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Yet more sun.

There are brickies from the building site doing something at my back wall. This is slightly disturbing, because it means that sunbathing in the back garden is right out. I think I'll go down to the shore and get lunch on the way.

Gods and fishes, it's hot. Highs 20-25 degrees C, but the breeze is dead, so it feels hotter.

Mustn't complain. No, no, mustn't.

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Yet more sun.

There are brickies from the building site doing something at my back wall. This is slightly disturbing, because it means that sunbathing in the back garden is right out. I think I'll go down to the shore and get lunch on the way.

Gods and fishes, it's hot. Highs 20-25 degrees C, but the breeze is dead, so it feels hotter.

Mustn't complain. No, no, mustn't.

Book rec.

I've been meaning to mention this for a while. I recently read Joe Abercrombie's first novel, The Blade Itself, out of my local library. If you're looking for juicy new fantasy, and read scott_lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora too quickly, check out The Blade Itself. It's got skull-splitting barbarians, effete fencing masters, compelling torturers, nations at war and the strangest kind of mage.

It's an excellent debut, with really human characters, and it's gone on my list of books to buy as soon as someone takes pity on me and gives me a paying job.

Book rec.

I've been meaning to mention this for a while. I recently read Joe Abercrombie's first novel, The Blade Itself, out of my local library. If you're looking for juicy new fantasy, and read scott_lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora too quickly, check out The Blade Itself. It's got skull-splitting barbarians, effete fencing masters, compelling torturers, nations at war and the strangest kind of mage.

It's an excellent debut, with really human characters, and it's gone on my list of books to buy as soon as someone takes pity on me and gives me a paying job.