Louise Fairbairn

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...sometimes you wake up. sometimes the fall kills you. and sometimes when you fall you fly... www.crimebookgirl.com

Screenshot from Amazon showing the current discount on Forbidden Waters by Rob Parker, which is the second in an excellent series I heartily recommend you buy and devour asap!
Christmas card featuring a baby penguin with a red scarf on, next to my baby penguin with a red scarf on (he's a stuffed toy, I hasten to add, I don't actually have a baby penguin in my flat - but read Death And The Penguin by Andrey Kurkov for what can happen to someone with a real penguin for a pet ..)
Large saucepan filled with boiling sugar and condensed milk, tablet in progress...
Nicola Sturgeon, in a dark denim jumpsuit, and journalist Chitra Ramaswamy in light shirt, dark trousers and jacket, on stage during their conversation.
Hotel room view: the wall of the building next door...
Cover of DVD boxset of series 2 of Karen Pirie TV series which I have just inhaled - terrific stuff
The outside of a tin of pear cider, it's contents soon to be inside me...
Screenshot of my post on twitter that it deemed violent speech. I told Ian Rankin to "steel himself" to read his wife's comments on his latest manuscript...
Big metal sign, with a gap in the middle framing the hills and sky, letters spelling "Bute" to the left and a cutout in the shape of the island to the right. Designed for Instagram I guess but it does my heart good to see it IRL!
Big pan of minestrone soup on the stove, cos it's impossible to make a small pan of minestrone soup...
Cover of The Good Father by Liam McIlvanney, stormy skies over silhouetted figures on a beach, with the tag line "when a child disappears no secret is safe..."
Picture of a plastic bag with a couple of large handfuls of spinach leaves, grown in my tiny garden and picked this morning - they're about to be steamed to go with two poached eggs on toast
Screenshot discussion of local election results for Northumberland, which has lurched to the right, probably in anger at its needs being totally ignored by national govt.
A cherry tree at the right blossoming and leaning towards a bandstand,in At Stephen's Green, Dublin
A packet of Tayto salt and vinegar crisps from Belfast, which are probably the best crisps in the world, except possibly for the Tayto crisps from Dublin...
Grey waters and moody skies at Dun Laoghaire harbour
Boarding at the tail end of an Aer Lingus plane in sunny Edinburgh
View of the Swan Theatre preset for Edward II, with a royal coffin at the centre
First dvd from the boxset of season one Buffy The Vampire Slayer featuring a very young Sarah Michelle Gellar
My hand holding a bottle of Crabbies alcoholic ginger beer, nectar of the gods
Bookstore bookshelf with RD McLean The Friday Girl face out
News report from Private Eye about Reach PLC's use of an in-house AI bot to rewrite stories, which is turning into something dangerous as it changes and invents details...
Bits of flatpack bookcase plus instructions and bag of assorted bits and screws. I do indeed check I have all the bits before I start!