Old Style Daily WEDNESDAY 19 March 2025

-taff

Happy belated birthday camelot!

And condolences for Lyla Rosy, it's such a wrenching loss...

No plans here, am burning a chopping board with daffodils for a friends birthday, hoping I can finih it this morning because it's their birthday today then burning another small one [poppiesI think]  for a different friend who's birthday it is tomorrow..Busy busy..Take care all! [I did laugh at the maths though dp1, and Gers? Don't worry, it happens to the best of us, my food waste this week will be quite a lot thanks to not using up the rice from the overly large rice cooker I bought...and bread..and pasta which I will never use]

AlwaysAllie

Chrisca50 said:

@AlwaysAllie re books.  I love crime books too.  Over the last few years I've been reading Stephen Booth's Cooper and Fry series.  I then found Stuart McBride's Logan McRae series.  I've read one of Robert Rinder books too which I enjoyed.  All crime solving/detective novels.  Have a look and see what you think.

Great thanks - I haven’t read either of those two and the McBride ones have the advantage of being set in Scotland! 

camelot1001

I'm so sorry to hear you've lost your beloved Lyla Rosy.

IzzyBee

Just popped back to say so sorry about Lyla it’s heartbreaking when you lose them such a big part of the family big hugs Rosy . AA I like the Simon Mcleave books set in wales he’s got everything crossed it’s going to be made into a tv series later in the year 

remmie

Popping back to send my condolences to Rosy on the loss of your beloved girl. They really do leave pswprints on our hearts. I hope in time you can remember her funny antics and laugh.

Love and hugs to all of you x

Gers

So sorry about the loss of your beloved companion @Rosy. My very-long gone pet cat remains in my mind still.

@AA - I read a lot of what's called 'Tartan Noir'.  The very recently deceased Denzil Meyrick was always a favourite as he lived in Campbeltown (Wee Toon) and based a lot of his crime novels in his fictionalised version of it. His final two books were a huge remove from the usual though very worth reading too.

JM Dalgliesh has a series set in the highlands and another in Norfolk. Neil Lancaster sets his around the central belt and is always a good read. The DCI Logan series from JD Kirk also feature heavily in my reading / listening material.  I could go on but won't!

Back from my trip north, had a wee chatty interlude with my friends halfway down the road back home. I almost got here when my tyre pressure warning came on so I travelled further on down to the town to get the tyres checked, Rear nearside was down so that was fixed.  Now got my second cup of coffee, front door wide open and the sunshine streaming in. I could get used to this!

AlwaysAllie

Gers said:

@AA - I read a lot of what's called 'Tartan Noir'.  The very recently deceased Denzil Meyrick was always a favourite as he lived in Campbeltown (Wee Toon) and based a lot of his crime novels in his fictionalised version of it. His final two books were a huge remove from the usual though very worth reading too.

JM Dalgliesh has a series set in the highlands and another in Norfolk. Neil Lancaster sets his around the central belt and is always a good read. The DCI Logan series from JD Kirk also feature heavily in my reading / listening material.  I could go on but won't!

Back from

excellent thanks - lots for me to go at there! 

Gers

PS -for @AA - Stuart McBride is also very readable, some of his mainstream ones are rather violent.  Confusingly his detective is called Logan McCrae.  These are also very funny.

Gone!

-taff

Halfhead was excellent and also very violent...

IzzyBee

Another fan of JD Kirk