Summer Holidays

It has been really busy at work and to make things annoying the ferry has been off so I have had to drive the long way around to go to work so I was listening to an audio book while driving. Pastures Noaveaux by Wendy Holden set in the present time in the UK in a small village near London. Lots of humor about life in a small village, journalists, artists, musicians, relationships and romance. 

Took a few days off work and went camping it was really hot, too hot to read but we did lots of swimming. Finished reading a book about summer holidays The Summer of Serendipity by Ali McNamara. Ren and Kiki travel to the West Coast of Ireland looking for a house for a client. They stay at the Stag Hotel in the small town of Ballykiltara. Ren and Kiki visit some houses for sale and also look at some of the local tourist attractions and scenery. They find the perfect house and called “The Welcome House” but can’t find out who owns it. While searching for the owner Ren also researchers the history of “The Welcome House”. This novel is set in the present time on the West Coast of Ireland. It is about friendships, relationships and the history of “The Welcome House”.

While I was on holiday we had time to visit with family and friends and had some good laughs.

 A book I was reading late in February was about a woman who finds a way to travel through time. The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cormick. This is an historical novel about time travel and was set in the present time and in the mid sixteenth century in the Tudor times in the Wiltshire locality.

Mary and Alison were Royal orphans living at Wolf Hall in the late 1550’s. Alison has a son, Arthur in 1560 and her son is taken away and she is sent to Middlecote Hall with Mary.

Alison had discovered a way to travel through time and with Mary’s help she escapes on the way to Middlecote Hall at Marlborough, before she escapes she asks Mary to help her find Arthur, so that when she is able she will come back for Him.

Alison gets trapped in the present time and Mary gathers clues to help Alison find her son. After ten years Alison finds a painting of Mary in an art gallery. There are objects in the painting that Alison is convinced are clues to where she can find Arthur if she can only find her way back to 1560.