Have just finished this excellent book, a fantasy novel set against historical events. In 1845, Sir John Franklin led an expedition to find the fabled Northwest passage, an artic sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific. The two ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were…
Month: July 2009
… and this is nothing like a good system. Mum is back in hospital (as planned), and she has a pile of routine outpatients appointments that I needed to cancel for her. Although her appointments are all for the local hospital, Whipps Cross, they are…
With my being away in London a lot recently, the garden has suffered. Since my last trip home, a glitch hit the automatic watering system, and we have also had some very hot weather. As a result, my fig tree has lost all of its…