Adventure Racing World Championships
Sept. 22 – Oct. 6, 2025
Penticton, BC, Canada
I’d love to attend my first A.R. Worlds — but will probably be in Asia at that time.
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By coincidence, I was 1st to watch this VIDEO. Just happened to be online when it popped up.
Too slow burn for me.
This is probably my last book in the series.
WHY does Mary have to fall off a horse 5 times in one chapter?
In a long, slow book I can’t recall Sherlock or Mary coming up with even one brilliant deduction.
Good writing — but mainly for putting me to sleep. 😀
The Moor (1998) is the fourth book in Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King.
I was surprised that Mary Russell is already the wife of Sherlock Holmes!
What’s the age gap? Forty years?
The events in the book take place between September and November 1923.
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes investigate strange goings-on on Dartmoor. Reprising the setting and some of the plotlines of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes and Russell come to the aid of the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould.
Baring-Gould is a real person who inspired this book. He wrote “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and hundreds of other publications. Something of an investigator like Holmes.
The audio book is posted on YouTube. You can listen free.
I can’t particularly recommend this TV show — but, for some reason, I got hooked.
The ending is excellent.
Viewpoint is a British police procedural drama thriller television miniseries …
Surveillance detective DC Martin Young (Noel Clarke) sets up his observation post in the home of single mum and secret voyeur Zoe Sterling (Alexandra Roach).
Zoe’s windows command a panoramic view of Westbury Square, and more importantly provide a direct sightline into the home of missing primary-school teacher Gemma Hillman (Amy Wren) and her boyfriend – and prime suspect in her disappearance – Greg Sullivan (Fehinti Balogun).
While being aired, the star — Noel Anthony Clarke — was accused by over 20 women of sexual harassment and intimidation. Even more women came forward later. Police found that the information did not meet the threshold for criminal investigation.
He’s sued The Guardian for defamation.
Slough House (2021) by Mick Herron is terrific.
I never tire of the hilarious dialogue.
Jackson Lamb is one of the great characters of fiction, all time.
… an unsparing look at the corrupt web of media, global finance, spycraft, and politics that power our modern world.
“This is a darker, scarier Herron. The gags are still there but the satire’s more biting.
The privatization of a secret service op and the manipulation of news is relevant and horribly credible.”—Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera Stanhope series
At Slough House—MI5’s London depository for demoted spies—Brexit has taken a toll. The “slow horses” have been pushed further into the cold, Slough House has been erased from official records, and its members are dying in unusual circumstances, at an unusual clip. No wonder Jackson Lamb’s crew is feeling paranoid. But are they actually targets?
With a new populist movement taking hold of London’s streets and the old order ensuring that everything’s for sale to the highest bidder, the world’s a dangerous place for those deemed surplus. Jackson Lamb and the slow horses are in a fight for their lives …
Season 4 of Slow Horses is underway as I post, one of the best TV shows today.
Books and television are both excellent.
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My parents — in their ’90s — still live independently in their own home. And want to keep it that way as long as possible.
Currently they are using a Canadian company called Heart to Home for a few dinners each week.
For example, one of my Mom’s favourites is Orange Chicken. CAD $9.15 delivered free.
That’s just one of 125 lunch / dinner options.
Good value. Little clean-up.
Meals can be put in the microwave — or in the oven for about 30min. So far they’ve only used the oven.
They are delivered with very little seasoning. You must add to taste. (For me ➙ a lot of horseradish and blue cheese. 😀 )
Heart to Home currently offers free* delivery in most of Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba.
We order meals on Wednesday online or by phone. They are delivered Friday.
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Not a great book. But I did manage to finish.
The setting is interesting. A collection of tenants in a low rental London boardinghouse.
Lisa, also known as Collette, is on the run after witnessing her shady boss, Tony, beat a man to death at the Nefertiti Men’s Club.
Now her mother is dying in a nursing home and she wants to be nearby, so she rents a room in a boardinghouse that’s one step up from a homeless shelter.
The shabby home, subdivided into apartments, is owned and managed by a grossly obese man who takes advantage of his down-and-out residents:
While Collette uses the money she has left, about £100,000, to evade Tony and his henchmen, the residents are dealing with backed-up drains that smell awful.
Unknown to the other residents, one of the men has been making a habit of killing young women, including Nikki, the former resident of Collette’s apartment …
Excellent video. Great tune.
Fred Again is a fascinating musician and producer.
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I finally read the ORIGINAL in the Aunties series.
Like the sequel, very funny.
It’s like a Wedding at Bernie’s — but with frustrating, meddling, loving Indonesian sisters.
There’s a surprising amount of profanity and sexual innuendo.
“Sutanto brilliantly infuses comedy and culture into the unpredictable rom-com/murder mystery mashup as Meddy navigates familial duty, possible arrest and a groomzilla.
—USA Today (four-star review)
The independently made VIDEO is a bit cheesy, but McConaughey does offer some good advice.
Celebrities! Is there anything they don’t know? 😀
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These books are too slow. Not enough Holmesian brilliance.
Not enough action.
A Letter of Mary is the third in the Mary Russell mystery series of novels by Laurie R. King.
This is the first case that Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes work on together as husband and wife. …
August 1923
… an unexpected visit from Dorothy Ruskin, an elderly amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who met the couple four and a half years earlier during the events from O Jerusalem (novel).
As a gift, Ruskin presents Russell with an inlaid box containing a papyrus scroll, which seems to be a genuine first-century letter by Mary Magdalene.
When she returns to London that evening, Ruskin is killed in a hit-and-run accident with only two witnesses.
When Holmes and Russell visit London to identify the body, they discover evidence of foul play. …
Rick McCharles 