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A Death in the Family – James Agee

As well as working my way through Anthony Trollope’s novels, I am also working my way through another list of books. Many years ago, when…

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La Vendée, an Historical Romance by Anthony Trollope

Continuing with my journey through Anthony Trollope’s books, the next in chronological order is another one that I have not read before, La Vendée. The…

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The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope

I skipped ahead a little in my journey through Trollope’s bibliography and moved on to The Way We Live Now, as my friend was reading…

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The Kellys and the O’Kellys – Anthony Trollope

I’m a little late with this blog, I have read a whole two other books since this one! So let’s see what I can remember….

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The Treasurer’s House, a Day Trip to York

The Treasurer’s House in York is a National property in the centre of York, overlooked by York Minster. We chose this for our sort of…

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The Macdermots of Ballycloran – Anthony Trollope

If you know me, you know I love 19th century novels. My absolute favourite 19th century authors being Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope. Actually, Dickens…

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The Nicotine Test – Days 4 to 15

So I was going to post every day for a week! Yeah, that didn’t happen. I had a horrifically busy week at work and just…

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The Nicotine Test – Day 3

This one will be short and sweet, because basically I wanna play some Sims before I have to go to sleep! I had a much…

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The Nictone Test – Day 2

Renegade Research are collecting information on Twitter from hose of us who are desperate enough to try Nicotine Patch Therapy to cure/improve our chronic illness,…

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Nicotine Patch Therapy for Long Covid

Ok, bare with me on this one: First, a brief history of me and Long Covid. I work in the emergency services sector, so when…

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