A MARVELOUS WEEK This was a week about as close to perfection as one could request. Everyone seemed to have a grand time. Tim and Jen had multiple opportunities for tennis and honing their game. The girls, 7 and almost 11, spent hours in the pool, swimming, jumping, racing one another, and playing with several visiting girls. In quieter …
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Tidy Tidbits: Mostly Watching
RECENT VIEWING INTERWOVEN LIVES IN A CAR CRASH Collision (Amazon Prime) Collision is a British police series from 2009. The Chief Penguin and I decided to watch it because it stars Douglas Henshall of Shetland fame. A traffic accident involving 12 cars occurs on a superhighway and three people die. Detective Inspector John Tolin (a young Henshall) and Inspector Ann …
Tidy Tidbits: Anticipating Spring
Here in Florida, we have flowers and trees in bloom all year long. That is not the case everywhere, and some of my friends are eagerly awaiting leafy trees and burgeoning blossoms. Thus, this week you get a sampling of spring flowers and trees from a variety of locales seen in March or April. Our …
Tidy Tidbits: Women in Crime & Chemistry
FEMALE CRIME FIGHTERS International Women’s Day was this week on March 8th. It seems appropriate, therefore, to focus on women in this post. In the olden days, TV detectives and police officers were pretty much always white men. It’s gratifying and fun to see women—brown, white, Indian, and Irish—as the lead characters in recent crime …
