Episode #15 … January 2025 Wednesday 1st The start of a new year begins. And nothing is happening. I have uploaded the latest life blog and the missus, who isn’t feeling well, is ignoring me again by continuing to do the housework when I have told her to stop and relax. Progress has been made…
Episode #11 …September 2024 Monday 2nd I bought myself a box set from my favourite Poirot. David Suchet. I recently read Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie and then watched the Kenneth Branagh movie version. There are several deviations from the book to the 2017 film. Never mind, I am still waiting for…
Episode #12 The Phantom Tollbooth By Norton Jester The Book The book was published in 1961 by Epstein & Carroll and distributed by Random House. In 1970, it was turned into a feature-length animated/live-action movie. Would you like to see it? Then click here. An updated version has been in the works since 2010. But there…
Episode #11 Sword of Destiny By Andrzej Sapkowski The Book This is the first book published in the Witcher series but is classed as the second in chronological reading order, published in 1992 by the Polish publisher SuperNOWA. But didn’t get translated into English until 2015. This book, just like The Last Wish novel, continues…
Episode #10 Days At The Morisaki Bookshop By Satoshi Yagisawa Warning! Some Spoilers, Ahead! The Book This book was first published in Japan in 2009. It was quickly snapped up and made into a movie in 2010. Satoshi Yagisawa also won the Chiyoda Literature Prize. But it wouldn’t be until 2023 that Eric Ozawa translated…
Episode #2 Self-help books are a multi-billion pounds/ dollar (add your currency here) industry. But are they any good? Like with most things I see nowadays. It started by watching a YouTube video. Well, truthfully, I watched several. Videos recommending books, and this one kept on popping up. So after a while, I thought, what…
I have been having problems with my eyes at work for a while now and I needed to get them checked out to see if I was right about a self diagnoses. In the warehouse I work in, a few years ago the company decided to upgrade their lighting. These lights are alot brighter than…
At the moment I am sitting here waiting to get an appointment so I can get an Ultra sound for the lump in my hand. I believe the lump is a Ganglion. A cyst that grows under the skin. I already have two in my right wrist. But the one on my left hand, at…
