The Scavenger's Daughter: A Tyler West Mystery by Mike McIntyre

Thoroughly enjoyable book, quite different and unique

Tyler West, suspended Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the San Diego Sun, is desperate for a scoop that will save his career. Defying a spiteful publisher and a vindictive homicide detective, he investigates the baffling deaths of several of San Diego's powerful, rich and famous. Police call the murders unrelated, but Ty uncovers a common link: torture devices last used during the Dark Ages, including the Iron Maiden, the Pear of Anguish, and the most sinister of all—the Scavenger's Daughter.

Ty is plunged into a mysterious world of medieval torture scholars, antiquities collectors, museum curators, and sadomasochists. Aided by photojournalist Melina "Mel" Koric, a former Bosnian War refugee, Ty must break the brilliantly conceived series of slayings that has cast a dark shadow over a city better known for its sun, sand and surf. The elusive killer goes by the name Friar Tom, in tribute to his hero, Tomás de Torquemada, the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. As Ty scrambles to unmask the monstrous zealot, he pursues his lost love, Jordan Sinclair, an assistant district attorney and single mom. With the city caught in an escalating nightmare of medieval mayhem, Ty is drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse that could cost him everything.

Lightning-paced, intricately plotted and wildly suspenseful, The Scavenger's Daughter grabs the reader early and doesn't let go until its heart-pounding climax.

Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

This is one of the best Witch Mountain Films i have seen, thoroughly enjoyable.

A Las Vegas cabbie enlists the help of a UFO expert to protect two siblings with paranormal powers from the clutches of an organization that wants to use the kids for their nefarious plans.

Pretty Witches all in a Row by Lisa Olsen

This was a different and interesting book, thoroughly enjoyable.

Pretty Witches All in a Row delivers a compelling crime procedural that kept me guessing the whole way through. Throw in a supernatural twist with magic and a coven of witches, and we're in for quite a ride. Author Lisa Olsen balances the thrills and chills of paranormal mystery with a generous helping of humor, quick banter and well developed characters. Sergeant Nick Gibson is our sympathetic hero; his playful wit and down to earth relationship with his teenage daughter made me root for him from the first chapter. Annaliese, the pretty witch helping with the investigation, is an enigma; you want to trust her, but there are enough questions that you resist letting your guard down, and you end up hoping Nick isn't a fool for placing his faith in her. I hope we'll see this cast of characters again; it'd be a crime not to see where they go next.

My Birthday

Another awful year over..................

Today i worked at calendar club all day, then we went to the Silver Spoon and had a meal and then went to the Majestic for a drink and then we watched The Hobbit in 3D an awsome film.

Wedding

Greyfriars, King's Lynn

More car troubles

On the way to visit my ladies today, the car broke down, i called steven out and he had a look, then we went to Calendar Club for me to take over and Bob go and have a look, Chris also came by and said the Cambelt had gone, probably it had gone brittle because of the car being not used for a while.  This happened less than a week after we had new exhaust fitted.

So Bob called the RAC and 3.5 hours later they turned up,  Poor Bob was sat in the bitterly cold freezing fog for all of that time.

Cinema

So Last Night we were discussing the cinema and Bob Davies said

When he went to see The Rainman he lost his umbrella
When we went to see The Deep we got stuck in a flood
When we went to see Stargate Steven Davies ran him over

The Rock by Robert Daw

Not a long book, but i thoroughly enjoyed it.

The Rock. Gibraltar. 1966.

In a fading colonial house overlooking the Straits of Gibraltar, the dead body of a beautiful woman lays dripping in blood. The steel handle of a knife protrudes from her chest, its sharpened tip buried deep within her heart.

The Rock. Present day.

Detective Sergeant Tamara Sullivan arrives on The Rock on a three-month secondment from the London Metropolitan Police Service. Her reasons for being here are not happy ones and she braces herself for a tedious and wasteful twelve weeks in the sun.

After all, murders are rare on the small, prosperous and sun-kissed sovereignty of Gibraltar and catching murderers is what Sullivan does best.

It is a talent she shares with her new boss, Chief Inspector Gus Broderick of the Royal Gibraltar Police Force. He's an old-fashioned cop who regards his new colleague with mild disdain.

But when a young police constable is found hanging from the ceiling of his apartment, Sullivan and Broderick begin to unravel a dark and dangerous secret that will test their skills and working relationship to the limit.

Dietician

This morning i went to see the dietician Rebecca Hayes at Heacham Surgery, I really felt that there was nothing she could do and was clutching at straws.

She suggested
cutting down to
1 hot chocolate
1 weetabix

She said protein filled you up more than carbohydrates

She suggested eating more

Chicken
Vegetables and Salad
Drinking Fruit Teas

She said my calorie count was within the right range

She discussed exercise and suggested i try swimming. She also had doubts how useful the gym would be because of the pain.

I felt there was nothing new to be learned here, it seems i am not making any drastic blunders and she said nothing i didn't already know.

My next appointment is in a month.

The Front Door Murders by Suzanne David

An unusual book with 3 storylines running side by side, i loved it a great read.

Mollie Parkinson was destroyed professionally by a mystery she couldn’t solve. Even though she moves on to other crimes, in other countries and is successful, she cannot rest until she finds The Front Door Murderer.

Mollie is a Yorkshire woman who has moved with her partner to Australia and developed a successful career in the New South Wales police where she has risen to the rank of Superintendent. Her success makes her something of a legend in local police circles until she takes on the serial killer investigation into what the press call the Front Door Murders.

The apparently motiveless murder of women on their front door steps makes for sensational press headlines and the media repeatedly question the efficiency of the police. Pressure from the press for a solution to the murders leads Mollie’s team to wrongly implicate a veteran of the Vietnam War, a quiet family man whose story the press trumpet as another example of police failure. Under pressure from her bosses and the media and without any leads Mollie feels compelled to resign from the New South Wales police force.

Ultimately she starts a new career as a private investigator in California and develops a successful business based in San Francisco and Los Angeles where many of her clients are Hollywood stars, and we see an example of this in the case of a starlet murdered on the set.
Mollie will never rest until she can find the Front Door Murderer and when her Californian business becomes established and successful she returns to Sydney to try again to find the killer.
The story moves from Sydney in Australia to Yorkshire and Bath in England, to California and then back to Sydney. A group of friends who think they are commentators on the murder find out they are more involved than they could have imagined.

An awful day

This morning after Bob had left for work, i had a powercut at calendar club and had to revert to logging takings with pen and paper, but couldn't take cards, eventually got it sorted, then had a delivery of about 30 cases.

Then on leaving work the whole of King's Lynn was gridlocked, no one was moving anywhere, apparently this is because of road works at Saddlebow.  We eventually got out, and listening to the radio we fared fairly well.

However, the delays made Bob late for work.

Today being Stevens birthday, i took cake round to Stevens and we had pizza and cake.

At long last an improvement

Recently my pain has improved and i feel much better, the recent changes i have made are:-

Vitamin D

Apple Cider Vinegar

taken every morning in conjunction with my other supplements which are below:-

Soluable Vitamin C

Multivitamins

Glucomsomine Sulphate

Cod Liver Oil

My prescribed medication

Naproxen 500mg

I was supposed to take this 2 twice a day, but i am taking 2 once a day, as i feel that is sufficient.

And Copper Insoles.

The question is is it one of the above or a combination of above.................

The Doctor also prescribed me 

Co Codamol (30mg/500mg)

To take as and when needed but since i have been taking the above, i have not needed to take them.

Memory Scents by Gayle Eileen Curtis

Wow a most unusual book, as you find out who done it, quite early on, but it became a very gripping read, i loved it.

She looked even more beautiful now than she had when she’d been alive. Her green eyes were still sparkling, but now glazed they held a snapshot of the fear that she had endured only moments previously. Death fascinated Tim. The way a person’s eyes altered, showing no emotion, becoming empty, coloured oval shaped glass. He loved that part, when he could reflect on the stillness of his victim like a photo in an album.

It’s been ten years since the disappearance of Alice, and her mother Eve can’t process the new information that she may have been murdered by a serial killer. She finds solace in writing Alice love letters, believing that this will bring her daughter home, but years of denial, pain and isolation have left behind an inability to accept the truth.
A series of unsolved child murders is the shocking news that greets Chrissie shortly after moving to a picturesque North Norfolk coastal village. Sinister paranormal activity in her idyllic cottage causes her to wonder if she is receiving a message from one of the victims, or if her memory is playing tricks on her and she is recalling a past life. Many eerie coincidences begin to reveal the truth.

Grace is married to a serial killer, something she has been aware of for almost a year. Her decision to keep it a secret comes from her desire for revenge, but she may have left her carefully thought out plan too late.

All three women are linked by their connection to the same nightmare, as they try to unravel the catastrophic chain of events caused by a child killer in their midst.

My Weightloss Journey

Having had 4 children after each child I put on weight.  But trying to lose weight is so difficult and i try so hard, however, I do enjoy nice food and I enjoy baking, which makes it so much more difficult.

From the 1980's I have been in a constant battle with my food, I have tried Calorie Counting, Slimming World (which I didn't get on with), Weightwatchers which I did get on with, my biggest problem with it is it does not include exercise it would work better 45 mins on diet and 45 as an exercise class, the one that suits me best was Rosemary Conley, it incorporated diet and exercise, gave good support, but the local class was 15 miles away which became a bit of a problem fitting round the family, and I have heard even that has closed, I also tried the Atkins Diet, Cabbage Soup Diet, F Plan, GI Diet.

One problem I discovered was during my pre menstrual time of the month I was addicted to chocolate, I just needed to eat chocolate, unfortunately it was several years before I noticed this pattern, otherwise I could have taken steps.

On the 5th January 2009 I weighed 18 stone,then on the 21st May 2009 I was prescribed the weightloss pill Orlistat (a brand name for Xenical) which I was on for about 5 months but I did not feel it was doing me much good and having to go to the doctors once a month was a bit of a bind.

After years trying I do find the weightwatchers regime suits me best, but after months of attending weightwatchers, I was gaining nothing new, spending £17 a month on the subscription and I just wasn't being inspired, I was learning nothing new, I found it expensive and achieved little in class.

In June 2010, I cancelled weightwatchers, and purchased a Wii fit, I loved my Wii fit, but seem to lack direction on my diet as well as support at home. 

As the pain in my knees increased, so did I slow down and find exercise more difficult and exceedingly painful so then it became so much harder to lose weight.

I am now back where I began and reverted to Calorie Counting, which you cannot go too far wrong with, I am good at dieting and do stick to the diet rigidly.

No matter what diet I am on I always start off fine and losing, then reach a plateau and after several weeks gradually lose interest, then give up and then gradually the weight goes on once again. 
And the circle starts again, yo-yo dieting cannot be good for your physical and mental wellbeing.

I detest the term Diet I prefer Healthy Lifestyle, you have to change the way you think and eat food permanently or the weight will pile back on, the term diet indicates that it will end at some point. I don’t believe in diets which exclude any food groups because a healthy balanced diet needs all food groups.

Things I know are my problem areas are:-

·         I do not eat enough Fruit and Veg

·          I do not drink enough water

·          My husband and I eat totally differently, now there is just the 2 of us, buying and preparing seperate foods is expensive and time consuming

·         Having no freezer is a problem

·         Not enough exercise (because of  the knee pain)

·         Lack of Family Support

30 Super Foods

1. Almonds (Prunus Dulcis)
2. Apricot
3. Avocado
4. Blueberries
5. Broccoli
6. (Cooked) tomatoes
7. Coriander
8. Dulse (Palmaria)
9. Eggplant (Solanum Melongena)
10. (Extra virgin) olive oil
11. Flaxseeds ( Linum usitatissimum)
12. Flaxseed oil
13. Garden Strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa)
14. Garlic
15. Ginger
16. Oranges
17. Organic green tea
18. Pomegranates
19. Pumpkin seed
20. Raspberries
21. Rosemary
22. Shitake mushroom
23. Soybeans
24. Soy sauce (non GMO)
25. Spinach
26. Sunflower Seeds
27. Uncontaminated Fish Oil
28. Walnuts (Juglans)
29. Watermelon
30. Wolf berry

Obesity and 40 related diseases

Obesity is defined as a medical condition of excess body fat has accumulated overtime, while overweight is a condition of excess body weight relatively to the height. According to the Body Mass Index(BMI), a BMI between 25 to 29.9 is considered over weight, while a BMI of over 30 is an indication of obesity. According to the statistic, 68% of American population are either overweight or obese.

• Obesity and Artheroclerosis
• Obesity and Asthma
• Obesity and Breast Cancer
• Obesity and Cellutitis
• Obesity and Chronic Venus Insufficiency
• Obesity and Colon Cancer
• Obesity and Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
• Obesity and Dementia
• Obesity and Depression
• Obesity and Gatroesophageal Reflux Disease (Heart Burn)
• Obesity and Hyperlipidemia ( High Levels of Cholesterol and Triglycerides)
• Obesity and Hypertension
• Obesity and Impotence (Erectile Dysfunction)
• Obesity and Increased Uric Acid
• Obesity and Infertility
• Obesity and Inguinal Hernia
• Obesity and Insulin Resistance
• Obesity and Low Back Pain
• Obesity and Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
• Obesity and Osteoarthritis
• Obesity and Pancreatitis
• Obesity and Peripheral Vascular Disease
• Obesity and Poor Healing of Wounds
• Obesity and Prostate Cancer
• Obesity and Pulmonary Hypertension
• Obesity and Renal Disease
• Obesity and Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Obesity and Skin Diseases
• Obesity and Sleep Disorder
• Obesity and Stroke
• Obesity and Type II Diabetes
• Obesity and Urinary Incontinence