Wansworth
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Yes even instructions on shampoo bottlesWhen I'm sailing, especially deliveries, I read anything but books about sailing.....
Yes even instructions on shampoo bottlesWhen I'm sailing, especially deliveries, I read anything but books about sailing.....
Don't forget the contents bit on cornflake packets.Yes even instructions on shampoo bottles
I have no difficulty understanding Conrad and Childers but I am bewildered by "Slow Horses" by Mick Herron.Riddle is Understandable by YM readers……Conrad is too dark
I have to say, Jackson Lamb is a great character. I love both those books and the TV adaptation - a tour de force by Gary Oldman.I have no difficulty understanding Conrad and Childers but I am bewildered by "Slow Horses" by Mick Herron.
Someone bought it for me for my birthday, thinking I would like it because I like Le Carre's spy novels, but I can't make head nor tail of it.
I am in a cleft stick because if I say I liked it, she will buy me more in the series. If I tell the truth, and say I hated it, I may hurt her feelings.
Learn to sail ina weekend………still trying 50 years on
Learn to sail ina weekend………still trying 50 years on
Helps to have a boat as well as the book...Learn to sail ina weekend………still trying 50 years on
Don’t you startHelps to have a boat as well as the book...
I was about to post the same thing. Last thing I need is a book about someone else sailingWhen I'm sailing, especially deliveries, I read anything but books about sailing.....
Whilst most of our reading is by kindle app, of the proper books on the shelf, only one is about sailing, that being Scientific Sailboat Racing, by Ted Wells. Still perfectly relevant after over 70 years. His aircraft are now highly valued vintage classics, but not the book.I was about to post the same thing. Last thing I need is a book about someone else sailing