The Best Of | Dec 2019 | Geek Queen

Don't read anything into this! Just watch it for interest's sake. It is a great talk, it's not that long and she really does cmopare how infidelity has changed over the centuries. 

Let me know what you think.

I had this in my favourites for a while but only just watched it. OMG it is so good and right uptill the end you don't see it coming. That's all I'm going to say but let me know what you think.

So we've just come back from two weeks in Samoa. 

Here's the rub: we took our nephew Jack and his two mates for Jacks' year 12 grad trip. We take all our nieces and nephews at the end of their year 12 and usually go away for a month and teach them to travel. The first three my sisters have children that age together so we took 2 cousins each time and then when the kids no longer had a cousin their age, we took their best friend. This time however Jack had two best friends since kindergarten so he couldn't pick just one. We shortened the trip to two weeks and took both and off to Samoa we went. Samoa is incredible (check out my Samoa blog posts on my Charge The Globe website) but OMG - three 17 year olds almost did me in! ALMOST - they would have had to have gotten up REALLY early in the morning to beat me, but I would be lying if I didn't say I was close! Regardless we all had an amazing time and Brad and I both survived. 

Cudos to us!

I watched Centennial as a mini series when I was around 12 I think.

I loved it and now I wonder how I have never read the book.

This sweeping saga follows America's growth from the Native Americans through the settlers and ranchers to what was then modern day (in the 70's).

It doesn't leave much untouched but does allow you to associate with almost every character in the book, whether is a good association or not. After finishing it I was glad I had left it until now as there were so many small stories that I just hadn't remembered so it was like reading the stories for the first time. Its a whopping 1585 pages so its not a short read but it is worth it.

 

Get it via Kobo