Advantages: Plenty for armchair sleuths to get into Disadvantages: Too many characters
It's an unusual crime novel these days that has me guessing until the very end so it was a rare pleasure to read Caro Ramsay's "Singing to the Dead" and find a plot stuffed to the limit with twists and turns and characters I found genuinely engaging and wanted to know more about.
While Christmas is supposed to be a time of goodwill to all, the arrival of a new boss in Glasgow's Partickhill police station divides the already depleted team. Just when everyone is thinking of winding down, a series of investigations stretch the officers to the limit. The apparently straightforward death of a pensioner in an accidental house fire turns out to be something much more serious and threatens to overshadow the disappearance of two young boys in separate incidents.
Local lad made good, ageing rockstar Rogan O'Neill, back in Scotland to buy ...
Advantages: Very tasty and the cherries are very plump Disadvantages: The price - quite expensive!!!
I am now ready to buy my third 500ml tub of Ben and Jerry's 'Cherry Garcia'flavoured ice-cream. I've never really been too bothered before at trying different ice-creams until I bought my new fridge freezer from Tesco.com for my new house!
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This is the reason, for all you who know, why I haven't been around for quite a while. But now we are moved in and settled - I'm back!
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Anyway, if you bought a fridge freezer between July 2002 - Sept 2003, Ben and Jerry's were offering 'Fridge Warming Pressies' - which included a T'shirt of your preferred size, a small purple plastic Ben and Jerry shovel to eat the ice-cream with and also a voucher to exchange for a free 500ml tub of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream!
All I had to do was to ...
Advantages: Quick and effective in dealing with migraine and tension headaches. Disadvantages: Make you incredibly drowsy. Codeine based medication so can become habit forming.
Once a month I find myself suffering from a rather nasty migraine headache. Sometimes I'm lucky, and it only lasts for 24 hours. Other times it can be an unwelcome invader of my head for up to 72 hours. I used to be able to keep the pain in abeyance with Migraleve Complete, but in the last six months or so, they haven't been as effective for me as they used to be. Maybe my body has become slightly immune to the benefits of this medication, but it just doesn't have the same effect on lessening my pain anymore.
I therefore popped into my local Lloyds pharmacy and had a word with the pharmacist about any alternative over the counter medications he could recommend. I actually asked him for the strongest over the counter migraine tablets that he could sell me. He came back with a navy blue box branded "Syndol". I must say that I had ...
