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.