Book Review – Accidental Fugitives: The FBI’s Most Wanted Seniors (by J. David Cox and Sally J. Davies)

AccidentalFugitives

Husband and wife team, J David Cox and Sally J. Davis, have ventured into the world of fiction with this their first novel, Accidental Fugitives: The FBI’s Most Wanted Seniors.  Drawing on aspects of their own lives and recent political developments in America under the Trump administration, they have written an action-packed novel centred on Nancy and Charlie Moon, two older Canadians vacationing in America, who unwittingly become illegal aliens and are forced to flee due to crimes they are suspected of committing. Read more

Which Way Home?

Dear Readers, I thought I would use the opportunity of participating in Cee’s Which Way Challenge, to present a few more of my holiday snaps.  I got a little carried away as I was having way too much fun putting them together to tell a little story.  I hope you like it. Read more

Blue for You

This is my response to the Ragtag Daily Prompt — Blue.

My thanks go to Margaret of the Ragtag Daily Prompt for today’s wonderful prompt.  If you too need some inspiration, click on the link above.  Such prompts help me make short work of presenting my holiday happy snaps.  I had hit a road block so to speak, as it was all just too overwhelming to think how I might present the story of my travels in a way that might be slightly interesting.  I hope the photos do justice to the wonderful holiday I’ve just had. Read more

Orange Zest

This is my response to the Ragtag Daily Prompt — Zest.

Orange is a very bossy colour, don’t you think, dear Reader?  It is bold and beautiful.  It says “look at me” and it says it loudly, sometimes quite literally. Read more

Incorrigible Contact

This is my response to the Ragtag Daily Prompt — Contact.

After a few days of no telecommunications and internet access, I’ve finally made it back to civilization.  However, I couldn’t have been happier in the internet wilds.  The main reasons were that I was camping with my love and that I got to see some of my favourite birds, the Apostlebirds (Struthidea cinerea). Read more

Folk ‘N Roll

Dear Readers

Some of you may recall I did a series of posts on the National Folk Festival (Canberra).  The National Folk Festival takes place every year over the Easter period.  Here is a sample of my Folk Festival posts.  At the time, a couple of you expressed interest in attending.  Read more

Book Review: Our Life Off the Grid – An Urban Couple Goes Feral (by J. David Cox)

offgridDavid Cox and Sally Davies escape the rat race of Vancouver and corporate careers for life on a remote island in British Columbia, Canada.  Think of it as a mid-life crisis or perhaps even an epiphany.  There isn’t much that Dave can’t learn from a book or the internet, or through trial and error.  So Dave and Sally set out to self-build a house on a steep and difficult site on the tip of a peninsula (ie. no road access).  Much of the book is devoted to the trials, tribulations and joys of remote living and the characters that form part of Dave and Sally’s remote community.  Sound boring?  It isn’t. Read more