Reading as a cheap hobby

alicef

ahhh @annieb64 & @Wednesday2000 - Blackheath & Greenwich - some of my old stomping grounds!  Back in the day, there was an excellent wool shop in Blackheath and I used to scrabble & save up to buy prints from Greenwich Printmakers.

Pennypincin

Hi everyone, I'd like to join.
I have no idea where my love of reading has come from as apart from my half sister, I seem to be the main person who likes to read in my family.
I've recently joined the local library book club to try and read a broader range as my go to is sci fi or fantasy.

MrsStepford

Welcome aboard @Pennypincin 😀
 

London_1

I just checked on my library online site and no Katharine Black books available sadly .My Dd reads a lot on her Kindle and often tells me of good writers to try and get but often they are only available on Kindle  

I do have a kindle somewhere but I'm blowed if I can find the blooming thing, I so rarely used it. I've put away somewhere safe ,so safe I can't find it  

I spent 10 of my younger years living in Blackheath circa 1947-57, and went to school at All Saints School, the primary school attached to the church on the Heath.

Back then Blackheath really was a village and nothing like it is today, most of the roads were unmade ones, and the one across the heath, Prince Charles Drive was only laid down after the late Queen in 1953 visited there after her Coronation.

We all sat dutifully by the side of the road outside the main gates of Greenwich Park waiting for our new pretty young Queen to appear .Flags in one hand and being exhorted by our teachers to cheer lustily when she came past.
 All of us children especially the little girls were convinced she was going to pass in her golden coach wearing the dress and crown .....

Instead a large back car went passed, with her and Prince Phillip waving She was wearing a powder blue coat and hat and gloves and it looked a bit like what my late Mum would wear on a Sunday to go to church  

We were all so disappointed, as we were convinced it would be the coach, but we waved and cheered anyway, after all she was young and very pretty and we had been given a free mug and propelling pencil, and a flag to wave, and several hours sitting by the road on the grass in the sun was better than arithmetic
Can't believe it was over 70 odd years ago and she sadly is no more

  JackieO xx 

Wednesday2000

I looked up those Katherine Black books yesterday and they are on kindle, but I am going to check my library too.

I am starting the Shari Lapena book from the library today as I finished the book on Charles Manson.

PipneyJane

London_1 said:

I just checked on my library online site and no Katharine Black books available sadly .My Dd reads a lot on her Kindle and often tells me of good writers to try and get but often they are only available on Kindle  

I do have a kindle somewhere but I'm blowed if I can find the blooming thing, I so rarely used it. I've put away somewhere safe ,so safe I can't find it  

I spent 10 of my younger years living in Blackheath circa 1947-57, and went to school at All Saints School, the primary school attached to the church on the Heath.

Back then Blackheath really was a village and nothing like it is today, most of the roads were unmade ones, and the one across the heath, Prince Charles Drive was only laid down after the late Queen in 1953 visited there after her Coronation.

We all sat dutifully by the side of the road outside the main gates of Greenwich Park waiting for our new pretty young Queen to appear .Flags in one hand and being exhorted by our teachers to cheer lustily when she came past.
 All of us children especially the little girls were convinced she was going to pass in her golden coach wearing the dress and crown .....

Instead a large back car went passed, with her and Prince Phillip waving She was wearing a powder blue coat and hat and gloves and it looked a bit like what my late Mum would wear on a Sunday to go to church  

We were all so disappointed, as we were convinced it would be the coach, but we waved and cheered anyway, after all she was young and very pretty and we had been given a free mug and propelling pencil, and a flag to wave, and several hours sitting by the road on the grass in the sun was better than arithmetic
Can't believe it was over 70 odd years ago and she sadly is no more

  JackieO xx 

How disappointing for you, @London_1 that the Queen wasn’t in a coach.  I’m glad, though, that you got the day off school and made a good memory.  

I remember when the Queen toured Australia in ?1971, with Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princess Anne.  I was 5 or 6 and we queued on Burke Street in Melbourne for hours.  I was most disappointed that she was wearing a hat and not a crown.  .   Prince Charles played with my curls.

An author I can recommend from my collection is Kerry Greenwood, who writes the Miss Fisher novels.  You may know her work from the Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, which have been broadcast on British television.   The books are excellent; better than the TV.  Mind you, I’m probably biased - I used to sing with Kerry, before I left Australia.  I had dinner with her soon after she got her first publishing contract, and remember how excited she was.  The first time I went back to Oz, in 1994, I came home with all 6 of the books she’d published at that point.   (She’s now written over 30.)

- Pip

MrsStepford

Books have started arriving from Oxfam. The Mediterranean Zone by Dr Barry Sears is pristine and looks to be unread. Bon Appétit  by Peter Mayle is a bit yellowed but still readable. Those came from Cheltenham and Gloucester Road SW7. I've got a couple to come from Batley, too. 

Me and my bro wandered off at Kent County Show as children and discovered Princess Anne warming up a horse in a field. She rode over and talked to us and let us pat him. 

MrsStepford

Whitstable Pearl is currently filming in Whitstable. Think this is Season 3, based on books The Whitstable Pearl Mystery and Disappearance at Oare, by local author Julie Wassmer, who is an exec producer. 

PipneyJane

MrsStepford said:

Whitstable Pearl is currently filming in Whitstable. Think this is Season 3, based on books The Whitstable Pearl Mystery and Disappearance at Oare, by local author Julie Wassmer, who is an exec producer. 

Series one is being broadcast on Drama on Thursday nights, at the moment.  Episode 3 was broadcast this week, but if you want, you can catch up on UKTV Play.  (We’re recording it and will binge-watch in the next week or so.  Currently doing a Harry Potter marathon.)

- Pip  

carolbee

MrsStepford said:

Whitstable Pearl is currently filming in Whitstable. Think this is Season 3, based on books The Whitstable Pearl Mystery and Disappearance at Oare, by local author Julie Wassmer, who is an exec producer. 

We’re really enjoying this, lived in Tankerton for 7 years and grew up just up the road, now live a bit down the coast. Love seeing places you know well