Marbel and VC............Consider Amy and Sandy to be in consultation.............. Btw, I finished The Virgin Widow by Anne O'Brien which was an OK read. It told the story of Anne Neville (wife of Richard 3) in a sympathetic manor and I liked It because I like Richard. Lots of counties,..........Berkshire, Dorset, N. Yorks, York, Warwickshire, Kent, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, W. Midlands.

Ok, I liked your post because it was the only choice that worked. I hate little print. Camelot seems to be located in many locations including London and Cumbria. Amy, I hope you feel better. Strep throat is awful.

So I finished my re-read of Agatha Christie 's Seven Dials by audiobook. It was pretty dreadful and I honestly only gave it a three on Goodreads because the WHO ended up be the most unlikely imo of all the suspects. When on Goodreads I read a review by Amy which made me totally crack up, in her words "Agatha does Espionage" and not well btw! Amy couldn't finish. ? On the Christie Challenge list over on 52 books I have now read the first 10, sort of. I fell asleep listening to Murder on the Links and it played through til the end. I had some odd dreams and as I know that one well decided I had completed it well enough and simply didn't add it to Goodreads

How scary! I am so glad he is fine. I’m glad to know you enjoyed Far From a Maddening Crowd. Eventually we have to decide which Hardy....... I ‘m busy listening to Christie’s Seven Dials Mystery. I really loved it the first time I read it but now suspect the love had a whole lot to do with the fact that it was appropriate for Dd who was about 11 at the time. lol

This Carmel Frosting one is the one I use https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/7506/caramel-frosting-i/. I think it has to be booked to be creamy.

Ok, you sold me.......I will have a copy this weekend.

I definitely need to watch Monsoon Wedding and Bride and Prejudice! Bollywood is something I only watch on long plans journeys because I am completely stressed and am happy to sit quietly and read subtitles. My requirements are sappy romance and big dance scenes generally!I Chennai Express is considered somewhat of a classic and was my first. I think I own it because I loved it so much I bought it for a planned Bollywood Night party that never happened........need to make that happen this year! Here is a YouTube link I hope https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_c9KqDifUvw I went through a long list and identified Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KMXJyrWzyKE (dance scene) and Dear Zindagi https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBPjt9NQtk as being other Bollywood movies i enjoyed. On a recent trip I watched Guest in London an loved it! Bollywood meets Brit Tripping! ?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nPezCIqTZ-k I generally start my search looking for the following actors Shahrukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, and Deepika Padukone. While hunting for these links I found Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani which I now want to watchhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JaGcvrl3V5I Let me know what you guys think after you try one!

I love Dracula! I never read it until our first visit to Whitby ten years ago and have now read it three times. The Whitby descriptions are wonderful. On a side note Whitby is a favourite place and I would love to move to that area. I can't seem to delete @tuesdayschild......... I think the "which Hardy" decision has been put off for a couple of weeks. If you have a preference.................. Your Dd will love that Agatha Christie book! And finally it's good your business is filled with work from dh. ;). Have a great time with your parents! Beautful photos! If anyone is looking for a book set in Dorset, Remarkable Creatures is wonderful especially if you have been through a serious dinosaur stage with any of your children. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6457081-remarkable-creatures?ac=1&from_search=true

I love Bollywood movies but the rest of my family doesn't. I watch them on airplanes. ;). That being said I might need to get a copy of Bride and Prejudice. I seem to have failed at the liking to watch the shows based on Ann Cleeves books but I really like Vera in book form. Everyone watched them including the Dc's friends. I stalled reading the Shetland series and abandoned the book I was on. At the time I couldn't get past what had happened in the storyline..........a murder, but I liked the character a whole lot!

I would consider Aleks https://www.aleks.com/independent. It is online and has a free trial. It’s adaptive and places a student where they need to be in a course. You are buying all the courses for a set period of time so if your son tested into their Algebra 1 for instance it is possible for him to complete many courses in one year, one after another.

Robin, What a wonderful picture!!! Your outfit looks great! Your father is very handsome........

I have to admit I really enjoyed the first Chronicles of St. Mary's enjoyable but I don't seem to be able to pick up A Second Chance which has been sitting on my nightstand for two months. No worries............ Have you read The Moonstone by Willie Collins already? I guess it is chunky but it really didn't feel chunky. It was a book that made me wonder why I had been avoiding it. Another classic is Dorothy Sayers Clouds of Witness. The hunting estate is in North Yorkshire.I The Virgin Widow is one of my current reads. It is fine and they spent some time in North Yorkshire. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7506776-virgin-widow?ac=1&from_search=true I picked up a book today that I am pretty intrigued by called A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson. It is a new take on Agatha Christie 's missing 10 days. Since she was found in Harrogate I am assuming North Yorkshire is going to be visited. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32620331-a-talent-for-murder?ac=1&from_search=true

Waving, It’s good to see you! Lol, Lady Emily and Lady Julia are quite similar. Have you tried any of Tracy Grant’s books? Tracy Grant actually writes the serits with two sets of character names but same series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/163940-rannoch-fraser-chronological-order I have read a couple of these but my order got messed up a i became frustrated. I am planning to go back and start again because my overdrive has most of the books! Btw, My BF read most of the Tracy Grant's and really liked them. I just want to add no one that I know is a Kat fan. I almost feel bad for her! ?

I actually really miss the thrill of the planning and ordering process. I have been so tempted to order a couple of the bits of curriculum I have read about on the board to add to my saved collection. My saved collection is probably larger than most peoples because I had to carry most of it on planes. Lol. I worked hard for those books! On a side note home ed curriculum is so much easier to buy in the UK now which is wonderful. Going through my email I discovered this article about th 10 most mysterious places in Britain thanks to Anna Lee Huber’s newsletter. https://strandmag.com/top-10-most-mysterious-settings-in-Britain She has set Lady Darby mysteries near many of these sites I believe.

I read both the second and third Miss Silver's this year. The knitting of a gift in the third is a present to a character in the second but otherwise independent. That's all I know for sure. I may start going out of order for specific locations which is unusual for me to say!

Your church book group sounds like fun! Loesje, Hugs to your dd and you. I hope she feels better soon! I finished Day of the Triffids last night and really enjoyed it. Of the half dozen dystopian books I have read this one is very mild and I am reading pretty mild ones in general. I am saying that in case anyone is looking for a book for Dorset. Much of Triffids actually occurs in Dorset. I am still working on both The Virgin Widow and How the Heather Looks. They seem to have become unintentional sip reads! The Virgin Widow is interesting but fortunately is set during Richard 3 lifetime which I have not been concentrating on recently so it is easy to keep separate in my mind. I am hoping to finish it this week and have both a V for Aven and a Bingo square completed! I still need an E for Aven........ My C S Harris re-read continues. I haven't been able to read much lately unfortunately. I am listening to Nesbo's The Bat. I really like it! It's definitely has a bit of a holiday feel to it for me with the Australian setting.

I appear to have 6 Thomas Hardy books available on Overdrive to listen to but none with Alan Rickman as narrator! Several with Simon Vance who I have been happy with in the past. One of the Hardy choices is Under a Greenwood Tree which (blush) is unfamiliar........ I am willing to listen to any of them but give me a few days to get organized. Btw, I am reading the last of the Day of the Triffids as I type. I have really enjoyed it and have read most of it today in between birthday festivities.

I am starting to feel like I might want to join in. I will admit that I believe my Hardy knowledge is confined to Return of the Native decades ago! I will definitely be listening to mine as I think I am going to try and finish my quilt for a show this September. It had been my planned 2019 entry.........

Louise Penny's Gamache series is my audio favorite. I have also been listening to Agatha Christie 's early works and really enjoying them.

Just sending hugs and prayers again to both Just Kate and Penguin.

After our homeschool field trip to the Thackray Medical Museum https://www.thackraymedicalmuseum.co.uk my family would all vote for horror! It was the worst ever, we still cringe when we enter Leeds, seriously. it was our idea of a horror museum. That Victorian Street smelled really bad. So bad that DS had a HUGE nosebleed. We were used to nosebleeds but normally they were no big deal. We left early in order to take him to a clinic. We were noticeably thrilled to leave actually even with a bleeding kid! Btw, it stopped as soon as we got to our car but we still drove away and did something fun.

I will pray for a positive outcome. Someone upthread mentioned that there are many things that cause swollen nodes. When I had mono my lymph nodes were swollen all over. Huge around my neck. For years after I swelled anytime I was at all ill.

Since we have officially completed our first ( ? ignore emoji, it refused to be deleted and appeared there by accident) set of Roman Roads I thought an update of what my Brit Tripping card looks like for that stage might be appropriate. So.........I Ermine Way London...........Whose Body by Dorothy Sayers Cambridgeshire..............Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin Huntingtonshire............Treasure of Green Knows by L M Boston Bedfordshire.............Face Down Upon the Herbal by Kathy Emerson Northamptonshire............A Long Shadow by Charles Todd Nottinghamshire.............A Man in the Queue by Josephine Try East and West Riding of Yorkshire............Hangman Blind by Cassandra Clark York.........Sovereign by CJ Sansom Dere Street North Yorkshire..............Murder on a Summer's Day by Frances Brody Durham.................At this point Wild Card Tyne and Wear..............Wild Card again Northumbria............Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil by Nancy Atherton I have read the wild cards but am waiting to assign them until the end of the challenge. I am hoping to run into books that will work along the way. ;). I am still busy spelling the flowers but seem to have fallen behind on Aven probably because of the CS Harris reread. I have the books but need to read them! I have started listening to Nesbo's The Bat. It's great but I seem to be in Australia not Norway!

Btw, Robin is right about Jo Nesbo. The first book is The Bat and it is translated. When I glanced at a Goodread’s list last night the first book’s title was not translated but all the rest were in English. That’s the book I am attempting to listen too! Eta......audiobooks are working are working again on Overdrive!!!!!!!

I need to try Patrick McManus. They sound perfect!