Showing posts with label Sand in your Shorts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sand in your Shorts. Show all posts

Saturday, July 16, 2022

A DAY AT THE BEACH by Jayne Ormerod

It’s that time of year, you know, beach season. A time to pack up your beach bag and escape to the shore for bit of fun and sun (and in my case, the inevitable sunburn).

Popular activities which can only be enjoyed at the beach include body surfing, boogie boarding, sand-castle building, and fighting off seagulls for the last potato chip on your plate.

As the sun goes down, you repack your bag and head for a local beach dive bar. Popular post-day-at-the-beach drinks include Pina Colada, Mojito, Orange Crush, and the much less popular but certainly appropriate Seagull Wine. Not something I've ever heard of, but I'm picturing a nice pinot gris with a soaring seagull on its label. I could not be more wrong.

A TASTE OF THE 1950s: WHEN SPAM AND JELL-O MOLDS RULED THE TABLE by Ellen Butler

  Since my next book in the Ariadne Winter mystery series, Deadly Secrets at Ballyford Castle , will be arriving on October 1, I’ve decided ...