Archive for May, 2009
Posted on 30 May 2009. Filed under: Guest Blogger, Uncategorized | Tags: Agatha Christie, America, BBC, Books, characters, collection, crime, Dame, detective, England, film adaptation, Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, London, Longest running play in history, magazine, most widely read British writer in the world, Mystery, Nottingham, October, Peter Saunders, play, Poirot, published, Queen Mary, Queen of Crime, radio play, readers, red herrings, short story, St Martin's Theatre, stage play, The Mousetrap, Theatre Royal, threads, Three Blind Mice, UK, UNESCO, United States of America, USA, West End, Wikipedia, William Shapkespeare |
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DAME AGATHA CHRISTIE’S SHORT STORIES – UNTANGLING THE THREADS.
30th May 1947 – 30th May 2009, celebrating 62 years of Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’
When, on 6th October 1952, ‘The Mousetrap’, a play written by Agatha Christie, opened at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham, England, it [...]
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Posted on 27 May 2009. Filed under: Book Reviews | Tags: aircrew, Apollo 13, Friday, genetic, grandmother, Jim Lovell, Marilyn Lovell, media, mission, rescue, rockets, science, Science Fiction, Space Flight, spaceman, Tom Hanks, vhs |
Apollo 13 is the story of a moon walk that turned into a rescue mission. It was written in conjunction with one of the men who was on that flight. It tells the story from several viewpoints. The astronauts, Jim Lovell’s wife, Marilyn, and various parts of the ground crew. It [...]
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Posted on 25 May 2009. Filed under: Buying Time | Tags: 2001, Agatha Christie, Books, carved, chutney, Dean's Marsh, England, fan, ingeniously, jam, London, Lorne, Melbourne, mustard, Mystery, novels, pre-loved, sculptures, short stories, Sunday, The Mousetrap, Thursday, titles, Tom Adams |
As you might know from a previous post I have a lot of Agatha Christie books, I’m really only missing three titles of short stories and The Mousetrap. So it’s a very exciting time when I find a book I don’t have.
My other half took me away for a long weekend, we drove down to [...]
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Posted on 21 May 2009. Filed under: Book Reviews | Tags: adelaide, Benjamin Franklin, Books, cancer, cross, homosexual, Inspector Ng, Manuscript, Murder, Mystery, playwright, policeman, sex, Stella Pentangeli, Steve J Spears, swearing, warnings |
Murder by Manuscript is the second in a series of murder mystery books written by Steve J. Spears. Probably set in Adelaide where he lived until his untimely death from cancer at the age of 56 in October 2007.
Steve Spears was a talented playwright with his most notable work being ‘The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin’ [...]
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Posted on 18 May 2009. Filed under: Book Reviews | Tags: ABC, artistry, biography, book, Dava Sobel, for sale, genius, John Harrison, longitude, politics, science |
This is the story of how John Harrison solved the greatest scientific problem of his time, how to find longitude. His clocks are works of genius and artistry and he was truly an amazing person. Yes, I have read this book, I really enjoyed it and learned an enormous amount about the struggles he went [...]
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Posted on 16 May 2009. Filed under: Book Reviews | Tags: actress, Books, death, emotions, illness, Importance of Being Ernest, interview, Lady Bracknell, Mother and Son, Mother Beare, Ruth Cracknell, Sydney, tears, travel, Venice |
Ruth Cracknell was born 6th July 1925 and died on 13th May 2002. She was a wonderful actress being most noted for playing Mrs Beare in Mother and Son. I remember as being a wonderful Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Ernest.
I’ve always been fascinated by her. I recall seeing her interviewed and wished [...]
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Posted on 13 May 2009. Filed under: Book Reviews | Tags: Aldous Huxley, birth, book, Brave New World, caste, chemical, conception, conditioning, hierarchy, monogamous, reading, recycle, reduce, reuse, Science Fiction, society, status, test tube |
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is one of those classics. It is a book that you have to read at some stage in your life, you may not necessarily enjoy it, but it is important. I started reading it with some trepidation as I’d started and abandoned another of his books earlier [...]
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Posted on 11 May 2009. Filed under: Collections | Tags: Agatha Christie, Books, collection, countries, married, moving, Mystery, plays, short stories, sister |
Agatha Christie.
This is an interesting one. Originally my sister was collecting them. She moved countries when she got married and sold them to me. I continued collecting them and now have almost all of them. The only ones I’m missing are the plays and short stories. My kids have been helping and know more about [...]
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Posted on 8 May 2009. Filed under: Buying Time | Tags: ABC Delicious, book stall, Books, cake stall, concert, eBay, Elsternwick, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, freecycle, Garage sale, op shop, raffle, sorting, storing, teacher, Wesley College |
The first story starts at Wesley College – Elsternwick campus. They were having an Open Day a few years ago and to encourage more people to come and see what they do they had a few stalls. I was helping out on the Raffle stall, there were plenty of food stalls, a few rides, the [...]
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Posted on 6 May 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Aboriginal health, Aborigine, autobiography, cataract surgery, eye operation, Fred Hollows, vision |
I’ve heard a lot about Fred Hollows over the years. He’d led an amazing life and done a lot of incredibly good work, if I do a fraction of his good work I could be happy with myself. Recalling all of this I picked up this autobiography written by himself with Peter Corris with tremendous [...]
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