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Jul4
Just in case you're wondering how close the double murder and firebombing was from my old flat (even though I left there years ago), I just knocked this up for Mum and Dad, to give them a bit of a point of reference.
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Isn't google maps just brilliant? Doing more on the "my maps" bit of it now too, I might stop hosting my own maps altogether, maybe that's google's plan, so we all just hand our data over to them.
There's something WEIRD going on with that murder, it sounds like it must be a case of horrendous mistaken identity, I am morbidly intrigued to find out. It is sounding a bit like a Christopher Brookmyre book, do you think they were really spies, or were planning on selling some kind of bio-secret to an evil genius superpower?
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Sep1
OK so this story doesn't have a plot that we know of so far, but each bit of information that's eeked out of nowhere by the press leads the imagination in different directions, like a good book. Of course, this is not a book, these are people's lives and deaths but you know what I mean. I saw three papers on Sunday that had three different theories on the front pages, one that Russian hitmen were involved, one that the it was a kidnap plot gone wrong, and the last that the father of the house had done it himself. It's hard to know which is the preferable outcome. Gruesome, but quite gripping stuff. One thing I do wish is that the kids who are leaving messages of tribute on the dead / missing girl's Bebo page would stop the really stupid spelling:
I can't belive that one of the bodys was your mam. RIP Jill Foster. I hope that the other body isnt your dad.
An I hope they dont find any mor an your just havin a week somewer with your dad or sumink.
Please be okay, otherwise I dunno wat ill doo.
Plz b ok kirstie. We r all thinkin bowt u.
Maybe the spasticated writing gives the writer a sense of detachment, they can enter the cartoonish unthinking world of "boo i r sad" without having to write or think fully formed thoughts like "I'm sorry you're probably dead". Not that any of them had to write anything. Oh, neither did I.
On the topic of country house murders, I'm reading The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, it's the kind of book that gets written about major crimes and criminals like Jack the Ripper, but it's not a crime I was aware of. It's set in the mid nineteenth century, and there's a murder at a country house. It's a true story that seems to have been the basis for almost every detective story that was to follow, and the detective in this was a contemporary of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins.
Less about murder tomorrow, but if you haven't read any Christopher Brookmyre, then you should.
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Jun18
Been let out early today, nice!
Today I'm reading Be My Enemy, the new Christopher Brookmyre, so far it reads like the plot for a computer game, but I'm liking it.
Something's kicking off on Manor Road, there were loads of police cars at the junction of Bethune Road, and more racing towards the scene with sirens blazing. Didn't see what though.
Today is the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, just setting myself a reminder for 11 years time (of course this'll still be going then) how will Anglo-French relations be then...
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