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First off, poor Diamond Lil – that must have hurt a lot – please send her my get well soon wishes.

Second, congrats on the new grandbaby!

Tarqs – have you tried an audio book when you are doing other things such as dish washing or playing games on your phone?

Good news for you Roger “Clown Town” is book #9 – there are also I think 5 short stories – I absolutely love the humour in them, some of it can’t be translated to the screen as it is often thoughts.  I also read the 4 earlier books, the Zoë Boehm series that is now also a TV series.

Tarqs – could you link to the game – maybe we could all have another go?

Delighted to hear you have another grandchild on the way, Roger. Congratulations to all!

Very sorry to hear about Diamond Lil though. I've actually been putting off calling you to enquire about her for the past few days, simply because she and I are the only two left playing the Beau Peep Quiz regularly in recent years, and whereas I do occasionally forget to play, Lil very rarely misses a day. So, I was beginning to worry that all may not be well, but hoping the reason was more down to her taking a few weeks' vacation in some bandwidth-poor location, hence my delaying the phone call. Please pass on my best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery. I really miss the competition and look forward to crossing swords again soon.

As for books, I can't read them. Okay, that's a ridiculous statement, but it is also true. I used to be an avid reader in my childhood up until my mid teens, when I found so many other more interesting things to do with my spare time and hormones. By the time I got around to picking up another book however, I discovered my attention span for doing so had diminished to that of a gnat's (apologies to any gnats with exceptional focus). I found my thoughts constantly drifting after a page or two, and only able to get back on track by reading the same paragraph half a dozen times or more before it sank in.

My theory is that the fault lies in the fact most books for grown-ups don't have pictures. I tend to keep the untested theory to myself though, because any time I've tried to explain it people laugh. Mostly, because of my occupation, their first thought is that I should be able to draw my own, even if only in my mind. But that is actually the problem - I spend too much time doing just that, and my focus drifts off, as it does when I'm physically drawing anything in autopilot, so it doesn't actually matter then. Holding a story line in my head is a completely different matter.

If the books had pictures, like they did when I was a kid, I wouldn't have to spend time imagining what the characters looked like as I'd have ready-made references for that. So I don't/can't read them. But that's okay. I get by.

What books have you squirreled away to read this winter?

I was inside with the door ajar. 

My daughter is a Land's Officer and had to leave a job due to two bears just the other day. They (2 of them) decided to do a helicopter inspection instead LOL 

ZERO added sugar. ZERO alcohol. ZERO processed food.

EVERY DAY: nuts, berries, fruit, cruciferous vegetables, other vegetables, ground flax seeds, turmeric and other spices, beans, whole grains.

EXERCISE and STRETCHING.

Hug a tree every now and then.

You won't live forever but it will seem like it.

As for things to do, look up into the sky at the constellation of Orion, where you will see the star Betelgeuse. Born ten million years ago, and giving off every second 100,000 times the energy of our sun, Betelgeuse will - tomorrow or some time in 10,000 years - come to the end of its life, and will go supernova. When it does, it will give off in ten seconds far more energy than it ever did during its lifetime. You'll certainly notice the difference in the night sky.

The supernova happens because during the last day of its life, Betelgeuse fuses some of its heavier elements into a gravity-crushed ball of iron about the size of our Earth but heavier than our own sun. This ball of iron then collapses under gravity. In the next four-thousandths of a second, the iron accelerates inwards to a quarter the speed of light (168 million miles per hour). In the one thousandth of a second after that, it is decelerated to a standstill.

So, eat well, get out, get running, and look at the stars.