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It just came out on Netflix. A guy is set free after 18 years for a sexual assault he couldn't have possibly committed. He is likely about to come into a huge sum of money from a lawsuit because the initial investigation was so botched when a dead body turns up on his property. It is really interesting - makes you wonder if the police are truly that corrupt or he just thought he could get away with murder. It's all true too. It's like the podcast Serial but with visuals!

Police are tuned to political winds, the law be damned. A trial is simply an arena where gladiators clash. Once you get it the rest is simple to figure out. Never hire a virgin lawyer.
 
merry xmas to you, reci :heart:

duck's busy finishing defrosting, the port's open, apple pieces soaking in cider/vanilla pod pre cooking, i've just soaked in an amazing bubble bath and i'm reading a fine fat hardback i treated myself to for the grand sum of two pounds fifty pence and saved till today :)

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C. J. Sansom's bestselling adventures of MAtthew Shardlake continue in the fourth title of the series, the haunting Revelation.

Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies.

Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy, a religious maniac locked in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. Should he be released to his parents, when his terrifying actions could lead to him being burned as a heretic?

When an old friend is horrifically murdered Shardlake promises his widow, for whom he has long had complicated feelings, to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to both Cranmer and Catherine Parr - and with the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation.

As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants Shardlake, together with his assistant, Jack Barak, and his friend, Guy Malton, follows the trail of a series of horrific murders that shake them to the core, and which are already bringing frenzied talk of witchcraft and a demonic possession - for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer . . .?
 
dr who's on at 5.15 < my christmas tradition: christmas wouldn't be christmas without dr who

also, despite still being here and H there, counting my blessings i don't live in cumbria. some places have been flooded out (major flooding) 3 times in a fortnight and more torrential rain on the way. poor buggers.
 
merry xmas to you, reci :heart:

duck's busy finishing defrosting, the port's open, apple pieces soaking in cider/vanilla pod pre cooking, i've just soaked in an amazing bubble bath and i'm reading a fine fat hardback i treated myself to for the grand sum of two pounds fifty pence and saved till today :)

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Oooh. Very cool. I'm going to have to check that out.

I've already done the bubble bath thing, up early this morning as usual.

I am no longer employed! So no more work. I'm going to write for fun, maybe sell some, maybe not.

Best Christmas ever was "You don't have to work anymore."

So...more time for reading...though at this point I'm spending it writing and talking about video games.
 
dr who's on at 5.15 < my christmas tradition: christmas wouldn't be christmas without dr who

also, despite still being here and H there, counting my blessings i don't live in cumbria. some places have been flooded out (major flooding) 3 times in a fortnight and more torrential rain on the way. poor buggers.

I have to admit I'm a huge David Tennant fan, but I could never get into Dr. Who. My nerd powers have failed me. I just get irritated that the doctor's never a woman and the preach is strong with this one. Oh well.

It's balmy out there today, about 60 degrees Fahrenheit, we're going to go for a walk in a bit. No flooding, though lots of rain, we're on the side of a mountain, it all goes downhill.
 
Oooh. Very cool. I'm going to have to check that out.

I've already done the bubble bath thing, up early this morning as usual.

I am no longer employed! So no more work. I'm going to write for fun, maybe sell some, maybe not.

Best Christmas ever was "You don't have to work anymore."

So...more time for reading...though at this point I'm spending it writing and talking about video games.

start from the first and work your way through to that one - it's the fourth. really well written, and made to feel current, not like something historical.

woke up at 8, cooked bacon/tomato sandwiches for us, gave them their prezzies, dropped into here, watched some xmas tv... been a lovely relaxing day so far. making apple n blackberry crumble with vanilla ice cream for dessert.

time to write! that's a fab xmas present :D
 
start from the first and work your way through to that one - it's the fourth. really well written, and made to feel current, not like something historical.

woke up at 8, cooked bacon/tomato sandwiches for us, gave them their prezzies, dropped into here, watched some xmas tv... been a lovely relaxing day so far. making apple n blackberry crumble with vanilla ice cream for dessert.

time to write! that's a fab xmas present :D

Oh, cool. Putting it on my list!

We have bahn mi sandwiches, cheesecake, roast duck, ice cream cake from my son's birthday.

Yes! Plus I almost always have insomnia or I'm exhausted, and now I can wake up in the middle of the night and think "I can have ice cream!" and I get up and read and do that internal cackling thing where I don't have to panic that I'm going to be miserable the next day without sleep.

Sleep and writing and reading and yes. I've considered 'trophy wife' as a job but I'm not that much of a trophy so we're just going with Ulaven being a sugar daddy. My youngest just turned 18.

I think when Ulaven said "Why don't you do something that makes you happy?" I laughed at first and said "Right, 'cause...people just do that."

Working on it!
 
Happy new year!

Got me a ps4 for xmas. Started fallout 4 before I went on vacation. Now I gotta get dragon age
 
Happy new year!

Got me a ps4 for xmas. Started fallout 4 before I went on vacation. Now I gotta get dragon age

Happy New Year!

Get "Until Dawn" - fantastic game.

Yikes. Just had to check to make sure Final Fantasy IV was coming out on PC.

I'm also going to give Undertale a shot, low tech, high story value, Tumblr's gone nuts.
 
The other day, my daughter locked herself in the bathroom and put makeup on the cat. I had to lure her out with pie.

And all I could think was, "This is my life now."
 
The other day, my daughter locked herself in the bathroom and put makeup on the cat. I had to lure her out with pie.

And all I could think was, "This is my life now."

What kind of pie...?

Because you successfully lured, so go you.

Parenthood fosters creativity because you can't go for your first impulse which is "I'm going to kill her..."
 
I like your bowl.

:rose:

Edit....oh, and my cats love make up...its the brushes on their faces, it feels good to them. They would also eat any pie bribe though. :rolleyes:

Good morning!

Thank you!

Kintsugi - (Japanese: golden joinery) or Kintsukuroi (Japanese: golden repair) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

I love this art form and the philosophy behind it...so much.
 
What kind of pie...?

Because you successfully lured, so go you.

Parenthood fosters creativity because you can't go for your first impulse which is "I'm going to kill her..."

My first impulse was actually, "The problem seems to have isolated itself and the cat should have known better." But that seemed irresponsible somehow.

And it was pumpkin. :)
 
My first impulse was actually, "The problem seems to have isolated itself and the cat should have known better." But that seemed irresponsible somehow.

And it was pumpkin. :)

After my kids were grown up I had to confide in them that half the time I looked really angry, I was trying pretty hard not to laugh.

Son opens every water bottle in the house and makes a slip and slide at 3 am out of the living room tile?

"Kid's got imagination..."
 
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