Blog ≫ 2020 ≫ Very hot again today
31° today, is that not even hotter than the last two days? Too hot to go very far, and too hot to do much work in the house. I have been trying to clear out the boys' wardrobe in the spare room, sort all the school clothes in there into "ready to wear for this term", "put away until bigger", and "chuck this out it's about five sizes too small why have we still got a room full of this?" piles, and then load some of it back into the wardrobe.
As I say too hot to go out really, we did not go out yesterday either. Today at least we went round the block, a bit of a walk on the seafront and back to the shop for ice lollies. The beach is busy again today, less so than yesterday. It's hotter but there is a slight haze out there.
I also did some DIY electrics today, the light in the bathroom is playing up again. It's one of the only lights in the house that I have not actually replaced, so it shows my DIY is not as bad as it might be.
Started reading The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1 with thing one a few days ago, and we finished the first story today. He was dead against it at first, but by the end he loved the story. We'll read one more together then I'll let him run at it on his own. For this reason I'm putting it on my own furlough reading list, below! I'm still reading Kate Atkinson and will be keen to read the next one too, though I have a couple of other birthday gifts I will read first.
| Author | Book | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Ian Rankin | Westwind 1 | Dated thriller, shame. |
| Ian Rankin | Doors Open 1 | Really good crime caper in Edinburgh but with no Rebus. |
| Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games 1 | Borrowed from the children, very good. |
| Suzanne Collins | Catching Fire 1 | Hunger Games part 2, read this even quicker, a bit darker. |
| Suzanne Collins | Mockingjay 1 | Hunger Games part 3, joyless and grim. Very 2020... |
| Karen McManus | One Of Us Is Lying 2 | Another one liberated from the children's bookshelf. A Breakfast Club whodunnit, dying to be a film, not at all suitable for a ten year old... |
| Robin Paige | Death at Glamis Castle 3 | Edwardian era mystery written by Americans. I read one of these before. Quite atmospheric, though a little twee. Sort of romance / crime. Written in accents, with plenty of "of the time" attitudes. |
| Jed Rubenfield | The Interpretation of Murder 4 | A charity shop find, one you always see, have had it kicking around a long time. Historical crime fiction again set in New York 1909, featuring Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Great, but complicated and fairly unlikely! |
| Muriel Spark | Loitering With Intent 5 | Branching out a little this time, it's not even a crime. |
| Julie Wassmer | Murder on the Pilgrims Way 6 | Going back to the familiar now. Fairly gentle and local crime. Forgot I had this one from when we met the author in Waterstones. Mostly predictable and cosy but I did not get the actual end murderer correct. |
| Reginald Hill | Blood Sympathy 7 | Even more familiar, have read this before, but keen to revisit this crime series. Very enjoyable. |
| Robert Webb | Come Again 8 | Time travel action rom-com, not very good, feels like two unrelated stories in one with no resolution. |
| Reginald Hill | Born Guilty 9 | Joe Sixsmith again, hoping I enjoy all of this series as much as the first one. Dated and a little complicated but lots of fun. |
| William Golding | Lord Of The Flies 10 | Like I'm doing GCSE English! I had not read this before but we had it in the house. |
| George Orwell | The Road To Wigan Pier 11 | Might be a bit bleak but again I already had this one in the house as part of a George Orwell box set. I took a break from this to read my new books. |
| Bill Bryson | Shakespeare 12 | Something else we had in, a short read but brilliant. We know almost nothing about Shakespeare. |
| Kate Atkinson | Case Histories 13 | Birthday present, have seen these Jackson Brodie stories on TV and liked it a lot. This story is awesome but horribly sad in parts. I think sometimes murder can be sad though. |
| Kate Atkinson | One Good Turn 14 | Another birthday one, Jackson Brodie book two, set in Edinburgh. Loving it so far. |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1 | Read before, but reading again with thing one. |
Clare has a "time off in lieu" day tomorrow because of working at the weekend, so we're off to Ashford for some reason. I think it's to top up thing one's school supplies. Three weeks tomorrow they'll be back at school! This summer holiday has been a con, a bit of a shame for them. Usually it's stretching out ahead of your forever, at least for a bit, but not this year. The holiday is basically the same as the three months before it. We will try and fit in a few things to make it fun for them before they go back.
I have moved my second redundancy consultation from mid-afternoon tomorrow to first thing in the morning. Don't think there's anything to say at this one it's just a formality. I don't even have to confirm that I really want to take voluntary redundancy at this stage.
Poor that the government is trying to distract us from bad handling of coronavirus by shouting at dinghies crossing the channel. The mishandling of PPE contracts is at the very least shockingly incompetent, if not actually stinkingly corrupt.
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 5151595 | 165083 |
| Brazil | 3013369 | 100543 |
| Mexico | 469407 | 51311 |
| UK | 309763 | 46566 |
| India | 2152020 | 43453 |
| Italy | 250103 | 35203 |
| France | 197921 | 30324 |
| Spain | 361442 | 28503 |
| Peru | 471012 | 20844 |
| Iran | 324692 | 18264 |
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + Mexico + UK + India + Italy
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