$5K - 52 Weeks - 20 Penny Stocks One Winner!! Current Status ( -$3,290.30 ) Week - 29 September! ------------- In like a hurricane! Out like a... --------------------------------- Can’t wait to find out! We watched tv until the power failed then stood outside on the front porch with the neighbors on tornado watch. Exciting stuff! At least two sizable twisters passed closer than I feel comfortable with. They both passed us by several miles while...

And here we are, hurtling towards to autumn. I saw my first advert for an Advent Calender the other day. Just...wrong. Story of the Week goes to The Prologue of Drew Gummerson's new tale 'The Long And Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir'. It's beautifully written, with vivid characters and this author's customary wit and flair. You'll want to got straight on to the next bit. The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir | ABCtales Poem...

The man standing at the funeral in bubble-gum pink hair is P.J. Crowe. His career as a detective is in tatters - he's facing dismissal, and his wife's about to leave. Lying low in a small seaside town he spots a ‘Help Wanted’ ad in the kitchen of a local café. It offers him an escape and it's where Thea Farrell worked – until she was found dead at sea. And herein lies the problem: Thea was an Olympic medallist, silver for swimming and Crowe’s...

$5K - 52 Weeks - 20 Penny Stocks One Winner!! Current Status ( -$3,331.06 ) Week - 28 Every now and again! ------------- There’s an emptiness I feel at times... --------------------------------- A hollow ring inside It starts whenever I stop to think That there is really no place to hide A world of many wonders turns And on the other side I wonder at the horror of hundreds who have died They wanted just as I want to live and realize Simple times...

Imperium (1993) Kapuscinski is a hero of mine, Imperium isn't a novel, but a biography of growing up under Moscow Rule and a series of essays and observations. Kapuscinski traveled around the satellite countries of the USSR post collapse of the Berlin Wall. It is the last book of the the 9 books that inspired me to write . Imperium is a travelogue, reportage but more than that; Kapuscinski takes far flung countries and weaves their beauty into...

A big thank you, firstly, to everyone who participated in the ABC virtual reading. There was a brilliant and varied contribution. Also huge thanks to Mark for all the organisation and hosting. This week's Poem of the Week is Di_Hard's ‘jörmungandr’ - such a beautiful and moving poem. https://www.abctales.com/story/dihard/jormungandr This week’s Story of the Week is jxmartin’s latest Corona Log Entry. Always so well written, carefully reporting...

London Rules (2018) London Rules is the 5th novel in Herron's Slow Horses series, and the first book of his I had ever read. After it, I literally bought the whole Jackson Lamb series. It is the penultimate book of the 9 books that inspired me to write . 'Slow Horses' refers to members of MI5 who have for various disciplinary reasons, are moved into Slough House, a dilapidated building in the borough of Finsbury. Its a limbo, far away from the...

Cloaked in happy sunshine the day should bring me a passel of good thoughts but, through the half turned blinds, the filtering rays do not reach me. Shuttered as I am and remotely working in front of a glaring, bright screen computer with movement restricted, I am sunshine deprived. I pop a tablet of Vitamin D, fake sunshine, and realize life as I had known it has ended. I spend too many dark days in a makeshift office working with no one but...

I have ten minutes of spare time. Spare from where? To think about how we come into contact with each other in the modern world takes thinking into abstract worlds of the cathedral and the bazaar. The communal place of worship to the communal place of the market. Everyone at another's pace. I'm thinking about feelings today, take that literally. I am thinking, my linear brain, estimating and calculating on my irrational, responsive emotional...

Kitchen Confidential (2000) I have a framed autograph over my writing desk, signed by Bourdain. I happened to be sitting with my family in the departure lounge of Charles de Gaulle in 2013, after a week in EuroDisney. He too, it turns out ,was flying to Dublin to shoot an episode of his TV show, The Layover . They say you should never meet your heroes, but he was gracious and modest, in a certain light, he had the measured gumshoe cool of a...