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The local weather app is always predicting thunderstorms even when the sky is cloudless blue, or when other weather wps simply say showers. Today for a change we actually got the thunder and rain: not bad, but a neighbourhood FB said her dog was cowering in a corner because of the thunderclaps. Upshot being that I spent the day indoors and on the sofa, reading Inspector Macdonalds on the tablet. The plotting may not always be as knotty as Miss Silver but there's a grateful lack of romance. Though it seems there's always a graceful young lady in the mix.
Will get back to Palmer eventually, but I've been beavering through at a rate of 50 pages a day for the last ten'night so one day's holiday won't break me. Presumably if you were familiar with these personages, Palmer's habitual reference to them by sobriquet might annoy. Me, I'm grateful because no way I can keep the Sforza and the Strozzi and the d'Este and the Gonzaga and the Malatesta and the della Rovere clans separate. Still can't. I need a bunch of family trees, with pictures: and also, the index is by no means exhaustive, which doesn't help.
Will get back to Palmer eventually, but I've been beavering through at a rate of 50 pages a day for the last ten'night so one day's holiday won't break me. Presumably if you were familiar with these personages, Palmer's habitual reference to them by sobriquet might annoy. Me, I'm grateful because no way I can keep the Sforza and the Strozzi and the d'Este and the Gonzaga and the Malatesta and the della Rovere clans separate. Still can't. I need a bunch of family trees, with pictures: and also, the index is by no means exhaustive, which doesn't help.