Life LackaDaisiCal

Published in 1984 "Feeling sorry for yourself Jury? No kith, no kin, no wife, no ..." It's Christmas, and Superintendent Richard Jury is on his way to spend the holiday with his Cousin in Newcastle........when he meets Helen Minton in the graveyard of the Catholic Church in the village of Washington. "Will you be back?" A gust of snow had pulled at her sweater collar, and he reached up and drew it together, drawing her, at the same time, a little closer. "Now, you know I'll be back." They looked at one another for a moment before she smiled, and said, "Yes, I expect you will." The next time he saw her, she was dead. Vivian is back, and she's invited to a Christmas house party....she takes Melrose with her and unfortunately Aunt Agatha gets herself invited along. Jury shows up, to inform a fellow guest, Helen's brother, of her death. Little Chrissie at the pub provides the clue. Happy Reading

Published in 1985 Una Quick had been searching for two days for her dog Pepper. Polly Praed is in Ashdown Dean, on a road trip for inspiration for her latest novel, when Una's body falls out of a telephone call box at her feet. What's a girl to do but phone her friend Melrose Plant, tell him that it's murder and that his friend Richard Jury needs to investigate. Neither pets or residents of Ashdown Dean are safe. And jury leaves his new neighbour, Carole-Anne Palutski, who will fast become part of his London family....to answer his friends call. Young Carrie Fleet, local animal rights activist, saves Polly's cat Barney and finds her own beloved dog Bingo has disappeared. Plant is jealous that Polly only called him to get Jury to come....but it's lucky for Jury that Plant is covering his back..... Happy Reading and Knitting!

Published in 1984 "Aunt Agatha" has relatives from the US visiting......the Randolph Biggets from Milwaukee, Wisconsin......and to avoid having Ardry End besieged , Melrose agrees to take Auntie to Stratford to meet the family.......he books the Falstaff Hotel for his stay -- he books the whole hotel, all of the rooms, just so that he can ensure his privacy LOL!!! DS Jury is in town because he's heard that Jenny Kennington is here. There is an exclusive tour group in town also.....and James Carlton Farraday , a young but resourceful member of he group has disappeared.....now one of the tour members is found murdered in a public washroom down by the river. While Plant is avoiding the visitors ,Vivian Rivington shows up and drops the bombshell that she's getting married -- to an Italian Count no less! "No one just happens to be a count." All Melrose could visualize was this black-caped stranger. "Can he see his reflection in a mirror?" Later o...

At one time I thought of calling my blog "Daisy Doodlings" - the random thoughts of a dog owner totally infatuated with her dog type of thing. I thought it was a little too "cutsie" and took my hubby's suggestion of "Shades of Shetland. Sometimes (albeit rarely) it pays to listen to the hubby LOL!!! So, in honour of Daisy, I'll occasionally post a "Daisy Doodling" featuring my Miss Daisy. Daisy loves to be "scragged" - while on her back, getting her tummy rubbed either with your hands, or your feet! Even better if she's holding a ball in her mouth!

Published in 1983. "It was a dead time in the London underground - after lunch and before rush hour - when the last plaintive notes of a Chopin nocturne floated from Katie O'Brien's violin down the tiled corridor." How are 3 totally different crimes related? The stolen necklace, the young girl attacked in the London underground station, the woman found dead in the Horndean Wood of Littlebourne. Melrose Plant meets Poly Praed, mystery writer - who when invited to visit Ardry End (Melrose is smitten) - but she wants to know how much a Police Superintendent makes. Richard Jury meets Jenny Kennington for the first time. We meet the unforgettable Cripps family. ....and Emily Louise Perk holds the key.

You'll notice that I've changed my Blogger template......much lighter and crisper....sort of how I'm feeling these days. I've shut down She Ewe Knits.......8 years was enough.....time to move on. There are some wonderful designs out there....and I've got quite a few on my "must knit" list....I'm totally addicted to kidsilk haze, so I see another project in that in the future for sure....maybe try some lace.....some more socks (after all, I have about 20 balls of Opal just sitting there begging to be socks LOL!).......and I've got a couple of designs being published this year....you'll have to wait and see..... So, a switch from yarn retailing, to knitting for myself and maybe sometimes having my knitting turn into a design to enable others to buy more yarn! I'm converting my free patterns from my old web site to free downloads on Ravelry ....and will offer my Eshaness cardi pattern there....once I figure out how to do it of course! This blo...

She came out of the fog, her face painted half-white, half-black, walking down Grape Lane. Published in 1982 Instead of giving an overview of the plot of each book, I've decided to do some detecting myself. Our main character, Chief Inspector Richard Jury, and his untitled side kick Melrose Plant by all description are intelligent, handsome men in their 40s.....they are sensitive, Jury holds down a good job while Plant is rich, they are imminently eligible and yet they aren't married. In this book we find out that when Jury was just 7, his Mother was killed in the last blitz of London, and his Father had died at Dunkirk. As an orphan, he was handed around within the family until 14 when he "lit out on his own". And Plant admits to himself..... "He kept his own home as it had been when his parents were alive He had only added a few pieces; he had removed none. to him the past was perfect as it stood, preserved beneath the glass bell of Ardry End. It was another re...