Frimleyblogger

@fone41

Writer, blogger and freelance journalist. Quirky, light-hearted observations on life, science, history, the arts, books and gin. New book More Curious Questions

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Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Oct 22, 2021

Delighted that my new book, More Curious Questions, has now been published @AmazonKDP #KindleBooks amazon.co.uk/dp/B09K2QTDSK/… Discover the stories behind some of life's intriguing mysteries. If you would like a free sampler, DM me with your email address

fone41's tweet image. Delighted that my new book, More Curious Questions, has now been published @AmazonKDP #KindleBooks
amazon.co.uk/dp/B09K2QTDSK/…
Discover the stories behind some of life's intriguing mysteries. If you would like a free sampler, DM me with your email address

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · 5 h

My thoughts on Cat and Mouse, reissued by @BL_Publishing #CrimeFiction #BookReview windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/cat…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 27

Introducing the #DrunkardsAssociation of #Ghana, protesting at the rising price of #alcohol windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/27/pre…

fone41's tweet card. Kufis off to the Drunkards Association, who recently staged a peaceful protest through the streets of Accra in Ghana in protest over the rising price of alcoholic beverages, fuelled in part by the …

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 26

Today, I'm at @KnaphillFC for their final preseason friendly as they host @RaynersLaneFC #NonLeague #nonleaguefootball #psf

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Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 26

A #RedPanda as a wake-up call? Not any more #China windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/spo…

fone41's tweet card. One of the supposed attractions of an overnight stay at the Lehe Ledu Liangjiang Holiday Hotel in Pengshui in China was its unusual wake-up call service. For an additional charge guests could have …

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 25

My thoughts on Murder of Lydia, reissued by @DeanStPress #CrimeFiction #BookReview windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/mur…

fone41's tweet card. Murder of Lydia (1933) by Joan A Cowdroy – 250618 Originally published in 1933 and reissued by Dean Street Press, Cowdroy’s Murder of Lydia brings together her two sleuths, Chief Inspector Gorham o…

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Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 24

A look at women's #hairstyles #bobs #shingling #waves windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/bob…

fone41's tweet card. For the spirited and adventurous woman in the inter-war years one way to show their independence was to wear their hair short. A popular style was the bob cut, which typically fell just below the c…

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Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 23

My thoughts on Dover One by Joyce Portrr #CrimeFiction #BookReview windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/dov…

fone41's tweet card. A review of Dover One by Joyce Porter – 250616 I first came across Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover of the Yard in one of Martin Edwards’ anthologies for the British Library Crime Classics s…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 22

Understanding #caffeinated #decaffeinated and #caffeinefree #tea windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/caf…

fone41's tweet card. My rule of thumb is coffee before one o’clock and tea after, a self-imposed regime to reduce the impact of caffeine on my body. Caffeine blocks a chemical in the brain called adenosine which normal…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 21

My thoughts on Death and the Dutiful Daughter, reissued by @DeanStPress #CrimeFiction #BookReview windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/dea…

fone41's tweet card. A review of Death and the Dutiful Daughter by Anne Morice – 250613 As someone who normally reads detective fiction from the inter war years or early post Second World War it pulls one up short to s…

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Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 20

The perils of #dogwalking #dogs windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/the…

fone41's tweet card. There are around 8.5 million dogs in the UK and as any owner knows they need regular exercise. Of course, this has added benefits because it forces owners to engage in some physical exercise themse…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 19

Can't visualise a particular #bodyshape? This #website will help you windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/com…

fone41's tweet card. It is a truth universally acknowledged that human beings come in all shapes and sizes. One site that celebrates this diversity is The Photographic Height/Weight Chart which is trying to compile a p…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 18

Vintage #CrimeFiction The Mystery at Stowe #VernonLoder #BookReview windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/the…

fone41's tweet card. A review of The Mystery at Stowe by Vernon Loder – 250611 Originally published in 1928 The Mystery at Stowe is the first of twenty-two mystery novels written by Vernon Loder, one of the noms de plu…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 17

The #seasons on the #planets in our #solarsystem windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/pla…

fone41's tweet card. Earth has four seasons of roughly similar length, the seasons below the equator being the opposite of those above. This is because it rotates at an angle of 23.5 degrees, so when Earth is on one si…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 16

My thoughts on Murder is Easy #AgathaChristie #CrimeFiction #BookReview windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/mur…

fone41's tweet card. A review of Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie – 250609 Sometimes I read a Christie novel and wonder what all the fuss was about and occasionally I find one that hits the spot. Murder is Easy, which…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 15

The story behind #manila #envelopes windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/man…

fone41's tweet card. In the days before emails and PDF attachments and when I was working for an insurance company – yes, I know, we are talking about the last century – documents of any import were sent around the bui…

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Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 14

My thoughts on Golden Ashes #CrimeFiction #BookReview windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/gol…

fone41's tweet card. A review of Golden Ashes by Freeman Wills Crofts – 250607 I do not think I am being unduly unfair if I describe the twentieth novel in Freeman Wills Crofts’ long-running Inspector French seri…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 13

The most impossible project - a database of everybody living on the planet #thepopulationproject windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/the…

fone41's tweet card. In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Bowerick Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged became immortal after an accident involving a few rubber bands and a particle accelerator. The rub was…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 12

A #statue of a #pencil that is sharpened annually windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/pen…

fone41's tweet card. In May 2017, a sudden and violent windstorm swept through the Lakes rgions of Minneapolis blowing over many massive trees including an 180-year-old bur oak at the Higgins’ family home at 2217, East…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 11

My thoughts on The Crystal Besds Murder, reissued by @DeanStPress #CrimeFiction #BookReview windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/the…

fone41's tweet card. A review of The Crystal Beads Murder by Annie Haynes – 250604 There is more than a little poignancy about this book, originally published in 1930 and reissued by Dean Street Press, because Haynes w…

Frimleyblogger@fone41 · Jul 10

The story behind the smoke that records the progress of #papal elections windowthroughtime.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/hol…

fone41's tweet card. What fascinated me about the recent election of a new pope was how much media time was devoted to pictures of a chimney, waiting for a plume of smoke. Would it be fumata nera, black smoke, indicati…