at you all the time.

Huckleberry Finn with his Pop from Mark Twain's book. I've not read this since I was young and I'd been wanting to re-read it for some time and was given impetus by a blog which quoted from it and the relationship between Huck and Jim (the escaped slave), I shall see how it goes!

Mutterings - May 5

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Interests :: Common
2. Bloom :: In
3. Ceiling :: Rose
4. Tears :: Fears
5. Jerk :: Pull
6. Weight :: Light
7. Friends :: Companions
8. Camera :: Flash
9. Chicken :: Scared
10. Hose :: Doublet